Windows XP64

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:59 pm

Anyone had any experience with it? should i upgrade yet? Is it actually good?

Rai López · Post by **Rai López** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:14 pm

...NO! But I'm very intrigated too!!! And when I find some information about it, it seems to me that is not enought info for SO importat event... I think that everybody should be talking about that and almost nobody do it... here at least...

stephklein · Post by **stephklein** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:09 pm

A co-worker of mine bought a 64-bit Motherboard and processor, and WinXP64 for his workstation. He spent 2 days trying to get it working properly, but WinXP64 just wasnt compatible with alot of drivers from his other hardware, so in the end he was forced to abandon WinXP64 and just run the 32bit version on his 64bit hardware.

The software itself seems fine, but at this point i think it's still too "young". If you're thinking of upgrading, make sure you do alot of research on the hardware you'll be using to make sure you've got full compatibility.

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:54 pm

cheers for the answer. I've been reading up on it, infact windows have an actual site where you post questions and stuff. People mainly post complaints though which deserves a "lol" award.

Here's a linkage to the site for those who are curious... and are thinking of going bi!

Windows Xp64 page

kingace · Post by **kingace** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:43 pm

I have it, and its SUPER fast when I'm doing just Windows functions (everything else isn't written for x64 so its not any faster). I would NOT upgrade, because many drivers arent supported by it. Google desktop, my webcam, my PDA, my old graphics tablet, and a surprising number of games i like crash because of the 64-bit.

So, honestly, I wouldn't go for it.