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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Which OS rules on your PC?

I choose the following OS as king of the jungle!

  • Windows XP

    Votes: 102 32.2%

  • Windows VISTA 32bit

    Votes: 23 7.3%

  • Windows VISTA 64bit

    Votes: 28 8.8%

  • Windows 7 32bit

    Votes: 20 6.3%

  • Windows 7 64bit

    Votes: 144 45.4%
  • Total voters
    317
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SirBenn21

Charter Member
I suppose this one is done to death, but I've just got Windows 7 Ultimate.
Since Friday I have been installing my PC and FSX, with the intention of making a backup when everything is "perfect".
But I have screwed up already and am going to start from scratch! :mad: :censored: :banghead:
So seeing that I have both 32 & 64 bit at my disposal. I was thinking I'd run a poll to make up my mind if I should give 64bit a go.
Last time (about a year ago) I struggled getting drivers and such and pritty much gave up with it.

Anyway let the polling begin!

Thanks

Ben
 
Win7! Up until last week I used Vista x64, and didn't have a problem with it at all to be honest.

Win7 x64 seems awesome so far. I've also been putting Win7 x86 on the rest of the household and work PC's- it just seems to work without hassle, one laptop being the exception!

If you have an x64 capable system, then run x64 native Windows.

Dan.
 
As Dan says, 64 has some major advantages - particularly the ability to use and access more than 4Gb of RAM, which can make some things a heck of a lot easier and smoother if you occupy more slots or put in bigger sticks.

I have found a few applications that have refused to work on the 64-bit OSs (both Vista and 7), but very few and they tend to be system tools rather than "day to day" applications. I've not found a game that doesn't work yet, unless it never worked on anything after XP anyway.

Both The Boss and I are running Windows 7 64.
 
Vista 64 Ultimate on all my desktops....XP Pro Sp3 on all my notebooks. I'm planning on building a cheap Win 7 64 ultimate rig at the moment and will be running the 32 bit version on a spare M9750 laptop too.
 
Well

Win XP Pro SP3.......Love it

Win Vists 64 ...... Works great

Win 7 64 ...Love it too...

I would advise to install in a 64 bit enviroment , so that all your ram will be used...Big advantages for FSX and heavy addons...
 
Something interesting I've noticed on my new i7 machine running Win7 Home Premium with 8GB DDR3...

No matter how many applications I've had running simultaneously, not one byte has ever been written to virtual memory...
 
Can't vote, I have three main machines, XP 32, Vista 64 and Windows7 64. I'd go with 64 bit in any case, 32 is SO old...... *gg*(just do NOT install XP 64 on anything or you'll be sorry).
 
Ah. OK. XP64 is the exception to what I said above. Next to nothing ran on that!!!

I never tried it, but my colleague who installed it from his MSDN subscription very quickly dropped back to XP32, then NT4 (which was our business OS at the time) - the latter because he was told to by the boss. ;)
 
Wow!

Interesting results:
1) The uptake on Win7 is astonishing given the official release of 3mos ago.
2) The deployment of XP nearly equal to Vista.
 
I think the W7 uptake is at least partly because they released a public beta and RC many months ago. I was highly dubious about upgrading my XP Pro until I tried their beta - it took all of about a week to convince me. So by the time W7 was released, I was ready to buy. Probably there are a lot of us like that.
 
I thought about making a "smart remark" such as "on my computer, the OS doesn't rule, I do!" but then I remembered I'm running Vista64 on the FS machine, and well, if you know Vista, then you know Microsoft "owns" your C:\ drive, administrator rights notwithstanding! Besides that annoying "feature" I like Vista just fine. I have a small drive for the C:\ drive and I've done a "tactical withdrawl" of all forces from the C:\ drive. Microsoft can have it! We've dug fox holes and built up defensive lines around the E:\ drive, a 1 terra byte drive onto which I install all software and save all data. So far the E:\ is holding!
 
<--- dual boot / dual OS, both are my faves

WinXP
Mac OSX Snow Leapard (64bit new OSX platform, fast... )



Bill
 
Hey! You guys stole MY idea!!!:jump:

I went Win7 and haven't looked back.......32 and 64 bit (my machine and the college age kids -- guess who has the 32 bit).

Incidentally, I did the upgrade vice the complete install, and had absolutely no problems with it, and this was on 3 separate machines. I did however, do a complete back up prior.
 
Hey I'm writing this from my newly installed Windows 7 64bit! :jump:

Luckily my wife had access to the internet as I had no 64bit drivers for my wireless card. :icon_eek:

Now for the next grueling hours of installing FSX!!! :a1451: :kilroy:

Anyway thanks for your views and help with me making up my mind to install a 64bit OS.
Hopfully I won't look back.

Ben
 
I have 3 PC's:

1- AM2 64 x2 3800 / Radeon x1650 256mb / 2gb RAM
2- AM2 64 x2 6000 /NVIDIA 8800GT 512 mb / 2gb RAM
3- AM2 PHENOM2 x4 3.0gh /NVIDIA 9800GTX 512mb/ 5gb RAM

and all 3 with win7-64bit and I never go back to stupid win XP or other 32bit
 
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