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ECCO PRO 4.01 DRIVERS

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While you generally don't need to upgrade 32bit apps (only sensible reason to do so is for apps that can take advantage of it), you will need 64bit drivers for all your hardware, and that can be a trouble for some peripherals. I haven't been running 64bit for very long, but so far everything works just fine. Also, 16bit support is completely removed, this affects some old installers (yeah, 16bit installers for 32bit apps - wonderful). My guess is that it'd mainly be things that's very dirty, and would have already broken on 32bit XP on a 64bit CPU running on PAE mode with DEP turned on. Dunno how much this is visible on x86, but it was very visible on the 64bit Alpha when running 32bit x86 apps under emulationĬarol: some 32-bit software might break, but I haven't seen that myself. but on the other hand, if an app spends a lot of time 'in the operating system' (whether that be usermode parts like kernel32 (which is still called kernel32 on win64 even though it's not 32bit code) or drivers) can benefit from a 64bit OS even though the app is still 32bit. On my system, I do find that loading in games feel a bit smoother, but that's probably just placebo.

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But once your current install gets clodded up (or you're just bored and feeling adventurous), sure, go for 64bit! The benchmark on the site posted by Ralf doesn't tell that much - was the benchmarking software 64-bit, or just the OS? (I'd guess at least some of it is 64bit, judging by the large speed increase for dot product calculation).Īll in all I wouldn't say a reinstall is justified if you have <= 2gig ram and don't have any specific 64bit software you know will benefit from it. has been made more efficient as well (even though more data has to be saved per thread). There's a number of improvements though, like calling convention is mostly register based, with much less need to spill to stack, and context switching iirc.

In general I wouldn't expect too much from going 64bit unless you have apps that can specifically take advantage of it - at least for XP, situation might be different with Vista.

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