Do you use more than 4GB of memory? Do said games have 64-bit builds? Do you play 16-bit games?
New PC? 64-bit, no reason not to unless you want to run really old games.
Pay $100+ to upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit? No, unless you are about to upgrade your memory capacity.
If you have 4GB or less i would stick with 32bit, seems more compatable for gaming.
Dont get me wrong i had been running 64bit for a few years and never had an issue till the steam x-mas sales. I bought Serious sam HD, Burnout Paradise, Bioshock and some other games but these were the only ones with problems. I could not get any of them to work and after screwing around with the steam support which is a complete joke BTW. I re downloaded them each 3 or 4 times which sucked cause there servers were dog slow over the holidays i decided to just for the hell of it try installing 32bit OS. Now all games work fine.
If you have 4GB or less i would stick with 32bit, seems more compatable for gaming.
Dont get me wrong i had been running 64bit for a few years and never had an issue till the steam x-mas sales. I bought Serious sam HD, Burnout Paradise, Bioshock and some other games but these were the only ones with problems. I could not get any of them to work and after screwing around with the steam support which is a complete joke BTW. I re downloaded them each 3 or 4 times which sucked cause there servers were dog slow over the holidays i decided to just for the hell of it try installing 32bit OS. Now all games work fine.
If you have 4GB or less i would stick with 32bit, seems more compatable for gaming.
Dont get me wrong i had been running 64bit for a few years and never had an issue till the steam x-mas sales. I bought Serious sam HD, Burnout Paradise, Bioshock and some other games but these were the only ones with problems. I could not get any of them to work and after screwing around with the steam support which is a complete joke BTW. I re downloaded them each 3 or 4 times which sucked cause there servers were dog slow over the holidays i decided to just for the hell of it try installing 32bit OS. Now all games work fine.
I didn't have any problems running any of those games in Vista 64. All ran perfectly fine and have never had any problems running any recent game. There's no reason to stay with a 32bit OS for any reason whatsoever unless you have a critical application that will only run in a 32bit environment and someone that needs that won't be posting that question in here.
LOL i know, everyone told me they run fine in 64 bit. But serious sam had no sound, burnout would crash during the intro movie and bioshock would crash everytime i changed the res. Then i said screw it reinstalled to 32bit vista and they all ran fine, with the same files even i didnt even reinstall them as my steam directory is on a seperate drive so i just reinstalled steam client pointed it to that folder and all the games worked fine with the same files, wierdest thing i have ever seen but it solved my problems, only thing i changed was 64 to 32bit OS, same drivers and everything else
I've been trying to get 64-bit W7 to work for months, it simply does not work. Zyxel unbelievably STILL do not have any 64-bit drivers for their wireless network adapter so, no internet.
I did get a new Linkysys USB adapter that was certified for Windows 7 64-bit use, but Linksys have removed the drivers from their website! I'm going back to 32-bit because it actually works.
If you have 4GB or less i would stick with 32bit, seems more compatable for gaming.
Dont get me wrong i had been running 64bit for a few years and never had an issue till the steam x-mas sales. I bought Serious sam HD, Burnout Paradise, Bioshock and some other games but these were the only ones with problems. I could not get any of them to work and after screwing around with the steam support which is a complete joke BTW. I re downloaded them each 3 or 4 times which sucked cause there servers were dog slow over the holidays i decided to just for the hell of it try installing 32bit OS. Now all games work fine.