Windows Xp 64bit??

[shinzwei]

is it good or something? is the beta version good? becuase i might want to try it!!

 

[Sparky19692]

Works Great for me I would recomend Down loading all thedrivers that you need first.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Search.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Search.

:beer:

 

[HardWarrior]

I'll wait for the final product. I am looking forward to it though, especially since it's free.

 

[DnetMHZ]

No!, it's no good, next question.

 

[Dream Operator]

Originally posted by: HardWarrior
I'll wait for the final product. I am looking forward to it though, especially since it's free.

The betas are free. I doubt the final release will be. I do think they have a program for people who bought XP 32bit to upgrade, but the details have not been finalized.

Currently dual boot here XP Pro 32 and XP Pro 64. Waiting for my soundcard drivers (maudio) to be updated. They have 64bit drivers, but they quit working as of RC1 of XP 64. The company is now updating all 64bit drivers to be RC2 compatible.

I like it so far. Though not much new so don't expect to get in there and notice that it's all different. Actually rather amazing that the could redo everything behind the scenes and make it so you can hardly tell the difference on the surface.

 

[HardWarrior]

My main rig is to important to play with beta OS's. Yeah, it's going to be a free upgrade to XPro users.

What are your experiences with it so far? Is it faster, any new features?

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: HardWarrior
My main rig is to important to play with beta OS's. Yeah, it's going to be a free upgrade to XPro users.

What are your experiences with it so far? Is it faster, any new features?

Are you sure it's free for XP Pro users? Wow, I'm very glad my P4 is E0 stepping with EM64T instructions! (Dell XPS Gen4)

 

[HardWarrior]

I've read it in more than a few places. That's about as sure as I can be.

 

[kylef]

Remember: Doubling the bits makes it twice as fast!

 

[WPFossil]

Don't expect any noticeable speed change. The OS won't really shine until there are a lot of 64-bit apps out there.

 

[notoriousformula]

Originally posted by: WPFossil
Don't expect any noticeable speed change. The OS won't really shine until there are a lot of 64-bit apps out there.

damn right :beer:

 

[kylef]

What? You mean 64-bit isn't twice as fast as 32-bit?

Man, that correspondence course really let me down. First, I find out that Hyperthreading won't really double my speed. Now this.

I think I'm going to send back the diploma.

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: kylef
What? You mean 64-bit isn't twice as fast as 32-bit?

Man, that correspondence course really let me down. First, I find out that Hyperthreading won't really double my speed. Now this.

I think I'm going to send back the diploma.

Don't worry, it'll be faster. How much faster is the question.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: kylef
Remember: Doubling the bits makes it twice as fast!

I hope you're being sarcastic.

 

[kylef]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: kylef
Remember: Doubling the bits makes it twice as fast!

I hope you're being sarcastic.

I'll remember to be more obvious next time...

I'm actually running the Windows XP x64 RC2 on several different systems right now, and it works as advertised. I've been bitten by the File System Redirector once in a Perl script, since Perl is a 32-bit app and is subject to the redirection.

Also, the speed improvement for native 64-bit apps seems to vary quite a bit from app to app. Not all apps will benefit to the same degree from a recompile with the extra 8 GPRs, which means the code size will increase for some apps more than for others. And other things being equal (using the same code and same compiler), code size is inversely proportional to speed since it uses up more instruction cache, takes longer to load, and triggers more page faults.

All in all, I'm impressed. Allowing 32-bit and 64-bit apps to run side-by-side is pretty darn cool.