Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (63520)	2/8/2007 8:15:45 PM
From: regli	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

"... Until the world does not convert to 64 bit upgrading to Vista is useless as all 32 bit programs rum slower than on a XP even after installing them correctly - the problems lies in the conversion layer from 32 bit to 64 bit and back. ..." You should actually see very little performance difference running 32 bit software in WOW64 under Vista assuming you have enough memory. Here are a few comments from ExtremeTech regarding that issue (these are gamers and performance is priority one for them): We see some performance hits in a few games, most noticeably Flight Simulator 2004. But all the differences are really minor, and won't likely be noticed by people actually playing the games. ... Far Cry Crytek released a pair of 64-bit patches for Far Cry, a highly detailed and graphically rich first-person shooter. The first patch just adds 64-bit support, while the second adds enhancements to the game itself, such as more-detailed and destructible environments. We tested the 32-bit version on both operating systems, plus the 64-bit "bare" and "enhanced" versions. The good news is that 32-bit Far Cry (as of the 1.31 patch) runs fine under Windows 64-bit mode, with very little performance penalty. When we move to the base 64-bit version, we pick up a couple of frames per second at 1280x1024, but we defy anyone to actually notice the difference between 79.5 and 82 fps. ..."