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Posted by coolestrl on Oct-26-2009 20:49:

Posted by gehzumteufel on Oct-26-2009 21:52:

quote:
Originally posted by Fibonacci
I am under the impression x32 can handle up to 4gb - Correct me if I'm wrong here? I had to upgrade to x64 to take advantage of my 8gb ram... I really don't have a problem running most x32 apps. Firefox, MS office (32bit - there is no x64 office), etc... all work fine under Win7 x6.

32bit Windows can ADDRESS 4gb of memory at maximum. This is the memory totals of ALL things. So, if you have 4gb of ram, 1gb of video, 2mb of cache, etc. Just with 4gb of ram and 1gb video card you are at 5gb. So, 4gb total addressable, subtract 1gb for your video, and about 100mb for system reserved shit. So you have a total of 2900MB of ram that are addressable.

quote:
Originally posted by coolestrl
The 32-bit version (x86) will support 4GB, but supposedly will only be able to address up to about 3.5GB of it.

The 64-bit version (x64) can go up to 192GB depending on variant (e.g., Ultimate).

64bit has a theoretical maximum of 16 Exabytes. Although Windows 7 has a maximum of 8TB.

Posted by Fledz on Oct-27-2009 03:53:

My brother got a new PC with Win7 Pro yesterday. I didn't get a chance to play around with it too much yet but it seems very stable, extremely responsive and he hasn't run into any problems.
I like it and I love the new snap feature

Posted by Omega_Blue on Oct-27-2009 04:03:

im converting an avi file into dvd format and i'm noticing a little sluggishness while multi-tasking on TA, but it's not as bad as it was with vista. so far i'm very pleased with win 7. it's like they kept all the good stuff about vista (such as the general user interface) and tossed out all the dumb shit they incorporated in the old version. plus you can turn off UAC without having to dick around with the registry- a big plus for the layperson.

Posted by Fledz on Oct-27-2009 07:49:

Posted by gehzumteufel on Oct-27-2009 07:57:

quote:
Originally posted by Omega_Blue
im converting an avi file into dvd format and i'm noticing a little sluggishness while multi-tasking on TA, but it's not as bad as it was with vista. so far i'm very pleased with win 7. it's like they kept all the good stuff about vista (such as the general user interface) and tossed out all the dumb shit they incorporated in the old version. plus you can turn off UAC without having to dick around with the registry- a big plus for the layperson.

You never had to dick around in the registry to turn off UAC in Vista. win+r and type msconfig. Tools tab and then change UAC settings. This works in Vista and Win7.

quote:
Originally posted by Fledz
Word of warning, Win7 will run many programs in XP compatibility mode if required. My brother was testing 3DMark Vantage and we wondering why he was getting really shitty FPS, until we noticed the program isn't coded for Win7 and it was automatically running in compatibility mode.

Just something to keep an eye on really in case there are programs that run sluggish. Win7 will only get better as more Win7 native programs are released and hopefully in 64-bit too. It's about bloody time we move to 64-bit

It will only run in compatibility mode automatically if it is on a list (there is a list that MS has for apps that flat out don't run without XP Compatibility mode) of incompatible or problematic apps or it fails during install and brings up that prompt asking if it didn't install correctly.

Posted by LeopoldStotch on Oct-29-2009 22:45:

sweet. the company is giving everyone windows 7 ultimate.
bad news. it's the 32-bit version.

Posted by gehzumteufel on Oct-30-2009 02:12:

quote:
Originally posted by LeopoldStotch
sweet. the company is giving everyone windows 7 ultimate.
bad news. it's the 32-bit version.

Just call MS and request the 64bit version.

Posted by Krypton on Oct-30-2009 02:21:

quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
PM krypton. he's awesome with computers.

Turned out the CPU chip was loose. lol

Posted by astroboy on Oct-30-2009 02:40:

quote:
Originally posted by LeopoldStotch
sweet. the company is giving everyone windows 7 ultimate.
bad news. it's the 32-bit version.

You can use the same key to validate a 64 bit install.. as long as its the same flavour of Windows (ie Ultimate).

Posted by Omega_Blue on Oct-30-2009 02:53:

i had one issue today- i had to reinstall the WDM audio drivers i use to record streaming audio without using the mic/line-in. the first time i ran the program in win7 i got the BSOD, then it didn't uninstall correctly when i tried doing so after rebooting. had to install the same software over the old version and everything worked fine.

Posted by Lira on Oct-30-2009 04:37:

quote:
Originally posted by Demoted
I checked that first. But for some reason they (sony) don't have keyboard drivers for my model. I've downloaded some other drivers (motherboard, touchpad, system control or whatever) drivers without any discernible difference in performance and without fixing my problem.

RAGE

by the way, my model is the Sony Vaio VGN-CS290.

Interesting... mine is a 32-bit VGN-CS118E, and I'm a bit cautious about upgrading because I don't have much time to deal with this sort of problem right now.

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