how screwed will i be by going 64? what are some headaches you run into, and are there any fixes? or have you found everything to run well with minimal problem?

Driver support is very spotty for 64 bit operating systems. You may want to verify that any drivers you have for your studio equipment is 64 bit. You cannot use a 32 bit dirver on a 64 bit operating system.

In addition you'll have to make sure that your DAW software will also run on a 64 bit OS.

Personally, I don't see 64 bit proliferation for a few years in the studio space.

There is absolutely, positively, no reason whatsoever to start using Windows XP x64 right now. It's an ad-hoc update to Windows XP, isn't all that stable and driver support sucks. Vista, on the other hand, has x64 support baked right in. I don't think Vista is a good choice for production right now either, but for anyone who does want to take advantage of x64 I highly suggest waiting until Vista is stable and then upgrading.

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I hated 64 bit when I had an AMD64, drivers were shit, I had to use beta drivers for my sound card. Little to no support for basically anything. Windows basically went into bitch mode every few months and required formats.

Now I have core2duo. And I love it.

Depends on your configuration.

A: 64bit processor

B: Motherboard that has a recent chipset that likes 64bit processors

C: (MOST IMPORTANT) AUDIO HARDWARE THAT HAS 64BIT DRIVERS

D: A DAW that takes advantage of 64 bit (e.g. Cubase, Sonar, etc).

ProTools is currently a no-go for 64 bit, AS IS THEIR HARDWARE.

Which is breaking my balls, since I wanted to use Cubase 4 with my Mbox2 on my friends Quad-Core-Intel using Windows XP x64. But, like digi pointed out, XP64 isn't a great choice, and vista isn't quite stable enough to get approval from us audio geeks, and the professional audio world--- yet.

It sucks to find out there's no 64bit drivers for your audio hardware.

So again.

POINT C IS UUUUBERRR IMPORTANT

As for your 32bit applications? No big worries usually. Most 32 bit stuff will run in 64 bit land, just not the other way around.

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Last edited by wrzonance on May-18-2007 at 16:36