Gaming xp pro x64

The second also just matches other iso's that are for sure the normal 64 bit iso. Just wanted to put a review in after reading a couple of them.

If you don't dosn't the person that uploaded them. Then don't download it. Or don't use it as your main OS. Plus Windows XP no longer is being support by Microsoft. You could easily get malware and etc because of it. The point of having it up on the archive is it could still be found. The reason im going to download load this is to have a VM running as i need it.

I'll turn it on. Use for whatever i need it for. Then turn it off couple hours later. Users will still have access to a command prompt, it just won't be DOS. This means that DOS-based programs will not run, which may piss off some old-school gamers who still run ancient games from way back when.

Driver Support Now, while there is full support for bit applications, all drivers must be bit. Because of this, Microsoft is currently targeting XP x64 at high-end users who know how to hunt down drivers, check for device compatibility and all that jazz.

Very casual users who never check for driver updates or the like will be better off staying with the bit version of XP, at least for now, and Microsoft fully admits this. While the OS seems to have drivers for plenty of current hardware built-in, there may be some older hardware that you'll need to hunt down drivers for.

As well, if you want the highest-performance drivers, you'll need to look for official drivers straight from the manufacturers on your own. Ethernet drivers and whatnot may be fine via the built-in stuff, but graphics and sound drivers are a different story. During our own bit of installing the final version of XP x64 on our test machine, we ran into a few driver problems.

Firstly, we were unable to get ATI's Catalyst drivers to install. XP x64 has built-in drivers for the card, so it worked fine, but standard drivers are never ideal for gaming. It seems that ATI's drivers are currently targeted at AMD platforms, and as we first installed on an Intel box, the driver installation simply stopped partway through, assumably because it was on an Intel box.

Obviously this needs to be fixed. NVIDIA's current XP x64 drivers had no problem installing and ran great, but as of this afternoon they were over a month old, certainly not finalized. Creative currently offers beta drivers for its Live! As well, the readme included with the drivers only list a handful of supported games with a few big ones under the Issues section, including UT2k4 , Halo and Half-Life.

While we fully expect usable drivers for our ATI and Creative cards very soon hopefully either this week or next at the latest , the point here is that driver support isn't quite perfect yet.

This shouldn't be a problem for big-name hardware for very long, but it may always be a problem for less cutting-edge hardware. If you have a scanner from that hasn't seen a driver update in three years, you may be entirely out of luck with XP x Application Support So far as applications go, like we mentioned before, bit programs are a go so practically everything you run today should work in one form or another. Currently there are a number of programs that will see a bit release, either available now or coming in short order.

On the whole, the gaming experience was the same across bit and bit platforms. ATI will need to look at bringing the performance of Chronicles of Riddick up on par with the bit performance that they are capable of delivering in the title. Ubisoft, the developers of the title, will need to release a patch in the near future to get the popular title working under the latest operating system.

Steam also had problems installing to the default installation directory, but once installed to a user-selected destination the platform ran fine, as did Half-Life 2. The article is well worth a read if you are considering upgrading to the latest version of Windows XP.

Without this, there isn't going to be any benefit in game performance on an x64 platform. Therefore, we are still waiting for a game that can fully take advantage of a bit CPU. It seems as if the main problem for Windows XP Pro x64 Edition is the availability of bit drivers, applications, and games.

The funny thing was that the only game they tested that was optimized for bit was Riddick, and it actually ran slower than it did on bit.