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Off-Topic => Off-Topic Discussion => Topic started by: Gropaga on October 20, 2012, 10:47:19 PM
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I am thinking of upgrading my OS to 64bit.
Should i buy Win7 64bit or Win8 64bit?
USAGE: I want to play games like RW:AOD.
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For the love of god whatever you go with do not make it 8.
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Can RW:AOD even be played on 64 bit?
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For the love of god whatever you go with do not make it 8.
Why? Everything works perfect on x64.
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For the love of god whatever you go with do not make it 8.
Why? Everything works perfect on x64.
Windows 7/Windows Xp > Windows Vista > Windows 8
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For the love of god whatever you go with do not make it 8.
Why? Everything works perfect on x64.
>not getting it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0fsyb-ttcw#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0fsyb-ttcw#ws)
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oh, i read 8 as x64
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A lot of old games don't run on Win7. I'm not sure about the RW games, though. And Windows 8 is cancer on a screen.
Also, if you have 3GB of RAM or less, 32-bit is faster.
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For the love of god whatever you go with do not make it 8.
Why? Everything works perfect on x64.
Windows 7/Windows Xp > Windows Vista > Windows 8
Windows XP > Windows 7 > Windows 2000 > Windows 98 > Windows Vista > Windows 95 > Windows 8 > Windows NT > Windows ME
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A lot of old games don't run on Win7. I'm not sure about the RW games, though. And Windows 8 is cancer on a screen.
Also, if you have 3GB of RAM or less, 32-bit is faster.
RW games runs on Win7 with compatible mode.
I am thinking on upgrading RAM to 4GB of ram.
(Windows says that i only have 3GB of ram)
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A lot of old games don't run on Win7. I'm not sure about the RW games, though. And Windows 8 is cancer on a screen.
Also, if you have 3GB of RAM or less, 32-bit is faster.
RW games runs on Win7 with compatible mode.
I am thinking on upgrading RAM to 4GB of ram.
(Windows says that i only have 3GB of ram)
Just get as much ram as your system will take d00d
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If you have XP:
Keep it. Seriously. You'll thank us later.
If you don't have XP:
Get W7 32-bit.
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yeah xp is best
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The number of ram matters less than the quality of ram. You only need 4GB for most things since they are still using 32-bit, but make sure they are all DDR3.
And yes, no reason to upgrade beyond XP unless you really want to run a program that doesn't run on it. In that case use window 7.
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Bullsh**, 8 gigs will always be better for gaming than 4 (Unless by quality you mean DDR3 vs DDR2)
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Bullsh**, 8 gigs will always be better for gaming than 4 (Unless by quality you mean DDR3 vs DDR2)
Pretty sure that's what he's saying.
RAMBUS, for the win.
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As far as I know, DDR2 stopped being used around the Bronze Age.
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As far as I know, DDR2 stopped being used around the Bronze Age.
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Uh-huh...
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I'm le PC expert. You have to believe me, it's the internet.
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As far as I know, DDR2 stopped being used around the Bronze Age.
No, Gateway, E-Machine, and other cheap ass brand still uses them.
The point is, don't just plug random rams in from *an old machine* unless you know they are DDR3.
And 8 gb always better than 4 gb is bullsh**. Most games still run on 32 bits so they can't use more than 4 gigs. How many games do you have that isn't install to Program Files (x86) by default and cannot run with 4gig ram? The money is better spend on getting a good video card if you gonna *pay* for something.
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Yes, but the OS takes up 1 or 2 gigs, and quite a lot is used by AV programs, Internet Browsers and other background programs. If I reduced my PC to 4 gigs, I wouldn't be able to do quite a lot of the things I do actually do on my PC.
Of course, if you have integrated graphics you're gonna have a bad time no matter what.
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OS takes up to 1 or 2 gigs? Not if you are running a 32 bit window XP and turn graphic to classic. Even window 7 don't use that much as long as you turn off all the OS graphic settings/real time surveillance/smart tools.
Now of course if you want to run 20 different programs in the background and have the annoying OS graphic settings/real time surveillance/smart tools on, then sure you need a 64 bit machine with 8 gig ram.
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Ok, here's my PC stuff:
Win7 64-bit
8gb DDR3 RAM
1TB HDD
nVidia GTX580 graphics card
Intel i5 Sandy Bridge (OC'd to 3.3 GHz)
What I put it through:
2 constant tabs on Firefox (GTM and DayZDB.com map)
One or two games (Sometimes I'll alt-tab and forget about them.)
Kaspersky Internet Security 2012
Tekkit Server (2GB) Dedicated RAM
Often windows explorer, with my csgo folder and downloads folder open
Windows Task Manager
Sometimes iTunes
So yeah, that's why I need 8 gigs.
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I'm le PC expert.
Ok, here's my PC stuff:
Kaspersky Internet Security 2012
One or the other can be true... Never both.
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Yeah, I didn't choose to put it on there. Weekly MBAM and ComboFix scans work much better than Kaspersky.
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Yes, but the OS takes up 1 or 2 gigs, and quite a lot is used by AV programs, Internet Browsers and other background programs. If I reduced my PC to 4 gigs, I wouldn't be able to do quite a lot of the things I do actually do on my PC.
Of course, if you have integrated graphics you're gonna have a bad time no matter what.
i'm chilling at about 1.6g with firefox, pandora and a java editor running on win7x64. the only time i ever really go above 2.5g is when i run something like autodesk inventor and am working on a large assembly.
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I'm le PC expert.
Good news:
Got a nice gaming PC! :D
Bad news:
We have to build half of it, and none of the parts are labeled, and there the no instructions. FML.
Turns out that it was already built, and they gave us some random parts and bolts for free. -_-
:FFFUUU
My new 'gaming' computer runs BF3 at approx. 5 FPS and I can't find out how to change tabs in the system settings. So this 1k desktop is only marginally more powerful than my dad's Laptop (Judging by how well Minecraft runs), which is 1 year older and half the price.
In short; it's big, expensive and bloody useless. >=(
Most of the parts are asus, by the looks of things. Well, some of them, anyway.
And I would, if I knew how to build a working computer.
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Ah, yes.
The PC came with a box of assorted crap, so I thought that I had to build part of it and went into a semi-rage mode.
And BF3 was failing because, for some reason, the PC was using integrated graphics instead of the graphics card. I had to fiddle with the (custom and very helpful) BIOS to get it to work.
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And BF3 was failing because, for some reason, the PC was using integrated graphics instead of the graphics card. I had to fiddle with the (custom and very helpful) BIOS to get it to work.
Step 1: Unplug monitor from integrated graphics output on motherboard.
Step 2: Plug into graphics card output in the expansion slots.
Step 3: Don't mess with the BIOS.
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Thanks for being a year late with that one. Besides, I got it fixed just fine. Now all I need to do is stop it vapourising everything that goes into the disc drive.
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Thanks for being a year late with that one. Besides, I got it fixed just fine. Now all I need to do is stop it vapourising everything that goes into the disc drive.
ummmmm, buy a new one, they don't cost that much.