any problems using windows xp pro 64 bit operating system? Please Help

[Viper0070]

Thank you my Friend for all your Help and I Thank all of You here that have Helped me Now and in the Past.  This is the Best place to Learn and get Help from. I have had a lot of Fun here in Aces High and its Really Helped me get through the days and nights having a little Fun Flying with all of you.  I was thinking on getting a New Gaming PC and I was Thinking about a dual-boot system.  Having windows 7 64 bit for Aces High and windows XP Pro 32 bit for my other programs and use with this new pc.  I really love Aces High and i am trying to get the very best set up for my enjoyment with flying.  I spend a lot of time in front of my monitor and if any one that has windows 7 64 bit maybe you can tell me has it improved your enjoyment in Aces High?  and if so how and what is the best set up for this game?  Thanks again to all of you for all your help and friendship.  Have a Great Weekend...Sammie-Viper

[MrRiplEy[H]]

You won't need XP for anything but some very old gaming titles or legacy software. Windows 7 works great generally speaking.

I never boot into XP anymore even though I have a dualboot system. There has been 2-3 programs so far that I couldn't get to work with windows 7 properly but I can live without them.

The 64-bit hype that's going on is mostly hype - it doesn't bring any real world performance benefits on current software. In some rare occasions you might benefit from the larger memory available but with current games running on 32-bit code the 64-bit OS really gives nothing in return.

Having said that I'm running win7x64 on two of my gaming boxes and it delivers a very smooth gameplay especially on AH (and after disabling ipv6 and optimizations from networking). There's really no valid reason anymore not to use x64 - but it would be a blatant lie to tell you x64 will boost your performance somehow. Windows7 will provide a smoother AH2 gameplay for you even in 32 bit versions though (in my experience, loads faster and doesn't stutter with sound). In reality it's much slower than XP32 even though you won't probably notice the difference.

[Viper0070]

Good Morning.  I have a Question that i could use some help on.  I have windows XP Pro 32 bit and i would like to know if i went to windows xp pro 64 bit operating system would it make Aces High work better?  Is there any problems using 64 bit and if it does work can someone Please help me with what needs to be done to get the best performance out of this?  i have a  Dell Quad pc with 4 gig's of ram and 2 nvidia ultra 8800 video cards set up in SLI.  I that you for any help you can give me on this.  Have a Great day.  Sammie-Viper

[Ghastly]

As has been said, changing out the OS "just because" doesn't make a lot of sense - it's much effort for little gain.

What I'd suggest is to wait until for the inevitable Windows "freak out", and then (when you'd be putting a significant amount of work into repairing/recovering/reloading the OS anyway) switch OS's.

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