Hi just want to know i see alot of people with Windows 7 64-bit. I have Windows 32-bit and want to change. Will it make games A little faster with 64-bit or should i just stay with 32-bit. Please Tell ME Thank you
[color=#0000CD]DOLPHIN RULE'S[/color]
(08-22-2010, 07:19 AM)Billiard26 Wrote: [ -> ]Post your specs.
[color=#FF0000]System
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Manufacturer HP-Pavilion
Model RY877AA-ABA a6045x
Total amount of system memory 2.00 GB RAM
System type 32-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2
64-bit capable Yes
Processor Intel® Core™2 CPU 4400 @ 2.00GHz
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 5.1
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
Gaming graphics 1023 MB Total available graphics memory
Primary hard disk 103GB Free (290GB Total)
Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 298 GB
Disk partition (C
103 GB Free (290 GB Total)
Graphics
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Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
Total available graphics memory 1023 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 256 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 767 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.17.12.5896
Primary monitor resolution 1024x768
DirectX version DirectX 10 [/color]
With only 2GB of ram you may want to stick with 32bit Windows 7.
(08-22-2010, 09:23 AM)Billiard26 Wrote: [ -> ]With only 2GB of ram you may want to stick with 32bit Windows 7.
[color=#000000]Way do you say that? (Just want to know)[/color]
[color=#000000]Do you think i should downgrade to Windows XP?[/color]
64bit programs use more memory. 2GB might not be enough to run x64 Windows 7 very well, but I'm not positive.
You could upgrade to 4GB. Ram is pretty cheap.
Nope, been running 64 bit of windows with just 2GB of ram for a long time now (since XP x64 days), have no problem at all with speed or memory resource. :p
On win7 x64 my memory usage is roughly 1-6 to 2-5gb on idle without doing anything (only antivirus in background)
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I guess you could run 64-bit windows 7 on 2gb of RAM (and it'd maybe downscale the memory usage, haven't tried) but in general it seems like a weird thing to do.
The rational thing would be getting at least 4gb of ram before utilizing 64-bit w7.
Dolphin will also consume about 0.3GB when in use so that's something to remember as well.
why would it be weird? there's some software which benefit from x64, not solely because of increased ram limit.
the only time i hit memory wall is when i'm doing x264 encoding with heavy filtering, there's no other case.
also this will spare me a reinstall if i ever decide to upgrade ram.
Quote:this will spare me a reinstall if i ever decide to upgrade ram
well, that's probably the best argument for going from 32 to 64bit w7.
though a lot of apps would be struggling to run when windows takes at least 1+gb, a newer game such as crysis would easily take 1.1gb, antivirus 0.2gb etc..
for dolphin only, 2gb for OS & the emu might be enough, as dolphin is not really a memory hog.