the main concern is will you be able to get drivers for your hardware. That will come in time, but at this very moment it might be a gamble as to whether you'll have drivers to use right away. Performance shouldn't be significantly different, at least not until/unless we also get 64bit binaries for the games. At that point, at the very least the games would have access to the extra CPU registers, which will help somewhat in the performance department. Apparently, most 32bit programs, including games, don't have any problems running on 64bit windows. Do yourself a favour and get an Athlon64 though, not Intel's weaker alternative. Get a board/cpu based on Socket939 to future-proof yourself a little bit. Could even drop in one of the dual core CPUs down the road, with just a BIOS update.
On 5/31/05, CAIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone here playing HL1 and HL2 on 64 Bit Windows XP ??? > > I'm planning to build a new box at home to play DoD, and soon DoD:Source, and > I > want to build a 64 bit windows machine. > > Any issues?? Any problems ?? Any improvements in performance?? > > Does Steam install and work OK on 64 Bit Windows too ?? -- Clayton Macleod _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
