Win 7 64 upgade?

[KeBrAnTo]

Originally Posted by rayrush

Hi Iam currently running ati 6850 with win 7 32 bit with 4 gig ram. Is it benificial to run win 7 64 bit with 8 gig ram?. Is there a noticable difference between the 2 setups? The requirements say 4 gig recommended. Thanks

12 GB RAM is useful if you wan't to get rid of the OS page file in order to increase performance.

I run Windows 7 64 on a box with 12 GB RAM and no page file, and all games run much faster as there's no vRAM access to the disks (they're far slower than RAM) and stability is perfect, no crashes at all.

[rayrush]

Ok so the game works fine with win 7 64, just i have read somewhere it needs a win 7 64 executable?

[KeBrAnTo]

Originally Posted by rayrush

Ok so the game works fine with win 7 64, just i have read somewhere it needs a win 7 64 executable?

It does not as far as I know, I've been playing on that OS (Windows 7 64 ) and no special executable needs to be honest. Also runs pretty well.

[rayrush]

Thanks! win 7 64 it definetly is then.

[Bobb4]

Depends on the game though, if you only fly CoD then it is a no-brainer to use Win7 64 but if you play other games then XP and win7 32 offer far greater stablity.
It is always a trade-off which is rather strange as almost every single cpu made nowdays is 64bit enabled

[mcmatt]

Originally Posted by KeBrAnTo

It does not as far as I know, I've been playing on that OS (Windows 7 64 ) and no special executable needs to be honest. Also runs pretty well.

Special exe is not needed, because windows emulate 32 bit. But if you want to have goodies of 64 bit operating system (better memory management), program (COD in this case) should be written for 64 bit.

As it the case with DCS: A10C. You have 32 & 64 bit exe ...