Hello,

I am buying a new AMD 64 Bit PC, its main role is going to be playing games
and the main game will be WOW.

I was thinking of loading windows xp 64bit edition, anyone use this for
gaming?

My thoughts are the OS will run faster but the game will run the same, I
will also use the PC for development and i can use 64Bit Dev tools so I am
happy with this.

Cheers

Steve

Hi Steve,

Just make sure that drivers are available for your main
components (video card, sound card, AGP bridge, etc),
and that those drivers are made with performance in mind.

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
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_________________________________________________________

"Steve Drake" <Steve@_NOSPAM_Drakey.co.uk> wrote in message news:di0hir$ue$1$(E-Mail Removed)...
| Hello,
|
| I am buying a new AMD 64 Bit PC, its main role is going to be playing games
| and the main game will be WOW.
|
| I was thinking of loading windows xp 64bit edition, anyone use this for
| gaming?
|
| My thoughts are the OS will run faster but the game will run the same, I
| will also use the PC for development and i can use 64Bit Dev tools so I am
| happy with this.
|
| Cheers
|
| Steve
|
|

I am also curious to find out if I should even bother upgrading from my 32bit
XP home edition to the XP64 professional. Will it help with Game play in a
MMORPG such as World of Warcraft or is it a waste of time? I feel I got the
technology but I am not using it to its full potential...Thanks

"Jimmy S." wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Just make sure that drivers are available for your main
> components (video card, sound card, AGP bridge, etc),
> and that those drivers are made with performance in mind.
>
> --
> Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
> Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
> Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
> MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
> My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
> _________________________________________________________
>
> "Steve Drake" <Steve@_NOSPAM_Drakey.co.uk> wrote in message news:di0hir$ue$1$(E-Mail Removed)...
> | Hello,
> |
> | I am buying a new AMD 64 Bit PC, its main role is going to be playing games
> | and the main game will be WOW.
> |
> | I was thinking of loading windows xp 64bit edition, anyone use this for
> | gaming?
> |
> | My thoughts are the OS will run faster but the game will run the same, I
> | will also use the PC for development and i can use 64Bit Dev tools so I am
> | happy with this.
> |
> | Cheers
> |
> | Steve
> |
> |
>
>
>

Hi Steve L.,

Here's a frew opinions about WoW and Windows x64:

"We found no performance differences between Windows 32-bit and Windows XP Pro x64 Edition."
http://www.hardocp.com/articleprint.html?article_id=765


"well since i never played WoW on Windows XP, im not sure and i dont believe there are any advantages of useing Windows XP x64 with
WoW, and as far as graphical if you've got a pretty good vid card you shouldnt have any issues. There were several bugs with playing
WoW on an x64 system but most have been taken care of, this included my system. But all in all, WoW works perfect on my system."
http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversi...hp/t15068.html

As with anything else, your mileage may vary..

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________


Steve L. Wrote:
=================
| I am also curious to find out if I should even bother upgrading from my 32bit
| XP home edition to the XP64 professional. Will it help with Game play in a
| MMORPG such as World of Warcraft or is it a waste of time? I feel I got the
| technology but I am not using it to its full potential...Thanks
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Steve,
||
|| Just make sure that drivers are available for your main
|| components (video card, sound card, AGP bridge, etc),
|| and that those drivers are made with performance in mind.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| "Steve Drake" <Steve@_NOSPAM_Drakey.co.uk> wrote in message news:di0hir$ue$1$(E-Mail Removed)...
||| Hello,
|||
||| I am buying a new AMD 64 Bit PC, its main role is going to be playing games
||| and the main game will be WOW.
|||
||| I was thinking of loading windows xp 64bit edition, anyone use this for
||| gaming?
|||
||| My thoughts are the OS will run faster but the game will run the same, I
||| will also use the PC for development and i can use 64Bit Dev tools so I am
||| happy with this.
|||
||| Cheers
|||
||| Steve

Thanks Jimmy, you were a big help.... I owe ya one! lol, and if I ever meet
you in WoW, I'll refrain from PVPing you........maybe......haha

"Jimmy S." wrote:

> Hi Steve L.,
>
> Here's a frew opinions about WoW and Windows x64:
>
> "We found no performance differences between Windows 32-bit and Windows XP Pro x64 Edition."
> http://www.hardocp.com/articleprint.html?article_id=765
>
>
> "well since i never played WoW on Windows XP, im not sure and i dont believe there are any advantages of useing Windows XP x64 with
> WoW, and as far as graphical if you've got a pretty good vid card you shouldnt have any issues. There were several bugs with playing
> WoW on an x64 system but most have been taken care of, this included my system. But all in all, WoW works perfect on my system."
> http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversi...hp/t15068.html
>
> As with anything else, your mileage may vary..
>
> --
> Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
> Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
> Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
> MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
> My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
> _________________________________________________________
>
>
> Steve L. Wrote:
> =================
> | I am also curious to find out if I should even bother upgrading from my 32bit
> | XP home edition to the XP64 professional. Will it help with Game play in a
> | MMORPG such as World of Warcraft or is it a waste of time? I feel I got the
> | technology but I am not using it to its full potential...Thanks
> |
> | "Jimmy S." wrote:
> |
> || Hi Steve,
> ||
> || Just make sure that drivers are available for your main
> || components (video card, sound card, AGP bridge, etc),
> || and that those drivers are made with performance in mind.
> ||
> || --
> || Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
> || Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> ||
> || Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
> || MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
> || My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
> || _________________________________________________________
> ||
> || "Steve Drake" <Steve@_NOSPAM_Drakey.co.uk> wrote in message news:di0hir$ue$1$(E-Mail Removed)...
> ||| Hello,
> |||
> ||| I am buying a new AMD 64 Bit PC, its main role is going to be playing games
> ||| and the main game will be WOW.
> |||
> ||| I was thinking of loading windows xp 64bit edition, anyone use this for
> ||| gaming?
> |||
> ||| My thoughts are the OS will run faster but the game will run the same, I
> ||| will also use the PC for development and i can use 64Bit Dev tools so I am
> ||| happy with this.
> |||
> ||| Cheers
> |||
> ||| Steve
>
>
>

Further info:

I do not believe you can "upgrade" the XP64. XP64 is OEM and OEM version do
not do upgrades.



On 07/12/2005 "Steve L." <Steve L.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I am also curious to find out if I should even bother upgrading from my 32bit
>XP home edition to the XP64 professional. Will it help with Game play in a
>MMORPG such as World of Warcraft or is it a waste of time? I feel I got the
>technology but I am not using it to its full potential...Thanks
>
>"Jimmy S." wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Just make sure that drivers are available for your main
>> components (video card, sound card, AGP bridge, etc),
>> and that those drivers are made with performance in mind.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
>> Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>>
>> Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
>> MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
>> My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
>> _________________________________________________________
>>
>> "Steve Drake" <Steve@_NOSPAM_Drakey.co.uk> wrote in message
news:di0hir$ue$1$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> | Hello,
>> |
>> | I am buying a new AMD 64 Bit PC, its main role is going to be playing games
>> | and the main game will be WOW.
>> |
>> | I was thinking of loading windows xp 64bit edition, anyone use this for
>> | gaming?
>> |
>> | My thoughts are the OS will run faster but the game will run the same, I
>> | will also use the PC for development and i can use 64Bit Dev tools so I am
>> | happy with this.
>> |
>> | Cheers
>> |
>> | Steve
>> |
>> |
>>
>>
>>

--
---

Y.

Hi Steve L.,

You're welcome Steve, and thanks (I think). ;-)

Cheers!
Jimmy.

Steve L. Wrote:
=================
| Thanks Jimmy, you were a big help.... I owe ya one! lol, and if I ever meet
| you in WoW, I'll refrain from PVPing you........maybe......haha
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Steve L.,
||
|| Here's a frew opinions about WoW and Windows x64:
||
|| "We found no performance differences between Windows 32-bit and Windows XP Pro x64 Edition."
|| http://www.hardocp.com/articleprint.html?article_id=765
||
||
|| "well since i never played WoW on Windows XP, im not sure and i dont believe there are any advantages of useing Windows XP x64
|| with WoW, and as far as graphical if you've got a pretty good vid card you shouldnt have any issues. There were several bugs
|| with playing WoW on an x64 system but most have been taken care of, this included my system. But all in all, WoW works perfect
|| on my system." http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversi...hp/t15068.html
||
|| As with anything else, your mileage may vary..
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| Steve L. Wrote:
|| =================
||| I am also curious to find out if I should even bother upgrading from my 32bit
||| XP home edition to the XP64 professional. Will it help with Game play in a
||| MMORPG such as World of Warcraft or is it a waste of time? I feel I got the
||| technology but I am not using it to its full potential...Thanks
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Steve,
||||
|||| Just make sure that drivers are available for your main
|||| components (video card, sound card, AGP bridge, etc),
|||| and that those drivers are made with performance in mind.
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
|||| "Steve Drake" <Steve@_NOSPAM_Drakey.co.uk> wrote in message news:di0hir$ue$1$(E-Mail Removed)...
||||| Hello,
|||||
||||| I am buying a new AMD 64 Bit PC, its main role is going to be playing games
||||| and the main game will be WOW.
|||||
||||| I was thinking of loading windows xp 64bit edition, anyone use this for
||||| gaming?
|||||
||||| My thoughts are the OS will run faster but the game will run the same, I
||||| will also use the PC for development and i can use 64Bit Dev tools so I am
||||| happy with this.
|||||
||||| Cheers
|||||
||||| Steve

yes, I read that it can only be installed over XP Professional too, not XP
home. But correct me if i'm wrong, I read that if I bought XP Pro. I can swap
it for XP64 afterwards through the website..

"Yves Leclerc" wrote:

> Further info:
>
> I do not believe you can "upgrade" the XP64. XP64 is OEM and OEM version do
> not do upgrades.
>
>
>
> On 07/12/2005 "Steve L." <Steve L.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >I am also curious to find out if I should even bother upgrading from my 32bit
> >XP home edition to the XP64 professional. Will it help with Game play in a
> >MMORPG such as World of Warcraft or is it a waste of time? I feel I got the
> >technology but I am not using it to its full potential...Thanks
> >
> >"Jimmy S." wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Steve,
> >>
> >> Just make sure that drivers are available for your main
> >> components (video card, sound card, AGP bridge, etc),
> >> and that those drivers are made with performance in mind.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
> >> Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> >>
> >> Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
> >> MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
> >> My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
> >> _________________________________________________________
> >>
> >> "Steve Drake" <Steve@_NOSPAM_Drakey.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:di0hir$ue$1$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> | Hello,
> >> |
> >> | I am buying a new AMD 64 Bit PC, its main role is going to be playing games
> >> | and the main game will be WOW.
> >> |
> >> | I was thinking of loading windows xp 64bit edition, anyone use this for
> >> | gaming?
> >> |
> >> | My thoughts are the OS will run faster but the game will run the same, I
> >> | will also use the PC for development and i can use 64Bit Dev tools so I am
> >> | happy with this.
> >> |
> >> | Cheers
> >> |
> >> | Steve
> >> |
> >> |
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
> --
> ---
>
> Y.
>
>

I'd go to the main source of proper information regarding the 64-bit system:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/default.mspx
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Steve L." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:949C7B17-BC6A-422D-A8E3-(E-Mail Removed)...
> yes, I read that it can only be installed over XP Professional too, not XP
> home. But correct me if i'm wrong, I read that if I bought XP Pro. I can
> swap
> it for XP64 afterwards through the website..