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n°862867
06-19-2008 at 07:28:55 PM

I am building a new video editing computer. I was set on XP 64 bit, but someone just told me if I am going with 64 bit then go with Vista. I have tried to stay away from Vista because of its compatibility issues and stick with XP because of my good luck with it. Please let me know.

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n°862876
06-20-2008 at 01:57:29 PM

Check and maker sure there are drivers for all your hardware before going with any 64 bit os.

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n°862916
06-22-2008 at 06:44:58 AM

If you're going to go 64-bit, then yes, Vista is the way to go. Just ensure whatever software and hardware you plan on using will work with Vista and 64-bit before going ahead.


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n°863010
06-27-2008 at 05:48:44 PM

I'm running XP 64-bit here after downgrading from Vista (I love Vista, it just has some surround sound issues with older games due to Microsoft ripping DirectSound out of DX10)

In my case I had no problems getting driver for all of my hardware, and the only single hiccup I had was forgetting to install the drivers that let it boot from a SATA drive... 'NETLDR is missing' ensued and had to reinstall.

If you do go down the XP 64 route, make sure you hit that F6 key ^_^


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