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Hmmmm… like Buko I was hoping 64bit is 64bit. Not so it seems. Damnation & bother! Oh well O/S has seemed to be mega sluggish of late so was going to format & start again anyway. Just have to add Vista 64 to the price of CS4 Ext upgrade I guess. =:0(
Wrong. PS 64bit runs just fine on XP64. You just don’t have hardware support for OpenGL, so you loose the rotate canvas, smooth zoom and other things. However, it will always install the 32bit version (which supports these features even on a 64bit host OS) along with the 64bit one, so you have a fallback.
One further amplification re Windows 64: "not supported" means you will get no help from Adobe if something doesn’t work right. But that has always been the case.
I think Vista is worth the extra. Once you are over the shock of the new there are far more drivers and other utilities for it than for the old Windows 64.
Ultimate contains both a 32 bit version & 64 bit version of the OS, business you buy one or the other. You can uninstall any media stuff you do not need and install what you prefer. I have everything installed, works just fine.
XP64 is was an experimental operating system with nowhere near the driver support or maturity of Vista 64.
Sorry, but that’s utter and complete nonsense. Guess on what 64bit machines 3D-artists (including moi) have been working for several years now or where some of the Windows Server stuff has its roots? The essentials like graphics, Wacom tablets and stuff run just fine. It simply doesn’t support a few things, but Apple not producing a native 64bit version of QT or some hardware vendors not caring for 64bit drivers is hardly to blame on MS. Beyond that, it’s hardly of any consequence – 64bit OSs at this point certainly are a niche market targeted at select professional users and in such environments it hardly matters whether it’s XP64 or Vista. Next thing you’ll say is that SGI’s MIPS CPUs or Alpha processors back in the 90s were not 64bit at all and nobody used them… :-/
I know, but my point was that you don’t need 64 bit at all for smooth zoom and smooth rotation, since these are typical Video Hardware demands, perfectly common in the 32 bit realm.
It’s like the magnifying glass in Bridge. If you can move that around quickly but not quirky, then the above should be no problem.
I.O.W. if you got a decent video card you should be fine.
I concur with Mylenium. I use both XP 64 bit and Vista Ultimate 64 bit in my validation work. They both run fine, (same app, no differences whatever) and if XP 64 is only an experiment, there would be no reason to validate on it.
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