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^squirrel^

^squirrel^

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I'm planning on putting 4gb ram in there in the next few weeks. I do a bit of gaming and i'm going to need to use Vista 64bit if i'm going to be able to utilise it. Am i right in saying that the 2008 Macpro comes with Vista 64bit drivers?


Thanks all

Darren
 
Leopard bootcamp contains the 64-bit drivers for Vista, so yes.

XP can only use around 3.5Gb of RAM I believe.

Mines arriving 3rd March 🙂
 
^squirrel^ said:
I'm planning on putting 4gb ram in there in the next few weeks. I do a bit of gaming and i'm going to need to use Vista 64bit if i'm going to be able to utilise it. Am i right in saying that the 2008 Macpro comes with Vista 64bit drivers?


Thanks all

Darren
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Since you do a bit of gaming, just curious, how many games do you normally have installed at one time? And what size partition are you going to give to windows?
 
OnePumpChump said:
Since you do a bit of gaming, just curious, how many games do you normally have installed at one time? And what size partition are you going to give to windows?
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I've got a spare 160gb Samsung drive, so i'll just pop windows on there. Games i have installed are....

Counter Strike Source
Battlefield2142
Call of Duty 4
MS Flight Sim X
 
^squirrel^ said:
I've got a spare 160gb Samsung drive, so i'll just pop windows on there. Games i have installed are....

Counter Strike Source
Battlefield2142
Call of Duty 4
MS Flight Sim X
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Thanks, I am thinking of installing Vista on my 160GB external, before I upgrade with another internal TB hd, so I was just curious.
 
^squirrel^ said:
I've got a spare 160gb Samsung drive, so i'll just pop windows on there. Games i have installed are....

Counter Strike Source
Battlefield2142
Call of Duty 4
MS Flight Sim X
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I'd be more than interested how you get on with FSX on the Pro. I'd love a MP to replace my aging AMD box I use to edit our in-car video footage from our events, but I'm also an avid "simmer".
 
OnePumpChump said:
Nope, XP Pro can utilize all the ram. But I personally went with Vista Ultimate.
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64 bit XP Pro can see more RAM -- but all 32 bit OS systems can only address 4 GB of RAM and a portion of that is taken by hardware so you end up with around 3.5GB.
 
Does anyone know if you can partition a 1 TB Drive to run OSX and Vista? That way I could choose how to boot it? Anyone have a link to a how to?
 
MrPDaddyHimself said:
Does anyone know if you can partition a 1 TB Drive to run OSX and Vista? That way I could choose how to boot it? Anyone have a link to a how to?
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you install OSX on it..
u run bootcamp, which allows you to create a partition for Vista.. u can select how much the vista partition is..u just drag a slider.

google "boot camp installation instructions".. there's a pdf.. step by step.
 
MrPDaddyHimself said:
Does anyone know if you can partition a 1 TB Drive to run OSX and Vista? That way I could choose how to boot it? Anyone have a link to a how to?
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Yep.. BootCamp is the app in the utilities folder. I went to install XP today, but didn't have the SP2 version. I have several XP original CD's and licenses, but no SP2 on a disk. Has anyone run in to this problem?

Nice game choice, btw. My faves are BF@ and CSS gun game deathmatch. I haven't played in a while. =(
 
eyecool said:
I went to install XP today, but didn't have the SP2 version. I have several XP original CD's and licenses, but no SP2 on a disk. Has anyone run in to this problem?
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Google "slipstream XP SP2" for instructions on how to build your own SP2 CD.
 
^squirrel^ said:
I've got a spare 160gb Samsung drive, so i'll just pop windows on there. Games i have installed are....

Counter Strike Source
Battlefield2142
Call of Duty 4
MS Flight Sim X
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I sincerely hope you have more success in installing Vista on a secondary drive than I did. I tried for three days to no avail. I eventually went out and plunked down $299 for XP Pro which installed with no problems. Others have reported success but there is a known problem (see here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927520).
Good luck
Alan
 
whistler222 said:
you install OSX on it..
u run bootcamp, which allows you to create a partition for Vista.. u can select how much the vista partition is..u just drag a slider.

google "boot camp installation instructions".. there's a pdf.. step by step.
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Thanks mucho. How's the MP working out?
 
kirkbross said:
64 bit XP Pro can see more RAM -- but all 32 bit OS systems can only address 4 GB of RAM and a portion of that is taken by hardware so you end up with around 3.5GB.
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I could only get XP Pro to show 1.99 GB of Ram for me, with 4 GB in the machine. I tried the /3gb and /pae switches with no luck.

Vista 64-bit Ultimate shows it all (6GB now)
 
blackscooby said:
I'd be more than interested how you get on with FSX on the Pro. I'd love a MP to replace my aging AMD box I use to edit our in-car video footage from our events, but I'm also an avid "simmer".
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If you are an avid flight sim guy, go get X-plane 9 for Mac. It is FAR more realistic than MS's "sim".
 
XianPalin said:
I could only get XP Pro to show 1.99 GB of Ram for me, with 4 GB in the machine. I tried the /3gb and /pae switches with no luck.

Vista 64-bit Ultimate shows it all (6GB now)
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that's exactly the same thing that mine's doing!

i've been thinking about installing xp64 to see if it seas anymore, but either way i wonder what the deal is with xp pro.
 
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