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vista ultiamte 64 or 32 on 8800gs????

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retrofraction

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I bought the new I mac with 8800gs and so far I have not been able to contact some one who has succesfully install windows vista onto it.

also if I bought the 32 bit version, exactly how much ram can vista use?
 
...i have the same iMac (im in love!!!!).....i dont know the ram i didnt look but i installed vista32 and it works excellent no problem except i havent got video card driver update to work yet but thats me not vista32....its very fast no problem with games or anything

i tried vista64 first becoz ram but the imac leopard dvd doesnt have drivers/bootcamp stuff so i just did 32 and its no problem.....
 
It doesnt matter what version.

32-bit will see all 4GB, but will only be able to address 3.5GB or so.

64-bit will see all 4GB, and be able to address 4GB, all the way up to I believe a TB or so of RAM.
 
..thanks jerryrock.....but i dont no what this means :p will imacs be ok for vista64 in future updates eg firmware updates or something??or can i never run vista64 on the 3.06 imacs??.......vista32 is ok but i did always buy this imac thinking to vista64
 
aki said:
..thanks jerryrock.....but i dont no what this means :p will imacs be ok for vista64 in future updates eg firmware updates or something??or can i never run vista64 on the 3.06 imacs??.......vista32 is ok but i did always buy this imac thinking to vista64
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Why do you want 64? All it does it let one application use more than 4 GB RAM.
 
...eXan... i have some stuff 64bit only...not much but some things one example is upgraded texture/model/etc/etc for halflife2......its true just for ram its not a big difference
 
aki said:
..thanks jerryrock.....but i dont no what this means :p will imacs be ok for vista64 in future updates eg firmware updates or something??or can i never run vista64 on the 3.06 imacs??.......vista32 is ok but i did always buy this imac thinking to vista64
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Hopefully there will be a firmware upgrade that will allow the installation of Vista 64 on the new iMacs and older MacPro, but right now it will not install.
 
jerryrock said:
Hopefully there will be a firmware upgrade that will allow the installation of Vista 64 on the new iMacs and older MacPro, but right now it will not install.
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That's odd. It installed fine on my MBP (early 2008, you said "new" so I'm assuming it's the latest model).
 
Stridder44 said:
That's odd. It installed fine on my MBP (early 2008, you said "new" so I'm assuming it's the latest model).
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i'm guessign that we need to find the real name for the 8800gs ( I heard it was a 8800m gts loptop card )- try that card's driver for 64bit

your MBP has a 8600gt which is easy to get drivers for and does not have a fake name.

the differnce between 64bit and 32bit besides ram is that your prossesor bandwith has been doubled ( though it only works with 64bit apps ) so technecally you should be able to copy and move data twice as fast.
 
retrofraction said:
i'm guessign that we need to find the real name for the 8800gs ( I heard it was a 8800m gts loptop card )- try that card's driver for 64bit

your MBP has a 8600gt which is easy to get drivers for and does not have a fake name.

the differnce between 64bit and 32bit besides ram is that your prossesor bandwith has been doubled ( though it only works with 64bit apps ) so technecally you should be able to copy and move data twice as fast.
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2^64 is NOT twice as much as 2^32. It much, m u c h more.
 
retrofraction said:
i'm guessign that we need to find the real name for the 8800gs ( I heard it was a 8800m gts loptop card )- try that card's driver for 64bit

your MBP has a 8600gt which is easy to get drivers for and does not have a fake name.

the differnce between 64bit and 32bit besides ram is that your prossesor bandwith has been doubled ( though it only works with 64bit apps ) so technecally you should be able to copy and move data twice as fast.
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Yeah, that was pretty dumb they called it the 8800gs or whatever. I don't care what people say about 64-bit, they're awesome. I mean it's not like it would be slower (yes, I know 32-bit apps have to go through wow (windows on windows), but it doesn't hurt the performance to noticeable extents).

I do plan on getting 4 GB of ram pretty quick here, to make the 64-bit OS that much more worth it.
 
retrofraction said:
i'm guessign that we need to find the real name for the 8800gs ( I heard it was a 8800m gts loptop card )- try that card's driver for 64bit

your MBP has a 8600gt which is easy to get drivers for and does not have a fake name.

the differnce between 64bit and 32bit besides ram is that your prossesor bandwith has been doubled ( though it only works with 64bit apps ) so technecally you should be able to copy and move data twice as fast.
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It not a matter of getting 64bit drivers for your video card (they already exist).

http://www.gamershell.com/download_23011.shtml
 
8800gs driver installation - Vista 64-bit

Hello. I have a 24" iMac with the 8800gs video card. I'm running Vista 64-bit using bootcamp. I've found a way to install a driver and get it working for the video card.

1. Download the latest Nvidia GeForce Driver for Windows Vista 64-bit.
2. Run the exe file. It will fail, but the purpose of this is to create the C:/Nvidia...etc folder that contains the driver.
3. Now open your device manager. If you're a little rusty, that's Start, Right click on computer, properties, device manager (on left)
4. Navigate to the 8800gs graphics adapter under display adapters (it may not be called 8800gs yet)
5. Right Click and update driver.
6. Select Browse my computer for driver software.
7. Select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
8. Select Have Disk and then browse to the location that was made in step 2. This is usually something like c:/nvidia/drivers/.....vista64bit.
9. Then scroll down and select the 8800gs driver and install it (this may take 2 or 3 minutes)
10. Restart and you're finished!

I now have a 5.8 rating in the Vista performance tool. Sweet!
 
Early MAC PRO...

Currently running Windows XP and AutoCAD 2009. Long story short, AutoCAD 2009 BLOWS and continuously has memory issues. The rumor is that by upgrading to 64 bit most of the issues with AutoCAD go away...

Any ideas if I can upgrade my Early MAC PRO (purchased in Fall of '06) from XP to Vista 64 bit...
 
John Jacob said:
Does anyone know if the late 2008 Macbook or Macbook Pro (the newly released ones) will support Vista 64?
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I'm having lots of problems getting Vista X64 to work properly on my Late 2008 Macbook 2.4. It won't install Bootcamp in Vista so I can't get the drivers to work properly.
 
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