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Quoted from dauk

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Just share your tech mambo jambo and say what would you pref and with how many bits. I will follow and cherish your advice, guru.

xp sp3, 32-bit.

all i’ve used for the past 7 years, all i will ever use until the compatibility is gone.

Quoted from Spike Himself

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Keep in mind though that if you ever add more RAM (4gb+), windows won’t see more than 3.something of it.

Windows actually sees all 4GB (well, actually 2^32-1), it’s just that it’s partially reserved for hardware.

Quoted from Spike Himself

For this reason I’d suggest 64bits (which is faster in general too – except for tf2 according to chris (and he’s probably right)).

Enjoy your problems finding drivers for lesser-known hardware. And most performance increases will be placebo, bearing in mind that almost everything you use will be 32-bit (and thus technically slower on a 64-bit processor, even with the 32-bit mode).

If you want to use 64-bit, roll Win7. There aren’t many good options otherwise, if you want to play games that is.

Quoted from Spike Himself

I have more 64-bit capable software than 32-bit, too.

You’re not exactly the average demographic.

Quoted from Spike Himself

The performance increase is not placebo at all – it is definitely noticable, at least at boot-time.

Of course it will be faster at boot time, obviously that will be the case. It’s in normal operation that it will be placebo, especially since so much of the normal user’s tools are 32-bit.

Oh and (I put it in my last post but I guess I edited it out by accident), of course you can just use PAE.

I am sorry to disturb all of you, but could I possibly get any support on my issue? I would really like to fix my unstable fps . It really annoys me because I think I should be easily able to run TF2 at stable 120 fps with your config. The discription is on page #76 if you have missed it.

Sorry for bumping uselessly, just want to get some help :)

Quoted from Spike Himself

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In all other cases, you must use the /PAE switch in the Boot.ini file to take advantage of physical memory over 4GB.

edit: intriguing, looks like there is an intentional kernel limitation for home operating systems which doesn’t exist on server versions (which was my first encounter with Windows’ implementation of PAE, didn’t think microsoft would be annoying enough to do something like that, but i guess i should have been prepared for it).

Quoted from Lee

I am sorry to disturb all of you, but could I possibly get any support on my issue? I would really like to fix my unstable fps . It really annoys me because I think I should be easily able to run TF2 at stable 120 fps with your config. The discription is on page #76 if you have missed it.

Sorry for bumping uselessly, just want to get some help :)

Your CPU isn’t particularly great, that’s more than likely why (although obviously your GPU will factor in).

Quoted from octochris

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edit: intriguing, looks like there is an intentional kernel limitation for home operating systems which doesn’t exist on server versions (which was my first encounter with Windows’ implementation of PAE, didn’t think microsoft would be annoying enough to do something like that, but i guess i should have been prepared for it).

Indeed – this limitation does not apply to, for example, server 2003, which is just lame as its basically xp pro anyway :(