http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1719 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: 64 Bit programs, add ons, & everything else en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:29:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1719#post-10688 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:08:18 +0000 BuBBy 10688@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>64bit hmmm... is it everything you hoped for?</p> <p>It's unlikely 64bit software will be offered in the near future - basically everyone is running 32bit - except for the few who actually enjoy hunting around for 64bit versions of software and drivers. ;)</p> <p>But you can still run almost all of the 32bit software (so everyone is happy). If GOTD starts to put up 64bit software - you will know about it, because everyone will start screaming that it won't install. :P</p> <p>64bit suffers from the chicken and egg problem. Nobody wants to run 64bit because the software there is no "64bit only" software that they need - and on the flipside developers themselves only run 32bit and only release 32bit software because "nobody" runs 64bit. This will change "one day".</p> <p>Microsoft says,</p> <blockquote><p>"If you use only 32-bit applications and work with data sets that are no larger than 2 GB, you will find that 32-bit Windows XP Professional offers sufficient power for your applications." </p></blockquote> <p>Until developers start putting out more 64bit software, I suspect people will just sit on 32bit. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1719#post-10687 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:42:00 +0000 TJMarkus 10687@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Today, I installed Windows Pro 64 on my machine (Because I haven't heard anything good about Vista). Anyway, when I did that, I had to also update drivers for everything and I had a bitch of a time finding them. Plus, I had to try and find programs that were compatible with a 64 bit system. Also a bitch to find. When I looked on this website in hopes of finding something-anything that could handle 64 bit, I found nothing. And from what I've seen, many of the programs you give away are for a 32 bit system. I think its cool what you guys are doing with giving these programs and games away, but isn't the future of computers heading towards the 64 bit systems? Or am I just hallucinating. Anyway, if you ever do offer a 64 bit program, game, antivirus, or whatever... can you state that its for a 64 bit system? </p>