Will 32bit application run on a 64bit OS?
 

As the title say...

Will they? I have a CPU that support a 64bit OS, but I don't want to use a 64bit OS unless it will run 32bit apps seeing as there are not many 64bit apps available for what I need/use right now.

I know, I should ask this on a computer related forum, but I'm to lazy haha

CPU I have is a Pentium D 3ghz - 930
RAM - 2gb of DDR2-533

applications run, but potentially slower if not optimized for 64bit than on original 32bit

besides that - 64bit windows still has not all necessary drivers - there's a risk that some devices will not work

so what you're saying is that the 32-bit apps will run slower on a 64-bit OS than on my current 32-bit OS?

this could happen, yes

ah yes, I heard about that. I don't think I want to take a chance with the whole driver thing.

I know a lot about computers, but when it comes to the 64-bit shit I'm a clueless idiot lol

i still remember when someone around 1985 or so said "why 16bit - 8bit computers can do all the work perfectly"

i guess he got fired someday... :1orglaugh

but at the moment there's indeed no real need for 64bit - as long as the software is not optimized for it. for video it will be interesting though in the near future - maybe a year from now i would say.

Guess Ill stick with a 32-bit OS for now.

or maybe I will go back to windows 3.11 lol

trumpet winsock!

ask baddog - he's the expert for win 3.11 :1orglaugh

but that sucked - for sure

win nt 3.51 was the first somehow stable windows (because it was mostly the code of OS/2 that microsoft took with them when they split with IBM)

I cant wait til Vegas comes out with 64 bit version.

just imagine how fast it would be on a pentium d 3ghz dual core with 2gb of ddr2 ram and a Geforce 7800GT w.256mb ram.. windows 3.11 would blow up lol

the install would probably fail due to the lack of a floppy drive :1orglaugh

lol that's true haha.. guess I would have to put a floppy in this thing lol

I'll just stick with a 32-bit OS.