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Windows Vista 32/64 bit and Lineage 1:
Lineage will not run properly in 64 bit because the Windows Vista 64 bit environment is not designed to be backwards compatible with less than 32 bit applications. In order for NCSoft to make Lineage 1 Vista 64 bit compatible, they would have to almost re-write the entire client since it is designed for 16 bit. I don't even see this happening for any of their software since about 80-90% of the Vista users will likely be using Home or Home Premium (which are 32 bit), Business (32 bit) and Ultimate (32 or 64 bit) are kind of a strech for most people and most features are not needed.
Also the performance gain from 32 to 64 bit, at this point in time, is minimal at best. If you are switching to 64 bit it better be for doing some high end work and not gaming since most of your games are designed for the 32 bit version of Vista, granted those games may work on 64 bit as well.
If you are barking at NCSoft to make all of their games 64 bit compatible, you will be wasting your time. The game works with Vista 32 bit with little to no issues, you just have to turn off UAC (which is annoying in the first place) and have administrator rights.
Multi-Core Systems and Lineage 1:
For those of us that use multi-core systems (AMD X2 and newer Intel based computers), Lineage 1 is a silgle-threaded application. If you look at your processor (CPU) usage while running Lineage 1, you will notice that one of your processor cores is being used at 100%. This is supposed to happen since Lineage 1 is designed for single-core systems. If you were running a single-core system you would see similar results. Running off one processor core hard for more than a couple weeks at a time is not safe, but running for a day or two, giving the system a few hour break, then getting back to it is not going to harm anything. It is no different than if you had a single-core processor.
Please feel free to point people that are asking about Windows Vista 32/64 bit this way, so I can deal with them ;).
Laters,
Legolas4
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You can select which one
You can select which one boots up in the boot file.
the boot file is: boot.ini
if your going to mess around with it though. you should really make a copy first.
but go into your control panel than system than advanced
than you can click on system recovery (settings)
there you can select your default os or go into edit to edit the boot.ini
there you can delete one of the boot sequence lines incase you don't use one of those os.
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If you are switching to 64
If you are switching to 64 bit it better be for doing some high end work and not gaming since most of your games are designed for the 32 bit version of Vista, granted those games may work on 64 bit as well.
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