Multiboxing and Windows 64?

[Brookie]

Just wondering, was thinking of moving to the 64 bit architecture (massive ram!) sometime in the future and wanting to know if all the apps and things like Keyclone and other multiboxing tools work on it?

[algol]

Software multiboxers use 64-bit Windows versions by preference so we can get that nice yummy 8GB of RAM - which you generally need to run five clients smoothly. Keyclone would be rather useless if it couldn't.

Prefered config is something like a Q6600, 8GB of memory (thus 64-bit Vista or XP), a flash SSD for data dir symlinking, and a relatively decent video card (a 4870 would be nice, plenty still use something like an 8800GT, very resolution dependent as well).

[Quix]

running it now, & loving it. I am actually not a fan of vista for less than 4gb of ram, but my current machine has 8gb I have 0 issues running anything:
WoW
Keyclone
Ventrilo

No problems, No regrets.

[Brookie]

Runnin 2 gigs now with 3 copies of wow. Ya its rough in the cities =P

Also got a 8800 GTS ultra overclocked version...thing cost me 400 bucks a year and a half ago and now looking at it for 150. Kinda hurts in the pants ya know (wallet that is).

But ya, I'm hoping that popping in two more gigs, even though my 32 bit would only see 3.6 or so, would help out. I'll make the move to 64 sometime when I can get a new MB with two PCI slots for vid cards and maybe some SLI.

[olipcs]

i'm using vista 64 with 8gb and hotkeynet, keyclone and innerspace work.

[Brookie]

I've often seen a few guides on "how to enable Windows32 to see more then 4 gigs" but I never paid much attention to them because I thought it was physically impossible and probably just a scam...or a rough patch at best.

Anyone know anything on those?

[Freddie]

32 bit Windows has a feature called Physical Address Extension that (theoretically at least) allows the operating system to utilize up to 64 GB of RAM. I've never tried it (it has to be specially enabled) so I can't say how well it works. Info here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366796(VS.85).aspx

That kind of thing was a kludge from the dark ages of computing. I don't think there's any reason to use that stuff now unless you're a company with custom written software that depends on it. Just get 64 bit Vista.

[algol]

32 bit Windows has a feature called Physical Address Extension...I can't say how well it works.

Very poorly, for our purposes. And that of most home users, really. It's okay for some servers.

[Ualaa]

Once Service Pack 1 came out, like XP, Vista became a lot more stable and reliable.
With enough ram to handle its enhanced graphic eye-candy, it's definitely the OS of choice.

[algol]

Once Service Pack 1 came out, like XP, Vista became a lot more stable and reliable.
With enough ram to handle its enhanced graphic eye-candy, it's definitely the OS of choice.

This. Especially the part about running Vista on a computer with sufficient memory. It works fine for newer machines with reasonable quantities of memory. But I wouldn't try it on an old A64-based rig with low installed memory though (Fedora works rather well, though..."recycled" an older rig for specialized tasks and it works just fine if you know what's reasonable to expect).