It's a complete re-install I'm afraid, WokoSame here.. how to upgrade to 64 bit? Buy, install and play? ...or do i need to change drivers, progs etc?
You need to buy the 64bit OS and do a fresh install (being sure to backup anything you need beforehand).
In my case I was using all stock hardware, and the setup process found all the drivers it needed as part of the installation. In fact, it was incredibly easy and took an hour from start to finish.
If you use any "odd" hardware, you'll need to make sure the manufacturer has 64 bit drivers available, but for regular applications the 32 bit version still works on a 64 bit OS.
It was a walk in the park for me and I never looked back, but as always with such things your experience may differ
A word of warning though... if you have a Dell 730 and dual ATI cards, you're going to have to jump through alot of hoops to get Crossfire working again.
I never managed to do it, and having been bounced from Dell to ATI (who don't support Crossfire on the Intel motherboard Dell were using when I bought mine ~15 months ago!) I just gave up and went for single, higher spec, Nvidia card instead.
The horrendously expensive (at the time) ATI cards are now gathering dust in my "spares cupboad".
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