Switching to 64 Bit

[onilink55]

Hey guys,

I've been thinking recently of switching to Windows 7 64 Bit since my Vista systems acts all....vistaey. This will be my first 64 bit OS and I've checked and found out that most of my apps will run just fine but my concern is with all my emulators. I'm researching them individually and some of their websites are seriously lacking information on this.

So here's the question: In your experience, do most emulators run fine in 64bit? Are their any that you know specifically don't work?

My main systems that I can't live without are N64 and SNES. Everything else I can live without but ideally I would like to keep the whole collection.

Thanks

[Stu1983]

I run Mame, Future Pinball, Project64, Zsnes, Nestopia, VisualBoy Advance, Kega Fusion, SSF, NullDC and pSX all happilly on Vista x64 so I don't see you having any problems on Windows 7

Stu

[bkenobi]

I'm about to switch to Win7 x64 myself. Is there any kind of 32-bit compatibility mode thingy that can be used to get programs to run if they aren't happy? Just curious.

[ReFleX]

I've been running 64bit for a long time and can say that almost everything will work just fine. In fact I have not yet found something that does not run. I've got Mame, future pinball, pinmame, zsnes, nestopia, stella, tempest, project 64, fusion, magic engine, mednafen, mess, nulldc, prosystem, and visual boy advance on my setup all working great

I'm about to switch to Win7 x64 myself. Is there any kind of 32-bit compatibility mode thingy that can be used to get programs to run if they aren't happy? Just curious.

Yes, in fact most emulators are not 64 bit apps and will run in 32 bit mode which works just fine. Gameex itself does this

[onilink55]

Perfect that's what I needed to know. Thanks for the help.

[Endaar]

I'm about to switch to Win7 x64 myself. Is there any kind of 32-bit compatibility mode thingy that can be used to get programs to run if they aren't happy? Just curious.

I'm not sure if it's in every version of Win7, but the OS has built-in virtualization that will seamlessly run XP. Essentially it will start a VM running XP and then present that application in a window as if it's natively running on Win7. If your familiar with how OS/2 Warp ran Windows 3.1, the concept seems pretty similar.

[bkenobi]

Sweet! I just got my official copy of Win7 Ultimate a couple days back, so I'm gonna try loading it up on my main machine this week.