so hows 64 bit vista these days?

sorry if this has been discussed to death previously

32 bit of ultimate on my pc runs pretty well, few minor problems and occasional BSOD's,firefox acts up alot..may not be related to vista, with games i'm forced to use no-dvd cracks as it wont read the copy protection from disk yet worked fine in XP.

i've been googling 64 vs 32 bit the last couple of days with mixed results.

one says theres about a 10% gain in performance as it can use more of your cpu's registers.

another talks of its stability and reliability and some just bash it altogether.

anyway i found all my drivers i need in 64 bit form, couple of em are still in beta but have been for a while, my creative x-fi and saitek p990 gamepad but have no real problems from its beta's on 32 bit, so thought i'd give it a go in hopes of better stability or something about it a bit better, if nothing else surely it cant be any worse.

what is your guy's experience with it in comparison to 32 bit?

also are there any good freeware apps written in 64 bit? like defraggers or anything?

Edited May 28, 200719 yr by dcyphure