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[David Glen]

Cheers, I'm going to look into it.

[Jason Xuereb]

Is the 64bit Xp version backward compatible with 32 bit applications?

Does anyone know if photoshop is going to have a 64bit release soon?

[tived]

[tived]

It is my opinion that currently XP x64 is more stable atm and have better driver support compared to Vista x64, but this will all change within the next year.

Henrik

[Jason Xuereb]

Cheers mate.

Do you use photoshop for larger files? Whats your hard drive setup?

I've read so much on the net lately I'm a little confused to what computer to build next.

Alot of things I've read have said the bottle neck for photoshop etc is the hdd because you can't have enough memory on xp 32bit. But if you can run 64bit and have 8GB of ram then most of my work would remind in memory instead of being written to the hard disk.

I'm also told that having a dedicated hard disk for photoshop scratch disk improves performance also.

[steve day]

just to add to this, i just installed 4 gig of ram onto an XP 32 bit machine and it recognises 4 gig in bios but only shows 3.25 gig in windows it self. It does help with massive graphics, almost the same as using small graphics

[tived]

as the above, I have had no luck installing XP x32 on one of my workstations, with 8gb of ram. Though XP x64 and Vista x64 loves it

Henrik

PS: and to have more then 2Gb you need to use the /3Gb switch to access the address space above 2gb

PPS: just to add to what Jason so rightly said, a dedicated hard disk for scratch disk is an improvement, but a raid 0 for scratch disk is twice as good :-) which is why I have 8 disks in my workstation

[Jason Xuereb]

tived,

What are you designing

[tived]

Hi Jason,

I do mainly photographic retouching and color management for other photographers, and only recently joined one of my friends in his sign-writing business.

I did prepress back in 2000, but haven't done much since, so I am a bit rustic in that department.

so nothing that exciting.

Henrik