Odd......I have an ATI card on my system -- and it seems to be working just fine under XP 64.  I am getting some sort of warning message upon boot-up about a "public key" file missing in my ATI path.  But I just click on "OK" and the warning dialog goes away.  After which the machine works beautifully with no problems whatsoever.  I haven't had the time over the holidays to look more deeply into what the source of the warning dialog problem might be.  But as it doesn't appear to be affecting my system's functionality at all, I'm not greatly concerned about it.  I have dual widescreen LCD monitors plugged into the ATI card.  It's a Radeon X1650 Pro w/512M.  My PC is a little over a year old, so of course it's obsolete .  It's a Core 2 Duo machine with 4G's of RAM, which XP 64 takes full advantage of.  I ignorantly did myself a huge favor back when I bought the machine by purchasing it a couple of months before the Vista OS first hit the market.  So it did not come pre-loaded with Vista.  The sticker on the outside of the PC says "Vista ready"........so if and when Vista itself is ever ready ----------->  But I'd highly recommend going the XP 64 route instead.  I haven't noticed any major driver issues yet.

BTW - so far, in my limited time between travel and other holiday / work activities, I've migrated Poser 7 (which did not require a re-install), Vue 6 Infinite, and Photoshop CS3 Extended over to the 64 bit side.  Based upon what I've seen with the arrangement under XP 64 thus far: I am beginning to ask myself why I didn't do this a long time ago.  I can have all three applications open at the same time, with Poser 7 rendering something; a large scene loaded into Vue; and Photoshop open with multiple images -- all while browsing the internet with no noticeable slowdown.  I have, however, noted a definite improvement in the smoothness, speed, and overall stability of all three of those software applications.  The graphics look better, too.

Most likely, the only frequently-used program which I have that will remain on the 32 bit side for now will be AutoCAD.  I am planning to attempt to install AutoCAD 2008 under XP 64, but I've heard that I might have some issues with AutoCAD under 64 bit.  We'll see.  When I get the time, I am also planning on adding Lightwave and Modo (along with other apps like Carrara 6 Pro) to the 64 bit side, too.

Why didn't I do this a long time ago....................?????  :biggrin: (mixed emotions)

I found out that my antivirus / internet security program (Panda 2008 - www.pandasoftware.com) works fine under XP 64.  I've installed it , also.  I've heard that a lot of the popular antivirus programs won't run under 64 bit.  I'm glad that mine does.  IMO, it's an excellent security suite.  The first thing that Panda did upon installion under XP 64 was to eradicate all of the tracking cookies that I'd accumulated through using IE7 for a couple of days.  I left it doing a full deep system scan while I'm at work today.  It scans the registry and everything else.  I'd recommend Panda if anyone is looking for a security suite.  But I can't say how it might or might not do under Vista.

My recommendation?  Get XP Pro 64 while you can.

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