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How much RAM do you have? If 3GiB or less, use the 32bit version, else go 64-bit.
@4gb and higher, 64
Have not been displeased at all.
In my opinion this is the primary reason for going with 64 bit for now. Exceeding the 3/-4 meg memory limit and not having to upgrade later.
32 bit if you like regular driver updates from NVIDIA/ATi/Creative. (yes, they are slow getting out their final Vista 32 bit drivers... but they will be much slower getting out finalized 64 bit drivers.
Regular driver updates (when new games come out, etc) will be much less frequent for 64 bit driver releases.
The thread starter asked for ``gaming'' specifically.physicaly RAM isn't the only thing...
The main reason I use 64bit linux is memory-mapping files (files getting dropped out of a sim-program I use can be 10gig)
being able to mem-map the file makes life alot easier.
The same is true for windows
The thread starter asked for ``gaming'' specifically.
The lack of Win64 driver support leads me to believe that any x64 windows version does not have a lot of market penetration at this time. As such, it would make little sense to game developers to reply on x64 specific advantages for their games. With that in mind, I see little reason for a gamer to move to a x64 OS at this point, unless he or she ``loses'' memory due to address space crowding.
Surely I could recommend that a 64-bit OS is ``the way of the future'', but advising him to use a 32-bit OS will minimize the amount of support the OP will require in the future.
ps.: I do not disagree with you in principle.