another thing is that 64 bit OS will eat up more RAM only for WIN tasks....XP SP3 eats around 500 megs..vista was hungry with average 1 GIG.....Win 7 64 bit is even more....

Ok win7 64 installed,,got it working with ROF,,seems win 7 kinda forgot to install direct x. I downloaded the current direct x and it works great, in fact works much better than before.

So Dart, would be a 4GB of DD3 1333 RAM enough for win7 64bit + ROF and no other background tasks? Im thinkin of dual boot with XP SP3.....so I can test both and compare....
Im askin this because XP SP3 alone is using around 500 megs and WIN7 64 bit around 1 GIG of RAM...

Well, heck yeah!

Then again, it's enough to run about 600 Apollo missions at once.

My system:

Intel DualCore X6800 OC'd to 3.2 GHz
Nforce 680i MOBO
4 GB DD3 1333 RAM
nVidia 260 video card
SoundBlaster XFi

While it uses more RAM, it also is able to use RAM past the 4 GB combined total.

If I understand it correctly, 32 bit systems are limited to using 4 GB of RAM. The nasty little secret is that apparently the video card memory is counted into the total. So one's system looks at the 512 on the video card and then subtracts that from the sticks of RAM. A one gig memory video card means that one might as well just put three gigs of RAM in the MOBO, as windows 32 isn't going to be using the fourth stick.

It'll be interesting to see what your benchmarks find out.

All I know is RoF runs better under Win7 64 for me than it did under Vista 32.

yes I got this from your last post about RAM...thats why ill try win7 64bit...btw, If I found this working better with ROF Ill get another 2GB stick to have 3 channel setup....although performance gain with 3 chan compared to 2 chan isnt considerable...

I'm really looking forward to seeing the results of comparison.

One can never be sure that going to a new OS and seeing improvement is just one's inability to properly clear out old junk in the registries....

oh yes Im using Error repair pro....before it was registry mechanic....mydefrag....so many useful programs.....recently used nlite to make my XP less heavy....also turned off some unused services...in fact I think I know how to optimize and how to make my OS fast and without resource hogs....

Oh, my technique is a tad different.

Run the standard CrapCleaner/Registry Mechanic/etc. stuff and then decide that a little manual search and destroy is in order.

Eventually I work it out to where its hopelessly corrupted and a complete reformat is in order, which seems to have a 100% success rate.

hear hear...crap cleaner....the little geekie can do a better job manualy and his pc will fly

ahahahahah

Mark, little brother, Dart will be home soon and will be mad when he realizes what uv done with his moderator reputation on this forum.....

"Eventually I work it out to where its hopelessly corrupted and a complete reformat is in order, which seems to have a 100% success rate".

LOL, been there Dart mate and got the T-Shirt . You have no idea how much this has cheered me up, thought I was the only one. I'm going to patent it as the "Chairman Mao Manoeuver", (return to Year Zero)....It Cures all ills!!