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Windows XP Pro x64 Edition Gaming Performance Test Published

Games Hardly Use 64-bit Capability for Now, Web-Site Reveals

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 05/10/2005 | 02:36 PM ]

[H]ardOCP has posted an article containing an examination of gaming performance in the Windows XP Pro x64 Edition operating system (OS). The testing was carried out on AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 CPU powered system, with a total of eight games that were first run in Windows XP Pro and then in Windows XP Pro x64 Edition OS. The author also included performance comparison between NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra and ATI RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition graphics cards in both 32- and 64-bit environments.

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“The focus of this article is to determine if upgrading to Windows XP Professional x64 Edition with an AMD Athlon64 would give us a better gaming experience in current games. We used eight games for our evaluation including one that supported Win64 AMD64 specifically. What we found isn’t too shocking really, but rather reassuring. In all the 32-bit games tested, we saw overall static performance using Windows XP Pro x64 Edition. The only game in our lineup that had a specific Win64 AMD64 instruction path, The Chronicles of Riddick, actually performed worse in 64-bit than it did in 32-bit Windows,” concludes [H]ardOCP.