I am setting up a new machine (unfortunately not an AMD one) and I see that the default installation location is now C:\Program Files (x86), rather than C:\Program Files. Upon investigating what's going on, I find that 64 bit programs find the regular C:\Program Files location, and the others land in the C:\Program Files (x86) location. Has anyone forced it into the C:\Program Files location? Does it work? Any difference in performance? I would like to keep it there for all of my registry files, if possible, but I don't want to compromise anything along the way. WT
The only reason you should be running SW on a 64 bit machine is if you were running out of RAM on a 32 bit machine. SW still runs in 32 bit emulation mode. The AMD 64 chips have a proven track record of running software in 32 bit mode. The Intel chips don't AFAIK. SW runs slower on 64 bit Intel machines from the data that has so far been posted here. Another question is whether the so called 64 bit Intel chips are really 64 bit or are, judging from the name, 32 bit chips with extensions to handle 64 bit addressing. version, chosing instead to compile it to run in 32 bit mode on a 64 bit machine like they did with the alpha. The one upside to all this may be that they will have to tighten up the code to prevent the bugginess they used to have with 64/32 on the old Alphas. Now if you do have 8GB of ram on that thing I would like to see how many iterations of Patbench you can do. My guess is that 16 or so might exhaust 8Gb.
I have done more reading and it appears that I should not overrule the operating system in trying to force it into C:\Program Files, so I am uninstalling and will let it go to C:\Program Files (x86). I'll keep everyone informed. WT
Wayne, not to sour the wine so to speak, ship in a bottle runs 25 seconds slower under XP64 than it does under XP Pro, (same AMD x2 4800 PC, identical hard drives). :-(
