It is true that if your code does a lot of floating-point then the integer resources of the CPU might be sitting idle, or vice versa - which is why Intel introduced Hyperthreading, to try to take advantage of that. Sorry, I didn’t understand your question before. The “XP in a VM” is a nice idea, particularly because it solves the problem of /[Īh, I see what you’re asking. So while a 32bit version of Win7 almost certainly will exist, it may not be common or easy to find.

The other major channel is the OEMs, and they seem to have gotten on board with 64bit over the past year: thanks to ever-cheaper memory and the need to make 4+GB available that may have taken care of itself by the time Win7 ships. Even the retail customers who want 32bit - and there will be some, who want their ancient printer to still work - could be handled with the inverse of what MS does now for 64bit: offer the 32bit media for the price of shipping and handling.

But MS doesn’t have to create a retail box for those people so it’s quite possible that 64bit will be the only boxed version you can buy in stores.

If no 32bit version exists they just won’t upgrade, and that’s lost income. If MS was the dictator it’s sometimes portrayed as it could just tell those customers to get with the 21st century and get new hardware/software, but that’s not going to happen (especially since this part of the 21st century is the New Austerity). Some of them will be F500 companies that represent big $ to MS. Well, I think we already hashed this out in the “Tipping Point” front page thread.Īssuming Win7 ships in the next year or so, there definitely will be potential customers for Win7 that will require a 32bit version because of software or hardware incompatibilities. Crytek also mentions “better dynamic texture support” for the “enthusiast” detail mode. In Vista, the game should no longer start up in windowed mode randomly, and it shouldn’t offset the mouse cursor in the menu anymore. Otherwise, the patch also brings some miscellaneous fixes and improvements. Be warned, though: the release notes say saved games from the 32-bit version won’t work in the 64-bit one, and vice-versa. In Windows XP, the patch simply adds a new shortcut to the program group for the title.

Vista users will be able to launch the 64-bit flavor of the game by right-clicking the Crysis Warhead icon in the Windows Games Explorer. You can download the 37.31MB update over here at FileShack. As Shacknews reports, the first patch for Crysis Warhead introduces 64-bit executables for both Windows Vista and Windows XP. Well, developer Crytek has now rectified the situation. When Crysis Warhead came out last year, some Crysis fans expressed surprise at the lack of a 64-bit executable for the game.

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