[FlotsamX]

To be honest, I don't know much about compatibility and operating systems, and this will be the first time I'll be making a jump to a new operating system.

Would I have anything to worry about compatibility/exclusivity-wise? I don't want to be left out of any builds of a favourite emulator of mine or find out that they were only written for 32bit OSes... but then again, I'm just very blurry when it comes to cross-compatibility. I'd appreciate help here.

 

[Lex_Light]

Leave a partition to Windows 7 64x, and leave another to your original OS. :thumb:

 

[FlotsamX]

Leave a partition to Windows 7 64x, and leave another to your original OS. :thumb:

It's being shipped with Windows 7 64bit, it's a new computer. Sorry for not being clear on that.

 

[Princess Garnet]

64-bit is backwards compatible with 32-bit, but some really old stuff that uses 16-bit, namely for installers, won't work natively. You can either use a virtual machine to run such programs, or use another operating system (via another hard disk, or another partition). I don't think it's worth going with a 32-bit operating system unless you have 2GB of RAM or less (almost no reason to on a new primary system) or the CPU isn't 64-bit (almost no reason to get one new now that isn't save the Atom and the likes in netbooks).

 

[FlotsamX]

Ah, I get it. Thanks. I don't use 16 bit programs any longer, so that would be no problem to me.

 

[Lex_Light]

You're welcome.
Pd: You could say that your computer comes with Windows 7 64x!