windows 32 or 64bit best?? (S2 & Traktor)

[EchePalante]

64-bit driver support is excellent nowadays. whichever way you go, no need to worry about driver availability unless you have some really old hardware (e.g., i still own an 8-year old HP laser printer for which no 64-bit vista/win7 driver is available).

64-bit has a number of advantages over 32-bit that matter in the real world. But it only has a single disadvantage that is of practical importance: a 64-bit architecture needs more memory than a 32-bit architecture to store a given amount of data.

Most people recommend 64-bit win7 only if your computer has at least 3 or 4GB of RAM. (if you got more than 4GB of RAM, it is virtually mandatory to go for a 64-bit Windows, due to address space limitations on most 32-bit operating systems.) With 2GB RAM or less, 32-bit Windows is clearly superior.

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to be clear, me thinks you're having DPC latency issues. chances are your problems are entirely unrelated to all 64-bit vs. 32-bit stuff.

64 bit for sure!

[DJAdamDaniel]

think this shows that 64bit win7 works fine with 3/4 GB RAM and at least a 1st gen i3 CPU then...!

out of interest what is everyones max latency when checking with DPC latency checker, just so we can maybe get some sort of benchmark going?

i got max 386us when doing the following...

• have 2 tracks running simultaneously
• have internet browser running with 2 tabs open
• in traktor, scroll tracks up and down as fast as possible (this caused major issues previously for me!)
• try a few samples and effects/loops
• change traktor from full screen and back again a couple of times whilst switching windows to internet browser

this should load the laptop pretty much as high as you would during a gig so if you can manage the above without dropouts i'd say job done, but would be nice to see others latencies out of interest

Cheers,

Adam.