You may have noticed that just like another site, Extended64.com has an x64 Driver Database. For the first time, members can upload drivers to the Extended64 database. Just browse to the category of your driver, and click on the Upload button! Let's keep our database as clean as possible, and try to...
Last week, I visited the Hauppague booth at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I was browing their products, when a Hauppauge engineer approached me and started conversation. Of course, I quickly jumped into the x64 driver question. According to what he told me, we'll see...
I've known for quite a while that Mac OS X supported FAT Binaries - mostly because Mac OS X is based on NeXT 's OS (and not FreeBSD!) which was built to support FAT Binaries as well. Little did we all know that they would actually take advantage of the fat binary feature ;-). Does Windows support some...
America Online does not work on Windows x64 ( not AIM, which works fine). This is because AOL uses a special "AOL Dialer" to connect to their servers - and this requires a hardware driver (it's virtual hardware). This is not a problem for me, but it's a problem for all of us. Even if we don't use AOL...
A great tip was posted by Tripp Park on his MSDN Blog : If your game seems to be running "too fast" on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, try modifiying your boot.ini to add the "/USEPMTIMER" switch. It can be done with this command: bootcfg /copy /id 1 bootcfg /raw "/USEPMTIMER /noexecute=optin /fastdetect...
Internet Information Services in Windows x64 is 64-bit. This means, if you want to run 32-bit ISAPI DLLs with IIS6 on Windows x64, you'll need to apply a small tweak. Open up a Command Prompt window, and type this command to enable 32-bit Application Pools: cscript %SystemDrive%\inetpub\AdminScripts...
I've seen a few people get confused about having an "AMD64" machine. Basically, the "x64" architecture is rightfully called "AMD64" under the hood in Windows (AMD did invent it). So, if you have an Intel or AMD processor which runs under Windows x64, you have an "AMD64" processor (which is more commonly...
Rafael just blogged about MSN Music , and because people don't often read a whole blog entries, I was just asked if DRM music worked in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The answer: YES Here is a screenshot of WMP10 playing a DRM file, and a screenshot of me logged into my MSN Music account: