Auto-Updater works on Windows XP x64
 

Just in-case anyone was interested, it does work on x64. The only trouble, is it doesn't come with .NET 1.1 so you'll have to go to Microsoft's website and locate the .NET 2.0 Beta which has an x64 flavor. Once you get that installed, the auto-updater should work fine.

cooooool. im interested in the 64 os....is it way faster or what?

It's still a little early to tell. Most of the drivers aren't fully mature so I think there are sometimes losses in games, for example.

My main reason for upgrading was, I have an Athlon64, so why not? hehe. It doesn't seem any slower though, if that's what you're asking. Also, Microsoft is giving a free upgrade to WinXP Professional x64 to anyone with a VALID copy of WinXP Professional (x86).

Make sure you use the following package (x64 not IA64) if you are using Windows XP Professional x64. IA64 is for Itanium edition of Windows.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframewo...edistributable

Note this is beta version (Beta 2) of .NET Framework 2.0 so running this may negatively influence other programs on your system. This fixed my problem completely with EQ2Maps but broke another program.

If anyone has a solution for allowing EQMap to work without installing this, or the Dev's of this program figure out a workaround to allow it to work with .NET 1.1 please let me know. I don't really like beta anything on my system.


As for the question about whether or not to upgrade to x64 (assuming you have 64-bit AMD or EMT64 Intel CPU) consider that many programs do not yet work with x64 edition, such as Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools and that most drivers for video or audio cards are in beta stage. It's also been proven there is barely any increase in gaming performance through upgrading. My advice - do it if you're hardware/windows savvy. Don't if you're not.

nothing can beat my Commodore C64 !!

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what?!?

Yay for the info I was about to get mad...

Im also running the XP64, have been now for about a year.. I find it much more stable. Like one wrote the only issue is drivers. But haven't found much I couldnt live without :)