Windows 7 64 and your experiences. How "well" Are you guys running windows 7 64bit on older NBs, 5920g, I dont see any benefits.

I honestly cant see any improvement in performance moving from 32 bit vista sp2 to 64 bit 7.

I notice 7 is less of a resource hog but that has nothing to do with 32 bit 64 bit. Is there even any point in running 64 bit 7 on a machine like this with only 2GB, more accurately, any point for a 5920g?


Its almost like 95% of things actually work slower!

I have noticed things I did not notice in the past.

I could swear HD YOUTUBE 1080p videos used to work in vista 32 on this laptop without being choppy, now I find in win 7 youtube 720p is just barely playable and 1080p is completely is unplayable! The CPU almost maxes out and its about 1 frame per second. The same video on vista ran fine from memory?

Could it be that firefox is now running in 32 bit mode on a 64 machine, and I should have gone 32 bit?

I took tehsuigi's advice and installed flash player 10.1, which unloaded flash to the GPU, and that helped a lot, but I have since installed firefox namoroka, and now even going back to standard firefox, 1080 videos still lag even though 10.1 is installed!

Something messed up in flashplayer, But this is totally beside the point, I never had GPU offloading in vista and it seemed to work fine. I would hope I was not imagining the whole thing :S

-Sometimes the sound will chrup and stutter the PC for a bit. Never had this on vitsa 32.

-I notice most of my games run slower too, this is compared to VISTA 32 bit. Should I have gone 32 bit 7 for the 5290g? Or even 64 bit vista?

-Drivers and support for 64 bit 7, Are other 5920g users just using stock win 7 drivers and putting up with missing features?

What is up with the Acer 5920g driver page and 64 bit windows 7? Do they even fully support win 7 64 for this laptop? Almost everything is missing on the windows 7 64 drivers page. Am I supposed to use the vista 64 ones?

I could not get any acer media touch working, until I downloaded the modded drivers off notebookreview, which are old but work. and work only for windows media player, even though they launch winamp but refuse to work afterwards.

What about all the acer empowering technology stuff? etc?

None of that is listed, so i went to vista 64 downloaded them, installed them, it said "this app only supports vista OS" or similar after the installation was complete and i was like oH, but then I went to the exe manually, stated up all the services, and wham, got every single pice of acer empowering technology working flawlessly under w7 64. I have no idea what happened. But i installed the framework and addons from vista 64.

None of that is listed for win 7 ultimate, granted most of people don't use it, but still...

The synaptics touch pad drivers from notebook review work, but NOT frim acer website. In fact I tried the latest synaptics 64 drivers from synaptics website and they did not work either!!. The acer media touch did not work and the touchpad well less comfortable to use. SO will stick with the 2 year old modded ones of here. Is this what oher 5920g users are finding on 64 bit 7?

As for gfx drivers, nothing beats the laptop2govideo.com 197.25 drivers as of yet.

I dont know what the best optimised combo for this laptop is. I am using

- Latest realtek HD audio drivers -low volume. Easy to find these google it.

- Modded notebookreview.com user created synoptics media touch because nothing else worked right. On this sit somewhere, use search, will happily provide link is asked

Intel® Rapid Storage Technology is a Windows*-based application that provides improved performance and reliability for systems equipped with SATA disks for desktop, mobile, and server platforms.

I found this when I was tyrign to look up 7 64 bit chipset drivers for my 5920g, this is the ONLY thing chipset related I found for win 7 64. I have no idea if it boosts performance, but giive it a go seems to be working fine.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sea...E+Rapid+Storage+Technology+%28Intel%AE+RST%29

Latest intel 4965AGN wi fi drivers (wirelss toally sucks on win 7)- google it easy to find.

- CIR, bluetooth, and SD card reader from acer website, Suyin camera drivers from acer WHICH SUCK, as half the time it says the camera is in use, and when i use it on msn the aspect ratio is severly stretched with no way to fix it!! I have acer crystal eye webcam, is there any new proper drivers for it?

This is what i mean by acer suuport is messed up, under vista 64 they have

Camera Chicony Camera Driver 5.7.28.400 8.4 MB 2008/12/03
Camera Suyin Camera Driver 5.7.29.500 8.4 MB 2008/12/03

and on 7 64bit they only have suyin?

The touchpad drivers synpotics of the acer website listed under 7 64 bit wont even work for win 7 64 bit. And all their apps are missing under even though they work!


And after all that I am not impressed with the way the laptop is handling itself compared to vista 32 bit. I dont know If I should have gone win 7 32 bit, or vista 64 bit. 7 64 bit seems to be a pain in this case.

SO yea love to hear your thoughts guys.

 

Hi, sorry I don't understand what do you mean by 'resource hog', both os's are designd to use resources to the full, if they didn't then they would be a waste of money. Secondly, it seems to me what you're describing is more to do with drivers not the OS. I have win7 on my two laptops, a 8930g and 5920g, although only its x32. I have none off the choppiness you've noted, might it be a bandwidth issue you are experiencing? All my media touch buttons are working ok on my 5920g, even the red light is on, as is blu-ray in Acer Arcade as well. All in all I've found installing win7 more than satisfactory, although not a huge leap over vista. I also assume you have tweaked all of the power settings so you're getting the maximum performance when you are on mains supply?
Cheers,
Chris

 

I'm running Windows 7 ultimate 32 bit on an old school
asus m6n
a pentium m processor (forgot the speed)
mobility radeon 9700
1gb of ram
Trandscend 30gb ide ssd

Everything is working fairly well. I have no aero but thats do to the card's compatibility (doesn't bother me). Other than that nothing. It runs great, for surfing on the web and doing word docs.
It's so old tired I can't do much else with it.

 

64-bit on a 2GB machine is a little unnecessary; upgrade the RAM to 4GB already! Windows loves more RAM.

Keep in mind that if any Windows 7 drivers aren't performing to your liking, you can use Vista drivers instead. This isn't like XP/Vista where the two use different driver models. Maybe using some of the Vista 64-bit drivers your machine came with can solve the problems.

As for YouTube, double-check your performance settings just in case anything got goobered there.

I personally stopped using the Acer Empowering stuff when I did my first clean install back in July of 2008. I've found that it largely duplicated functions already available in Windows; the only marginally useful utility was eRecovery, and once you've burned your recovery DVDs, why bother keeping it?

 

chriscatt and yay, appreciate the input guys but 64 bit OS and 32 bit OS is tottaly different.

What you can do for me however is if you have a t5550 processor or similar performing processor, check how 1080p youtube videos run in a 32 bit environment, because seeminly they dont work on 64 bit windows running refox now, and I beleive they did in the past.

Ressoruce hog in reagrds to to an OS means the OS takes up more hardware resources to run and maintain itself, leaving less for other applications.What you are thinking of is how well the utilise hardware, these things are not the same.

Yes my power settings are on max.

Tehuigi, I mainly got it for the 64 bit processing functionality. 64 bit isn't from my understanding just about how mach RAM you can allocate. Plus not to mention the difference when using 4gb of ram, differnce between 32bit and 64 bit is only 700MB or so. So I woudln't say running 2GB on 64 bit is pointless, since even with 4GB its not like your getting much more ram than a 32bit version.

64 bit should have other benefits, but I think 64 bit is just not mature enough to run everything faster accross the board, and in most cases runs things slower currently.


As for the RAM, you are right I need to get around to do upgrading eventually, but for the moment I am using an 8GB SD card, which sits nicely in the SD card reader for readboost. I have found with 8GB readyboost, I notice no kind of thrashing or computer slowdowns or low ram etc.

I dont really use any RAM intensive apps, so I'm in no kind of rush. Plus for my needs I may not benefit much from an extra 2gb.
I doubt Youtube or games or any problems I am having will run even the slightest bit faster, becasue its not like my current problems are caused due to a lack of of RAM.

It seems something has fundnamentally changed about the way 64 bit processes which is making youtube 1080p now run slower and games run slower. It may be something like firefox and most games are 32 bit only, thus my 64bit OS has to run 32 bit emulation slowing things down.

If anyone else has a t5550 Id like to see how it runs 1080p youtube videos, on any os, for campirsson.

If I install 32 bit, will I stil be able to allocate more than 4GB of readboost? Or will it be only 2GB of ram +2GB of readyboost, and if I get 4GB of ram readyboost will not work at all?