Re: [REQ] 64bit support - No... Not for NT5 based platforms
XP x64 isn't a "program", and drivers AREN'T scarce at all!
Stop making up gossip stories like that. Server 2003 x64 is widely used and uses the exact same base as XP64 does. At least 99 of 100 hardware vendors fully support it, that's why I started posting here. It's really weird that nobody is prepared to create driver-packs for XP x64 Edition. And yes, I'm tempted to create them myself.
And there is the answer... right now we have one coder (me) and two guys working on the packs for XP (mr_ smartepants and JakeLD). We are at the limit of what we can support for just three people. Heck WLAN has not been updated in a year. And if it were not for those two guys NONE of them would have been done. So your solution to the problem we face is to add more packs... I think that's a brilliant solution I may be wrong, but I get the feeling your reaction to this is going to be that "it's not your problem". Unfortunately that is 99.9% of the problem.
Its easy to sit in the stands and yell at the coach and the team, but are you prepared to get in the game?
To put your money where your mouth is? If you have as much "money" as you have "mouth" we should be able to support XP-64 by the end of the week...
So, Let's see some test packs, Proper DriverPacks. If you were to submit valid Graphics, Chipset & Lan packs then you will have convinced me that we would have someone around to update the packs. If I can be made to belive that some help is available to update the packs, then I can and will code DriverPacks BASE to support XP-64. Obviously if no one updates the packs they are not worth having. - This could become your personal contribution, to make an obligation to the community, that would demonstrate to everyone that your commitment to your stated belief runs deeper than a few careless words -
I will restate we get a million downloads a week and nobody askes about XP-64 and even fewer people are willing to do the work it takes to make it happen. Are you one of the few or one of the fewer. Better yet, are you one in a million, will you maintain the 64 bit packs or are you the troll KickArse thinks you are?
It's up to you now. The ball is in your court.
Jeff
actual stats over 40 weeks in this thread
DriverPacks 40 million hits
DriverPacks 64 25 hits
DriverPacks Views for this topic 7000
Ratio 1.6 million to 1 for hits - or my odds of winning the lottery are better
Ratio over 5700 to 1 for Views on this thread - also a wide gap.
more importantly if not one of those 40 million will help with the 32 bit packs
the odds are less than zero that somone will help for the 64 bit ones.
Again it's really all up to you now... are you game... or lame...
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