Are my games taking advantage of 64bit?

I have a question which I will try and say the best I can as it even confuses me.

I'm running w7 64bit on an aurora r4, I have 2 drives, one for OS and the other purely for games, mainly FSX.

My question is, beens I'm putting games on the second drive is it taking advantage of windws 7 64bit or not. As on the main drive you obviously have 2 program files, one for 32 bit and one for 64 bit.

For example the latest hitman game says

Minimum requirement

Windows 7

Recommended system

Windows 7 64bit

So if I buy hitman and put it on my games drive, will it still take advantage of 64bit

I hope that makes sense

Thank you for your reply, so from what your saying, if I install for example, hitman, because of what the makers say, even though there is just a normal installation process, the game will automatically take advantage of the fact I'm running 64bit so there for have more RAM for it to take advantage of

Far Cry and Crysis are games that I remember had the option to either install as a 32 bit or 64 bit game... that's about it though.

There are some games that take advantage of a 6-bit OS by providing a 64-bit exe as in the example Asta gave, though with Far Cry (the first one), you'll need to install the AMD 64-bit patch.

That said, and as a side note, whatever you do, DO NOT modify, or deleted either of the Program Files folders as you could hose your system. For some reason, a lot of people think they don't need both folders and delete one. This in turn screws up their whole system and they wind up reinstalling Windows! - Error 0x80070643 Service pack 1 install failure

On a 64-bit OS like Windows, it runs a WoW 64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit) subsystem, which allows 32-bit apps to run on a 64-bit OS, which is also the reason it needs both the Program Files, and Program Files x86 folders. Messing with or deleting those will hose your system.

And even though you can install games and programs, where you want, I wouldn’t brute force a 32-bit app into the 64-bit Programs File folder, or vice versa.

Hope this helps.

sygnus21 said:

That said, and as a side note, whatever you do, DO NOT modify, or deleted either of the Program Files folders as you could hose your system..

Yeah... where the hell where you with this jewel of information a few years ago... got a few T-Shirts from doing so for testing purposes of course

AstaLaVista said:

sygnus21 said:

That said, and as a side note, whatever you do, DO NOT modify, or deleted either of the Program Files folders as you could hose your system..

Yeah... where the hell where you with this jewel of information a few years ago... got a few T-Shirts from doing so for testing purposes of course

LOL. That tid bit has been all over both this, and Vista forums since Windows 64 (64-bit OS) went mainstream. Seems a lot of folks think that because they have two Program Files folders they can delete one. They don't realize Windows 64 needs both

Thick headed and all, first time I installed Vista 64 I found myself dumbfounded by the fact that I had done something wrong when I saw two different Program Files and up to this day, I leave google for last thinking I am the only one on this earth with the problem so, BAM... deleted the (x86) because I had the 64 so why I would need a 32 side of things right?