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Agreed. I did have driver problems with an NVidia card that was supposed to be compatible with Seven. I finally got another card and problems were solved. It may not have been the drivers; it may have been the card itself, although Windows reported the card was fine.
Perhaps for you it's unnecessary. However on my work laptop, I have to run the CheckPoint Secure Connect VPN client to connect to work and it absolutely, positively does not run under 64-bit. So, 32-bit is very necessary for me.
Jonathan, I agree that with 4GB or less of RAM, I still recommend the 32-bit version for most people. You will always find a 32-bit driver for your hardware, but 64-bit can still be hit or miss. And while the big name 64-bit players like Nvidia or Radeon have solid drivers, some of the other 64-bit drivers just aren't all that great for the more obscure hardware that a lot of us have.
I haven't had issues with drivers on my home desktop running the 64-bit version of 7, but that box has 8GB of RAM to support multiple virtual machines so using a 64-bit system was a requirement there.
Isn't it time to find a new working VPN client that supports 64-bit?
Yeah, a lot of this network equipment can be extremely expensive...so when purchased it's usually used for a number of years before you can justify the replacement of the equipment. Unfortunately, we are not near the point where we can justify a hardware replacement to support a few 64-bit systems.