Hi. Just my two cents: A 64-Bit OS won't speed up things very much. The only real advantage is that the OS in capable of using more then four Gigabytes of RAM in one chunk, so databases will become faster, other apps typically not. About DirectX-Rendering SW - before you sing the praise for the graphic adapters keep in Mind that all you make hat to fit into the memory of the graphics Adapter to do it's magic. Keep in mind how big our high-realistic textures are. Keep in mind how big our meshes are. It surely is impressive what modern adapters can do. But the limits simply are somewhere else. Greetings, Uwe

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