Non Friday 2010-04-15 Development Update :)

[zauii]

Big deal? 64 vs 32 bit performance wise isn't anything to cheer about anyway.

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by zauii

big deal? 64 vs 32 bit performance wise isn't anything to cheer about anyway.

ram?

[zauii]

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

ram?

Sure , yet no game(s) really benefits from 3+ gig ram in any significant way.

[Stranzki]

Originally Posted by zauii

Sure , yet no game(s) really benefits from 3+ gig ram in any significant way.

Although a little bit extreme, Metro 2033 recommends 8gig ram. Normally you keep your O/S some time, so you must think of the requirements games will have in 1-2 years.

[ZaltysZ]

Originally Posted by zauii

Sure , yet no game(s) really benefits from 3+ gig ram in any significant way.

DCS: BS, FC2 can use up to 4GB on x64 OS, because they are "Large address aware". Also, if I recall correctly, FSX SP2 is in the same group too.

[genbrien]

Originally Posted by zauii

Sure , yet no game(s) really benefits from 3+ gig ram in any significant way.

you know that the graphical memory in your graphic card is share with your RAM......

so if you have 3gb of ram and and a graphic card with 1gb with a 32bit OS, you wont have acces to all your memory.

[zauii]

Yes we're talking extreme cases once again, but sure Crysis and Metro are rare but very beautiful and demanding games developed with the future in mind.

Most games are developed for the 360,Ps3 as a lead platform hence the slow development of requirements within PC gaming. 4870x2 with 2GB runs both Crysis and Metro smooth on highest on a 32 bit system without any problem.(tried yes)
Whilst you will obviously benefit if the game supports more, once again as i said to no significant extent yet, maybe with Olegs sim or future games but truth to be told 90% of the games rarely require or demand more than 2gb.
Add a very good processor and a good GPU on top of those two gb of ram and it will run just fine on highest settings with a little longer loading times.

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by zauii

Yes we're talking extreme cases once again, but sure Crysis and Metro are rare but very beautiful and demanding games developed with the future in mind.

Crysis has wide jungle areas that are likely to require a lot of different high-resolution textures to look convincing - don't you see the parallel with a flight-sim there?
There's also a lot more going on in a flight sim than in those games where you rarely see more than a few people on screen at once and where their AI routines rarely have to do anything more complicated than establish a place where they are out of your line of fire when they aren't firing at you.

[zauii]

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

Crysis has wide jungle areas that are likely to require a lot of different high-resolution textures to look convincing - don't you see the parallel with a flight-sim there?
There's also a lot more going on in a flight sim than in those games where you rarely see more than a few people on screen at once and where their AI routines rarely have to do anything more complicated than establish a place where they are out of your line of fire when they aren't firing at you.

Agree, flight sims has a lot more going on, wither that be advanced ai, damage models, etc but it totally depends on the architecture of the engine and how much it stress the clients.

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Originally Posted by zauii

Big deal? 64 vs 32 bit performance wise isn't anything to cheer about anyway.

Correct, when it comes to current 32bit applications running on them. When 32bit is done away with and programs and games start coming out in native 64bit there will be a difference. It's the needless hanging on to 32bit OS that is slowing down the 64bit software advancement. I think windows 7 should have been 64bit only. Hopefully the next version of windows will finally kill 32bit.