Tuesday April 5th Development Update

[ARGH]

why is anyone calling for 64 bit version? the only reason for 64 bits is to address more than 4 gig of memory. if the game does not use past the 32 bit memory limitations then the 64 bit version won't do anything.

[Eldur]

Without hacking a 32bit Windows (/3GB switch in boot.ini), a single Process can just allocate 2GB max. Usually it's even less, somewhere around 1,3-1,5GB. Never have seen a game with more RAM usage except a MMO with a nice memory leak growing up to 3,6GB (on a 64bit system). Could have been more, I just stopped raising it
64bit Systems are up to 6 years old, it's time to get some 64bit support nevertheless

[ARGH]

Originally Posted by Eldur

Without hacking a 32bit Windows (/3GB switch in boot.ini), a single Process can just allocate 2GB max. Usually it's even less, somewhere around 1,3-1,5GB. Never have seen a game with more RAM usage except a MMO with a nice memory leak growing up to 3,6GB (on a 64bit system). Could have been more, I just stopped raising it
64bit Systems are up to 6 years old, it's time to get some 64bit support nevertheless

if you are on a 32 bit OS then demanding a 64 bit application will do nothing for you. since your system cannot alocate more than 4 gb of ram (actually more like 3.5gb with a single gpu or 3 gb with SLI) and the fact that windows 7 or vista enjoys gobbling up at least 1 gig of ram with "nothing" running that usually leaves you a max of 2.5gb of available ram for a game. if you run win xp 32 bit then you have another 500 megs of ram so the total goes up to 3 gb.

if the game starts chewing past your available ram then it will be using the hard drive's swap file or crashing running out of memory. a 64 bit executable won't save you from this.

32 bits can address up to 4 gigs of ram. that is more than enough for this game and any game out there. what you need to do is upgrade to a 64 bit OS and have at least 6 gigs of ram on the system itself and you will not have any issues with ram usage in the game. 64 bit does not mean the game or executable runs faster or you get more fps.

Originally Posted by ARGH

why is anyone calling for 64 bit version? the only reason for 64 bits is to address more than 4 gig of memory. if the game does not use past the 32 bit memory limitations then the 64 bit version won't do anything.

Yes, but why not take the advantage of loads of fast RAM instead of annoying the slow HDD (even SSD is slow compared to RAM).
Wasted possibilities.

[BadAim]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Thank you for again ignoring the issue with 64 bit and dedicated server.

How did you get off my ignore list? Get back in there, naughty boy!

[BadAim]

Thanks for the update, Ilya. It's really something to watch this baby "grow up".

[Anvilfolk]

Jolly good show, Maddox Leader! And watch out, more bugs at 7 o'clock high!

*vrooooooooom, teka teka teka teka teka*

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Thank you for again ignoring the issue with 64 bit and dedicated server.

So What is the issue exactly.

Last chance for you.