What's the situation regarding the 64bit executable?

[Antoninus]

Originally Posted by louisv

That's just it, because a lot of people still run in 32bit (even if the hardware has been 64bit since the later models of Pentium IVs), the devs have to keep the two versions very similar and will not really take advantage of the wider data path until a large majority have made the move.

According to the latest Steam hardware survey already 60+ % of users have an 64 Bit OS. Among the users with PCs that can satisfactorily run CloD the percentage is probably much higher. All new PCs have at least 4 GB RAM or mostly much more. If any software wants to fully utilize these amounts memory it has to be 64 bit.

CloD development started 7 years ago and thats perhaps the biggest reason why something that should become the foundation of a new series of flightsims for the next decade is still a 32 bit application. I doubt they would loose many sales without a 32 bit exe. Casual gamers with outdated hardware probably don't look for a hardcore sim, but something like WoP.

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Since the Track IR software was fixed and I was able to use the 64bit version I haven't really noticed any boost in performance on my system.

64 bit is good to have, but the software has to take advantage of the extra memory space.

If you only have 4 GB RAM installed there is no extra memory that 64 bit DCS A10 can use.