Thanks; Crayfish.
ED 64bit? Not according to Task Manager
- Thread starter Captain Zoe E Summers
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Thanks; Crayfish.
Now, not saying 32Gb is useless (as I got the double in my rig), but for gaming for sure, it is! You now could get profit of your RAM by doing RAMDISKS. I got all temp folders running in ramdrive, and, I got a ramdisk mounted into a folder space just for Elite Dangerous, loading times, nuts, and faster than SSD's are already. That's the only advantage for games you could get out of RAM.
For todays games, and I guess next years coming games too, the mainword will remain: Graphcard.
Disadvantages are generally a bit bigger memory usage (pointer size is a bit bigger as they can point to bigger memory area)
True, but there is no real reason to own a 32 bit system. If you have 32 bit Windows and have more than 6GB of RAM... well you got shafted and should request refund.
In theory 32 bit system should perform a little bit better when having <4 GB less RAM
True, but there is no real reason to own a 32 bit system. If you have 32 bit Windows and have more than 6GB of RAM... well you got shafted and should request refund.
In theory 32 bit system should perform a little bit better when having <4 GB less RAM
Reason or not, there are still a gazillion of them out there.
FWIW, the The X-Plane civilian flight sim just made a big move from 32-bit to 64-bit last year (while still supporting a 32-bit version). The main advantage was being able to address larger memory for scenery generation, like being able to load higher-res ground textures, more 3D auto-gen buildings, and having distant tiles load in earlier.
I know 64-bit is useful in Elite for the positioning math, but there isn't really all that much "scenery" being generated in the game. It's mostly open space with a starfield, and even flying past the stations at close range doesn't seem to over-tax the GPU on my medium-grade PC.
So it may be that the best use of a 64-bit client will be when we get planet landings, where we'll want a lot of detail in the ground mesh and texture effects, and (hopefully) weather effects. Since planet landings are a ways off, that gives FD plenty of time to work on a 64-bit client.
BTW, this comparison with X-Plane may be way off, but I think it's true that in a general sense, 64-bit games mainly benefit from the amount of graphics eye candy they can pull in at once, and ED just doesn't seem that graphics-intensive at the moment. It doesn't need to be, for the space side of the game.
I know 64-bit is useful in Elite for the positioning math, but there isn't really all that much "scenery" being generated in the game. It's mostly open space with a starfield, and even flying past the stations at close range doesn't seem to over-tax the GPU on my medium-grade PC.
So it may be that the best use of a 64-bit client will be when we get planet landings, where we'll want a lot of detail in the ground mesh and texture effects, and (hopefully) weather effects. Since planet landings are a ways off, that gives FD plenty of time to work on a 64-bit client.
BTW, this comparison with X-Plane may be way off, but I think it's true that in a general sense, 64-bit games mainly benefit from the amount of graphics eye candy they can pull in at once, and ED just doesn't seem that graphics-intensive at the moment. It doesn't need to be, for the space side of the game.