Hey Stephen - I'm totally with you on this one. Yeah - by day, as a VFP guy - I don't really need the 64-bit stuff. But, by night - when I do my 3D stuff - 64-bit is truly the way to go. And, sure, the 3D anim package I run (3DS Max) - is one of the very few applications out there on the market to truly take advantage of 64-bt computing. When you are rendering out 3D images - its horribly time consuming - and you want as much power as you can get. I ever remember that in the beginning of the whole Duo-processor deal, many said most apps couldn't really take proper advantage of the dual processors. But, Max could, and had done so for years. Heck - I even still have at home a Dell 300 Mhz PC that actually has 2 physical processors. And, when that was new - even back then the 3D SW could take advantage of the 2 separate processors - while not much else really could...
L8r, -K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:13 AM On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought the verdict was stay on 32 because there are hardly any 64 bit > progs out there and 32 bit progs run slower on 64 bit o/s's -------------------------- That is so anti what I have found. If I take FLACK and have it decode from .flack to .wav the time it takes to convert a 1 gig concert < end product of 3 cds > between similar RAM / speed of machine with 32 cs 64 bit CPU is night and day. the example above may take just under 5 min on 32 bit and maybe a min tops on 64 bit. Same exe off of web download installed on both machines. Both are laptops. Both running either Vista or W7 depending on when I did the upgrade(s), same results. I have changed over to Search as my audio conversion tool with the same time results, but that does web installing and it may pull the proper codebase needed. 64 bit rocks when you have processor intensive activity. Crunching #s in, compressing files, editing and or conversion of audio and or video. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a1405578...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
