64-bit?

Joe Canadian · 02-05-2018, 07:57 PM

Performance improvements aside, Apple will start warning users of 32-bit apps starting in the next macOS update. Is there plans to move OOTP to 64-bit?

bwburke94 · 02-06-2018, 08:14 AM

I agree that an eventual move to 64-bit is likely, but I don't see it being on the table for OOTP 19.

Markus Heinsohn · 02-07-2018, 04:41 AM

OOTP 19 is 64 bit on the Mac, yes.

RchW · 02-07-2018, 08:05 PM

What stops it from being 64-bit in Windows.

bwburke94 · 02-09-2018, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by RchW

What stops it from being 64-bit in Windows.

Almost certainly, it's because of the need to support XP/Vista users, as those OSes had 32-bit builds.

Now that Vista is deprecated and almost everyone is running a 64-bit OS, it makes sense to move over to take advantage of the extra RAM.

(As for Windows 7 onward, though I admit 32-bit Win7 existed, I doubt there are too many people still running it. Maybe the Steam version could stay 32-bit to accommodate those folks, on account of Steam itself being a 32-bit application.)

Cryomaniac · 02-10-2018, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by bwburke94

Almost certainly, it's because of the need to support XP/Vista users, as those OSes had 32-bit builds.

Now that Vista is deprecated and almost everyone is running a 64-bit OS, it makes sense to move over to take advantage of the extra RAM.

(As for Windows 7 onward, though I admit 32-bit Win7 existed, I doubt there are too many people still running it. Maybe the Steam version could stay 32-bit to accommodate those folks, on account of Steam itself being a 32-bit application.)

IIRC there are 64 bit Steam apps though.

bwburke94 · 02-10-2018, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Cryomaniac

IIRC there are 64 bit Steam apps though.

I'm aware of that, but if OOTPD really needed to accommodate the few of us who haven't upgraded, doing it through the Steam version is less confusing than making separate 32-bit and 64-bit "regular" versions.

eriqjaffe · 02-10-2018, 10:27 PM

Heck, even Steam's own metrics show that 32-bit Windows only accounted for 1.86% of their users in January.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

MizzouRah · 02-10-2018, 11:39 PM

It's time we get a choice to run OOTP in Windows in 64 bit. I have 16 GB of ram and would love for that to be allocated via OOTP.

homerj · 02-11-2018, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

OOTP 19 is 64 bit on the Mac, yes.

You're not going to mention Linux too?

bwburke94 · 02-11-2018, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by eriqjaffe

Heck, even Steam's own metrics show that 32-bit Windows only accounted for 1.86% of their users in January.

That's a very important 1.86% at this point.

But now that we know Steam can track whether the user is 32-bit, wouldn't that mean that Steam can just deliver the 32-bit version of OOTP to any 32-bit users?

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