operaguy opened this issue on Nov 05, 2007 · 143 posts
pjz99 posted Mon, 05 November 2007 at 10:36 PM
Quote - But in pratical terms what does 64 bits rendering means?
.........if Poser is not a 64 bits application
A more techy person than me can answer??
64-bit rendering means basically, under a 64-bit operating system, your renders will be much less likely to run out of memory. Even if your particular render requires a huge amount of memory - say 20GB (a practical example that I've experienced!) - and even though your machine might only have 8GB of memory, it won't crash, it will just quietly keep on humming and clicking. Windows may complain about having to increase the page file, but it'll keep going and eventually complete. That's a cool thing, really.
Will it make your renders run faster, just because it's converted from 32-bit to 64-bit instructions? No. Will the quality be higher, in and of itself? No. Will you be able to render things that you can't render now, because the current version might run out of memory at some point during execution? Yes.