Coleman opened this issue on Jan 06, 2010 · 79 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 06 January 2010 at 9:37 AM
Coleman,
I understand what you're asking now. I didn't in my first response, which I don't consider to be riding you. Go read it again, but imagine you found that paragraph in a FAQ, where the question was: What are the various versions of Poser called?
I was not meaning to insult you, and I'm pretty sure nothing in my phrasing is, in fact, insulting. It's just that I see lots of new Poser users who are not familiar with the (somewhat unhelpful) naming schemes applied to Poser, and thought that a recapitulation of that information (which I have typed many times in the past) would be helpful to other readers, not you in particular. Lots of people read these threads, even though they don't post. They learn from lurking, and it helps them if they learn things clearly. I was just trying to be clear, not insulting.
Anwyay, I didn't answer your question correctly because:
1) It was really early in my morning, after a late night of coding, and the coffee was still brewing.
2) In my brain, 64-bit automatically equates to "can deal with more data". I read your question more like this: "If the Mercury Mariner came in 4-wheel drive, would it handle snow better?" And my answer would have been "The Mercury Mariner comes in 4-wheel drive - it's not a question of if", forgetting to say that all 4-wheel drive cars handle snow better than 2-wheel drive cars, because that is the crux of the question. See what I mean? To me, your question parsed as "will it come in 64-bit", not "is 64-bit Poser better than 32-bit Poser". Of course its better - 64-bit anything is better than 32-bit when it comes to handling more than 4GB of data. 32-bit apps are completely incapable of addressing more than 4GB of data.
Now, to really answer your question, will Poser Pro 2010 in 64-bit mode really work better or will it actually fall over dead becomes of some other internal limitation when dealing with a billion polygons. Nobody truly knows that yet. In theory, yes. But that's not based on knowledge of Poser in particular, but in how 64-bit is generally better than 32-bit.
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