Anyone with windows vista and greater than 3 mb of ram...can you indicate whether it is using more ram and is 64 bit?

thanx

7.2 is not 64 bit - it won't be out until probably v8.0 :) 

bummer
thats my main "want" for carrara.

thanx

At least we know it's being developed :) I'm ordering my 64 bit system now so it's ready to go :) 

Along those lines, I'm ready to switch over to 64-bit Vista (I already have 32-but Vista and have had no problems except that pesky 3 GB limit).

My question is, am I going to have to re-install everything after installing Vista 64-bit?

My 32-bit version was bought through my school and isn't 'eligible' for upgrade status (according to the folks at Microsoft), so they say I have to buy a full version to get 64-bit.  And I'm told that a full install requires re-installing of all programs.

Any thoughts, help, recipes...?  ;)

@DocMatter: Sorry to say so, but the guys from MS are right - you really have to reinstall all programs if you install a completely new Windows.
Surely you can safe your presets in Carrara separate, but after all it's a new system and the main application (Carrara in that case) needs to be re-installed.

~Sassy~

I was afraid of that.  If I have all my Poser and Carrara content on a different internal hard drive than my system files, do I have to worry about them after a new windows install?

If you do that you will be safe AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF FORMATTING THAT DRIVE TOO.  What you MAY have to do after installing your operating system (on the correct drive :) is run your Carrara, Poser, etc in the compatibility mode probably XP latest update.  That is a no brainer, just go down the list click on it and follow instructions.  You just have to do it once for each software that DOESN'T work  just quite right.  After that each time you click on the software, it will automatically come up in that mode.   One way of determining if you may have to do this is read the specifications, if it mentions Win 2000, ME, Xp but not Vista, examine all your software functions, can you still use them, are they flaky etc.  Jan

Now Brycetalk, your question. 

I have a quad, 6 Gigabyte of DDR3 RAM computer with Vista 64/32 bit (has both modes).

Does it use more RAM, yep Vista must have 1Gigbyte, and the latest versions of Carrara, Poser etc also use around a Gigabyte of RAM, does it use RAM above 3Gigabyte--it depends on the software and since mine are all 32Bit, the ceiling is around 3 Gigabyte.

Now does Carrara render faster than with one CPU, you betcha, four times as fast-there are four boxes rendering at the same time, when one CPU finishes its rendering, it creates another box and begins again.  That's Carrara 5 Pro by the way. 

By the way you don't have to decide whether to run your software in 64 or 32 bit mode, Vista figures out the mode for you upon installing-In fact Vista will not allow you to run a 32 bit software program in 64 bit mode if you are thinking about utilizing all your GigaBytes. 

Jan