Comments on: When I’m 64… https:/2008/08/when-im-64/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:52:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Anonymous https:/2008/08/when-im-64/#comment-971 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:46:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=320#comment-971 Just bought the full version….

My two best machines (AMD Phenom 2 with 4G and Core i7 with 12G, Sapphire HD4870x2 – the latter I REALLY hoped to run X-plane on) are both 64 bit. Do you really need everything in http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/i386/libs/ to get it working under Ubuntu 8.10? There are hundreds of files to download and unpack, is there a script somewhere to do the unpack install automagically? I don’t have time to manually unpack and move hundreds of .so files.

In the meantime, I anxiously await for you to make the jump to 64 bits. It would probably make your life a lot easier w.r.t. memory management. When you get there, I know a LOT of people I work with who would be your first customers. I would love to make my friends with Flight SimX and Windows green with envy… 🙂

Having it play nice with Compiz would be a 2ndary nice to have….

]]> By: Benjamin Supnik https:/2008/08/when-im-64/#comment-972 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:16:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=320#comment-972 Good point – the limit will vary between 2 and 4 GB depending on the details of the OS, the hw, and various config options. 3 GB seems to be the most common config we see these days (Win XP, Mac OS X 10.4/10.5, and various 32-bit Linux distros).

]]> By: Anonymous https:/2008/08/when-im-64/#comment-973 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:10:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=320#comment-973 “Now 64-bits is useful because a 64-bit app (on a 64-bit OS and 64-bit CPU) can access more than 3 GB of RAM.”

Actually, a 32-bit app can access 4 GB of virtual memory on 64-bit MS-Windows. The OS executes in 64-bit address space and allocates 4 GB of VM to each 32-bit process.

]]> By: Anonymous https:/2008/08/when-im-64/#comment-974 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:24:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=320#comment-974 Great to hear ben!! My 8 gb x-plane computer is eagerly waiting to show its full potential. Thanks again!

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