Comments on: Bad Alex! Bad!!! (The Road Map For Memory)

By: Tobias

Tobias — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:47:24 +0000

I have 32bit Windows 7. Does that mean that mean that X-Plane has 3gb of address space? I tried the Vista tweak and got an error message.

By: David

David — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:15:19 +0000

You show how to increase ram from 2 to 3 gb
to help reduce the “bad_alloc” in win xp
but how do you do that in win 7?

Thank you

By: adept

adept — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:17:38 +0000

Hi Ben, I can feel with you.
I did a Windows/Mac cross-platform OGL abstraction before, with multi-thread contexts, and I too absolutely [[[dispise this:brain] damage:of a:language] which:is Objective:C].

Are you on MingGW for Windows? There is a MinGW64 port out there, so no need to switch to Visual Studio.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:11:35 +0000

In reply to Powermacguy. Yes. This is not a total rewrite - just a rewrite of the code that calls OS-specific Carbon APIs to build windows, process events, and set up OpenGL. There are other OS-specific APIs we call that I have not yet checked for 64-bit happiness (HID and friends, etc.) so I'm not sure what else needs a rewrite.

By: Powermacguy

Powermacguy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:00:32 +0000

If my knowledge is correct, wouldn’t a lot of the c++ code stay the same except that you have to somehow bridge cocoa for the top layer GUI and calls(ex. mouse and other calls onto the window and asking the os for information) and other platform specific code but for the most part cocoa is just used for talking directly to the OS and not really interfering with the actual flight sim logic? Because you can compile 64bit c++ under a thin layer of cocoa and it works just fine. Where I was working we would code almost everything in c++ for portability and have a thin cocoa layer for interacting with the UI.

By: CrvenaZvezda

CrvenaZvezda — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:24:37 +0000

YES!

As one of the lucky ones having a x64 monster computer I’m really looking forward to this 🙂 By the time this is released I guess my Linux monster-pc will have VRAM in the 4GB or more. (It’s 2GB VRAM to day).

The more power XP can take advantage of, the better. I like the fact that XP can be run on “old” computers, and now seems to be able to fully use the power of the most modern systems as well.

And, thank you for providing a realy good flightsim for Linux 🙂

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:45:08 +0000

In reply to Bengt. Why is that necessarily true?

By: Michael Mayer

Michael Mayer — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:00:33 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

Ben,

Have you looked at wxWidgets? It works on Windows, Linux and Mac. I have used it as a GUI for a Python program (wxPython is a wrapper for the C version) and it works on all three platforms. I have had a look at their 64 bit support and I think you might be interested in this page in the Wiki:
http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Development:_wxMac
I hope that is helpful.

Michael

By: NLS

NLS — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:21:34 +0000

X-Plane is 32 bits.
Never realised this simple fact.
IT DEFINITELY HAS TO GO X64!!!
And in Q1 if you ask me (which you don’t)…

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:09:29 +0000

In reply to Gonçalo Carvalho.

Seriously? What kind of crap is this? And the “Guys be careful”-part?

Do you think Laminar are making a simulator based on elementary school algebra? X-plane is by far the most advanced and realistic sim for personal computers, and with version 10, in my opinion, the most good looking too.

Give’em a break!

Looking forward to have my dvd’s shipped. Laminar rocks!