sleipnir Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Hello Guys, I just migrated from XP32 to Vista 64 (regretfully). I installed Max 2009 64 but later on I had to install the 32 bit version because I lacked 64b versions of some plugins. OS performance issues apart, I tried a render on both versions and the render time was the same. In overall I notice that they both perform the same, but 32 b version hangs from time to time (32 bit host process sometimes stops working after a memory consuming render) Sorry for my ingnorance, this may be a stupid question, but was not 64b max supose to run faster on a 64bit system than a 32b? If not, what would be the advantage of using it? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 simply because the 64bit version won't have any memory limits.... the 32bit version will crash at 1.86GB on a 32bit version of windows, and the 32bit version will crash when reaching 3.86GB on a 64bit version of windows... the 64bit version shouldn't really ever crash because its able to access up to something like 16 millionTB of virtual memory...that's 17.2 billion gigabytes...so even though it seems like a very small jump from 32bit to 64bit...its really really really huge actually...but not as far as speed goes, it doesn't have that much to do with speed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleipnir Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 Thank you William, that was very clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amer abidi Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 simply because the 64bit version won't have any memory limits.... the 32bit version will crash at 1.86GB on a 32bit version of windows, and the 32bit version will crash when reaching 3.86GB on a 64bit version of windows... the 64bit version shouldn't really ever crash because its able to access up to something like 16 millionTB of virtual memory...that's 17.2 billion gigabytes...so even though it seems like a very small jump from 32bit to 64bit...its really really really huge actually...but not as far as speed goes, it doesn't have that much to do with speed... I wasnt aware that the 32-bit version of max is allowed to utilize 3.86GB of RAM on a windows 64-bit platform! I naturally assumed that the limit was the same, 1.86GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 on 64bit windows each 32bit program is essentially given 4GB of its own space to work with... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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