64 Bit & Archicad (Anyone have knowledge of this?)

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know if it would be worth the time and effort to change over to XP 64 bit in order to utilize my prossesors 64 bit capability

Has anyone tried archicad on a 64 bit machine yet? Does it yield a large boost in performance , or do we have to wait for the code to be written to utilize 64 bit? If the latter is the case, has graphisoft given any idea how long?

would the performance gain expected not warrant a changing of the software

please correct me if wrong, but from what I have gathered about 64 bit computing, is that it could equate to an order of magnitude or two in performance


Thanks

JP

[__archiben]

my understanding is that both 64 bit and multi-processor technology requires the software to be written to take advantage of it

how 'dual-core' technology fits in i don't know . . . it's a single multi-processor

~/archiben

[Anonymous]

~/archiben wrote:
my understanding is that both 64 bit and multi-processor technology requires the software to be written to take advantage of it

how 'dual-core' technology fits in i don't know . . . it's a single multi-processor

~/archiben

Thats My understanding too. Looks like we are hitting a ceiling where processor gigahertz, & front side bus are concerned.
I think it would be interesting to know wether Graphisoft is considering, not concidering, or actively pursuing the 64 bit & dual processor roads.

[Anonymous]

Jonathan wrote:
I think it would be interesting to know wether Graphisoft is considering, not concidering, or actively pursuing the 64 bit & dual processor roads.

I certainly hope so, since the Macs have been 64 bit for some time now and with PCs headed that way...

But then the only multi processor support yet in AC is in the Lightworks engine.

[Anonymous]

and nothing is going to chanege to AC10 version related to 64bit processing.

[Steve Jepson]

syber wrote:
and nothing is going to chanege to AC10 version related to 64bit processing.

I think it already has changed. Read the list of things the new patch (2172) has.

See item #42412 -On Windows XP-x64 edition ArchiCAD can now use 4GB memory address space (standard XP allows only 2GB)

Is this what you want? Or is there something more about 64bit processing that is needed?