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IC1 and IC3 Vista 64 Bit Support planned???
Thursday, 01/17/2008 -- by Michael Landers. Subject: IC1 and IC3 Vista 64 Bit Support planned???
Hello,
i find it totally OK if IC1 is not futher developed anymore and even ongoning of 64Bit OS is not supported,
but what about IC3 does there come a SW-Update for it that Vista 64 Bit will be supported or is this only thinkable for IC5.
Best Regards
Michael
Thursday, 01/17/2008 -- by John Schilling. Subject: x64 windows really does not yet make much sense...
For Designer and Player there is no reasonable task that would require the use of x64 Windows.
Content Manager5 on larger, >>2,000 Player, networks _would_ benefit from x64 Windows. So CM5 support for Win03x64 is likely at some point.
HOWEVER: For IC1--there is no more active development.
For IC3--there is support for customers with Service Contracts for the OS'es designated on the Product Box. This obviously means that there will be no active development or support for VISTA with this product.
For IC5--there will be VISTAx86-32 support when VISTA and the "device driver environment" is mature enough. As for X86-64 support--there is no logical reason for this in IC5 Designer and Player. If it is done-- it will only be done to "make somebody happy"--not for any valid/pressing/important technical reason.
--JSS
Friday, 01/18/2008 -- by Michael Landers. Subject: X64 Win..senseless???
Hello John,
i do not think so.
If you see how the market changes - that the OS-Win line especially for Vista 32 has reached with 3 Gigabyte the memory resources of the hardware (it do not support 4 Gigs and above), so the result will go to this:
Vista takes a lot of memory ressources with 2 GB your on a good site
If you following the past it comes to this that the most SW will require more GB of memory so the point will be that you have to setup your system to higher memory and so there is a need for a 64Bit Win because only this - till today supports higher Memory than 4 GB...
Best Regards
Michael
Friday, 01/18/2008 -- by John Schilling. Subject: The issue is the infrastructure...
No SW is an island.
Currently--all of the Multi-Media sub-systems in the Microsoft Windows OS'es--even the 64-bit editions of "VISTA"--are all actually 32-bit code running in a 32-to-64-bit "wrapper". This results in both lower performance than 32-bit code running on a 32-bit OS and device driver/compatibility problems.
When I say "senseless"--current it is exactly that--Increased effort for less benefit.
Until there are 64-bit native MPEG-2 CODEC's, 64-bit TV-Tuner sub-systems, etc. running on a 64-bit OS would mean _lower_ performance, ***with the same 2GB code limitations** , than running on the SAME-HW with a 32-bit OS. We are likely some 15-18 months away from the "64-bit infrastructure"--Drivers, CODEC's, Media-Sub-systems in Windows--being mature enough for production use. We will have 64-bit code prior to that--but its obviously not what people will be deploying.
--JSS
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