EVE General Discussion

Greetings capsuleer,

I love watching a capsuleer who has not trained Electronics delve into the field. I can recommend a few Caldari pilots that would happily sell you the skillbook. I believe even capsuleer Tippia may have a dusty one available.



32 bits determines your addressable memory space. It has nothing to do with the other words you are throwing at the discussion in a vain attempt to look intelligent. And work it out for yourself ...

0 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1,024 ... 4,294,967,295. Memory is unsigned; not signed.

That space is addressable. Anything above that is not. Keep in mind that hardware devices will also use some of that addressable space; depending on a number of factors so it may be less.



At the moment I have ExeFile.exe, a process launched by the EVE client utilising 59 threads. There will be context switching and I'm not about to delve in to try and decipher which of my cores is actively running this; but the beauty of a multi-threaded operating system is that it will natively utilise those benefits for you if you have multiple threads.

There will be a test later. Don't fail it again.

Regards,

Capsuleer Yang

It's not just operating systems that prevent requiring DX11. Hardware is also a limitation, and for some (e.g. those with laptops) it's not so easy to upgrade the hardware. My laptop had the best card available when I bought it almost four years ago and it isn't DX11 capable.

You can have your nice things like tessellation and DX11 so long as they're made optional. There's no reason to shut out people who can't run DX11 especially considering so very few games actually do that (literally, there's only one game currently on market that requires DX11, everything else requires at most DX10.1).

Not 8-bit but I've actually worked on octal (base 8) computers - some ancient things that went into RN frigates and one of the nuclear subs.

We could revert to that, makes as much sense as anything else the OP has said in this thread

Those people need to get their priorities right.

But I'd be interested in how many people have multiple PC's some for gaming, some for working, etc.

I myself have 13 PC's, 7 of which are for gaming and nothing else...

I'm familiar with Tippia's posting history, having been playing the game going on five years now. And you're quite correct when you say that it speaks volumes - he fully supports making changes to better the game, when the benefits of those changes outweigh the costs.

So far you have yet to demonstrate that changing to 64 bit will have a postive outcome that outweighs the costs of implementing it, and you managed to go straight for the ad hominem before we even finished page one of this thread. I understand you want Eve to get a 64-bit client, for whatever reasons you may have. What you have failed to demonstrate is why Eve needs a 64-bit client in an reasonable sense.

I have a great deal of sincere sympathy for those in your position James, but you need to consider something that is a general rule of thumb for anyone that's worked in the computer field.

The fully useful lifespan of a computer used for gaming is 3 years.
The fully useful lifespan of a computer not used for gaming is 5 years.

Obviously there are exceptions, but its a pretty good guideline for planning computer purchases and/or upgrades.

You just parroted what you heard someone else say out of context. You still have no clue as to why.
Ill take your denial of how computers work in hand with your assumption of alt connections.

Op has a point. There seems to be a lot of people posting here that have no idea about computers.

Eve would be better if it was for 64 bit computers. If you compare a 32 bit computer with a 64 bit computer, the 64 bit one has more bits. Because you have more bits, you can tell those bits to do extra things. You can do twice as many things at once with a 64 bit computer than you can with a 32 bit one, because 64 is twice as much as 32.

This is basic logic, people.

Posting in a thread where people clearly do not understand the concepts behind memory addressing.

Devs have proven cautious about client changes that force hardware updates, and for a game with such a long lifespan this is certainly the best course of action. You'll get what you want, OP, eventually. If you want it now, though, your best hope is to ask for an x64 client in addition to the x86 one, which will probably happen before the game goes exclusively x64 anyways.

Let me put it this way, other MMO's, ones older than EVE Online offer 64bit versions of the game. That means people that cannot run 64bit can still run 32bit, but those with the ability to run the 64bit can. Look at WoW as an example. Back when the first introduced 64bit I and many millions of other players saw a huge jump in game performance by moving to 64bit client. That is all I am asking for here. Is the ability to fully utilize what my machine is capable of doing. For anyone to say that we would not see improvements in this game is just being silly - especially if CCP wrote the code to optimize the use of a 64bit system.

Then they could release a DX11, tessellation and better physics to those of us that can make use of it. All I wish to see is EVE grow into a more robust and enriching game experience and environment. As it is now CCP is tied to the fact that some people refuse to upgrade their gaming rigs and or OS's. How is that fair to the hundreds of thousands that have decent up-to-date gaming rigs?