Census regarding 64-bit requirement for FFXIV

[kaptainpancake69]

32 bit OSes have major ram allocation issues, if I'm correct it can only "see" 4 gigs of RAM total, not above per application. So if you have 16 gigs and a 32 bit OS, you're literally not using the RAM resources of the system.

[Krindor]

According to steam, less than 2% of their users use a 32-bit system I would think that around the same percentage applies here as well.

[Riardon]

32bit OS is obsolete nowadays. For a PC with 4GB of RAM and above you need 64bit which almost everyone has now. The only one who are still on a 32bit OS are those with really really old PC's/laptops and those don't know a thing about OS licenses thus they purchased the 32bit version (yeah I know a guy who did this mistake). The team wants to push the 64bit version so they must have their reasons. The game needs to improve and move forward and you can't really do that if you are stuck on decade old tech specs.

[Zumi]

32bit OS is obsolete nowadays. For a PC with 4GB of RAM and above you need 64bit which almost everyone has now. The only one who are still on a 32bit OS are those with really really old PC's/laptops and those don't know a thing about OS licenses thus they purchased the 32bit version (yeah I know a guy who did this mistake). The team wants to push the 64bit version so they must have their reasons. The game needs to improve and move forward and you can't really do that if you are stuck on decade old tech specs.

A windows license is good for either 32 or 64 bit. If you have 32 you can install 64 at no additional cost as long as your cpu supports it.

[Rongway]

There are good reasons to run a 32b system.

None of them apply to a gaming machine.

[CaptainLagbeard]

I don't really know if being a 64-Bit OS offers any real practical performance increase over 32-bit...

At most I could see the extra memory affecting possibly loading stuff...

[Kiteless]

I don't really know if being a 64-Bit OS offers any real practical performance increase over 32-bit...

At most I could see the extra memory affecting possibly loading stuff...

More memory means you can load larger and more detailed environments, for one. Part of the reason why the main hub cities are split into two parts is because of the PS3's memory limitations.

[MyaValentine]

I just want to bump this thread a little bit because this is something SE should actually consider heavily, the pool itself just show a little bit of the ratio of their current concerns,out of of 300 only 12 said no, on a bigger scale this will probably be much more noticeable, out of the current 500+k active users probably only 500 wont be able to afford a 64-bit system, and that's a stretch. because maybe there are some that legitimately won't be able to "afford" a 64-bit system but maybe some or most of them "don't" have a 64-bit system but will be able to upgrade.

I obviously only looking from the eyes of the majority (sucks that some people will be probably pushed out, will not want it for myself obviously) but I'd believe it will be more beneficial for the big majority and for the devs them self to drop 32-bit support.

Just like ps3 player they should had upgraded long time ago.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Already have 64bit os.


I think it's getting to the point that there just isn't any hardware sold anymore that is limited to a 32bit os...

[Nutz]

More memory means you can load larger and more detailed environments, for one. Part of the reason why the main hub cities are split into two parts is because of the PS3's memory limitations.

This may be part of the reason, but officially I believe they stated that they split the cities into multiple zones at 2.0 because of server congestion, particularly in Ul'Dah (which had significantly more story content than the other cities since it contained the predecessor to the Waking Sands). Of course, I've heard claims that they'll be updating their servers as well, so who knows?

This isn't specifically relevant, but I've seen a lot of people theorize that they'll change very little -- after all when SE dropped PS2 support for XI they didn't change a whole lot over there, but I wanted to point out that FFXI was/is a PS2 game that was ported to PC. The PS2 limitations are built into the code. The opposite is true here, where XIV was built for Windows and ported elsewhere. The code shouldn't (shouldn't) cause them nearly as many problems with trying to remove previous limitations.