[Question] CPU or GPU intensive?

[Mirage]

Cool. Do you have any benchmarks showing this huge difference in game performance between 32bit and 64bit games?

I mean, if it's as gigantic as you make it sound like, surely, there must be some gaming enthusiasts out there making use of it. No one in their right mind would say no to a potential 2x performance boost.

I mean, maybe you are right, technically. I don't know enough about processor microarchitectures to say you're dead wrong, but I can't understand how this wouldn't have been on every hardcore PC gamer's lips if they could indeed squeeze so much extra performance out of their games in 64bit mode. Of course, assuming that they're actually CPU limited, which is extremely unlikely in this day and age, unless graphics settings are turned down to a minimum.

So if you really think that upping a game to 64bit mode is going to increase actual performance and not just theoretical performance under certain circumstances, I would say some unbiased benchmarks are needed.

I'm also really thinking that there is something wrong with your computer's setup though if FF14 is never using more than 20% of your GPU's power. I'm pretty sure you could put on a lot more antialiasing, ambient occlusion, and various other effects if that was the case. My 460 (but the same is the case for people I know with 560s) is most of the time running at 95% load or more, even with my old, inferior Q9450.