Is FFXIV ARR going to use WOW64 again?

[TonyUK]

Hoping they will put the effort in to not relying on an emulated environment to run the game on 64 bit platforms this time around. I havn't seen any mention of this and using WOW64 means more system resources being used to run a 32bit app as if it were 64bit.

[Andrien]

I'd like a 64bit check button in the system option tab. Preferably in the game client itself.

[JillyBean]

Tony! Just wanted to say hi. /exit

[TonyUK]

Nice to see you lumos

[Reika]

Heres to hoping they have a true 64 bit version of the client.

[Junpei]

Honestly I am not expecting it, as nice as it would be. I mean, the Minimum specs will almost certainly be an x64 based CPU, but for them to spend additional time developing x64 code on an ongoing project? slim to none.

potential need for 2 separate development trees requiring their own bug testing for an MMO release. Nope.
:edit: holy shit hey tony

[TonyUK]

Honestly I am not expecting it, as nice as it would be. I mean, the Minimum specs will almost certainly be an x64 based CPU, but for them to spend additional time developing x64 code on an ongoing project? slim to none.

potential need for 2 separate development trees requiring their own bug testing for an MMO release. Nope.
:edit: holy shit hey tony

Greeting jun

[Pseudopsia]

I'm 99% sure ARR will be 32-bit so it can run on 32-bit windows. So yes this has to run in WoW64 on 64-bit windows. Only way to have a true 64 bit client is if SE makes two different clients or bundles both 32-bit and 64-bit clients together.

[Alhanelem]

Hoping they will put the effort in to not relying on an emulated environment to run the game on 64 bit platforms this time around. I havn't seen any mention of this and using WOW64 means more system resources being used to run a 32bit app as if it were 64bit.

It doesn't really matter as 32 bit applications don't lose measurable performance on 64-bit Windows. The difference in resource use is also meaningless unless you're using an absolute barest of bare minimum system to play.

I'm not saying they shouldn't do it, of course, but it's a pointless complaint. Applications gain basically nothing from being 64 bit unless they're specifically programmed to use 64-bit variables / libraries. This is why the conversion to 64-bit has been so slow- Not every application has much potential for benefit.

I'd like a 64bit check button in the system option tab. Preferably in the game client itself.

Programs can't flip a switch to be 32 or 64 bit. The executables have to be compiled as such. You can provide 32 and 64 bit versions of an executable though.

[Delsus]

They still want the game to run on Windows XP which is a 32 bit system (there is a 64 bit version, but not many people used it) therefore unless you want all patches to take twice as long, I will take a 32 bit client running on WOW64.