Non 64 bit plugins

[Philbert]

I'm using the 64 bit version of 9.3 and I know some plugins won't work with it. I just tried to add TB_Untriple and LightWave told me "cannot load..." Does this mean that Untriple is one of those "won't work in 64 bit" plugins?

[DogBoy]

Phil, only 64bit plugins work with 64bit LW. If it doesn't say it is 64bit somewhere it isn't gonna be, sorry.
Looking at the TB_Untriple page it says for 6.5, 7, 8, 9 for Win32 so, yes, this is 32bit. Even if it doesn't say 32bit, it would be due to it's 6.5, 7, and 8 (as opposed to 8.5) compatiblity.

LScripts should be fine though.

[Philbert]

Wow you're right A few others didn't work either. Had I known it was roughly all plugins from the past I may not have gone 64 bit. I really didn't want to install both versions of 9.3 on one computer but I guess I'll have to. That sucks.

[DogBoy]

Sorry, Phil :thumbsdow

[Philbert]

Of course I still have the 32 bit one on my old computer, which I can access with Remote Desktop Connection. So there's always that option for some things.

[zardoz]

i guess you can have both 64 and 32bit versions of lw on the same machine

[DogBoy]

i guess you can have both 64 and 32bit versions of lw on the same machine

I do on mine. 8.5, 9, 9.2 and 9.3, all both 32 & 64. Though I rarely touch 8.5

[IMI]

This is probably a stupid question, but will scene and object files saved from a 64 bit LW 9.3 open okay in Layout and Modeler 9.3, 32 bit?

[BeeVee]

Yes, as long as there's the RAM (and no 64-bit-only plugins).

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[Andyjaggy]

I've never run into a problem having both 32bit and 64bit installed. I would prefer to use 64bit for everything but there are those few plugins that I need that don't work.

[Andyjaggy]

Yes life is good. I started using 64bit at work. Now I have hard time using just 32bit at home. My machine is perfectly capable of running 64bit I am just having a ridiculously hard time getting the machine to run with more then 2 gigs or ram. Da%$ Asus MB.

[tektonik]

I use 64 and 32 bit XP

and even if you don't have more than 2 gig physical RAM you can use 64 bit lightwave and prime to render anything (without any memory limitation)

I also found that XP64 and XP32 don't swap in the same fashion... XP64 swaps on disk MUCH more efficiently than XP32 (don't ask me why... but i think it is another dev team altogether that did XP64)

so go 64 even with only 2 gigs you will see a difference and never run into memory problems in LW-fprime64

i have 4 gig but once i tested fprime 64 and rendered a 18000 by 18000 pix image (in xp32 i could only render 1280x 1024 on that scene!!!!). I was using 20 gig of ram (16 in swap space) and the CPUs (all 4 cores) where running at 100 % YEAH! WOOHOO

ok bak to werk

[Andyjaggy]

I use 64 and 32 bit XP

and even if you don't have more than 2 gig physical RAM you can use 64 bit lightwave and prime to render anything (without any memory limitation)

I also found that XP64 and XP32 don't swap in the same fashion... XP64 swaps on disk MUCH more efficiently than XP32 (don't ask me why... but i think it is another dev team altogether that did XP64)

so go 64 even with only 2 gigs you will see a difference and never run into memory problems in LW-fprime64

i have 4 gig but once i tested fprime 64 and rendered a 18000 by 18000 pix image (in xp32 i could only render 1280x 1024 on that scene!!!!). I was using 20 gig of ram (16 in swap space) and the CPUs (all 4 cores) where running at 100 % YEAH! WOOHOO

ok bak to werk

Ya know I was wondering about that. Even on a machine with 2 gigs of ram and 64 bit I got the impression that the 64 bit let me open and render larger files. I never did any real testing to see if this was the case but it looks like it might be. If that truly is the case I think it is about time to go buy XP 64. Or Vista.

[DogBoy]

XP64 is based on Windows 2003 Server x64, so it had better memory management anyway, due to the database driven apps it was meant for.