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64bit builds?

Postby madman2k » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:42 pm

have you thought about releasing native 64bit builds? this should be only one compiler run more, but help running darwinia nativley in future 64bit envoirments.

the automatically enabled sse2 optimizations would be an additonal benefit.
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Postby Dave2 » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:50 pm

It would also mean having an AMD64 machine to test the build on :P .

I wonder if the Darwinia code is 64-bit safe, too...
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Postby John » Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:52 pm

Right now I don't have a 64-bit machine to build / test on. When this changes (minimum 6 months time), I'll look into doing a 64-bit build.
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Postby dahli.llama » Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:58 pm

My home computer is running an AMD Athlon64 3200 under Ubuntu 5.10 with the 2.6.12-10-amd64-k8 kernel.

I installed the second demo and I was able to play it just fine, loved the game, and bought the final version, downloaded the Linux client and everything ran just fine. I didn't even consider that it may not work on the 64-bit hardware.

I was able to finish the game (version 1.3) with no crashes and a great framerate for the majority of the game (I got some major slowdown in the Biosphere level when there were tons and tons of Darwinians running around.
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Postby estel » Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:36 pm

ATI, nVidia? I ran it at about 2 fps...
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Postby arvenil » Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:20 pm

So what about 64bit binary? I know that you are propably busy making new game but this will be really good thing for many people that have amd64.
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Postby trickfred » Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:24 pm

arvenil wrote:So what about 64bit binary? I know that you are propably busy making new game but this will be really good thing for many people that have amd64.


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John wrote:Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:52 pm
Right now I don't have a 64-bit machine to build / test on. When this changes (minimum 6 months time), I'll look into doing a 64-bit build.
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Postby arvenil » Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:53 pm

Yes i can read but that was more than 4 months ago so maybe something change from this time.
If no so ok i will wait;)

Thanks for answer.
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Postby xander » Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:18 pm

arvenil wrote:Yes i can read but that was more than 4 months ago so maybe something change from this time.
If no so ok i will wait;)

Thanks for answer.


John wrote:(minimum 6 months time)


4 months < 6 months

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Postby arvenil » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:36 pm

Almost 7 months? Any news about darwinia for amd64?;) This will be awsom... and also multiplayer:D

p.s. Really thanks for this game.

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