I'm telling you, we wont see true 64bit support for games until the next generation of consoles.
That is, if those consoles work on a 64bit operating system, which they really don't need since running a game alone is a lot less RAM intensive than running everything the average home computer runs in the background while playing.

Anyone using Vista or Win7 with huge amounts of RAM will benefit from superfetch.

I haven't run into any issues myself which makes hacking in an LAA flag necessary, and with 8 GB total physical RAM, the game runs like butter. Load zone delays are pretty damn short, and when I'm out in the wilderness, cell loads are practically unnoticeable.

And this is with 2 to 3 year old hardware.

I'm not talking about making 64bit exe file, I'm talking about what the current LAA patches do. Which is simply flagging a 32bit exe as 'able to handle more than 2GB' in the file header. Which is what everyone has been using up until today when Bethesda released a patch that will not allow you to run the game while using these modified .exes. Which is why I suggested why not just flag the .exe themselves and then only block the program if it is modified after that date?. I mean how hard is it to write a script that detects if you using 64 bit windows and flag your 32bit exe as large address aware and take note of that date so if its tampered with further steam blocks it? They don't even have to write a new program as there are heaps of free applications flag an .exe as large address aware. All they would have to do is write a script that detects 64bit OS, run the program that flips the 2GB switch in the header, and take note of the date so that steam can block the .exe if its modified after the date it was patched...

As for the 'you should never run into the memory cap' thing, well you havn't seemed to have thought that through. Sure if you are running a vanilla install, no problem..but this is the PC version. Heaps of memory intensive mods are already available, and even more will be coming when the construction kit is released. You just won't be able to use a lot of these high definition mods without some sort of 4GB+ patch. Hence why I said it doesnt make sense, since they are basically going to fubar high definition mods, while always stating that they fully support the modding community.

Wow about 5 replies while I was typing my last one. UnclePain, I didn't have any issues either while I was running a default install, but as soon as I started installing high rez texture packs and modified my skyrimprefs file to improve the graphics quality beyond the default I really needed that LAA patch. So this is more of a 'running Skyrim with mods and tweaks' issue.

@Flowz0r

when I said this



I was referring to the post 'YES I MAD' made directly above it about bethesda wanting everyone to buy the console version, I edited my post to hopefully prevent further confusion :wink_smile:

EDIT:

I've thought of an easier way than my earlier suggestion of writing a script, hows this;

Instead of writing a script to detect your version of windows and then installing the 32bit .exe with large address awareness enabled in the header, all they would need to do is ASK you before installing/patching if you want the file to be large address aware...

was you talking what the OS can use, or the 16gb being impossible/possible..because at the moment it would be 64GB into a general public type of motherboard, or if you had thousand 2 spend per dimm you could manage to get 128GB and that sort of RAM is still being worked on and as it is a ddr3 it will fizzle out because something new will come along before that is even near ready for wide customer base ..pointless that all would be..anything over 6gb of ram for games these days is kind of pointless, and 4gb in most cases is the most you need at least for the next few months

I don't expect an answer on this because the answer will most likely upset the player base more than staying silent. 90% of game companies choose the "ignore it till it goes away" problem. Since the modding community has provided a solution they can do just that.

Does your PC have 5gb of ram or more? If so, then click the 'LA' option.
IMPORTANT: If your machine does not have the required specification, this may cause Skyrim to become unstable.

Anyone unable to grasp that, seriously shouldn't own a consumer product of any description, let alone a PC.

Unless you rewrite a lot of things, you won't gain anything outside of using more RAM since pointers will use twice as much memory.



The current generation of consoles use 128 bits processor.