64-bit-only Frostbite games coming in 2013
Battlefield developer DICE has revealed that by next year, there'll be new releases built upon its Frostbite engine which require a 64-bit OS. If you're still on 32-bit, you might want to think about upgrading--more than you have these past eight years, anyway.
If your gaming PC still, somehow, has a 32-bit processor and operating system, you really might want to start thinking about upgrading. More than you should've been doing these past eight years, anyway. Battlefield developer DICE has revealed that by next year, there will be games built upon its Frostbite engine which require a 64-bit OS.
DICE rendering architect Johan Andersson revealed this nugget on Twitter, noting "If you are on 32-bit, great opportunity to upgrade to Windows 8." Or Windows 7. W7 is good. Get that.
As well as serving as the foundation for DICE's own games, Frostbite has also been used by other EA studios for Need for Speed: The Run and Medal of Honor: Warfighter. The only 2013 release so far confirmed to use Frostbite is Command & Conquer: Generals 2, so that's one possible candidate.
Now, honestly, get with the program and upgrade to 64-bit. Steam's ongoing hardware survey shows at least 20% of the digital distribution platform's users are still on 32-bit versions of Windows, so buck your ideas up. We were all promised a 64-bit gaming revolution back in 2004, and you holdouts are ruining it for the lot of us.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, 64-bit-only Frostbite games coming in 2013.
Battlefield developer DICE has revealed that by next year, there'll be new releases built upon its Frostbite engine which require a 64-bit OS. If you're still on 32-bit, you might want to think about upgrading--more than you have these past eight years, anyway.-
Nice to see someone taking the initiative to get this ball rolling. I know there were 64bit executables for Half-Life 2 (Lost Coast?) and Crysis that were later done away with but it's about time games start making better use of the hardware they're running on and the system memory they're being given.
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The 64bit Crysis.exe was pretty much pointless though, the game only used 1-1.5Gb Ram in most places. Maybe getting close to 2GB for some of the big levels.
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Very interesting... any savvy people around here care to guess what features make it a requirement? Vertex count would be my uneducated guess.
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More AI code. Higher unit limit. More unit diversity. More players. More AI players. Graphics haven't really been limited by anything but the vidcard in a while, the rest has been hardcoded to avoid problems in 32 bit land.
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A single process without the LAA flag is 2GB, with the LAA flag (on a 64 bit OS) it's 4GB, with a 64 bit executable its as high as it can go.
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Maya
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Mod tools are requiring it more and more.
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Why did my brain immediately jump to "what? they're making N64 games again?"
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When the next gen consoles hit it won't really matter so much. At least at first.
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Think positive :(
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It better be Battlefield 4.
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first commercially available 64bit consumer chip? was it the amd one back in 2004?
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Athlon 64 was late 2003 IIRC.
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UT2003 was way ahead of the curve on this one :(
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Battlehouse 64bit Company 3
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Because even at the launch of Windows 7, business still were clinging to hardware and applications that required 32 bit. At work we migrated to Windows 7 late last year and we had users who cried bloody murder because some Windows 3.1 app would no longer work in 64 bit.
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Xp mode doesn't allow for win 3.1 apps and virtual xp gives root access
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