Re: 64 bit rendering???

AFAIK and CMIIW the blender binaries distributed at Blender.org are 
intended for 32 bit machines. Thus it renders as a 32 bit software and 
don't use any of the 64 bit features. If you want a 64bit Blender I do 
think you have to compile it from the source code.

As for Yafray, AFAIK yafray only provides 32 bit binaries. Alot of 32 
bit softwares will have compatibility problems when running on 64 bit 
OS. If you want 64 bit you have to compile it from source.

This don't just happen in Linux, but also in Windows aswell. I once try 
to use XP x64 version on my workstation at the office (comes 
preinstalled from Dell), turns out alot of softwares we use gone nasty 
and only some of them works well. So I reformat everything and use the 
regular 32 bit XP. Of course I lost all the 64 bit processing features. 
But with this kind of compatibility, I rather wait until 64 bit support 
already wide supported before I use 64 bit OSes.

Hope that helps

Martin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Right first off, how are you all hope you had a nice christmas and new 
> year...
> Onto the subject, I'm using blender on fedora 64 and have these 
> questions : -
>
> 1. Does blender render in 64 bits or just 32 as normal?
> 2. Can you get sunflow to work with this solution (got the python 
> script converting output no probs;) but not running with java and er 
> fedora )
> 3. How come Yafray dosen't work in Fedora 64 and blender internal does?
> 4. Not a question this time but a big thankyou to everyone involved 
> with blender for making it possible for a happless soul like me to get 
> involved with such a godsend of a package, cheers....
>
> Marty out...