Re: Thank you 64 bit rendering???

Hi,
Id just like to say thankyou to yourself Fidelis and everyone else who
answered my group, thankyou for your kind replies...

Thankyou,

Marty out...
--- In [email protected], Fidelis Josaphat Soekahar
<fjosaphat@...> wrote:
>
> 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...
>