Windows 64bit XBMC

Alpha3 is available as 64bit build for osx - if somebody would stress test this and compares to the 32bit build and points out something like "Wohoo i can do xyz which will stop all wars on earth" - the chance a dev would look into it would be much bigger

(2012-07-19 02:53)martinlcs Wrote:  From the above discusions I have learned that GPU decoding benefits nothing from X64. Thanks

Warning : I must have said that it's what i think, but i can't said that i'm sure of it at 100% (more around 80%).

Forgive me if I get this wrong but I was searching this forum for help on using XBMC on a 64bit XP machine.
I might be wrong but the reason for 64 bit support may have arrived.
With 3Tb drives and larger now available, the only Win OS that supports the bigger drives is (hope I get
this right):
XP64bit
Vista 64bit
Win7 64bit
and the server versions of the above of course.
So it seems to me that 32bit MS OS's have been left out and Microsoft have iniiated GPT support (an Intel
iniiative) in these versions only.
There's a lot more to it like which OS can boot from GPT devices and their BIOS support but for this topic its
about why XBMC should support/run in 64bit Windows.
Now I know a WD Elements 3Tb drive will work quite happily on an XP 32 bit machine while it is in its supplied
enclosure and I would guess the My Books products would also but take the drive out and place it in a JBOD
and it will not be seen by XP. It's something to do with the protected MBR section of the hard disk and some
smarts in the WD elements USB interface I reckon.
A workaround is to use Linux which supports these big drives natively (as does OSX).
So that is the fork in the road I am at now. The 64bit XP I installed is no good to me if I can't use XBMC or rather,
I may have another look at my options.
Thanks for reading.

What you got wrong is that XBMC already runs on any 64bit windows version starting from XP. It's just that there isn't a dedicated 64bit version of XBMC for Windows. But you can simply install the 32bit version of XBMC and it should run just fine. I run Windows 7 x64 on all of my computers and I never had any problem with XBMC running on it in 32bit mode.

^^This.

People probably just want to feel better than the 16GB of RAM they put in their HTPC could actually be used...

Oh the things I see in XBMC Hardware...

(2012-11-19 09:36)Xeno43 Wrote:  People probably just want to feel better than the 16GB of RAM they put in their HTPC could actually be used...
Oh the things I see in XBMC Hardware...

Never understood that...
Okay - I got 16GB as well, but my PC isn't only used for XBMC.
But if they are using the system purely for a HTPC - then why pack it with riddicoulus amounts of RAM? Ah... well... What do I care

Well nowadays if you don't care about the difference between $45 and $65, why not get 16Gb instead of 8Gb?

(2012-11-20 22:24)Malosar Wrote:  Well nowadays if you don't care about the difference between $45 and $65, why not get 16Gb instead of 8Gb?

Because it's unecessary. Why not save that 20$, when you're not going to use the RAM anyhow?

Sometimes when I see people with 8GB RAM in their HTPC I wonder if I should do the same. Then I use my i3 with 4GB and it's so bloody fast and does everything I want without missing a beat.

I just break the larger ram sticks in half so I can use part of it in another computer.