Originally Posted By: Mike Head
No point in risking a bigger foot print than I need , something I am still not certain about that, any one know if the running program footprint is more if running 64 bit. From the PCs point of view. Leaving less resources for running other programs at the same time say, Word or Adobe photo shop for editing screen shots etc.


Well, this is probably the biggest reason to use 64 bit. For years everybody on every music forum anywhere said to not run uneeded programs when doing music work. But if you're going to do that anyway, 64 bit allows your system to use all of it's memory so one program that might be a memory hog doesn't mess up what you're trying to do with Biab. 32 bit only allows for 4 gigs of ram to be used regardless of you having way more than that on your system. 64 bit will access all of your memory.

According to Peter in a post a few years ago his testing showed Jbridge allowed for full memory access as well in Biab but how that works if there are other memory intensive apps running at the same time as Biab wasn't mentioned. Probably because it's SOP in music production to not do that.

Bob

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