[CLOSED] UMS 64bit Windows Install

[glenrocks]

Right now, UMS build installs as 32bit..can it be upgraded to 64 bit install? Pros or Cons?

[maxideus]

64bit applications allow programmers to use larger integers and floating points to do more math. Perhaps the renderers can benefit from a 64bit version but probably not UMS itself.

[SubJunk]

Hi glenrocks, it's a good question but like maxideus said there would be no benefit. UMS itself is super fast already, it's just the engines that would benefit from 64-bitness.
In the next version (1.3.0) I have added 64-bit FFmpeg which is used automatically when a 64-bit version of Windows is detected.

[glenrocks]

Thanks SJ and Max.

Since I do not uninstall and overwrite old version with new, will UMS install overwrite w/ new 64bit ffmpeg? From the running ffmpeg process, it says 32bit (WOW64)

[SubJunk]

I decided to not add 64-bit FFmpeg because it was running into memory issues. Maybe in the future