We require 64-bit binaries

I add my name to this idea. It is inconceivable that EA as a producer of all kinds of games isn't on the developing edge of adding 64bit platforms for their Sims games, it's EPs, and or EA's many other games.

Until they do, they are behind the curve. They should be leading the game companies or bypassing MS and it's ability to produce 64bit games and it is to their shame they can't or don't see this as the next step in gaming. 32bit games are a waste on a 64bit machine.

They have a slight problem with developing on 64-bit platforms: Computers themselves are behind the curve.

Seriously, most computers on the market are 32-bit platforms; despite efforts to change it, all evidence points to this not changing any time soon.

My computer is 32-bit....

Most computers sold today are 64 bit, if you see a 32 bit only computer for sale then avoid it like the plague as it is redunlkulously out of date!! If your PC is 6 years old or less then it should be 64bit.

Windows 7 comes in both flavours and if your PC is 6 years or less then you should be running 64bit Windows 7 or 64bit Windows 8. With the upgrade version of Windows 8 being so cheap on launch there is no excuse!

In this day and age everyone should have moved over to 64 bit computers as they are a dime a dozen, so to speak.

I agree that The Sims 3 should have a 64bit 'patch' released so that the majority of people can benefit from the memory on their PCs.

With PCs these days coming with anything up to 12Gb RAM ir is ludicrus that The Sims is trapped under a 3Gb limit, and a big chunk of that goes to other programs running like Windows itself.

Please EA give us a 64 bit version as a patch or something!

I upgraded my RAM from 8 - 16 gigs, just so I could get The Sims to run.

I 100% support this request

utterlyunzipped wrote:
Most computers sold today are 64 bit, if you see a 32 bit only computer for sale then avoid it like the plague as it is redunlkulously out of date!! If your PC is 6 years old or less then it should be 64bit.

Windows 7 comes in both flavours and if your PC is 6 years or less then you should be running 64bit Windows 7 or 64bit Windows 8. With the upgrade version of Windows 8 being so cheap on launch there is no excuse!

In this day and age everyone should have moved over to 64 bit computers as they are a dime a dozen, so to speak.

I agree that The Sims 3 should have a 64bit 'patch' released so that the majority of people can benefit from the memory on their PCs.

With PCs these days coming with anything up to 12Gb RAM ir is ludicrus that The Sims is trapped under a 3Gb limit, and a big chunk of that goes to other programs running like Windows itself.

Please EA give us a 64 bit version as a patch or something!

Most of the versions of Windows 8 currently being sold, or even preloaded, are 32-bit. Windows 8 was released in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832416551

So, it's good to know one of the newest OS's on the market is hopelessly out of date :P

TanyaRubirose wrote:
Most of the versions of Windows 8 currently being sold, or even preloaded, are 32-bit. Windows 8 was released in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832416551

So, it's good to know one of the newest OS's on the market is hopelessly out of date :P

The x32 versions of Windows are primarily aimed at legacy hardware, for people who haven't upgraded for some reason.

It is extremely foolish to install x32 software on any modern PC as it dramatically limits performance.

There will always be people who resist changing for whatever reason, but they are by and large in the minority these days. Windows 7 x64 is the most popular installed OS in the real world. The x64 version over took the x32 version way back in 2010 with over 77% of all PCs coming with the x64 version pre-installed.

A good reason to offer the upgrade is x32 OSs can only access 4Gb of RAM. Many gamers have more than this now-a-days (I have 6Gb and plan to upgrade to 12Gb soon) and The Sims 3 would run a lot better if it could access all that memory. Please bear in mind that that 4Gb limit includes the RAM on your graphics card etc. So if you have a 1Gb Graphics card then that leaves only 3Gb left available to the OS for everything else! After all is said and done The Sims 3 may be left with little more than 1Gb to run in!

The point is x64 is very popular and most games are taking advantage of it's features. EAxis should release am optional patch that you can download that will install an x64 version of all the games executables and dlls. This has been done for many games in the past including Far Cry and Half-Life 2), while many others now come by standard in both x32 and x64 versions and the install programs jus picks which to install for you!

So come on EAxis, drag The Sims 3 kicking and screaming into the 21st century!

utterlyunzipped wrote:

TanyaRubirose wrote:
Most of the versions of Windows 8 currently being sold, or even preloaded, are 32-bit. Windows 8 was released in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832416551

So, it's good to know one of the newest OS's on the market is hopelessly out of date :P

The x32 versions of Windows are primarily aimed at legacy hardware, for people who haven't upgraded for some reason.

It is extremely foolish to install x32 software on any modern PC as it dramatically limits performance.

There will always be people who resist changing for whatever reason, but they are by and large in the minority these days. Windows 7 x64 is the most popular installed OS in the real world. The x64 version over took the x32 version way back in 2010 with over 77% of all PCs coming with the x64 version pre-installed.

A good reason to offer the upgrade is x32 OSs can only access 4Gb of RAM. Many gamers have more than this now-a-days (I have 6Gb and plan to upgrade to 12Gb soon) and The Sims 3 would run a lot better if it could access all that memory. Please bear in mind that that 4Gb limit includes the RAM on your graphics card etc. So if you have a 1Gb Graphics card then that leaves only 3Gb left available to the OS for everything else! After all is said and done The Sims 3 may be left with little more than 1Gb to run in!

The point is x64 is very popular and most games are taking advantage of it's features. EAxis should release am optional patch that you can download that will install an x64 version of all the games executables and dlls. This has been done for many games in the past including Far Cry and Half-Life 2), while many others now come by standard in both x32 and x64 versions and the install programs jus picks which to install for you!

So come on EAxis, drag The Sims 3 kicking and screaming into the 21st century!

If the legacy system argument for why they released that had any merit at all, they would have also released a 16-bit version, since there are also still 16-bit computers in usage. So, the idea of a 32-bit version being for legacy systems really doesn't hold up.

And while it may be extremely foolish for some computers, there's actually a number of systems released on the market where a 64-bit system is actually a waste of money; many of these utilize cheap, low-end processors where the difference in performance between 32-bit and 64-bit is so minute as to be effectively nonexistent. As much as we would all like everyone to have top-of-the-line gaming machines, like my own (which, before you accuse me of resisting change, runs a 64-bit OS and was chosen based on the OS's superior performance under the hardware configuration I am using), the fact remains that cheap computers have always and will always make up the majority of the market.

There's also the fact that Sims 3 is, really, about the last thing on a very long list of 32-bit systems still out; there's actually a number of computer applications that are 32-bit, some of which are actually essential for such things as internet service. While these can function under a 64-system, there are a few specialty applications which are not actually compatible with 64-bit systems and require a 32-bit to run; those are also cases where a 32-bit system proves superior.

Finally, if 64-bit is so popular, then why are 32-bit versions of Windows 8 being sold in every Walmart, Target, and Office Depot I've been to? If I wanted a 64-bit version of it, I could have gotten that on launch day at any store I went to; the 32-bit versions actually sold out at a couple. Also, why do I have info from people who actually sell computers that they mostly preload and sell 32-bit Windows systems, no matter which version, and the 64-bits tend to be harder to sell? You would think that if it were so popular, the inverse would be true... yet loading 32-bit Windows 8 is one of the duties I've been told I'll have to do at every job interview I've been to for work related to selling pre-loaded software, and half of them don't even sell pre-loaded 64-bit Windows 8.

I also notice you haven't named a single computer game that takes advantage of 64-bit systems, and yet are demanding that EA rework the source code of Sims 3 (which would take a minimum of five to ten years) to be 64-bit, while ignoring all of the reasons why that would be a very bad idea (chief among them being a memory leak that rivals the hole in the side of the Titanic). Or the fact it might not actually be possible to convert this to 64 bit.

TanyaRubirose wrote:
I also notice you haven't named a single computer game that takes advantage of 64-bit systems, and yet are demanding that EA rework the source code of Sims 3 (which would take a minimum of five to ten years) to be 64-bit, while ignoring all of the reasons why that would be a very bad idea (chief among them being a memory leak that rivals the hole in the side of the Titanic). Or the fact it might not actually be possible to convert this to 64 bit.

Crysis, Indigo Prophesy, WoW and Half Life 2 are the only major ones I can think of off hand and I'm pretty sure Crysis was the only one that was a native 64-bit game rather than being patched later.

I beg to differ with those that think there aren't games out here for 64bit machines. I see Allspice has named several. And I have to say if anyone out there is still trying to use a 16bbit system then I have a few old 32 bit machines from ten years ago I would donate to them since 16bit would be like what? Windows 3.5? or something. Even XP SP1 doesn't use 16bit and MS refuses to support even it anymore.

Nudge is the word. MS tried their best to 'nudge' people into accepting Vista but people including myself wouldn't give up XPSSP3 but you won't see many PCs these days with it on them. If you do your are getting ripped off for the price.

A 32bit machine can not utilitize even 4GBs of RAM. It can only utilize 2.5 of RAM. Take a good look at your 32bit machines next time you are playing a game..you will see the the machine can not access nor even utilize the entire amount of RAM installed. A 64bit machine can.

It is a waste of money to try to add more RAM to a 32bit machine if you are adding over 4GBs. Because it can't use it anyway. It helps slightly but Windows 7 doesn't have the memory leaks XP SP3 had though I like it's set up better than Windows 7 but it is still much faster in the long run to use Windows 7 64bit over 32bit or XP.

Many haven't changed over because one, they like XP and MS will soon stop even supporting XP SP3 and two, they don't know what they are buying when they settle for a 32bit machine. It's dated. No matter how many bells and whistles it comes with..it is still outdated.

Just as much as last weeks new video card on the market will be outdated by next month.

ETA: Fact, a 32bit machine can only handle the RAM it's motherboard will allow and the motherboards installed into a 64bit machine can and will allow more RAM, much more, than any motherboard in a 32bit machine. People that continue to buy 32bit machines have no idea..(my apologies for this) what they are doing. Ask a geek what the difference is, they will tell you in no uncertain terms how misinformed you are, I should know. :wink: because geeks are the people that taught me everything about PCs that I know..I didn't say I retained all their parted knowledge but I kinda of understand much better than when I first started buying and using PCs. :lol: