fm11 will we get a 64 bit exe?

just wondering if we will get a 64 bit version of fm this year?

any of the devs or people in the know shed some light on this?

From what Si have said before it won't be until most players have moved onto a 64 bit system. Having 64 myself I can't wait but probably at a guess within the next 5 releases maybe

I would have thought it unlikely, but then again I'm not in the know.

it would be nice if they could offer a 32bit and 64 bit exe allowing people to make use of 64 bit systems and of course large amounts of ram

even some sort of virtual address enlargement would be nice hint hint

Seeing this stat, I think it's time to introduce 64bit fm:

Can't see why they wouldn't release FM11 both 32 and 64.

Seeing this stat, I think it's time to introduce 64bit fm:

That's all well and good...but how about a chart depicting a percentage of OSs in use? If Win7 is, say 15%, Vista 25%, and XP 60%, SI would have a point in not devoting resouces to a 64bit .exe just yet...

Seeing this stat, I think it's time to introduce 64bit fm:

87% of statistics are made up on the spot. And as SSG points out this means nothing unless you know how many are running each OS.

Can't see why they wouldn't release FM11 both 32 and 64.

Extra dev time? Testing time? And maybe some other tech stuff I know nothing about.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

+ remember that Windows 8 is coming out next year.

BTW, I don't expect 64bit on fm 2011, but for fm 2012.

By that time, most people will have an 64bit os.

there is an increase on the 64bits os use especially on windows 7

steam hardware survey :

Windows XP 32 bit

32.99% -0.81%

Windows 7 64 bit

26.65% +2.26%

Windows Vista 32 bit

14.01% -0.54%

Windows 7

12.07% +0.61%

Windows Vista 64 bit

6.75% +0.16%

MacOS 10.6.3 64 bit

5.31% -1.14%

MacOS 10.5.8 64 bit

1.03% -0.32%

Windows XP 64 bit

0.56% +0.04%

Windows 2003 64 bit

0.32% -0.02%

MacOS 10.6 64 bit

0.13% -0.20%

Other

0.18% -0.04%

87% of statistics are made up on the spot. And as SSG points out this means nothing unless you know how many are running each OS.

Extra dev time? Testing time? And maybe some other tech stuff I know nothing about.

Did you just make that up?

I would have thought it unlikely, but then again I'm not in the know.

That said, they continue to make a Mac version, so...

In my experience the single-threaded day-to-day processing is bigger bottleneck than RAM. And it is not users we are talking about here, but gamers. Their PCs tend to differ from the millions of cubicle work stations.