Artrage x64 version for Win

[Steve B]

I was just thinking... By my understanding from this conversation, if I want better performance, then a true multicore desktop is what's really going to do it for me, right? I have a core2duo laptop right now, and I can see that i will need to be working sometimes at sizes like 3000 x 7500 or so. That's clearly straining my current system, which normally runs fine. I'm also using the watercolor brushes at larger sizes too- 300-500 isn't so out of the question for washes. I would assume a quad core computer is going to perform even better?? Or is it more about 2 cores versus only 1? Just trying to understand where Artrage is going to give the most bang for my buck, in terms of setup, as clearly more RAM isn't the bigee.

[Panaslonix]

I was just thinking... By my understanding from this conversation, if I want better performance, then a true multicore desktop is what's really going to do it for me, right? I have a core2duo laptop right now, and I can see that i will need to be working sometimes at sizes like 3000 x 7500 or so.

I had core2duo 3GHz. After upgrading to 4 core of Intel core2quad 2,66GHz there was no such significant performance increase.

Latter days I have "octa"-core AMD 8150 with appr. 4Ghz speed, on huge sizes still I have performance decrease, some times slide show. So there is no drastic performance increase.

IMHO, let us tell "many "thanks"" to bloody M$ for "perfect optimisation".

In aspects of hardware, you can try latest Core i7 such as 2700K or even Ivy Bridge - they are more optimised for Windows 7 much better than AMD. But before buying I would recommend you to try Artrage on such "loaded" machines at friends or somewhere else.

But all problems with "big" files we discussed already -> x86. I did it several times: when you start to create not so big files then add layers, stencils, trace some images etc - huge file becomes unstable and program crashes.

I suppose when we will finally see x64 version of Artrage - such things will be resolved. I do agreed that there will definitely be performance lags with big files due to CPU but at least possibility to save work.

All is my IMHO.