Support for 64 bit processors?

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peter
Jul 22, 2004
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Hi

I’m thinking about building a new system to run Photoshop CS. I belive I have figured out most key things from the many previous posts in this NG on the subject, including memory, disk and CPU power. However, I can’t find any info on the level of support for 64 bit processors. With recent announcements from AMD this is becoming quite attractive. However, while I’m sure PS will run on any AMD chip, it is not clear to me if it makes any actual use of this feature in terms of memory addressing and code optimizations. Could anyone tell if the PS code has been optimized for 64 bit computing? Future plans?

Many thanks

Peter
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ccole
Jul 23, 2004
Peter,

I was looking at Adobe’s website and found just this little snipit…

"Photoshop CS has not been tested with the Intel Itanium chip, and does not take advantage of its 64-bit processing."

no mention of the athalon chips

Chris

"Peter Szmulik" wrote in message
Hi

I’m thinking about building a new system to run Photoshop CS. I belive I have figured out most key things from the many previous posts in this NG on the subject, including memory, disk and CPU power. However, I can’t find any info on the level of support for 64 bit processors. With recent announcements from AMD this is becoming quite attractive. However, while I’m sure PS will run on any AMD chip, it is not clear to me if it makes any actual use of this feature in terms of memory addressing and code optimizations. Could anyone tell if the PS code has been optimized for 64 bit computing? Future plans?

Many thanks

Peter
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peter
Jul 24, 2004
"ccole" …
Peter,

I was looking at Adobe’s website and found just this little snipit…
"Photoshop CS has not been tested with the Intel Itanium chip, and does not take advantage of its 64-bit processing."

no mention of the athalon chips

Chris

Hi!

Many thanks, I missed that one! I belive it should run on athon64 anyhow, but too bad it’s not taking advantage of the 64 bit stuff!

Best Regards
Peter
JB
John Bristow
Jul 25, 2004
"Peter Szmulik" wrote in message
"ccole" wrote in message
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Peter,

I was looking at Adobe’s website and found just this little snipit…
"Photoshop CS has not been tested with the Intel Itanium chip, and does
not
take advantage of its 64-bit processing."

no mention of the athalon chips

I am running PS 7.01 on a AMD Barton 2800+ with 1 Gig memory and on a laptop with an AMD 64 3200+ and 512 Meg memory.

PS 7.01 does run on the athlon 64 CPU.

I am dual booting the laptop with XP Professional and a Beta version of XP 64. PS 7.01 runs slower on XP 64 than XP Professonal, but that is to be expected on a beta operating system.

Both CPUs run at about 2GHz, but PS does run faster on the 64 bit processor.

Hi!

Many thanks, I missed that one! I belive it should run on athon64 anyhow, but too bad it’s not taking advantage of the 64 bit stuff!
Best Regards
Peter
JB
John Bristow
Jul 29, 2004
"Peter Szmulik" wrote in message
Hi

I’m thinking about building a new system to run Photoshop CS. I belive I have figured out most key things from the many previous posts in this NG on the subject, including memory, disk and CPU power. However, I can’t find any info on the level of support for 64 bit processors. With recent announcements from AMD this is becoming quite attractive. However, while I’m sure PS will run on any AMD chip, it is not clear to me if it makes any actual use of this feature in terms of memory addressing and code optimizations. Could anyone tell if the PS code has been optimized for 64 bit computing? Future plans?

I have just read a report that suggests Microsoft will *only* be releasing an OEM version of XP 64, so I would not buy an AMD cpu until I knew one way or the other.

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