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Hi everyone,

I am thinking of upgrading my OS to Windows 7 Pro and installing in 64 bit mode.
Does TVPaint support 64 bit (9.5.3 pro)?
Has anyone tried this?

If not: I am told that Windows 7 in 64 bit mode still supports some 32 bit software?
Does this apply to TV Paint?

Any feedback would help me a lot, Thanx.


Stefan

Hi Stefan,

I'm working on 64bits Vista with TVP (9.5.5 at this moment). Though TVP doesn't take full advantage the of the 64bits platform (as I've understood) it' s nice and smooth and stable.

I'm wondering how much memory TVP can use when running under 64 bits; would that be max 2 or 4 GB ? Does anybody know ?

Sewie wrote:I'm wondering how much memory TVP can use when running under 64 bits; would that be max 2 or 4 GB ? Does anybody know ?

TVP will see and use all RAM installed on your machine under a 64 bit OS.

malcooning wrote:

Sewie wrote:I'm wondering how much memory TVP can use when running under 64 bits; would that be max 2 or 4 GB ? Does anybody know ?

TVP will see and use all RAM installed on your machine under a 64 bit OS.

No, TVPA is still a 32bit application, and thus is limited to 4Gb, maybe less depending on what M$ decided...
For instance it's 3Gb on XP when using the patch, 2Gb without the patch.

So if you have more than 4 GB installed on 64b (6 or 12), TVP will see and use a total of 4 GB?

Thanx everybody fotr the feedback so far.

[quote="ematecki"]No, TVPA is still a 32bit application, and thus is limited to 4Gb, maybe less depending on what M$ decided...
For instance it's 3Gb on XP when using the patch, 2Gb without the patch.[/quote]

Hi ematecki, what patch could that be? And where could I find it?

I am running XP pro at the moment with 2Gb RAM (because I was indeed told that more RAM would not be accessed by XP).

I will have to get more RAM installed anyway, but could try what TVP does with 1Gb extra RAM before installing Windows7.

I hope we get an update for Win7 that can use more than 3gig.

The main reason I look forward to win7 is to stuff it with as much RAM as I can afford + a couple SSD drives now that win7 has support for trim.

Hi ematecki, what patch could that be? And where could I find it?

You can find some pages explaining the 3GB switch over here, Stefan.

Thanks a lot Sewie!

I 'll be away for a few days now.
But will investigate further as soon as I am back.

Stefan

(9.5.3 pro)

Please upgrade to the recent 9.5.5, some big bugs have been corrected

By the way, TVP Animation works on windows 7. The only problem comes from the Wacom management from Windows 7 ... you have a lot of tablet settings to change or windows 7 will try to open panels or scroll the screen while painting ... microsoft seems not understand that tablets can be used for painting

In Vista you can disable your "Wacom Virtual Hid Driver" in the device manager. That usually does the trick. I don't know how that works in W7, though...

You can set this in the Control panel (there is a special "stylus parameters"... I don't know the good name in English, sorry >_<)