32-bit Cubase...better under a 32-bit OS?

[Rumdrum]

Thx!

[UltimateOutsider]

@Suprawill1

Not to take sides but I have had several Mac users claim that since Mac has entered the Intel environment, the only difference between Mac and PC is the OS.

That can actually be a huge difference, though. In the DAWBench performance tests between Windows 7 and Mac OS, Windows 7 systems annihilate Mac OS in terms of performance on both Cubase and Protools.

Back to the original topic, though- a 32-bit application on 32-bit Windows only has access to 2GB of the system’s RAM. It doesn’t matter how much is physically installed or free, individual apps will only see 2GB of it, max.

Under 64-bit Windows, applications can address a maximum of 4GB RAM if they’re written to be “large address aware.” So if you’ve got the physical RAM plus a good multicore CPU, 32-bit apps can actually do more on 64-bit Windows than on 32-bit.

32-bit Cubase (from 5 through 6.5) has proven quite stable on 64-bit Windows- and it supports extended memory addressing, too.