Blender on 64 Bit Vista

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I am considering picking up the 64bit version of Vista, does the regular download support the 64 bit OS, or will I need to compile it myself?

(Please no Linux bait, I have also been looking at that)

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You have to compile it yourself. Or look at this build: http://www.graphicall.org/builds/builds/showbuild.php?action=show&id=792

DingTo

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Thank you!

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Note that this is still very experimental, as it hasn’t been tested widely yet, and build systems are not completely ready yet. We’re working on getting it all done, though.

/Nathan

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not sure, based on your wording but, the 32 bit version will work on vista x64.

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Thank you.

I should have been more specific, I was mainly interested in if I had to compile my own version if I wanted something optimized for 64 bits.

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you can still used optimized 32bit builds. Blender doesn’t really get any advantages from more than 3 gigs of ram because from what i can tell if you have enough vertacies on screen to consume 3 gigs of ram blender is unusable because of how slow it is.