10-16-2025, 07:06 AM
I honestly don't know how you can live inside 32-bit limits. 32-bit has a max of about 1.5GB of memory available for any single program to run before you start pressing the limit possible. Maybe it's just that I'm used to playing the modern games with 24GB video ram and 128 GB memory, but anytime I open my task manager and peep at one of them running, it's using much more memory than that. The only way I think you could keep within that 32-bit limit is if you basically keep to software/games which are 10+ years old. As we move forward, every year it just gets worse. PCs are released all the time with higher base levels of ram installed, and video cards are always being released with more memory. My friend has a dedicated gaming PC with dual 24GB video cards and 256GB ram just so he can play competitively at insane FPS rates with the newest crap on the highest settings on a 480fps monitor. Everything on his machine is measured in nanosecond respond time. Mouse is 0.06 ns response! Keyboard is 0.001 ns response!
F THAT!!
*Steve* is not that responsive so I don't require a F'n machine to be that responsive either. I'm slow, arthritic, and enjoy a lot of the 2D turn-based games. Real time 3D shooters and stuff just aren't my cup of tea, just because I do have arthritis in my joints and knuckles and can't respond fast enough to be competitive in them.
But I do want a machine that I can multi-task with, with a dozen different windows open in the background so I can swap between them for reference and everything else.
I mean heck, you can see from the task manager here, my *web browser* wouldn't even run inside a 32-bit environment due to the memory constraints. I honestly don't know how the heck you manage to run anything modern on a 32-bit OS. Everything on your system must either be old, or optimized as a "light weight" version.
F THAT!!
*Steve* is not that responsive so I don't require a F'n machine to be that responsive either. I'm slow, arthritic, and enjoy a lot of the 2D turn-based games. Real time 3D shooters and stuff just aren't my cup of tea, just because I do have arthritis in my joints and knuckles and can't respond fast enough to be competitive in them.
But I do want a machine that I can multi-task with, with a dozen different windows open in the background so I can swap between them for reference and everything else.
I mean heck, you can see from the task manager here, my *web browser* wouldn't even run inside a 32-bit environment due to the memory constraints. I honestly don't know how the heck you manage to run anything modern on a 32-bit OS. Everything on your system must either be old, or optimized as a "light weight" version.