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Originally Posted by Letum
SH5 is a 32 bit program.
Even if you have a 64bit machine, SH5 will still run in 32bit mode and not make use of the extra RAM.
Any 32bit program will run on a current 64bit machine, it will just run in 32bit mode.
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This is true. But if you have, say 8GB RAM - SH5 will use 4GB, and you still have 4GB left for the OS and other processes. So at least in theory, you could benefit from a 64 bit OS and more RAM.
I run it on Win 7 x64 with 8GB Q9650@3GHz Nvidia 9600GT 512, the performance issues I have seems to be with the GFX card. I have not tried SH5 on a 32 bit system, but other games I have show very little difference from 32 to 64 bit. FSX runs a little better, but not much. Again I think the GFX card is the bottleneck on my system, so I may not be able to see bigger benefits from going to x64.