ZBrush and 64 bit

[Garbage_Matt]

I have just upgraded to a new machine running Windows 7 64 bit with 6GB of RAM.

With there being no specific 64 bit release of ZB I was wondering if 3.5r3 is able to make full use of this RAM?

Is it limited to 4GB ?

I have seen other posts mention using extra RAM on a 64 bit machine and was curious as to how it all works out…

Thanks

[Richard_Marklew]

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=85236&highlight=ram

ZBrush will use up to 4 GB of RAM. If you have 4 GB in your system, you will need to leave 1 GB for the OS. That means you can really only give ZBrush 3 GB (using Preferences>Mem>Compact Mem).

If you upgrade to 6 GB or 8 GB of RAM this would allow you to give ZBrush its maximum of 4 GB. All the rest of the system RAM can then be used by the OS and any background apps. So yes, you will see an improvement of up to 33% in allowable polygon counts.

Richard

[Garbage_Matt]

Thanks Richard

Guess we will have to wait for the 64 bit version then!