64bit client

Started by Jerlin

Jerlin

I thought the 64 bit client was released… My client is apparently still the 32bit version and I don't see a sciw64.exe in the folder anymore. Thanks in advance for any input.

rdragon (Staff)

Hi,

It is released. A little bit of technical nuance to explain… The internal SCI script engine in the client was rewritten to use 64-bit values (previously it was 16-bit values) which lets us now allocate more than 65536 script objects. But the sciw.exe process is still 32-bit, because of our dependency on the ActiveSkin library that we use for the user interface. We would like to replace that library, and once we do the process will also be 64-bit.

Hope that helps explain it.
-Mike