{"id":671,"date":"2018-10-30T08:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2018-10-30T08:52:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:52:41","slug":"32bit-world-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/32bit-world-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"32bit World Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought I would note that Build 3024 (predominantly a bugfix) went out a few weeks back.<\/p>\n<p>Work is proceeding along a couple different lines of development right now; I&#8217;ll definitely post more as things firm up for the next dev release.<\/p>\n<p>In the interim, I have a question.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone still run 32bit Windows?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of dropping support for 32bit versions of World Machine. Given that it&#8217;s 2018, we&#8217;re all using systems with many gigabytes of RAM, all the major 3D card manufacturers have stopped shipping 32bit drivers, and\u00a0 everyone is running a 64bit OS, it doesn&#8217;t seem useful to keep shipping a 32bit version. Dropping 32bit support reduces the workload of testing and releasing each build, and conserves resources..<\/p>\n<p>If anyone out there believes strongly that 32bit support is important, let me know. Otherwise, it will probably disappear in the next build or two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought I would note that Build 3024 (predominantly a bugfix) went out a few weeks back. Work is proceeding along a couple different lines of development right now; I&#8217;ll definitely post more as things firm up for the next dev release. In the interim, I have a question. Does anyone still run 32bit Windows? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-machine-development-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}