Adobe CS3 in 64bit?

TheBigCheese · 22 Apr 2008 at 14:31

Hi guys

I'm looking at getting more heavily involved with video editing, specifically HD editing.

Currently I use Adobe Premiere CS3 (have the master collection) but it doesn't 'officially' support 64bit operating systems. That seems a bit daft when you are restricted by the 4GB RAM limit.

Using HD editing I was wanting to take advantage of the low RAM prices and go for at least 8GB of fast DDR2 combined with RAID 0 HDD configs.

Does anyone know if Premiere CS3 will work with Vista 64?

Many thanks in advance.

uv · 22 Apr 2008 at 14:40

It works fine.

It just runs in 32bit, that's all

Burnsy2023 · 22 Apr 2008 at 14:59

TheBigCheese said:
Does anyone know if Premiere CS3 will work with Vista 64?

Yes, I used it last week before my PC died

Burnsy

Dup · 22 Apr 2008 at 15:18

We have Master Collection at work and works fine on Vista 64. It's shame Adobe won't support 64bit natively though, but it runs in 32bit mode on vista 64 perfectly fine.

TheBigCheese · 22 Apr 2008 at 15:25

Thanks for the posts guys, that's great to hear!

So it may not work natively, but will it still take advantage of the extra RAM etc?

Cheers

uv · 22 Apr 2008 at 15:27

The application itself won't use more than 2GB iirc, but you'll have no problems using it in a 64bit environment.

Highly annoying, as it'd be the prime example of an application benefitting from 64bit memory allocations. Bad Adobe!

Burnsy2023 · 22 Apr 2008 at 15:32

uvmain said:
The application itself won't use more than 2GB iirc

You sure? I swear it used more then that on my machine.

Burnsy

NathanE · 22 Apr 2008 at 15:33

32-bit applications on Vista or XP x64 get a 4GB virtual memory address space.

This is as opposed to x32 where the applications get 2GB for kernel and 2GB for user mode (total 4GB). So in reality many desktop applications are restricted to 2GB on Windows x32 variants.

uv · 22 Apr 2008 at 15:36

I'm fairly certain 32bit applications cannot be allocated more than 2GB ram for each instance - I can't check unfortunately, as My current mobo doesn't like having >2 sticks of ram

*edit*

Dayyum I must type slow - NathanE beat me to it

Stonedofmoo · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:51

Adobe had just announced their next version of Photoshop will be a native 64bit version, so soon you'll be able to use as much memory as you have.

TheBigCheese · 28 Apr 2008 at 11:41

Thanks very much for the posts guys

So it will work....but can't use any more RAM than would be in a 32bit environment?

Thanks

box · 28 Apr 2008 at 12:14

I've read from several sources that the current CS3 packages all have bits and bobs of 64-bit code used in them, although to what extent I'm not sure. Is there any truth in this?