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From a hardware point of view I believe everything from the last couple of years should be 64 bit compatible, the issue is that some of the low end tablets only shipped with a 32 bit bios and 32 bit version of Windows even though the hardware is perfectly capable of running a 64 bit version of Window, as far as I know there is not a single Intel processor currently being sold that is 32 bit only.
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I'm now trying to decide if I should test this out as my 'Daily Driver' or not. I'm going to be sticking with PC HTPCs and the 3770K in my livingroom machine is no slouch even without hardware acceleration. It gets 'hand-me-downs' from my workstations, so it's next 'GPU' will be a Radeon R9 390X, which has no HEVC decoding onboard, so I'll be relying on CPU for HEVC sometime. 1080p HEVC is no issue even on 32bit, but obviously this'll eventually become much more important to me. So I feel like I should be involved in testing and providing feedback. I just dunno if it's 'reliable' enough to test out as a daily driver or not even.
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Install the 64 bit version into a different folder from the 32 bit install, then run the 64 bit version in portable mode, that way you can easily switch between the two.
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Wouldn't be an issue if those that supplied systems with 32-bit UEFI did the decent thing and supplied 64-bit UEFI to their customers.
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So, fed up with Kodi 17.1 crashing a lot rand randomly on anime I decided to just install the 64bit alpha to see if it did any better. It seems to work better on troublesome files. So I guess I'm now daily driving 64bit anyway.
Downside is, with the Samsung 4K 60hz HEVC demo, the 3770K at 4.2ghz in my HTPC still can't QUITE get the job done without dropping a few frames, but it also doesn't seem to use more than 80% of the CPU, more like 60-80% but still occasionally dropping frames. I guess the CPU can't fully be taken advantage of.
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Could it be possible to have a new 64 bits test build with the latest leia changes?
Just to be a little bit more up to date...