Roblox phasing out 32 bit support?

[DanBuildsTrains (Dan)]

Anyone know if Roblox is phasing out 32 bit support for all devices, and switching to 64 bit? I know they removed older apple 32 bit support this year, but will the trend continue soon? Roblox I believe is a 32 bit system right now.

Unity and other higher quality game engines rely on 64bit to allow more resolution (for part shift especially). This is an issue on large maps, such as train routes.

Thanks

[Judgy_Oreo (DisplayName)]

@DanBuildsTrains

Roblox I believe is a 32 bit system right now.

The client is 32-bit but Studio is 64-bit

Also, yes I believe so, but how does that impact how you build your levels? This is building support after all.

[DanBuildsTrains (Dan)]

It directly impacts the maximum length we can design the game. We specialize in train games so long maps are critical for our design.

[Judgy_Oreo (DisplayName)]

Unless you are using like, custom 10K polygon meshes everywhere, you really won’t hit the 4GB memory limit. Look at games like The Wild West or other train games, they don’t crash as far as I can tell. The Wild West specifically seems to only use about 1.9GB on the client.

Are you actually running into these limits?

[DanBuildsTrains (Dan)]

Its part shift I am concerned about, not memory. My games run about <1gb client and about 2gb on server. We cover a distance well over 100k studs and the decimal accuracy is what is limiting us to go beyond. Can’t go beyond 8 digits accuracy, so 100,000.00 means only 100th of a stud accuracy in every frame calculation, which is very noticeable on camera.

[2jammers (james)]

Roblox is slowly fading away from 32 bit as it’s now a thing of the past. Most devices these days have AT LEAST 4 gigs of ram and are usually 64 bit.

[rogeriodec_games]

You might be aware of the amount of trouble this is currently causing… It doesn’t run on Virtual Machines anymore, it crashes constantly, and Roblox apparently doesn’t care about it…

[Judgy_Oreo (DisplayName)]

Actually, I think the VM block exists as a result of the WINE block;

@Bitdancer

We are currently gathering telemetry to analyze and hopefully fix existing issues and prevent future ones from popping up. For this process to work, it is of utmost importance to collect data from the indented target operating system. You will also find that we blocked the usage of VMs for the very same reason.

@Bitdancer

Currently, our 64-bit client is not Wine-compatible, which means that there would be crashes unrelated to Hyperion. Since we are in the early stages of the rollout, we analyze every single crash dump that is uploaded for potential bugs rather than malicious interference. As you can imagine, we’re talking about thousands of crash dumps. Adding more to it would be counterproductive.

It could be that the method they use for detecting WINE incompatibility also detects VM incompatibility, or that they believe the usage of VMs to run the new client on an unsupported platform will almost always lead to a crash.

Because they are blocking WINE because they know it will only fill their crash logs and currently go through every single one to reduce the number of issues before the new client fully releases, I think that when it does release, they will probably remove the blocks.

[subramlet (exo)]

Bumping this topic, People who have installed 32 bit Roblox can still use it. I had mines working since today when Roblox said they were dropping support for 32 bit

I know this is not quote-on-quote “support” related. Just a big reminder