right vergion?/32 or 64

[sunhear]

i have two issues together

1)I nosed that when i entered the game, the splash screen with the two guys swirling magic in a library, it says in the upper right conor 'Arcane crystals' and i know the cruent version is called steel blue have i some how downlaed a retro vergion or somthing?

i first downloaded the direct version for windows from the US one it  crashed being up dated (something else i could use help on. the post that is all ready out there i can not open the link in the reply) and the from the German one , after uninstalling.

2)also on the five frequently  asked questions form the links wearer or not to download the 32 0r 64 bit version is not working.

"If you don't know if you need the 32 or the 64 bit version get the 32.
Windows (32 bit): http://laanx.fragnetics.com/bt/PlaneShift-v0.5.0.exe.torrent
Windows (64 bit): http://laanx.fragnetics.com/bt/PlaneShift-v0.5.0-64.exe.torrent
Linux (32 bit): http://laanx.fragnetics.com/bt/PlaneShift-v0.5.0-x86.bin.torrent
Linux (64 bit): http://laanx.fragnetics.com/bt/PlaneShift-v0.5.0-x64.bin.torrent
Mac OSX: http://laanx.fragnetics.com/bt/PlaneShift-v0.5.0.dmg.torrent"

Is their elsewhere i can assess the information? i probaly end up downloading it again and would like to know.

thanks

[Addeline]

The latest version is called "Arcane Chrysalis"
The latest version number, as of today, is 0.5.2.1

You should uninstall the version you have and download the latest from http://www.planeshift.it/download.html

If you are not sure whether or not you have a 64 bit operating system you should get the 32 bit version.

[sunhear]

i will get the 32 but can you or any one explane the difference so i know for fucther reference?

[Rigwyn]

The current version as of yesterday is 0.5.2
Get the 32 bit client.

If you have a 64 bit processor and a 64 bit version of your operating system then you can run the 64 bit version however you probably will not notice any improvement.

Now, to answer your question about 32 bit versus 64 bit.

32 bit computers can only access up to 4 gigabytes of ram memory.
To get past this limitation *efficiently* 64 bit processors were introduced. These 64 bit processors are also capable of efficiently handling large numbers but I believe that's
Not that important now that accelerator cards are commonly used.

Back In the day when 16 bit processors were common and graphics accelerators were not, graphical data could be processed faster by using 32 bit code. ( Fixedpoint math )
So *upgrading* to a 32 bit processor and getting an os or a os library that utilzed the 32bit registers was a must.

[weltall]

wrong 64bit on the cpu is greatly important for many things gpu aren't used even ps gets a bost of about 30% at least on 0.4.x i didn't try 0.5 as i've no more any computer running 32bit and able to run 64bit too. and being able to handle 4gb isn't the only thing (except the fact it's handling an adress space of 4gb not ram of 4gb: devices are mapped too in the adressing area so 4gb can't be reached in ram with 32bit - never-)