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64-bit version of Studio

Please create a 64-bit version of Studio. At present only a 32-bit version is available, and therefore it can theoretically only access 2-3GB of system memory, meaning that upgrading your machine with more memory then this does not have any beneficial impact on Studio performance.

When handling large files & projects, allowing Studio access to all of your system's memory would make a huge difference in time and performance, and for this the app needs to be 64-bit.

Are there any plans to release a 64-bit version in future?

Jay Young
  • in reply to Māris Semaško

    Because the development and support of two different systems is too expensive. And here, from a business point of view, it is better to remain silent than to promise something)))

  • in reply to Robert Dunn

    TM bases, as far as I know, are sqlite files (I'm not talking about TMX files). I'm not the most advanced developer on .NET, but I dare to suggest that the 32-bit version of Trados Studio may well work with files larger than 2 GB. Again, this is most likely an optimization problem. What the hell, before the developers could fit all the necessary functionality of a few kilobytes of RAM. Now for this you need a few gigabytes)))

  • in reply to Robert Dunn

    Across is a more hmm... "adult" system. It is written in C ++ and more optimized. But this system also has its drawbacks. For example, installing sql server on client machines for offline licenses. In addition, it has a more complex and expensive licensing system. And the server deployment is quite complicated (our company has a contractor server that I deployed). Memsource, as far as I know, is it a cloud-based translation system? Or does she have a desktop client? Our company actively cooperates with them, but personally I did not work with them. I just wrote a bunch of utilities for converting logs and fixing sdsliff derived from Memsource.

  • in reply to Alexander Skripnik

    But there will always be projects with huge TBs/TMs that will make Trados' memory use balloon past 1.5GB and cause the out-of-memory exception! It's a limit on the fact that 32-bit processes cannot access more memory than needed.

  • in reply to Jay Young

    This! I often translate and/or proofread large projects for a client. Projects with large termbases and/or TMs and the verification is always SLOW AS molasses...and the memory use would balloon to 1.5GB (I look at it on Task Manager) and I would get an "out of memory error" on a machine with 3-4GB of free RAM. This is DEFINITELY a limitation of Trados being 32-bit only. 

    Also, the program itself is such a CPU hog as well...when I translate on the go on my laptop, Trados is by far the most battery-draining CAT program I use. Across, MemoQ and Memsource do not drain my laptop battery as fast. SDL definitely has their work cut out for them to improve things on the efficiency front.