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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 Theodor Pitsch

    Totally agree. And what you suspect makes sense.

  • in reply to Neil Allen

    Just had to buy memoQ a couple of days ago, for two new clients who work with it, and still exploring it. If Studio remains, IMHO, far more ergonomic, memoQ is far more fast and reliable at this point of my experience. Also, I can find some more features in it and customization options. Even real time preview, that never worked well in Studio since 2009, works fine in memoQ.

    That just shows how Studio does not evolve for a couple if years. Or, more specifically, how RWS puts efforts on useless features such as cloud functions, at the expense of long time issues fixing or long time reqested new core fonctionalities.

    It's a pity, since I really like Studio, but it sounds like if RWS does not listen to its user base. In the same time, competition progresses.

  • in reply to Renato Colonna Rosman

    I've suspected for some time that the original developers are no longer on board. No reasonable changes have been made for quite some time. Instead, new people without the big picture have blindly removed functionality and replaced it with nonsense (in the meantime this has been taken back). Old bugs have not been fixed for years. With every update it says among other things: Search improved. However, there is nothing to be seen of it. I bet that the next update will again say: Search improved.

    What has been said here for years about the 64bit version is eyewash in my opinion. 

  • in reply to Renato Colonna Rosman

    I think you might be right. Not that they do not know how to do it, but rather that they will try to move the whole Studio experience into a web-based app. I ve recently seen the Trados Team version of their product and to me - it is an obvious suggestion that THAT is their priority. They will be trying to move whole clients into this online experience, instead of standalone Studio applications. This way they can abandon the costly development of Studio Freelance and Professional, abandon Groupshare and focus on a single large product.

    Unfortunately Trados Team is too small for us (or too expensive in a variant that suits some of our needs), but the 10M word limit per year is a deal-breaker for us; we would need 8 times that amount at least to even consider switching. I would still prefer a 64-bit version of Studio... Well, maybe in the next ten years they'll do it. Probably not before we all switch to 128-bit architecture ;)

  • I suppose that RWS will not develop a 64-bit version of Trados Studio and MultiTerm Desktop, perhaps the RWS development team does not know how to develop a 64-bit version.