News - 64-bit PC required for the next Battlefield?

[crossy]

It's an entirely different code base anyway, you can't just shove x86 code, 32-bit or otherwise, on another architecture CPU.

I'd kind of assumed that Microsoft would be using a high level language and programming method to simplify the porting of Windows 8 from x86 to ARM. In which case memory alignment difference isn't a big deal.

[Demonwar]

Wonder what this means for DICEs console releases.

Hopefully they are like in BF3 ramping up the games to PC levels rather than dumbing them down.

Most gamers that will have systems to run this will be setup to gain the most out of their components anyway.

[directhex]

I'd kind of assumed that Microsoft would be using a high level language and programming method to simplify the porting of Windows 8 from x86 to ARM. In which case memory alignment difference isn't a big deal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime