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SP. wrote on 9/15/2020, 4:16 PM

Some users reported that the scripting development libraries and help are not installed correctly when only the 64 bit version is installed. So it is the best idea to install both versions.

rraud wrote on 9/15/2020, 5:42 PM

I have not had any issues with the 64 bit only version, but eventually installed the x86 version for some favorite Direct X plug-ins that will not run in x64 hosts...
FWIW, the 64 and 32 bit versions share many of the settings and only count as a single activation on the same PC.

btw, welcome to the Magix Sound Forge forum @Former user

Giorgio-Pranzo wrote on 2/26/2021, 8:33 PM

At 340MB and 377MB each seems like a huge waste of storage to have to install both. Makes no sense??

Walter.I wrote on 2/27/2021, 2:24 AM

At 340MB and 377MB each seems like a huge waste of storage to have to install both. Makes no sense??

@Giorgio-Pranzo
I agree with you, but .....

My first computer had a 20MB hard disk.
Today we only talk about TB when it comes to hard disks.
The driver for my graphics card alone is 632 MB.

As I said, I agree with you, but times are changing .......

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condex wrote on 2/27/2021, 5:38 AM

At 340MB and 377MB each seems like a huge waste of storage to have to install both.

If a program at the installation stage offers a choice of installing either or both 32 bit and 64 bit versions (Corel Paintshop Pro to name just one), then if you don't want or need the 32 bit version, don't select it.

Like @Walter.I , my first HDD was 20MB, but that was an upgrade to my IBM computer's original 2 x 5.25" 512 KB drives. The next computer was much better spec'd, but a then 'large' 30MB Windows update took many hours to accomplish via dial-up internet.

Seriously, storage is just so inexpensive these days. Even SSDs for the C drive have come down in price so much so that a 500GB or even a 1TB SSD is relatively inexpensive these days - to be fair, depending on pricing within individual countries. 4TB WD HDDs are even much less expensive relative to SSDs. To put it further into perspective, 400MB is about 30 seconds of 4K mp4 footage,

rraud wrote on 2/27/2021, 10:54 AM

Yeahm nos sence installing software that ain't needed, but 400MB is not a lot of data these days (less than a half gig.

Many moons ago, I also had a computer (Mac SE) with a whopping 20MB hard drive. A friend had a Mac with two 1.4MB floppy drives.