I was wondering how many bits is WOW? Like could it run in Nintendo 64 or does it have more bits?
Sixty-four bits.
Thirty two bits.
Sixteen bits.
Eight bits.
Four bits.
TWO BITS.
ONE BIT.
HALF BIT.
QUARTER BIT.
THEEEEEEEEE WRIIIIIIIIIIIST GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!
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76,080,869,376 bytes on my disk so far. Multiply that by 8 and you get your bits.
608,646,955,008 bits.
I’ll let you figure out how many nibbles that is…hic!
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(grabs pom-poms)
TWO BITS
FOUR BITS
SIX BITS
A BYTE!
Fiddy cents.
If video game graphics were still measured in bits like with 8 bit, 16 bit graphics from the days of the Sega, etc., then how many “bits” would modern gaming devices like say, a PC or the Xbox or PS5 have?
Video game graphics were never measured in bits. What you are thinking of is the bitness of the CPU, which is a fairly arbitrary measurement. Marketers would just choose the bitness of an arbitrary CPU register or bus, then call that the bitness of the whole console.
Nevertheless, modern-day computers and consoles run CPUs that are marketed as 64-bit, the same as the Nintendo 64 was marketed. Of course, these newer CPUs have more bells and whistles, and actually run in 64 bit mode unlike the Nintendo 64, but that is what they are marketed as.
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If a CPU works out a lot can it increase its bitness?
nope, 64 bits is all they can achieve, unless you pull some marketing wank like consoles did back in the early 90s and reference an arbitrary CPU register or bus, then call that the bit of the overall system the cpu is in.
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It’s exactly 22 giggitybits
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Imagine installing and patching WoW with 360KB floppy disks…hic!
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as if the processor is the only thing the nintendo 64 would need to run a modern pc game with massively complicated architecture and dependencies.
I hear WoW 14.1 is 200 yottabytes and we’re gonna need quantum state drives. It’s so detailed you can customize your Orc’s DNA
1.6 Ă— 10^27 bits
I’m going with “more than 10”.
None of your bitness
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If you use a fit bit then your bitness goes to the max unless you’re lazy and take the bus.
The real question is, why does wow default install to my 32 bit program files instead of the 64 bit one?
Its the setting of the installer.
WoW runs on 64-bit by default.
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More than a bushel, less than a sagan.
WoW does indeed use a 64-bit client. Almost every single modern processor for personal computers are 64-bit processors, as well.
WoW is a 64-bit program. I don’t think the 32-bit version exists anymore.