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the title says everything. will this come true?

big deal who needs 0.9.7

i don't think so.
have a look there http://code.google.com/p/pcsx2/

To clarify what jesalvein said (in case the OP didn't understand) PCSX2 only requires 1-2 Gb of RAM depending on the OS, so there is no point to code for 64bit when it won't take advantage of the extra RAM. Furthermore, from my experience with the pre-alpha revisions of 0.9.7, it's a nice improvement, more user friendly for new people, and I have seen definite speed increases in the games I have played.

We dropped 64bit support some time ago, as it was a problem to manage and cluttered the code a lot.
What was there wasn't working much anyway.
We do consider re-adding it, but it'll definitely come at a later point than for the 0.9.8 release.

In any case, what's the real advantage of PCSX2 having 64-bit support aside from being able to utilize more than 4GB of RAM?

(04-01-2010, 05:05 PM)k1net1cs Wrote: [ -> ]In any case, what's the real advantage of PCSX2 having 64-bit support aside from being able to utilize more than 4GB of RAM?

less opcodes in the recompiler in some scenarios, a lot of the R5900 commands are using 64bit's of registers, sometimes we have to handle these manually in 2 parts (unless its all SSE now, i havent checked).

so there would be a potential 50% improvement in speed there (note i mean per opcode, not overall)

(04-01-2010, 06:20 PM)refraction Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-01-2010, 05:05 PM)k1net1cs Wrote: [ -> ]In any case, what's the real advantage of PCSX2 having 64-bit support aside from being able to utilize more than 4GB of RAM?

less opcodes in the recompiler in some scenarios, a lot of the R5900 commands are using 64bit's of registers, sometimes we have to handle these manually in 2 parts (unless its all SSE now, i havent checked).

so there would be a potential 50% improvement in speed there (note i mean per opcode, not overall)

That makes me wonder... How much of a speed boost can be expected if plugins (let's say GSdx) were using 64-bit? I'm pretty sure 64-bit plugins be usable in pcsx2's current state but what if the plugins were separated into (puts up a flame shield just in case) separate processes when a game is active? I'm not sure how separate processes for plugins will effect performance and syncing since I really heard much about this idea to utilizing quad-cores (I still have a dual core so it wouldn't matter to me).

(04-01-2010, 06:58 PM)Zanoab Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-01-2010, 06:20 PM)refraction Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-01-2010, 05:05 PM)k1net1cs Wrote: [ -> ]In any case, what's the real advantage of PCSX2 having 64-bit support aside from being able to utilize more than 4GB of RAM?

less opcodes in the recompiler in some scenarios, a lot of the R5900 commands are using 64bit's of registers, sometimes we have to handle these manually in 2 parts (unless its all SSE now, i havent checked).

so there would be a potential 50% improvement in speed there (note i mean per opcode, not overall)

That makes me wonder... How much of a speed boost can be expected if plugins (let's say GSdx) were using 64-bit?

Probably none at all, as far as im aware, nothing really on the GS side requires anything above 32bits, besides most of the GS side is literally DirectX/OpenGL handling.

I'm interested to see what they add in future releases. I'm very happy with the pre-alpha right now.