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64bit and Multithread Workloads for Storyline
I just want to share something I have been sitting on for quite some time and that is my thoughts on the frankly old architexture that Storyline 360 is built on. From a back end point of view it only seams to be a marginal leap over Storyline 2 and none of the real performance issues that came in storyline 2 have been improved on in 360 / 3. Now in truth this may not be the case, it may have been re built from the ground up as some responses from Articulate have suggested but from a users perspective this seems to be simply untrue. There are a few outstanding questions asked by people on this forum dating back to 2016 regarding 64bit Support and with that Multithread workload support. Every response to these has been 'submit a feature request' of which those I have spoken too, all have submitted this request and it has fallen on deaf ears. Can we please have an actual answer on whether or not this support is coming on the development roadmap?
To give a bit of reasoning stoyline as a 32bit app is currently limited to single thread (1 cpu core) support and 4gb of RAM. If your system has a multi core cpu (which in almost every case it will have) that is system hoursepower that is untapped and similarly if you have over 4GB of ram, and the system average according to hardware surveys is 8GB for the average user these days. It is possible for a 32bit app to use multiple threads but that does not seam to be the case here monitoring the cpu loads when using storyline.
Storyline 360 is a new product, that is already old out of the box. As developers we are using products like Blender and the Adobe Creative suite along side this product to develop our courses, all of which have been native 64 bit only apps for almost a decade and take full advantage of a system, and for those who do video editting and 3D design to create content for their courses, they will have extremely powerful computers that are being completely underutilised by Storyline. A lot of the performance issues we see on a day to day basis are due to running out of memory or being bogged down by a single cpu core due to these limitations.
This is not a feature request this is an architecture request, this is a plea to just tell us is this on the roadmap, because I and many other developers are rapidly starting to loose patience in this products inability to keep up with the pace of the people who use it in this industry.
Hi Everyone!
Great news! I'm happy to share that we just released Storyline 360 (version 3.82.31354.0), which includes a new 64-bit version of Storyline 360! Harness the processing power in modern computers with 64-bit Storyline 360. Large, media-rich courses benefit from increased stability and faster performance!
To use 64-bit Storyline 360, please update your Articulate 360 desktop app, then click the Install button next to the Storyline 360 app with the 64-bit and beta labels. The Install button will change to an Open button when the installation is complete.
This was highly requested, so we hope it serves you in your course creation! If you run into any snags, don't hesitate to contact our team in a support case.
Hear, hear Luke; it's crazy that it's still 32-bit.
There are posts on this forum promising 64-bit from 2009.
I agree with Luke, I have found that on occasion it really chugs - and that is even with course builds that do not include video content. This is very frustrating because my PC is capable of keeping up the pace of me working, it is the software letting it down.
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Hi Everyone!
Great news! I'm happy to share that we just released Storyline 360 (version 3.82.31354.0), which includes a new 64-bit version of Storyline 360! Harness the processing power in modern computers with 64-bit Storyline 360. Large, media-rich courses benefit from increased stability and faster performance!
To use 64-bit Storyline 360, please update your Articulate 360 desktop app, then click the Install button next to the Storyline 360 app with the 64-bit and beta labels. The Install button will change to an Open button when the installation is complete.
This was highly requested, so we hope it serves you in your course creation! If you run into any snags, don't hesitate to contact our team in a support case.
Hi all,
Memory usage and performance are two of the top priorities for our team right now, and work is underway in both areas. I shared this discussion with them for some additional insight into the experiences you're currently having with Storyline.
I did want to clarify one point, Luke.
To give a bit of reasoning stoyline as a 32bit app is currently limited to single thread (1 cpu core) support and 4gb of RAM.
Storyline is extensively multi-threaded and will currently take advantage of systems with multiple processors.
The requests have not fallen on deaf ears, as we've continued to work on memory and performance issues, and will continue to do so. I've tagged this discussion so that I can share any updates with you here once available.
Please let me know if I can help with anything else, and if you'd like our team to take a look at any of the performance issues you've run into, they are always happy to help. Reach out to our Support Team directly here.
Hi Ashley thank you for this update this is very informative and does put me at ease. One thing regarding the multithreaded performance. Monitoring the cpu core usage on a 16 thread Ryzen system and an 8 thread Intel system, the only instance I can see that multiple cores are employed is when publishing a course, one thread is used to maintain storyline operations where others are used to render video, audio elements and compress images etc. I have yet to come accross a case where more than one core is being engaged during development of a course. Obviously I may not have covered every instance of how the builder may be used but I think this is worth noting.
Been hearing this for years. I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, I'll just keep my chin up while suffering the multiple Storyline crashes that will occur today. By the way my machine is built with some of the best hardware available today. It's definitely Storyline and not my rig.
oooo what kind of updates are you doing Ashley? this would be very welcome! I hope it is coming soon. can you give us a time frame? - this year? the start of next year?
It is unfortunate that almost a year on there is still no more information to share.
Still no update on 64 bit?
I am also looking to see a 64 bit version of Storyline, as well as usage of multiple core processors. Although previous posts have said that multiple cores are used by Storyline, this doesn't seem to be the case for me. I have a Ryzen 9 3900 processor. I have been doing screen recording for a software simulation. It takes FOREVER for the video to be processed into the "view mode" slides. Meanwhile, my beast of a processor is showing that the utilization for Storyline is less than 10%.
5 years and 3 companies later, about time!
I would love a deeper dive into how the processes within storyline are shared between cores, so we can better improve our workflows.
