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High core-count and Multi-thread Support
Hello everyone,
With AMD recently launching their new Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs, it occured to me I've never looked into the hardware side of things regarding Articulate Storyline. Additionally I'...
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.
I believe porting the software to 64-bit and to allow use of more than 4GB of RAM may go someway to helping with performance, but also allow you to make use of the resources your system has available to it. Having 16GB or 32GB of high-speed RAM won't make much of a difference if the software can only use 4GB total.
I also think that although a piece of software can be multi-threaded that still doesn't guarantee it will support processors with more than 4 or 8 threads. Ryzen Threadrippers ran into this problem in the first generation where despite their high-core counts, some applications weren't making use of the CPU resources despite supporting processors with multi-threading.
Time will tell, but I thought it was something worth asking to see if there was any hardware options that could improve performance, but this seems to be more of an optimisation perspective,
Good to hear from others surrounding this.
70% of the time I believe I am the rate limiting step and about 30% of the time it is storyline.
My big hope is that multi tasking will reduce the delays in dialogue boxes appearing, along with tasks like editing videos, publishing and other tasks that take control of storyline will be delegated to a background task so I can continue editing.
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