64-bit Chrome

[EvilYoda]

Well, first of all, how can I verify that I'm on the 64-bit version that supposedly released today? I went through the download link but then Chrome just started up again. So I updated it to 37.0.2062.94 but can't find out if this is what I was looking for.

Also, I updated and now AT's text rendering is completely off. The leftside bar looks all small and smudgy. No other websites are sharing this, including other forums. Any ideas?

 

[Crow550]

Look here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=36653750&postcount=117

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Also, I updated and now AT's text rendering is completely off. The leftside bar looks all small and smudgy. No other websites are sharing this, including other forums. Any ideas?

I have the same problem. Might be my theme I guess.

 

[nickbits]

Open shortcut compatibility mode properties and turn off high dpi scaling

 

[postmortemIA]

in windows task manager, every 32-bit process on 64-bit Windows has *32 next to it

 

[EvilYoda]

in windows task manager, every 32-bit process on 64-bit Windows has *32 next to it

Oh right, duh! Thanks. So it definitely didn't install the 64-bit version. Too much effort to figure it out - should just work from the installer that comes with the download link.

As for the fonts, I've tried that and a few other things...guess I'll have to make sure.

 

[Dankk]

I just launched Chrome a few minutes ago and I noticed that my fonts are weird too.

It's not just ATOT, it's multiple websites (Facebook is another one). Very odd.

 

[Crow550]

In Chrome://Flags

check LCD text antialiasing (try enabling it) and or DirectWrite (can try disabling it. You also may be missing some Windows Fonts which is causing the issue?)

 

[tidy]

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[TheRyuu]

In Chrome://Flags

check LCD text antialiasing (try enabling it) and or DirectWrite (can try disabling it. You also may be missing some Windows Fonts which is causing the issue?)

The LCD text AA doesn't make a huge difference.

It's the directwrite setting which will cause the big differences in text rendering AFAIK. I'm surprised that it's defaulting to enabled considering it can create such big differences in the text rendering. This is not specific to 64-bit Chrome, it's directwrite which both versions can use.

This browser feels a bit clunky on an E6750, I see plenty of flashes of black space and grey checkerboard during scrolling and resizing.

On an i7-4771 here and the 64-bit version definitely 'feels' faster but I suppose that's subjective so take it for what it's worth.

 

[TerryMathews]

From the Chrome Google group:

" Go to your Chrome shortcut's properties (right click Chrome icon, go to Properties). Then in the "Target:" field, add
/high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1
right after the closing quotation marks currently in that field. Make sure there's a space right after the closing quotation before you input the new text.
Click Apply , Restart Chrome.
Unpin Chrome from the task bar before you do this then repin

Much Thanks to ESINER for the fix!"

 

[RU482]

what are the benefits of 64-bit vs 32bit?

 

[Greenman]

It's annoying that google screwed up my web browsing without asking me. I solved the funky looking font problem by clicking on opera. Everything looks great now.

 

[Dankk]

Enabling "Disable DirectWrite" in the chrome://flags settings fixed it for me. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[taltamir]

what are the benefits of 64-bit vs 32bit?

64 is faster because components of the CPU (and no, I am not taking about ram quantity management) are not used when using 32bit compatibility mode on a modern (older than 2005) CPU.

the performance increase varies from nothing to 400% faster (that is actual benchmarked performance not hypothetical performance. The 400% figure came from some tests with very specific software done by xbitlabs).
although most programs will get closer to 30-50% improvement. I personally benchmarked 7zip to work 27% faster in 64bit mode.

Specifically for browsers. IE is much faster in 64bit and Firefox is several times faster in 64bit mode. this is particularly noticable when you are using "restore tabs" option with many open tabs (opening 100 tabs at once on load can take a while).

If you want to know the benefits of chrome 64bit. well, hypothetically it would be faster for the same reason other browsers are. But I haven't tested it yet since i was waiting for it to get to stable (no point in speed if you are crashing).

EDIT: I went ahead and tested with my crummy ancient work laptop. It is massively faster and more responsive.

EDIT2: here is goggles spiel
http://blog.chromium.org/2014/06/try-out-new-64-bit-windows-canary-and.html

Speed: 64-bit allows us to take advantage of the latest processor and compiler optimizations, a more modern instruction set, and a calling convention that allows more function parameters to be passed quickly by registers. As a result, speed is improved, especially in graphics and multimedia content, where we see an average 25% improvement in performance.

Security: With Chrome able to take advantage of the latest OS features such as High Entropy ASLR on Windows 8, security is improved on 64-bit platforms as well. Those extra bits also help us better defend against exploitation techniques such as JIT spraying, and improve the effectiveness of our existing security defense features like heap partitioning.

Stability: Finally, we’ve observed a marked increase in stability for 64-bit Chrome over 32-bit Chrome. In particular, crash rates for the the renderer process (i.e. web content process) are almost half that of 32-bit Chrome.

not mentioned there is that 64bit chrome can use 64bit VP9 video decoder in youtube and that is also 15% faster.

EDIT3: Turns out it added (and I didn't notice) a "let chrome run in background" option. it starts up / closes a lot slower without that. but still significantly faster than it was before