32bit apps on real 64bit AMD. Possible

@scififan68Full 64bit and 32bit apps will not work on AMD. You have to run with -force64, for all 64bit apps to work as well as 32bit ones, if you have patched these files: osx 86.co/f57/cant-boot-with-more-than-4gb-ram-amd-t7392/post55215.html

Thanks for clearing that out But i'm still curious, is this something permanent? will 32bit apps never work on full 64bit AMD?
By the way guys, i had already patched all the binaries and my hack is working just fine with arch=i386 -force64. I just wanted to try the full 64bit experience

I had this problem for a while. Check out this thread.
osx 86.co/f57/cant-boot-with-more-than-4gb-ram-amd-t7392/#post55220

This worked for me and is easy to understand

I followed that link and instruction. Also there is another instruction by akimoa osx 86.co/f57/amd-and-legacy-t7263/

I ran those in terminal but had a problem on last command "update_dyld_shared_cache" as it kept saying command not found.

but reboot anyway hoping it would work but didn't do it. :

Then I ran update_dyld_shared_cache again in terminal it looked it went thro, reboot with hope…

Still didn't work.

Then I updated with nawcom's legacy kernel 10.8 with support 64bit option checked, pointed my kernel to legacy_kernelm reboot…

Voila! I got all my 32bit app running in 64bit userland. Got my 8GB RAM fully recognized! ^_^

Try that.

Full 64bit and 32bit apps will not work on AMD. You have to run with -force64, for all 64bit apps to work as well as 32bit ones, if you have patched these files: osx 86.co/f57/cant-boot-with-more-than-4gb-ram-amd-t7392/post55215.html

@scififan68Full 64bit and 32bit apps will not work on AMD. You have to run with -force64, for all 64bit apps to work as well as 32bit ones.

I wish it were that simple. but without proper patch and right kernel, some of 32bit apps do not run on 64bit userland. so just using -force64 is half of the solution.

@todestoI wish it was that simple. but without proper patch and right kernel, some of 32bit apps do not run on 64bit userland. so just using -force64 is half of the solution.

I added a link to how to patch the files needed to allow all apps to work.

@scififan68I added a link to how to patch the files needed to allow all apps to work.

Last night, I saw that link and tried to follow the direction, but it was too confusing for a newbie like me.
first of all I d/l amd-insn-patcher, extracted in my desktop, cd to desktop then I ran ,

sudo ./amd_insn_patcher  /System/Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeComponents.component/Contents/MacOS/QuickTimeComponents   /System/Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeComponents.component/Contents/MacOS/QuickTimeComponents

sudo ./amd_insn_patcher  /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib and at last type  sudo ./amd_insn_patcher /usr/lib/dyld /usr/lib/dyld

but it said it can't find it or whatever the error it gave me, so I could not do it.
What I had to do was to make the all file visible, then moved the extracted files to usr/bin then I ran the terminal command instructed by akimoa but I wasn't even sure I was doing it right or not.

I got it all working now but I would like to know how to run this properly just in case if I decided to fresh install on other system. Please give a little more detailed instruction if you can, thanks.

Don't forget "Ok, first of all open terminal, cd to the directory where amd_insn_patcher is" it couldn't find the file because you didn't type cd desktop, Anyways glad you got it.