I’ve done the upgrade and it was totally seamless, just like a regular version upgrade.
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Thank you!
Upgrade to x64 went smooth for me as well. Looking forward to seeing how this performs!
upgraded to x64 yesterday and had the longest period of crash-free time for the past month.
Great work. thanks!
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Good morning family!
Is it normal that after installing x64 the first scan is so slow?
Fine! I’ll turn it off! I don’t know anything about all that, but I am willing to try suggestions that might help.
However, the slow scans do not bother me at all. As I said, I will gladly trade slow scans for the most consistent Plex I have had in my 7 years of using Plex. Still going strong without any crashes or issues. It is so nice not to have friends and family text me every single day, “Plex is down”
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Instead of excluding the program folder of Plex from AV scans, try excluding the Plex data folder instead.
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Currently, you can only see “64 bit” in the primary [server log ]
Can’t you also tell by looking at task manager and see the fact that it no longer has ‘(32 bit)’ after the process name?
Not just the first. Every scan for me since upgrading has taken over an hour. I believe they’re looking in to it.
Did the upgrade to x64 in hopes it fixes other repetitive issues. Staying stable so far, but constantly spiking my CPU. My system is very strong…usually CPU usage is between 6-25%. Often getting alerts of CPU usage above 66% for more than 5 minutes.
Ryzen 9 3900x 12 Core CPU, 64 Gigs DDR4 PC3600 memory (with 32 gig dedicated towards dynamic RAM drive), Platinum PSU, P2000 VDC for transcoding, SSD for OS and another SSD for Plex Data, 60TB of storage, 1000/1000 Fiber connection.
I saw there is a 5999 build available for 32 bit in the beta channel. How do we get 64 bit updates?
This is a preview build so we will not be offering every build that comes out for 32-bit.
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Thanks, Otto. I went ahead and did that.
Just did a scan for a movie library consisting of 35k movies. It took me 24 minutes. I think previous Plex could scan it within 5 minutes.
Is it possible (if so, where are the steps) if I wanted to give up on the 64bit version and go back to an old 32bit version EXE I have backed up (PlexMediaServer-1.25.6.5577-c8bd13540-x86 worked good for me)? Un-install Plex via Add/Remove programs and re-install via that older EXE doesn’t seem to work…just instantly crashes and icon disappears down by the clock. Load it up again…instantly crashes again (at least as of yesterday it was doing that).
- stop PMS and uninstall 64-bit (some Plex exe’s may still be running)
- restart computer to stop anything still running or check task manager and stop all Plex processes
- install 32-bit
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Did that yesterday but wasn’t having luck (un-install, reboot, reinstall via x86). Still would insta-crash every time. Maybe there was a hung process like you mentioned I missed in task manager though. Just wanted to make sure it wasn’t irreversible or something after doing the x64 upgrade path. Will try again this weekend if CPU keeps spiking up. TY
I have wanted to do the same, but all the contents of the libraries are empty with an error message.
Has anyone tried downgrading?
One week in and super happy with this.
My various client devices have all been flawless.
No downsides for me as yet.
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In my case when scanning the libraries it takes almost a whole day to do it, it’s crazy 
Mine is the same way, but it was like that on the 32bit version as well. My media is on two separate NAS and I have 26,000 movies, 250,000 TV episodes and 200,000 music tracks. My server is never not scanning. Everything is connected via 10Gbe. I wish there was some way to speed up scans.
