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Steam app is now 64-bit only on systems that support it, 32-bit support enters final countdown — 32-bit users will stop receiving updates in 2026 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

64 bit architecture can emulate / run 32 bit processes but the reverse doesnt work.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    They could, actually. I was there, in the olden times.

    Not efficiently, of course. And these days it'd be a disaster. But it was possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    You learn something new everyday, must have been prone to mem allocation issues no?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I had the choice when buying a new PC to go with single threaded 64-bit or multiple cores. Particularly for gaming, I figured a single core was all I really needed, and 64-bit was the future.

    The correct choice at the time was multiple cores. Everything going to 64-bit wasn't going to happen until that computer was long dead.

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