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

Agent_Karyo@piefed.world · 1 month ago

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

thingsiplay@beehaw.org · 1 month ago

What’s the benefit, besides having older 32-bit libraries installed and be dependent on them? I mean is there any other technical benefit of 64-bit only? It could use more than 4gb of RAM, but for Steam itself this shouldn’t be needed.

frongt@lemmy.zip · 1 month ago

Benefit of 64-bit only? They don’t have to develop and test everything for two architectures, and if there are CPU extensions only available on 64-bit processors, they can start using them now.