Steam is ending help for Home windows 32-bit subsequent yr

Steam is formally dropping Home windows 32-bit help on the finish of this yr, the corporate at this time. The one 32-bit model of Home windows that’s presently supported by Steam is Home windows 10 32-bit. The corporate says 0.01 % of methods reported by way of the Steam {Hardware} Survey are utilizing that model of Home windows. On any given day, Steam sees simply over , so it is secure to imagine that this transformation will solely have an effect on a number of thousand avid gamers.

Whereas this doesn’t suggest that your Steam shopper working on Home windows 10 32-bit will self-destruct at midnight on January 1, it does imply that you’ll not obtain updates or technical help. Microsoft can be on October 14 of this yr, which is able to equally imply an finish to safety updates.

Valve will nonetheless help Steam on Home windows 10 64-bit in the intervening time. does not provide a 32-bit model, making it the primary model to not provide 32-bit because the function was launched with in 1993.

“Core options in Steam depend on system drivers and different libraries that aren’t supported on 32-bit variations of Home windows,” Steam defined within the announcement. Hopefully this transformation frees up sufficient bandwidth at Valve to get over the end line.