It makes sense to deprecate the 32-bit client. Win 10 32-bit was already pretty rare and any Linux distro has been 64-bit for the last decade.
Well. Way to give up on the 32-bit dream steam. Jeez. Does nobody hold the line anymore? Who cares that a 32-bit processor probably hasn’t been sold in over a decade? Stick to your guns steam. Everyone told you that it was idiotic not to update to 64-bit and you ignored them. I respected that. A sad day for a poor decision.
I legitimately cannot tell if this is sarcasm or not
I was super cereal.
God damnit
Let me clear that up for you: yes it is or it is not.
Hope that helps.
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Yes
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I can
Cannot wait for the day I can uninstall flatpak steam on my Gentoo system and just install through portage, without dealing with 32 bit libraries
It’s been a couple years since I used Gentoo. I thought multilib was pretty smooth and everything just worked. I don’t remember installing steam through flatpak. Is multilib broken in Gentoo? Am I forgetting something?
It may be totally fine, it’s just a (at least perceived) can of worms that I didn’t want to open, especially when steam is the only reason I’d need to deal with it. I definitely had trouble with it in the past but probably my own fault.
Totally understand. I wouldn’t run Gentoo these days without using the binary repo. Have better things to do with my time.
I have 5800X3D and 64GB RAM so compilation is not a problem for me, especially if I just run updates overnight
It was inevitable.
hell hath frozen over
Sucks for retro systems. Without the steam client you can’t install, for example, Zanzarrah, which is pretty hard to get running on a modern PC, but runs flawlessly on a XP machine. What to do? Download illegal copies?
Steam should maintain at least legacy systems or make the installer available for download.
This is one of the things I really like about using steam with Linux. For some of the old windows games I’ve tried they actually run better under proton than on modern windows. It helps you can easily swap to other compatibility tools like proton GE or Luxtorpeda.
GTA4 (with fusion fix) is a great example of this. Runs like dogshit on my system with Windows 11, runs butter smooth on the same hardware running Fedora 43.
Interesting. My experience differed quite a lot, for example Gabriel Knight 3 was almost impossible to get running, and when it finally worked it was lagging as hell.Gabriel Knight 2 had it’s aspect ratios all over the place, it often switched to stretched after a cut scene, I found no fix for it online. The other one I tried was Realms of the Haunting, and it worked great until I reached the tower. From this point on it crashed every few minutes.
Win XP has a 64bit edition, it was just never the default.
That abomination should not have been made.
- someone who used XP 64bit edition
I feel like this is a good argument for drm-free games and stores like GOG. Not that you as a consumer can always choose that, as many games don’t offer that option, but for the ones that do, there’s less barriers towards playing it in the future or in environments where it’s not originally intended.
There is steamcmd, an official command-line tool— I’ve only used it for game servers, and I don’t know if it includes the Steam runtime/resources, but I know it lets you download games.
You could look at Goldberg Emulator too. I know it’s used often for piracy, but idk about its legality on its own.
Since you mentioned GOG, another relevant thing about them is their game preservation initiatives. Games that get the Good Old Game stamp from them get some engineering effort to be packaged in a runnable way.
I don’t know if it is a real solution but can 64-bit be emulated on a 32-bit system?
