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[–] syd@lemy.lol 3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

It’s interesting that Steam still uses 32-bit. Why? Backward compatibility?

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Games, native linux games and even 32 bit windows games

[–] syd@lemy.lol 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

So we can translate Windows API calls to Linux but we can’t do the same from 32 to 64 🤔

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's because of how memory works, that would be additional technically emulation level translation, since you woukd need to emulate 32 bit ram.

Note: this is just me guessing.

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