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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Games, native linux games and even 32 bit windows games

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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