Spyke
sopuli.xyz

I don't play TF2, but I thought basically all hl2 -family games were updated to 64bit ages ago.. apparently this wasn't the case :o

Any of the other games running the same engine still in 32bit land?

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pretty sure anything other than gmod (and strata games) is still 32bit, even with the vulkan renderer support

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atzanteolreply
sh.itjust.works

It came out in 2007... And iirc the steam client is still 32bit? Games were slow to adopt 64 bit.

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Guild Wars 2 came out in 2012 as 32 bit and kind of sucked with big groups and felt like a completely new game when they released 64 bit client in 2016.

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rentadrunk.org

Doesn’t look like they bothered to update their macOS client to 64bit. Currently the game is unplayable on new versions of macOS.

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lemmy.world

finally. can't wait to check the performance difference.

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For me it is actually huge. I went from 90-120 FPS to nearly 300. I must be some outlier though. I also haven't played a while so old numbers are based on memory and likely on different kernel, drivers and more. I also don't recall if I was using Vulkan before while the new build asked me if I wanted to use Vulkan (and I switched).

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Skipcastreply
lemmy.world

Bot issue yes, but you can't expect them to keep adding content to a 15 or whatever year old game surely

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Maybe?

Lots of older games never get updated to 64-bit.

Besides the only operating system to not support 32bit code anymore is macOS, which even Valve treats as not worth bothering with anymore.

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ivyreply
lemmy.ml

Valve still makes money off TF2 through passive financialization in the game's cosmetic/sidegrade microtransactions. Having a snappy feel to an old game is important. I would rightfully expect a game from 2007 to have perfect performance even if I have other stuff open.

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ivyreply
lemmy.ml

I leave the room because of the smell.

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Is that what's his name as what's his name from Marvel Avenger's

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SSUPIIreply
sopuli.xyz

You are very lucky World of Warcraft isn't in this room

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I've been close enough to a room like that thanks!!!

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