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?
pretty sure anything other than gmod (and strata games) is still 32bit, even with the vulkan renderer support
Portal and Portal 2 are still 32 bit. Newer mods based on Strata are 64 bit.
Fix the bot issue damn it, and add content
finally. can’t wait to check the performance difference.
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).
Wait, this was a 32 bit game? Neat.
It came out in 2007… And iirc the steam client is still 32bit? Games were slow to adopt 64 bit.
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.
Finally! Literally the biggest update of the last… how many years?
…okay…why now? Why at all?
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.
League of Legends (2009) enters the room
I leave the room because of the smell.
You are very lucky World of Warcraft isn’t in this room
Some OS’s don’t support 32 bit apps
Well, if you’re running 32 bit, is gaming your priority here?
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.
Doesn’t look like they bothered to update their macOS client to 64bit. Currently the game is unplayable on new versions of macOS.
The issue isn’t that they don’t bother rewriting it to compile to AMD64, but that they’d have to rewrite it for ARM and Metal for basically no real payoff since OS X isn’t a
populargaming platform.
Aw fuck, time for youtube to force that shitty game into my sub feed again. For fuck sake just die already.
EDIT: Come on you all know that’s true, the gameplay sucks and the skin economy is basically just NFTs. You cannot in good faith say you genuinely enjoy the game so much as trapped within it because the community is a fucking cult, one which is forced onto you by every platform at every moment after your escape.
