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[–] Fetus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are there any games that won't work on 64bit?

[–] uairhahs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

64 bit architecture can emulate / run 32 bit processes but the reverse doesnt work.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They could, actually. I was there, in the olden times.

Not efficiently, of course. And these days it'd be a disaster. But it was possible.

[–] uairhahs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You learn something new everyday, must have been prone to mem allocation issues no?

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I had the choice when buying a new PC to go with single threaded 64-bit or multiple cores. Particularly for gaming, I figured a single core was all I really needed, and 64-bit was the future.

The correct choice at the time was multiple cores. Everything going to 64-bit wasn't going to happen until that computer was long dead.