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Are there any games that won't work on 64bit?
64 bit architecture can emulate / run 32 bit processes but the reverse doesnt work.
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.
You learn something new everyday, must have been prone to mem allocation issues no?
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.
Portal 2?
Guessing or do you have some edge case to present? Last I tried portal 2 ran fine on 64bit system. In fact I'm not entirely use I have ever actually ran it on 32bit one.