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[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

Portal and Portal 2 are still 32 bit. Newer mods based on Strata are 64 bit.

[–] soupermkc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, this was a 32 bit game? Neat.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Link@rentadrunk.org 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaykay@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fix the bot issue damn it, and add content

[–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] NanoooK@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] critical@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago

They do not recognise that number.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Valve: no no silly one numbers stop at 2.

[–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

One can dream

[–] germtm_@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] shitescalates@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

Significant for me. Not sure if vsync is working.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Finally! Literally the biggest update of the last... how many years?

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

64bit

that's the main reason almost all volvo games don't run on non-32bit MacOS[1][2].

[1] every mac since 2011 is 64bit only

[2] despite there being reports of the source engine compiling to 64bit just fine and copying assets of specific games seemed to work