I am pretty skeptical of that claim. Hopefully it is just a misunderstanding.
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Originally posted by TobiSGD View PostRight, that 2008 game works in 32 bit, so why should we progress at all?
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Originally posted by TobiSGD View PostIIRC, we are talking about Steam here. You won't download physical media via Steam and it should be no problem at all for the client to determine if you run 32 or 64 bit Linux.
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Originally posted by johnc View PostThat's downright disturbing. An entire Ubuntu or OS X install, after decompression, is only about 5 GB. Who are these game developers building 2 GB binaries and why have they not been flogged profusely?
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Originally posted by gamerk2 View PostWhy should support be dropped for ~60% of the total market, for very minimal performance gain and no financial benefit?It shouldn't be that hard to compile a program for 32 and 64 bit and let the user decide which one to use (or some kind of automatism in the installer).
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