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Valve has introduced plans to finish Steam assist for methods operating Windows 10 32-bit within the new yr, so if you have not upgraded to a 64-bit model of Windows 10 but, now’s the time.
In a new post on the Steam support page, the corporate stated that come January 1, 2026, methods operating Windows 10 32-bit will not be supported. 32-bit video games will preserve taking part in for now, and Steam shoppers which might be already put in will proceed functioning “for the close to time period,” however they will not obtain any updates after subsequent yr. This contains safety updates or any technical assist from Steam relating to previous working methods.
However perhaps Windows 10 32-bit is not that huge of a deal to you. In spite of everything, in keeping with a statistic Valve shared within the announcement, it is “solely in use on 0.01 [percent] of methods reported by the Steam {Hardware} Survey.” Whereas Steam is a 32-bit app on Windows all over the place, that may change as the corporate stated “future variations of Steam will run on 64-bit variations of Windows solely.”
The corporate ended with the encouragement that, as a result of “core options in Steam” are usually not supported on 32-bit variations of Windows, customers ought to “replace [operating systems] sooner relatively than later.”
This comes as support for Windows 10 (as well as 8.1 and 7) ends on October 14. Microsoft introduced that, though these variations of the OS will proceed working, they will not obtain any extra updates or technical support–similar to Steam’s announcement–making them more and more extra weak to cyber threats.