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[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Old games and software that will never be updated were built to run on 32 bit libraries.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yeah, but I don't get that I'm ringing 64 bit since win7 and never had trouble running old games.

So why still run an is that is dependent on 32 bit?

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Win64 contains a full Win32 system.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

Aha. I see! Thanks for explaining.

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