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Earlier today Valve made a new depot for TF2 called "x64_linux_test". Maybe this mean well get a native 64 bit client ( and hopefully DXVK instead of ToGL please Valve) or this is just server stuff

https://steamdb.info/app/440/depots/?branch=x64_linux_test

https://twitter.com/DidTF2GetUpdate/status/1748525143700214007

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] wolfruff@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Apparently all source 1 games are 32 bit. Except for CSGO..

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

engine was made when 64 bit operating systems werent mainstream yet

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But that’s not possible. It has to have some kind of 64 bit binary. It uses well over 4GiB of RAM.