But that's exactly where the pain starts for developers when they have to support multiple versions. Ah but I can already feel someone getting ready to reply that they should just build two or three executables - yeah, they could. Probably a 15-20% performance increase overall for the hardware renderer too.
#Same game for windows 64 bit full#
For example, if I supply the compiler with the flags that it should use 64-bit and the full AVX-2 instruction set I'd improve the performance of the Doom software renderer in GZDoom by 25-50%. It is also a significant loss of performance. I’m not sure why people are generally dismissive of using older software because a replacement - especially a better version - often doesn’t exist.īecause the ultimate consequence of always having to cater to someone using something truly ancient piece of software or hardware is a huge pain for us developers. This isn’t an argument to chain newer OSes to dated processors though, just a point that accurate emulation of older environments isn’t some little personal problem restricted to one or two lunatics who still primarily use DOS, it’s actually important for many reasons and to many people.
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What are your opinions on this topic? Feel free to provide thoughts & comments on this discussion. Though this wasn't the first time support for 32-bit CPUs was dropped in Microsoft Windows, that was with the server operating system side of the OS with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 back in 2009 where that server OS only supported 64-bit processors. So therefore, this is the second time this has been put into place, this time on the consumer operating system side of the OS.Īlso, because Windows 11 is now a 64-bit exclusive OS, this will also mark the discontinuation of the NTVDM component used in the 32-bit versions of the Windows NT operating system family, though fortunately DOSBox & OTVDM (aka WineVDM) have filled those gaps regarding compatibility for MS-DOS games & software for the former, and Windows 3.1 games & software for the latter, so not all is lost anyways.
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This is the first time in that Windows has dropped support for older processors since the beginning of Windows NT becoming consumer friendly with the release of XP and the discontinuation of the Windows 9x family of operating systems. There won't be a 32-bit edition to Microsoft Windows anymore starting with Windows 11, and there isn't any support for 32-bit IA-32 processors anymore anyways, though 32-bit programs will still be compatible with the OS with some minor compatibility issues.
#Same game for windows 64 bit upgrade#
In order to upgrade to Windows 11, you permanently need a 64-bit CPU and other 64-bit hardware to comply to the upgrade path to the OS itself. We are all aware that Windows 11 will be released in Late-2021, but there is a price to this.