Why is the Steam version of Blender 32-bit?

[Zappy]

- on a 64-bit Windows 7? Can't Steam handle a 32-bit thing for 32-bit users and a 64-bit thing for 64-bit users? (As far as I'm aware, the answer to that is "yes it can".)

Edit: Also, that is a serious question. Why?

[Fenrir]

Steam installed the x64 version of Blender for me, that is what my Winshit Task Manager told me just now.

[Zappy]

Well, the "System info" in Blender on Steam says the platform is b'Windows:32bit' or such.

[orb]

Machine flag for the "blender-app.exe" installed by Steam for me is set as AMD64 (and this is what is called x86-64 or x64 these days), Task Manager says it's 64-bit, and the osarch in Steam's launch configuration is set to 64-bit, too: https://steamdb.info/app/365670/config/

[ageres]

Originally posted by orb:

and the osarch in Steam's launch configuration is set to 64-bit, too: https://steamdb.info/app/365670/config/

Does it mean the Steam version is 64-bit only and cannot be used on a 32-bit OS?

[FutureGamerZ]

Sir, please use 64bit, it can use more than 4GB of ram, why would you want to stay at 32bit, please envolve for the future.

[orb]

Originally posted by ageres:

Does it mean the Steam version is 64-bit only and cannot be used on a 32-bit OS?

You also get depot 365672 in the subscription package which is marked as 32-bit, which will probably download on 32-bit Windows. However, since there is no appropriate launch configuration, you will probably need to launch it directly.