can Windows 7 32bit run steam?

[Stevie Wonder But On Heroin]

I have looked at various articles and forums and nowhere seems to have a straight answer. Can steam be run on Windows 7 32-bit. My laptop is bought from ones a company was gonna throw out and it's stuck on Windows 7 32bit as the driver is encrypted and i don't have the time or skill to change that, so can steam run on 32 bit Windows 7?

[Hyebri]

Idk why it wouldnt run. You can just try it.

[Mossy Snake]

It will run, but most games will not work.

[Stevie Wonder But On Heroin]

Originally posted by MossyRathalos:

It will run, but most games will not work.

why is it saying "steam is having trouble connecting to the servers" every time i try to login then?

[Playboi "Jordan Carter" Carti]

Originally posted by azzapeart33:

Originally posted by MossyRathalos:

It will run, but most games will not work.

why is it saying "steam is having trouble connecting to the servers" every time i try to login then?

Something is wrong with the steam servers or something, because everyone is having trouble logging into steam and websites.

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by MossyRathalos:

It will run, but most games will not work.

This is not true.

OP, as far as games go, the store pages have system requirements including the OS required to run games on Steam. Steam should work fine on Windows 7 32 bit.

As far as the error message you have, try troubleshooting it.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1456-EUDN-2493

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by azzapeart33:

I have looked at various articles and forums and nowhere seems to have a straight answer. Can steam be run on Windows 7 32-bit. My laptop is bought from ones a company was gonna throw out and it's stuck on Windows 7 32bit as the driver is encrypted and i don't have the time or skill to change that, so can steam run on 32 bit Windows 7?

I'm currently running Xp 32-bit and Steam runs just fine.
As for games.. be careful. See. The 32-bit version of 7, 8, and even 10 are uncommon variants so many developers simply assume that if you have 7 then you have the 64-bit version.

Generally speaking, if you're running 7, in many cassess assumptions are being made about the amount of ram you have access to.

[Brenon1106]

Originally posted by azzapeart33:

I have looked at various articles and forums and nowhere seems to have a straight answer. Can steam be run on Windows 7 32-bit. My laptop is bought from ones a company was gonna throw out and it's stuck on Windows 7 32bit as the driver is encrypted and i don't have the time or skill to change that, so can steam run on 32 bit Windows 7?

It will run steam, but will probably run most games at 2fps, just like my laptop.

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Brenon1106:

It will run steam, but will probably run most games at 2fps, just like my laptop.

No it will not, depending on the game. Please don't mislead others. Your laptop issues are surely not the same as OP's issues, just because you may have the same OS.

[Taper Powel]

well I used to game like that so it will work

[demo]

it runs fine on 32 bit O/S`s. I had it on 32 bit Vista on an old Compaq laptop with 4GB for ages.
You do have to be quite discerning in your choice of games though. (Just refer to the min specs on each store page, and use your common sense re the GPU capability...)

Originally posted by azzapeart33:

why is it saying "steam is having trouble connecting to the servers" every time i try to login then?

If its an ex-company laptop then its quite possible that its set up to block certain sites in its hosts file (nobody wants employees playing games when they should be working). It depends on how diligent the companies IT department was.. :)

The hosts file is located at:-

C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc

Open it in notepad and look to see if there are any entries showing steams web urls.
If there are, then delete the offending lines and save the file.

(The entry will look something like this:-

127.0.0.1 steamcommunity.com

or

0.0.0.0 steamcommunity.com
)

Basically you`re looking for any line with a steam address in it.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Lookup the Product Key; you can do that with Piriform SPECCY

Write down the key and then go wipe out the drive with clean install of
Windows 7 64bit or Windows 10 64bit

If that Win7 is Home Premium; then use Win7 Home Premium or Win10 Home
If that Win7 Professional; then use Win7 Pro or Win10 Pro

[Crystal Sharrd]

Yes. Steam is a 32-bit program.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by sonic65101:

Yes. Steam is a 32-bit program.

Of course it runs; the issue is Windows OS 32bit is limited to 4GB of Max RAM.
And many games will require a 64bit OS

32bit OS and up to 4GB of RAM is only good for very old low demanding games or indie games really.

[󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧Seplory]

i ise it it works normally but in 2024 it will stop working

[Cathulhu]

Not sure why you felt the need to revive a five year old thread for that.