James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Valve’s Steam client is pretty widely compatible with all kinds of newer and older operating systems—that’s what you do when you want as many people as possible spending their money in your store. But ...

Steam is officially dropping Windows 32-bit support at the end of this year, the company announced today. The only 32-bit version of Windows that is currently supported by Steam is Windows 10 32-bit.

The change happens on January 1st, 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Valve has announced Steam will be ending support for ...

Looking ahead: The vast majority of Windows users already run Steam on 64-bit operating systems, even though the client has continued to support a legacy 32-bit version of Windows. That era is ending: ...

Future versions of Steam will run on 64-bit versions of Windows only. Future versions of Steam will run on 64-bit versions of Windows only. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...

If you primarily use Steam for PC gaming but are using hardware that only supports a 32-bit version of Windows, you may want to consider upgrading soon. You'll want to do so because Steam will be ...