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0 pointsQwertious10y ago0 comments

Key words: 32 bit. 64-bit stuff should go in `C:\program files\`

Pretty sure the user reqs for the Rift require a 64-bit CPU.

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brudgers10y ago· 2 in thread

  C:\program files(x86)\

Only exists on x64 versions of Windows, hence an x64 CPU is always present [or emulated]. Unlike Linux, for example, Windows x64 can execute programs compiled for x86. To do so, Windows x64 uses something called WoW or "Windows on Windows". The exception was Windows XP x64 [not to be confused with Windows XP Professional x64 Edition] which only ran on Intel Itanium processors and therefore lacked x86 mode. It was rather short lived.

pritambaral10y ago

> Unlike Linux

What? Linux has always had better multiarch support than Windows. Running x86 code on x86_64 has never been a problem on Linux, unless you custom built your OS to exclude it. Not to mention it doesn't require anything like LoL or "Linux on Linux", as you claim Windows seems to.

leni53610y ago

> Unlike Linux, for example, Windows x64 can execute programs compiled for x86.

Linux can do this easily too.

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