AMD Preparing to Drop 32-bit Support for Radeon Drivers?

[ondooy]

AMD Preparing to Drop 32-bit Support for Radeon Drivers?

Is AMD planning to retire driver support for 32-bit Windows? A bulk of the company's Radeon R9 and Fury series GPUs feature 4 GB or more of video memory, and 64-bit Windows users making up the overwhelming majority, the company has begun steering users away from using 32-bit Windows altogether. We got whiff of this when we visited AMD's Drivers + Download Center on the company website, and tried clicking on the "32-bit" links of some of its Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 drivers, which redirected to an ominously-worded AMD knowledge-base article (Article #GPU-622).

A system running Microsoft Windows 10 64 Bit can take full advantage of the advanced visual and performance features of these graphics cards. However, AMD also provides 64 Bit drivers for Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Microsoft Windows 7 to accomodate those users who choose to use an older Microsoft Operating System.

 

[Rogue]

There are some holdout left for 32 bit systems. Particularly those who are using pirated software. lol.

 

[watzup_ken]

I was expecting support for 32bit drivers to be dropped eventually. Most if not all laptops with a dedicated Nvidia/ AMD graphic card runs on 64bit OS. Also, with the increasing requirements in games, i.e. more than 4GB of system ram, 32bit likely won't cut it. Existing games runs fine on 64bit OS anyway.