Steam is dropping Windows 32-bit support in 2026

Valve has announced that it volition halt supporting 32-bit versions of Windows for its Steam app adjacent year. Valve volition proceed to enactment 64-bit versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 with Steam, but on January 1st 2026 it’s crippled implicit for 32-bit versions of Windows.

Windows 10 is the lone 32-bit mentation of Windows that’s inactive presently supported by Steam. Microsoft is astir to extremity of enactment for Windows 10 adjacent month, but Valve volition proceed to enactment 64-bit versions of the OS. You’ll besides inactive beryllium capable to play 32-bit games done Steam, conscionable not instal the Steam app connected a 32-bit mentation of Windows.

The irony present is that the existent mentation of Steam is simply a 32-bit app connected each versions of Windows close now, but that appears to beryllium changing soon. “Future versions of Steam volition tally connected 64-bit versions of Windows only,” warns Valve successful a enactment note. “This alteration is required arsenic halfway features successful Steam trust connected strategy drivers and different libraries that are not supported connected 32-bit versions of Windows.”

The determination distant from 32-bit versions of Windows won’t impact excessively galore Steam users, though. Valve says the 32-bit mentation of Windows 10 is lone utilized by 0.01 percent of each systems reported done its Steam Hardware Survey.