Valve will remove support for Dota on 32-bit systems
Author: Hawk Live LLC
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Valve on its official website announced that they plan to use improved technologies for Dota 2. However, this will have to abandon old technologies, including support for 32-bit systems.
Valve will implement the following changes:
- remove support for Dota on 32-bit systems. You will need to have a 64-bit machine and OS to run Dota;
- remove support for macOS versions below 10.14;
- remove support for DirectX 9. Customers using DirectX 9 will instead switch to DirectX 11;
- remove support for OpenGL. Customers using OpenGL will instead switch to Vulkan;
- remove support for XAudio (-xaudio) and switch to using SDL Audio (-sdlaudio).
The developers said, for the vast majority of players, nothing will change when these changes are implemented. Most machines already support any of the newer technologies necessary. In fact, most players are already benefiting from the newer technologies, whether it's via larger content sizes, higher frame rates, better graphical fidelity, or cleaner sounding audio.
