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[Draugoth]

Valve has updated its near 17-year-old competitive first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 to finally add 64-bit support.

The update, which some fans are calling the most significant from Valve itself in years, should result in a performance improvement for most users. Reports indicate Team Fortress 2’s frames-per-second count is increased by around 20%, resulting in a much smoother experience.

While this Team Fortress 2 update is certainly welcome, it has done little to calm the constant stream of requests from the player base for Valve to tackle the game’s most troublesome issue: bots. Team Fortress 2 has had a bot problem for years, and despite a community-wide drive to raise awareness for the issue, there is little sign of improvement.

via IGN

 

[TVexperto]

how is the cheater situation?

 

[OverHeat]

Pretty cool I guess…

 

[64gigabyteram]

Crazy how this game had been 32 bit for 17 years and they get the idea to update it now of all times. Better late than never but a very outdated move lmao

 

[West Texas CEO]

Valve has updated its near 17-year-old competitive first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 to finally add 64-bit support.

The update, which some fans are calling the most significant from Valve itself in years, should result in a performance improvement for most users. Reports indicate Team Fortress 2’s frames-per-second count is increased by around 20%, resulting in a much smoother experience.

While this Team Fortress 2 update is certainly welcome, it has done little to calm the constant stream of requests from the player base for Valve to tackle the game’s most troublesome issue: bots. Team Fortress 2 has had a bot problem for years, and despite a community-wide drive to raise awareness for the issue, there is little sign of improvement.

via IGN

... And 64gigabyteram was the first to react to OP.

 

[64gigabyteram]

... And 64gigabyteram was the first to react to OP.

And you're the first to make a post ITT with more than 1 reaction

 

[64gigabyteram]

Oh I just got the joke now. 64 bit models was the first to react

Clever

 

[KuraiShidosha]

Typically moving from 32 to 64 bit actually hurt performance ever so slightly. I'm guessing they bundled their own version of DXVK into the game now, causing it to render through Vulkan which has been known to boost framerates of D3D9 based games.

 

[intbal]

Valve still has programmers working for them?

Great.
Now they can officially uncap the framerate on The Orange Box so we don't have to rely on hacks to play at 60/120fps.

 

[Gaiff]

Oh I just got the joke now. 64 bit models was the first to react

Clever

 

[j0hnnix]

 

[Kataploom]

Valve is so random, they're kinda Nintendo-like random lol

 

[FeralEcho]

Valve when suddenly updating games that are years old...

 

[MiguelItUp]

I love that they did this, but man, I wish we'd get a new Team Fortress.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Kudos to valve for preserving the game unlike Sony who've thrown their legacy titles in the trash.

 

[Holammer]

Typically moving from 32 to 64 bit actually hurt performance ever so slightly. I'm guessing they bundled their own version of DXVK into the game now, causing it to render through Vulkan which has been known to boost framerates of D3D9 based games.

When CSGO was updated to 64-bit it did not offer any wild performance gains, or any at all. But it was kept in tip top shape before that, unlike TF2 which has languished with old code in maintenance mode for a decade.

 

[ReBurn]

I haven't played this game since the 360 days with The Orange Box.

 

[Demigod Mac]

Confirmed it runs significantly better now. Higher framerates and didn't experience any of the game's notorious stuttery hiccups, even during a big Badwater match.

 

[Malvero]

Anyone interested in playing with me on Team Fortress 2 Steam?

I'm hosting heavily modded games on my server with all the Scream Fortress events available throughout the year.

Please add me on Steam to PM me if interested: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198001869283

 

[TintoConCasera]

Last time I played this the game wasn't F2P.

Crazy that it's still well alive and kicking, guess we have TF2 for years.

 

[Malvero]

I have like 240 refined metal on my account after playing for many years, lol.

I'm up for trade if anyone wants. I currently have a few spare hats and my backpack is nearly full - if anyone wants some hats, I can give them away for free - see my last message above for my Steam profile to add me.

 

[JCK75]

What I want more than anything is for HL2 to get fully remastered so that you don't have loading screens ever few minutes.

 

[diffusionx]

Cool now I can get 530fps instead of 450.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

They should’ve changed the name to Team Fortress 64. Missed opportunity!

Typically moving from 32 to 64 bit actually hurt performance ever so slightly. I'm guessing they bundled their own version of DXVK into the game now, causing it to render through Vulkan which has been known to boost framerates of D3D9 based games.

Is this the case for x86? I thought x86-64 gained a performance boost mainly because it doubled the # of registers.

IIRC ARM 64-bit also got a nice performance + efficiency improvement because ARMv8 made several improvements over A32

 

[Drew1440]

Shame the macOS version is still stuck on 32bit, and thus unplayable with MacOS Catalina and onwards.

 

[STARSBarry]

how is the cheater situation?

 

[lifa-cobex]

 

[Musashipan]

Did they get rid of bots already?

 

[newtypepilot]

if you need the performance boost, you need a new PC.

 

[diffusionx]

Shame the macOS version is still stuck on 32bit, and thus unplayable with MacOS Catalina and onwards.

I wouldn't be totally surprised if one day out of nowhere Valve drops an ARM port including Android and iOS support.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

if you need the performance boost, you need a new PC.

Speak for yourself, my Core 2 Quad Q6600 has been waiting 17 years for this moment.

 

[sono]

Actually, that is great

 

[MrRenegade]

Wow.

 

[lockdown2222]

Crazy how this game had been 32 bit for 17 years and they get the idea to update it now of all times. Better late than never but a very outdated move lmao

When you’re worth billions and have a few hits, you lock them in and ride it out. They’re on autopilot for the time being. Until Gabe dies there’s no need to take real risks.