![]() ![]() Users don't have to shell out a lot of money for Windows 10 or Windows 7 64-bit licenses. But being stuck on an aging driver means they will lose out on future game optimizations and features, bug and security fixes and performance enhancements. They can continue to use the Radeon Software Adrenalin 18.9.3 WHQL driver. Note, 32-bit operating system owners don't have to upgrade to a 64-bit operating system. The percentage is slowly decreasing every month as more and more users are transitioning over to a 64-bit operating system. According to the latest edition of Steam's Hardware & Software Survey, 0.29 percent of its users are on a 32-bit version of Windows 10, 1.63 percent are on Windows 7 and 0.13 percent use Windows XP. ![]() Nevertheless, AMD's move probably won't affect a huge portion of gaming population, since the chances of finding a gamer using a 32-bit operating system in 2018 is pretty slim. Rival graphics card manufacturer Nvidia stopped supporting 32-bit operating systems with its GeForce graphics driver last year. Frankly, it's surprising it took AMD this much time to decide to stop providing 32-bit drivers for its Radeon suite.
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