{"id":222191,"date":"2025-09-20T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/steam-will-stop-running-on-windows-32-bit-in-january-2026"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:24:00","slug":"steam-will-stop-running-on-windows-32-bit-in-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/steam-will-stop-running-on-windows-32-bit-in-january-2026","title":{"rendered":"Steam will stop running on Windows 32-bit in January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/steam-will-stop-running-on-windows-32-bit-in-january-2026.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valve has announced that its Steam digital distribution service will drop support for 32-bit versions of Windows starting January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Two years earlier, in January 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/steam-drops-support-for-windows-7-and-81-to-boost-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steam also dropped support<\/a> for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, recommending users to upgrade to a newer operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Although Steam will soon stop running on Windows 10 32-bit (the only 32-bit Windows version still supported), it will continue to be supported on Windows 10 64-bit, and 32-bit games will remain playable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has announced that its Steam digital distribution service will drop support for 32-bit versions of Windows starting January 2026. Two years earlier, in January 2024, Steam also dropped support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, recommending users to upgrade to a newer operating system. Although Steam will soon stop running on Windows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}