Any news on Sims 3 eventually getting the 64bit update?

"discoduck227;c-17433593" wrote:
I am glad I found this topic! I tried redownloading my Sims 3 game so I could play and didn't realize the game was 32 bit and my Windows 10 is 64. I was disappointed that I couldn't play it again. I would love to see them upgrade it.

That is not correct, 64-bit Windows systems can still run 32-bit applications and will be able to do so for an extremely long time to preserve backwards compatibility. There has been no noise coming from Microsoft whatsoever about this changing. This is why we have a Program Files folder and a Program Files (x86) folder side-by-side. The "regular" one is for 64-bit applications and the (x86) one is for 32-bit applications. When an application is installed, Windows puts in the correct folder for us automatically.

In fact, we would never recommend a 32-bit system for TS3 or much of anything else today because even though they are still officially supported, they can't address more than 4 GB of RAM total. And Windows can hog up so much of that for itself that there isn't enough left to service a game.

This is strictly a macOS issue right now. The macOS had already been 64-bit for ages, but what they did with its most recent version was remove the backwards compatibility. Most players on Win 10 64-bit can run the game just fine, or fine as they ever could anyway.