Hi Everyone,
We wanted to share some news today that may disappoint some of you. We have an update coming to the game soon, which will be our Alpha 3. We wanted to let you know that the Alpha 3 update will be the last one with 32-bit support. I’m sure some of you will be disappointed, so we wanted to be honest and let you know why we are doing this.
32-bit systems have a limit of 2GB memory usage. This means that we’ve been struggling to optimize the game for the past year, and have lost valuable development time in the process. Given the fact that Steam’s own hardware surveys suggest that less than 2 percent of their users are on 32-bit systems, it’s hard to justify that additional time and effort.
This wasn’t an easy decision for us, and we wanted to make sure to support 32-bit at least up until Alpha 3, to guarantee any 32-bit players a more fully featured game than when we launched.
Academia : School Simulator will continue development, and we hope that by the time we release version 1, you’ll have a 64-bit system to enjoy all the new features we will have released by then.
Thanks for all the support, and see you at the next update.