Is Starcraft 2 a 32-bit game?

I'm installing SC2 right now, as I type ... but it occurs to me, I absent mindedly just clicked through the install process and only afterwards realized that the install path is Program Files (x86). I'm on 64-bit Windows (pretty sure ... I checked system info., and it says 64-bit OS.

Not to be a total noob, but this is my first experience with 64-bit (and Win 7) ... is this going to be okay? Do I need to uninstall?

Really? I have to give them my real name and address? Is there a good reason why I shouldn't give them a fake name and address?

I mean, I guess the 32-bit thing isn't important, seeing as the game has installed ... but how about the battle.net Real ID thing. Fake or real? If I use a fake name/address, will it somehow come back to haunt me later on?

 

Yes.

x86 is shorthand for Intel 32-bit nowadays. It's a holdover from the 80386, 486, etc days.

All games that install in the "Program Files x86" folder are 32-bit.

64-bit programs will usually (by default) install in "Program files"

 

SC2's native code is still written in 32bit, though it is 64bit compatible.

Not sure about the name and address thing, have a read at this though

 

RealID is optional. You don't have to add RealID friends if you don't want people seeing your real name, and you don't need to use a fake name if you don't add any RealID friends.

 

Whether that is a real name or a fake name, I leave to your imagination.

 

Hmm, strange. Crysis and Crysis Warhead both installed themselves in "Program Files (x86)", but are 64 bit applications, and have both the Bin32 and Bin64 folder there.

 

Yeah because they did it funny, was one of the first games to support 64bit and even people using 64bit windows was fairly new then.

Seems games do that commonly, maybe just to make it easier to install and also since it shares some files between bot binaries.

Programs however tend to follow the proper install paths, like Photoshop or Office will install both binaries into their respective file paths.