From 70906c90044a1805110aa05f3245d73482923708 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: CasualPokePlayer <50538166+CasualPokePlayer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:01:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] quick fail is the user is somehow running EmuHawk as a 32 bit
 process

---
 src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/Program.cs | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/Program.cs b/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/Program.cs
index 8e1d17a0de..ca1ee27274 100644
--- a/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/Program.cs
+++ b/src/BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk/Program.cs
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ namespace BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk
 			Application.EnableVisualStyles();
 			Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
 
+			// quickly check if the user is running this as a 32 bit process somehow
+			if (!Environment.Is64BitProcess)
+			{
+				using (var box = new ExceptionBox($"EmuHawk requires a 64 bit environment in order to run! EmuHawk will now close.")) box.ShowDialog();
+				Process.GetCurrentProcess().Kill();
+				return;
+			}
+
 			if (OSTC.IsUnixHost)
 			{
 				// for Unix, skip everything else and just wire up the event handler