I'm sure quite a few people agree that it was quite a pleasant surprise to see Crysis (an EA Partners game? right? well EA has their name on it anyway) available for digital distribution on steam.

Unfortunately, despite how delighted I always am to be able to purchase a game through steam, I was a little disappointed with the release of Crysis: Warhead.  After scouring the install folder, I haven't been able to find a 'bin64' folder or a 64 bit exe that came with my copy of the original Crysis.  As far as I can tell, the Steam version of Crysis: Warhead (I didn't purchase the original Crysis through Steam) does not come with a version optimized for 64 bit processors. 

Has anyone bought the Steam copy and been able to run the 64 bit version of the game?
Has anyone bought a hard copy of Crysis from a store?  Does it come with a 64 bit version?

I know that 64 bit Crysis is not compatable with Xfire, so I assume that it wouldn't be compatable with Steam as well.  I can understand why they wouldn't have a launchable 64 bit version (if my assumptions are true) from the steam 'games' tab, but why exclude it entirely?  Its like selling a copy of windows that only comes with the 32 bit version instead of 32 and 64. 

So whats the big deal?  Well, 64 bit crysis got shit-ton better framerates on my rig than 32 bit crysis did... so not having a version of Warhead optimized for a 64 bit proc is a bit of a bummer. 

Despite my gripes with Steam's release of Warhead I really encourage everyone to purchase games through steam, as the digital distribution platform is an excellent alternative to piracy.

You should propably write to steam support if you haven't done that already and ask them.