No windows 7 support

[skyline9850]

why no windows 7 support

[ConductorSavy TTV]

Likely because Windows 7 is no longer officially supported by Microsoft.

[Cabalius]

Because Windows 7 no longer gets support in general, I am sure Microsoft announced this last year that they'll cut everything for W7, like they did with vista and focus on Windows 8 and 10.

[^7ja^1co]

Welcome to the present...

[TheDeeGee]

You can upgrade your Windows 7 to 10 for free still, Google it.

[Number 6™]

I wouldn't call Win10 an upgrade.
I'd be surprised if this didn't run on Win7, but maybe they just can't say it does because official support is done or something along those lines.

[skyline9850]

I could but i feel its a solid OS, There is still more life in it yet

[EvilChaosKnight]

Originally posted by Number 6™:

I wouldn't call Win10 an upgrade.

Yea, more like a side-grade with a taste of corporate greed. Going from WinXP to Win7 was huge. 32 to 64bit and all. Win7 to Win10? Some features I guess? Kinda?

Besides, if EA wants to not sell their game to at least 13-15% of the potential buyers, it's their loss. But something tells me there's a strong overlap between people who prefer older OS and people who like older games, like, you know, CnC remaster of which they are selling here. So they might be missing out on much higher numbers than that. We'll see I suppose.

[Myg]

Windows 10 is good stuff. I wouldn't complain about it. It is free as well if you don't mind a watermark and some limited personalization.

[TheDeeGee]

I wonder if all these people hating and bashing Windows 10 ever tried it, or just copy/paste what others say about it... just because...

[TrekGuy]

Of course not. The OS is no longer supported and Win10 is a free upgrade from 7 or 8 and with some very minor tweaks to settings its a decent OS with nice features. There really isn't a problem here. If you had to buy or pay for Windows 10 I would be on board with this.

[Carnasid]

Originally posted by TheDeeGee:

I wonder if all these people hating and bashing Windows 10 ever tried it, or just copy/paste what others say about it... just because...

I mean, I've got 10 on my work laptop, and 7 on my gaming rig. The desktop has been running 24/7 for about 5 years except for power outages and shutdowns to upgrade hardware with zero crashes. The laptop which only is only used for Microsoft Office products has crashed a few dozen times, usually during updates leading to having to do a factory reset.

Personally, I prefer the stability of 7 of 10, just from personal experience.

As for this C&C remaster, given that it supports DX11, there should be no reason it won't run on Win7. It's pretty much only games that are DX12 exclusively that you'd need to numerically upgrade for.

[Sui]

Originally posted by TheDeeGee:

I wonder if all these people hating and bashing Windows 10 ever tried it, or just copy/paste what others say about it... just because...

I've been actively using Win10 for over a year at this point - mostly due to how much of a pain it would be to install 7 with unsupported CPU which is Ryzen 5 2600 as well as all the nonsense required to even get USB drivers for 7 for my mobo. Whilst I do enjoy stuff like a better support for multiple monitors etc. 10 still has unresolved issues originating as far back as Vista with Windows Desktop Manager forcing triple buffered vsync for pretty much all APIs running games in windowed mode (which is the only reasonable way to run applications when you want to quickly switch between them when having multiple monitors) and with only workaround being DXGI Flip Model, that has to be implemented per application by developers with DX11 and DX12 - which is generally not done (especially with Unreal Engine 4... although thankfully after years, became a standard in Unity 2019 and later). In 7 at least that could have been worked around by disabling / enabling DWM service / aero interface... in 10 that no longer can be done.

With that said - I am not surprised that EA doesn't support 7. It's hard to support something, if Microsoft can't be bothered. Only kind of annoyed that garbage like 8.1 is supported. Just drop both, so people don't have bad ideas :P

[Ryrin]

Originally posted by Number 6™:

I wouldn't call Win10 an upgrade.
I'd be surprised if this didn't run on Win7, but maybe they just can't say it does because official support is done or something along those lines.

It is 100% an upgrade. It just straight up has better performance in every way at this point.

[I>U]

Lol, Win10 is an unpgrade? You have to learn to read the stars, my friends, when you are dealing with M$

Win98 - failure, WIn98SE - bearable. Win Me - hitting the abyss
Win2k - success, WinXP - failure (HE - bottom-kiss),
WinXP SP3 - bearable. Win Vista - failure
Win7 - success, Win8 - failure,
Win8.1 - bearable, Win10 - ???

What comes after the "bearable"? And it's always "success" following the abyss. You just needed to wait for 1 more star cycle, you silly bags.

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On topic:

It would prolly work in Win7, unless Petro have used some lazy-ass framework like Ride Like the Wind devs.

[Lil C]-[ew C]-[ew is ☂д☂]

Originally posted by RB:

As for this C&C remaster, given that it supports DX11, there should be no reason it won't run on Win7. It's pretty much only games that are DX12 exclusively that you'd need to numerically upgrade for.

Good observation and I can tell in my experience playing game based on the directx version they were build, game like Dishonored, Quantum Conundrum and Sleeping Dogs they run just fine on Windows XP 64-bits and probably still do because these games were build on dx 9.0 version so as long this C&C collection list dx 11.0 the probability to not function on Win.7 is so small.