Can it run on Windows 7?

[HodakaCE]

Anyone got this to run on Windows 7/ with official beta key? I am having an error coming up on last setup dialogue. Thanks!

[MoonlitDNC]

It absolutely will not, DX12 is a haaaaard requirement on this one. If you have some sort of a thing that is able to let MH Rise or one of the newer RE games work on Windows 7 with some combo of DXVK and other things, it might work, but even then.... You'd likely need to alter the game's EXE, which I imagine is blocked due to online play.

[HodakaCE]

Thanks for the info! Appreciate it :)

[delacroix01]

Nope it doesn't. You must install Windows 10 for it to work.

[mjordan79]

Why someone should still use Windows 7 in 2023?

[🪻🧋Sylvie💮🍃]

Microsoft no longer support Windows 7 OS. Hence, it's time to upgrade with Windows 11 OS.

[delacroix01]

Originally posted by mjordan79:

Why someone should still use Windows 7 in 2023?

Dualboot W7 and W10 here. I only use W10 for games that can't run on W7. For the rest W7 is much less of a hassle, especially if you have 20 years old software on your PC, and it doesn't have a bunch of background tasks tanking your gaming performance.

[ingosupercute]

Originally posted by mjordan79:

Why someone should still use Windows 7 in 2023?

For example in my case, I have two PCs one older one newer, one win7 one win10. Now, I would not attempt to run this game on the older PC in the first place, since it only got a 1080 in it and would probably die in a heated explosion if I attempted to do so. But at the same time I will not abandon or upgrade my win7 computer until one day I get a new machine due to technological development and move my current main rig to secondary - then we can talk about retirenment for win7.

The thing is, on the win7 rig I run games that are old and work best on win7. And it consumes much less power. And it stands in the better climated backyard side room during summer, that is also smaller and thus not as cold in winter as the living room. I'd gain absolutely nothing from meddling with the windows install of a ten years old rig. If I wanted to upgrade the hardware, I'd have to throw literally everything out except maybe the newer of two SSD harddrives. But without raising the technical level why on earth would I switch to more demanding software? Sure, there are no more Microsoft security updates, but then again security on win10 and 11 are an illusion as well - as long as I got a capable software for it and don't risk surf or click suspicious emails everything gonna be alright.

Anyway wall of text, but there are reasons why people still continue to use win7. However I also think it is being unreasonable to expect modern games or third party launchers to still work with it.

[GouFPSx9_TTV]

Originally posted by delacroix01:

Originally posted by mjordan79:

Why someone should still use Windows 7 in 2023?

Dualboot W7 and W10 here. I only use W10 for games that can't run on W7. For the rest W7 is much less of a hassle, especially if you have 20 years old software on your PC, and it doesn't have a bunch of background tasks tanking your gaming performance.

If you have games that are 20 years old why not just make a retro PC build and run Windows 98 SE or Windows 2000? Or even use SteamOS since 99.9% of those games will run on Proton? Loved Vista/7 (yes, I had zero ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ issues with vista as I had top of the line hardware at release, Vista was released too early for casual PC users tho) but gotta upgrade to Win11 as Win10 only has a few years left and Win11 does run games better than Win10 but the difference isn't that great just a 10-20fps difference.

[zero254]

Originally posted by ShinRukiri FGC:

Originally posted by delacroix01:

Dualboot W7 and W10 here. I only use W10 for games that can't run on W7. For the rest W7 is much less of a hassle, especially if you have 20 years old software on your PC, and it doesn't have a bunch of background tasks tanking your gaming performance.

If you have games that are 20 years old why not just make a retro PC build and run Windows 98 SE or Windows 2000? Or even use SteamOS since 99.9% of those games will run on Proton? Loved Vista/7 (yes, I had zero ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ issues with vista as I had top of the line hardware at release, Vista was released too early for casual PC users tho) but gotta upgrade to Win11 as Win10 only has a few years left and Win11 does run games better than Win10 but the difference isn't that great just a 10-20fps difference.

you joke me

[delacroix01]

Originally posted by ShinRukiri FGC:

Originally posted by delacroix01:

Dualboot W7 and W10 here. I only use W10 for games that can't run on W7. For the rest W7 is much less of a hassle, especially if you have 20 years old software on your PC, and it doesn't have a bunch of background tasks tanking your gaming performance.

If you have games that are 20 years old why not just make a retro PC build and run Windows 98 SE or Windows 2000? Or even use SteamOS since 99.9% of those games will run on Proton? Loved Vista/7 (yes, I had zero ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ issues with vista as I had top of the line hardware at release, Vista was released too early for casual PC users tho) but gotta upgrade to Win11 as Win10 only has a few years left and Win11 does run games better than Win10 but the difference isn't that great just a 10-20fps difference.

Not to be rude but I was saying "software", not "games". One software I use daily (which is very specialized and I haven't found any replacement after 15 years) has serious issues with W10 (black screen), and I don't see the benefit of daily drive W10 just to deal with background crap that M$ tries to throw at me. W7 runs almost every game I play perfectly while being able to use all the necessary recording software and current browsers. SF6 will be the first game that will force me to run on W10 to play it, but tbh I don't think I'd play it every day to even bother. My current main games are still BBCF and SFV and if you look around those forums, most annoying bug reports come from W10 and 11 users.

[SomeBody]

Originally posted by delacroix01:

Originally posted by ShinRukiri FGC:

If you have games that are 20 years old why not just make a retro PC build and run Windows 98 SE or Windows 2000? Or even use SteamOS since 99.9% of those games will run on Proton? Loved Vista/7 (yes, I had zero ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ issues with vista as I had top of the line hardware at release, Vista was released too early for casual PC users tho) but gotta upgrade to Win11 as Win10 only has a few years left and Win11 does run games better than Win10 but the difference isn't that great just a 10-20fps difference.

Not to be rude but I was saying "software", not "games". One software I use daily (which is very specialized and I haven't found any replacement after 15 years) has serious issues with W10 (black screen), and I don't see the benefit of daily drive W10 just to deal with background crap that M$ tries to throw at me. W7 runs almost every game I play perfectly while being able to use all the necessary recording software and current browsers. SF6 will be the first game that will force me to run on W10 to play it, but tbh I don't think I'd play it every day to even bother. My current main games are still BBCF and SFV and if you look around those forums, most annoying bug reports come from W10 and 11 users.

Don't listen to the silly children that abound on steam and forums, they consider any old software or hardware obsolete just because they are on more modern platforms. They don't even bother to find out, they forget that this platform is PC (compatibility) and well optimized games adapt to old software and hardware. I have run countless current games without problems that have assured me that they could not run on my hardware and with Win7. nVIDIA keeps updating its drivers for Win7, let yourself be guided by the latter...
I haven't tested SF6 because it's a beta, but if it maintains DX11 compatibility, it might run on Win7 somehow. Also DX12 was always a problematic API and it would be very silly to make SF6 exclusive for it.

[zero254]

Originally posted by SomeBody:

Originally posted by delacroix01:

Not to be rude but I was saying "software", not "games". One software I use daily (which is very specialized and I haven't found any replacement after 15 years) has serious issues with W10 (black screen), and I don't see the benefit of daily drive W10 just to deal with background crap that M$ tries to throw at me. W7 runs almost every game I play perfectly while being able to use all the necessary recording software and current browsers. SF6 will be the first game that will force me to run on W10 to play it, but tbh I don't think I'd play it every day to even bother. My current main games are still BBCF and SFV and if you look around those forums, most annoying bug reports come from W10 and 11 users.

Don't listen to the silly children that abound on steam and forums, they consider any old software or hardware obsolete just because they are on more modern platforms. They don't even bother to find out, they forget that this platform is PC (compatibility) and well optimized games adapt to old software and hardware. I have run countless current games without problems that have assured me that they could not run on my hardware and with Win7. nVIDIA keeps updating its drivers for Win7, let yourself be guided by the latter...
I haven't tested SF6 because it's a beta, but if it maintains DX11 compatibility, it might run on Win7 somehow. Also DX12 was always a problematic API and it would be very silly to make SF6 exclusive for it.

king

[Nonstop]

Originally posted by HodakaCE:

Anyone got this to run on Windows 7/ with official beta key? I am having an error coming up on last setup dialogue. Thanks!

your PC should be to weak to run SF6 anyway if you're still on Windows 7