Will it run on windows 7?

[Batman]

The new one does

[Lugum]

It are old (emulated) games what do you expect? Probably it will.

[Batman]

well capcom arcade stadium doesn't cause of capcom

[MunkenDrunkey]

Windows 7 is over 12 years old at this point. Is there a reason you don't want to upgrade your OS?

[Batman]

wouldn't say it's an upgrade. It's mostly due to: everything runs fine, don't want to reinstall all my programs. Windows 10 is full of bloat. It also has forced dwm that adds input lag.

[neildittmar]

It's funny how this topic seems to come up with every new game release :-)

The short story is, if the game isn't looking for anything DLL/extension/feature specific to Windows 10 or above, it'll likely work on Windows 7.

The longer story is, Windows 7 (and Windows 8/8.1) reached End of Life (EOL) about 2 and a half years ago on January 14th 2020. This means that although the OS may receive the occasional Windows Update for severely critical security issues, it is not being actively supported by Microsoft anymore. When a Windows OS reaches EOL, game developers and other software manufacturers are far less likely to retain it as a supported platform for their new releases. This doesn't mean that no new software will support an EOL'd OS going forward, but the likelihood of support becomes less and less as time continues to pass.

The end game is that the user holding onto a Microsoft OS that has been EOL'd will have the choice to upgrade Windows, move to a different supported platform, or forgo some/most new game releases. The typical arguments that older versions of Windows are purportedly better, leaner, more secure, just as capable, etc. don't really apply as the issue at hand involves selection of platform support by hardware/software manufacturers, not underlying technical capability or feasibility.

I suppose a possible out in this situation is reliance on the community to devise a way to mod/hack Windows, the game, or possibly both to allow play on an otherwise unsupported version of the OS. Although some particularly savvy folks have figured this out for other games, It's not something I would personally want to depend on, but hey... it takes different strokes to move the world :-)

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Not everyone wants Windows 10. I fail to see why people do not understand this. Even with recent (within 3 months - it was on PCGamer.com if I recall correctly) polls showing there are people that still want to use Windows 7, especially for gaming there is STILL an audience for it.

Sometimes it's silly to want to use the latest thing depending on technical issues, preference and so forth, it would still be nice to have the choice. There are some games that have been released this last year that say Windows 10 as a prerequisite but they still work with Windows 7. It surprised me when State of Decay 2 worked with Windows 7.

There is a really GOOD Metroidvania 16-bit side scrolling game that mentions Windows 10 that also works with Windows 7 and it's called Outpost Delta.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1099090/Outpost_Delta/

It would be nice if the publishers realize there is still an audience for games using Windows 7 and perhaps making their games multi choice would bring in more customers. Plus it isn't saying users of Windows 10 won't upgrade in the future but keeping the choices open IMHO would be better for sales. After all God of War ran excellently on Windows 7. I could run the game in session up to 8 hours with no memory leaks, CTD's or any other issues using the Windows 7 patch. Hopefully people release patches like that more often.

Anyways have fun, I'm really looking forward to this game collection. I LOVED the TMNT games, especially the Arcade, the SNES and the Sega Genesis versions. I'm no a fan of Tournament Fighter at all. It came out at a time when Eternal Champions was still hot and had just released Eternal Champions on Sega CD. Now that would be a fun collection, either completely SNES or Sega Genesis Game Collections.

Have fun going down memory lane, it will be worth it!

[LeftyGuitar]

On the main page it says it uses DirectX 11, so it should work on Windows 7 as long as the game doesn't make any specific Windows 10/11 calls. If it said Direct X 12, then it would be Win 10 and above. I was a die-hard Windows 7 fan and I still like it, but its no longer supported and besides Windows 10 isn't that bad anymore. It has useful features for gaming and programming if you're into that.

[*Logan*]

Can we stop crying about people using Windows 7? Some of us don't care about upgrading unless we HAVE too.
Yea I use Windows 7 64 bit too what are you gonna do about it?

[*Logan*]

Originally posted by MunkenDrunkey:

Windows 7 is over 12 years old at this point. Is there a reason you don't want to upgrade your OS?

What's your point? Do you ever have one?

[Jericco]

Originally posted by MunkenDrunkey:

Windows 7 is over 12 years old at this point. Is there a reason you don't want to upgrade your OS?

Laziness is the reason

[-|Nur|-]

Originally posted by *:

It would be nice if the publishers realize there is still an audience for games using Windows 7 and perhaps making their games multi choice would bring in more customers.

Around 2% of Steam users according to hardware surveys, and a considerable chunk of those probably don't even have the hardware to run modern games, so from an economic perspective this audience is meaningless.

Sticking with an unsupported OS and still expecting games to run on it is just plain selfish at this point. And considering how laziness and wild misconceptions about Windows 10 seem to be the most often cited reasons to stick with Win 7, developers have no good reason to cater to such an audience.

[Batman]

There are indie games released nowdays that even support xp.

[awg]

Originally posted by -|Nur|-:

Around 2% of Steam users according to hardware surveys, and a considerable chunk of those probably don't even have the hardware to run modern games, so from an economic perspective this audience is meaningless.

There is no point in this statement, since Linux and Mac audiences are even lesser. And I doubt that the survey is accurate. Most people just play games.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by LeftyGuitar:

On the main page it says it uses DirectX 11, so it should work on Windows 7 as long as the game doesn't make any specific Windows 10/11 calls. If it said Direct X 12, then it would be Win 10 and above. I was a die-hard Windows 7 fan and I still like it, but its no longer supported and besides Windows 10 isn't that bad anymore. It has useful features for gaming and programming if you're into that.

There are tiers of Direct3D 11 and if they are using a recent SDK they will likely be using the latest audio and input libraries which are exclusive to Windows 10 and above.

[*Logan*]

Anyone buy this yet and find out if it runs on windows 7? I think the game is out like in an hour or less