Really? Vista support discontinuing?

[Chibi_Vinyl_Scratch]

I happen to still use VISTA granted my PC is very old, but due to a limited income I cannot always afford to be updating a computer system, hence why I still run VISTA. So why the heck cant they just allow older version of STEAM to keep running with what they did and allow users of newer computers to use newer versions of STEAM? As it looking next year all the games I have either bought or been given will now be 100% useless to me, which really ticks me off.

[Chibi_Vinyl_Scratch]

To answer previous reply, yes i basicly live on "peanuts" as due to disability I am unable to work, hence the limited income. I only get so much a month to live on. Heh thankfully my rents only 140$ a month

[Satoru]

引用自 Captain Brexit Arty：

they are money hungry i doubt a multi million company will start using vista support again in their launcher i'm not happy aswell since my laptop will be pretty much useless by now when it comes to games

Your laptop has to be 10 years old to have Vista on it. It’s already functionally useless

[liam]

引用自 Radene：

引用自 TheGalilas：

now just a question of time when are they gonna disconutine support for windows 7 ? in my opinion its gonna be soon.

Well, in case of Win7, there was this very long period where you could upgrade to Win10 without paying a cent.

Vista wasn't included in that, however.

Too bad Windows 10 sucks *** and we are stuck with that abomination for ever now.

[SeriousCCIE]

I never agreed with the windows 8 or 10 eulas because I don't like a lot of the things we can't opt out of. hopefully the steam OS will be functional (and have a better client than the new ui) before windows 7 support is pulled.

I am not going to agree to the windows 10 eula just to play games, and so... i am hoping the steam OS will work as a game machine replacement.

[Easykill]

If your machine is that old then you might look into linux and there is a decent chance some of your favorite games will either have linux native clients or will run under wine.

[Dane]

You should really consider using Win 7 instead of Vista. Pretty much the same but fixes all the aids that came with Vista.

[8ullfrog]

antiquated? Discontinued I'd buy. Or maybe I'm a skeleton. I worked the Vista launch, that was a total ihStShow. We had to reopen the store at midnight, stay until 4AM, and Microsoft comped us plain starbucks coffee as if it were fine ambrosia. On the plus side, I was king of the lanyards until CompUSA went out of business. God, the POS computers they sold that didn't even run vista. The horror... the horror...

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

We had a mega thread...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/3307213006830852844/

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Added you on steam. I can help you get "free" Windows 10.

[Winged One]

引用自 ScrewB：

Added you on steam. I can help you get "free" Windows 10.

ignoring the possibly illegal nature of this post, if his PC is from the Vista era, I highly doubt it would even have 10 drivers.. meaning it would turn his machine into a buggy unstable mess..

try to actually think of the users situation before you provide questioable "advice"

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引用自 theseraph1：

引用自 ScrewB：

Added you on steam. I can help you get "free" Windows 10.

ignoring the possibly illegal nature of this post, if his PC is from the Vista era, I highly doubt it would even have 10 drivers.. meaning it would turn his machine into a buggy unstable mess..

try to actually think of the users situation before you provide questioable "advice"

Are you stupid? I have old single core athlon 64s running 10 without issue. Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10 are all basicly THE SAME OS WITH A DIFFERENT SKIN and use the same drivers.

[8ullfrog]

huh, I wonder if the vista box I have in my closet could run 10. Probably not. And it would be a stupid pet tricks kind of thing to even try.

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引用自 8ullfrog：

huh, I wonder if the vista box I have in my closet could run 10. Probably not. And it would be a stupid pet tricks kind of thing to even try.

If it runs Vista it runs 10.

[Winged One]

引用自 ScrewB：

引用自 theseraph1：

ignoring the possibly illegal nature of this post, if his PC is from the Vista era, I highly doubt it would even have 10 drivers.. meaning it would turn his machine into a buggy unstable mess..

try to actually think of the users situation before you provide questioable "advice"

Are you stupid? I have old single core athlon 64s running 10 without issue. Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10 are all basicly THE SAME OS WITH A DIFFERENT SKIN and use the same drivers.

no, no they do not.. 10 is more resource demanding, and no they don't all use the same drivers.. why do you think hardware manufacturers ask for the OS on their driver pages?

you can get 8 and 8.1 drivers to work on 10 usually, but Vista is a whole different beast, and parts manufacturers don't put out updated drivers for the newer OS's indeffinitely



heck, I have had corporate clients get issues just from a W10 update increasing the required specs meaning his work station couldn't run it and would get blue screens..

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引用自 theseraph1：

no, no they do not.. 10 is more resource demanding,

Surface changes and better hardware on modern systems mostly

and no they don't all use the same drivers..

They literally do

why do you think hardware manufacturers ask for the OS on their driver pages?

mostly for the control panels and such. I forced the Windows Vista driver for my ancient Geforce 7900 GTX on a Windows 10 install just a couple months ago. The actual drivers are pretty much the same.

you can get 8 and 8.1 drivers to work on 10 usually, but Vista is a whole different beast, and parts manufacturers don't put out updated drivers for the newer OS's indeffinitely

They all share the same base m8. I work with legacy hardware as a hobby and part of my job. I know more about this than you.

heck, I have had corporate clients get issues just from a W10 update increasing the required specs meaning his work station couldn't run it and would get blue screens..

That has literally nothing to do with the requirements.