Old Windows support

[Orange]

Please continue to support old versions of windows. I don't have the money or time to upgrade.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Windows 1.0 is the greatest!

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Wynters:

Windows 1.0 is the greatest!

MS-DOS Exective of course! 640K ought to be enough for anybody?

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by Crashed:

Originally posted by Wynters:

Windows 1.0 is the greatest! :winter2019joyfultearsbulb:

MS-DOS Exective of course! 640K ought to be enough for anybody?

who needs that? Spectrum rules

[Cat on Linux]

what they gonna do with games like this one?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/285480/The_Entente_Gold/

it has notice about incompatibility with anything but win XP.

[H4xX]

i like the graphics of that game, similar to age of empires / empire earth

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

what they gonna do with games like this one?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/285480/The_Entente_Gold/

it has notice about incompatibility with anything but win XP.

Compatibility mode?

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by H4xX:

i like the graphics of that game, similar to age of empires / empire earth

yep, good old isometric view. will be forgotten soon with all these Unity 3d cartoony looks.

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Compatibility mode?

they don't say compatibility mode can be used. actually win 7 has great compatibility mode for XP games. does win 10 has same quality where you can get 100% performance and no issues by just applying compatibility mode to any XP game?

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

Originally posted by H4xX:

i like the graphics of that game, similar to age of empires / empire earth

yep, good old isometric view. will be forgotten soon with all these Unity 3d cartoony looks.

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Compatibility mode?

they don't say compatibility mode can be used. actually win 7 has great compatibility mode for XP games. does win 10 has same quality where you can get 100% performance and no issues by just applying compatibility mode to any XP game?

They don't say it can't be used either. I'm just suggesting something that might work. That game's forum has a few threads about getting it to work with Windows 7 and even 10.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

what they gonna do with games like this one?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/285480/The_Entente_Gold/

it has notice about incompatibility with anything but win XP.

Compatibility mode?

Top thrad: https://steamcommunity.com/app/285480/discussions/0/3078747189785975218/

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by Crashed:

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Compatibility mode?

Top thrad: https://steamcommunity.com/app/285480/discussions/0/3078747189785975218/

and it just shows how it isn't working even after downloading and using wrapper. this is not the level of compatibility you can get with win 7 by just ticking one checkbox in game settings.

[TurtleShroom]

Originally posted by Pixels304 blw.tf:

Originally posted by TurtleShroom:

Holy crap, I'm definitely going to be following that. Thank you for the information!

Another thread you might find interesting: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1687950/discussions/0/3470612993474805005/

I don't see how this one would help, because I don't have that kind of graphics card. Mine is from Nvidia and is about three years old.

[retro_Ed]

Originally posted by TurtleShroom:

Originally posted by Pixels304 blw.tf:

Another thread you might find interesting: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1687950/discussions/0/3470612993474805005/

I don't see how this one would help, because I don't have that kind of graphics card. Mine is from Nvidia and is about three years old.

I have zero interested who is wrong or who is right on this win 7 / 8 debate.

However, for example, your pc breaks and you get Steam Deck, basically all yours games are playable on that system (Arch Linux)

What this means if you install popular DESKTOP Linux distro to your system you will have those games playable.

And it requires only one setting ON from Steam Linux Client. One Tick box.

AMD cards runs superb on Linux btw.

[Viper1970]

Originally posted by Pixels304 blw.tf:

Originally posted by TurtleShroom:

To survive on an operating system without any support whatsoever, you need to have due diligence, common sense, and a fully updated antivirus program. If you have sensitive data on it, you'll also need a firewall and some actual security measures.

My current Samsung phone has been used for, what, four or five years now? Its screen is cracked, but once I fix that, I should be good to go for another five years.

Corporations want you hooked on upgrades. Scams in my opinions. They always use the excuse that it won't be safe to use, which is what the developers told them. When did people think it would be okay endorsing products that are unsafe to use? If I buy a lawn mower and after a year or two the manufacturer told me that I need to upgrade or risk dying if it blew up, would that be reason to stop endorsing them?

Due diligence, common sense, tools for identifying issues and years of "Inside" Windows knowledge is not common. The sheer number of ignorant responses in this thread is proof.
Rarely are questions asked, simply regurgitate the same narratives the greedy controlling corporations provide them. There are videos out there where random people are asked simple questions like "How many months are there in a year" or "What is 2 plus 2" and these younger generations cannot answer those questions correctly. It is scary as hell. No wonder Covid killed so many people, because they trusted what Pfizer and Fouchi told them.

[オリエ]

Something very easy to do is....
if steam will not support just because , it chrome also wont support,
at least, since we are locked have to run steam to play our games, then make something that locks the chrome functions, which i dont even use, and all we can do is ... play our games, which we payed for, and now we have to update our OS if we want to play our games, our library and all that.

Yes, I know a lot of you will be, "just update already". Not everyone is able to do that. Period.
I invested my time and money on STEAM, only to now, feel like i am being robbed . So, the games I bought physical , i install, but then i still need to run some crap on steam so i can play my g-o-d damn (this was a bad word??) game. I have games, now, that will be unplayable for me, because I am being subtly forced to upgrade my OS against my will.
Its a matter of principle, and i know many of you will not understand where i am coming from, but i still need to make a point here.
I used winxp 20 years. Valve pulled that crap back then. A friend of mine borrowed me his laptop with windows 10 for unlimited time, and i started to use it to play some of my games, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ windows 10 is atrocious, where i deny the stupid updates, and he still does , and now i can't play the games that were running fine.
I am now using windows 7, for my own preference, I repeat, my own preference and comfort.
I was super happy when i was now able to play RE6, which would not work on my older computer. And now my happiness is cut short for this bullcrap.

Valve, should at least work on giving users of win7 a choice, of being able to play their games, without the steam functions. Simple. A program that opens the games executable. Something.
I am not the engineer on that.

[lightwo]

Here's a solution, though more of a "manual" for when the end is coming; no action is required yet. I've posted it a couple of times in different threads, just hoping to help as many people:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2967855237