Windows 7 Fallback

[PixelPusher]

Dear Steam Developers,

Good morning. Please excuse my English.
I have 1000+ games in my library and many do not work on Windows 10. Please consider adding fallback for Windows 7. I'm content with not updating after January 2024.

Thank you in advance!

[Knightspace]

♥♥♥♥ windows 10, new steam client and the fact that Valve will pull the switch soon, but which games don't work on win 10?

[Chika Ogiue]

Diposting pertama kali oleh PixelPusher:

many do not work on Windows 10

Name 10. People have been making this claim for months and so far, not a single Steam game has been mentioned that cannot run on Windows 10 at all.

[Boblin the Goblin]

There has yet to be a game shown for Windows 7 that doesn't work on Windows 10?

[✨Saint✨]

Well, just like the other posts on the Win 7 subject, there is a point when certain things become obsolete, new programs cannot use Win 7 to run properly, security issues and much more.

Sure, there are games that will not work on Win 10 , but in most cases there is a way to let them work.

[Mr. Smiles]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/5940851423456467468/

[Chika Ogiue]

Diposting pertama kali oleh dazza0511:

Why would a game stop working on a newer OS?

Many different reasons. Unsupported video codecs, 16-bit executable, relies on another older technology no longer available... But as I (and others) have said, there's yet to be an example listed of a game available on Steam that does not run at all on Windows 10.

[nullable]

Diposting pertama kali oleh PixelPusher:

Dear Steam Developers,

Good morning. Please excuse my English.
I have 1000+ games in my library and many do not work on Windows 10.

Almost all of them do. Valve is a gaming company, not your mom, so your hyperbole isn't going to fool anyone.

Name your top ten examples of non-working games. And dollars to donuts they work fine on Windows 10. Try to remember, you can't fool your fellow gamers either.

Diposting pertama kali oleh PixelPusher:

Please consider adding fallback for Windows 7. I'm content with not updating after January 2024.

Thank you in advance!

Please consider upgrading and using whatever workarounds, patches, tweaks and configurations necessary for a handful of fickle/stubborn games. You're not going to be able to run Windows 7 forever, better start getting used to it now.

[PixelPusher]

Thank you for your comments!

[Satoru]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chika Ogiue:

Diposting pertama kali oleh dazza0511:

Why would a game stop working on a newer OS?

Many different reasons. Unsupported video codecs, 16-bit executable, relies on another older technology no longer available... But as I (and others) have said, there's yet to be an example listed of a game available on Steam that does not run at all on Windows 10.

1) codecs are installed with the OS or with the game. The only codecs that’s aren’t part of the OS are with N editions that don’t include various mpeg codecs, that are sold in low cost regions. Those codecs weren’t part of windows 7 anyway which is why you had things like CCP codec pack and others which packaged things like the Real Player codec and other things together that were popular but not part of the standard install

2) 16 bit games haven’t been a thing for literally several decades

3) dos based games were already mostly running via DOSBOX anyway since DOS hasn’t existed since windows ME.

[.EteRnal.]

I would love to see you name a game that doesn't work. I'm playing Unreal Tournament 2004 right now on Windows 10.

[Chika Ogiue]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Satoru:

1) codecs are installed with the OS or with the game.

And even when installed, not all codecs are supported by modern OSes. There's at least one Japanese eroge (ランジェリーメーカー) which uses a video codec that simply does not run on Windows 10 nor does it have a suitable replacement. The workaround to play it on Windows 10 is to use a Windows 7 virtual machine.

I'm also well aware that 16 bit executables haven't been a thing for ages, but it's still a valid example of why things stop working on newer systems. There could potentially come the day when PCs move far past 64 bit executables and drop support for those, too.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Diposting pertama kali oleh PixelPusher:

Thank you for your comments!

You still didn't name the games that you think don't work on Windows 10.

I'm on Windows 11 and I haven't found an old game yet that doesn't work. You forget that there are many users who have far more games than you do and can actually test your claims.


This is not for debate, and you can't ask them to not update Steam. Well, I mean, you can, but it isn't going to change anything.

[Crashed]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chika Ogiue:

Diposting pertama kali oleh dazza0511:

Why would a game stop working on a newer OS?

Many different reasons. Unsupported video codecs, 16-bit executable, relies on another older technology no longer available... But as I (and others) have said, there's yet to be an example listed of a game available on Steam that does not run at all on Windows 10.

Unsupported video codecs - try K-Lite Mega Codec Pack.
16-bit executables - https://github.com/otya128/winevdm or Windows 10 32-bit though that will probably be dropped in 2025. DOSBox for DOS executables.

[mwesthoff]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chika Ogiue:

Diposting pertama kali oleh PixelPusher:

many do not work on Windows 10

Name 10. People have been making this claim for months and so far, not a single Steam game has been mentioned that cannot run on Windows 10 at all.

Gothic I and II need a third party program and editing to run on Win 10. There's two, and you can bet they will continue selling them even though they know it's for Win 7.

[IFIYGD]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Satoru:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chika Ogiue:

Many different reasons. Unsupported video codecs, 16-bit executable, relies on another older technology no longer available... But as I (and others) have said, there's yet to be an example listed of a game available on Steam that does not run at all on Windows 10.

1) codecs are installed with the OS or with the game. The only codecs that’s aren’t part of the OS are with N editions that don’t include various mpeg codecs, that are sold in low cost regions. Those codecs weren’t part of windows 7 anyway which is why you had things like CCP codec pack and others which packaged things like the Real Player codec and other things together that were popular but not part of the standard install

... And for N and KN versions of Windows 10 that do not have full media support, you can download the Media Feature Pack directly from Microsoft for free, install it and enable it in settings, and you now have full media features like other Windows 10 versions have.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48231