Win 7 here. Should i buy games, knowing that Steam will not work?

[Sooh]

There are games in solds, but now i'm facing a wall that Steam will block access because i use windows 7. Should i turn to GOG? the problem with GOG is games are Solo. not multiplayable.

Steam should offer a Legacy version of steam to Windows 7 users.

Windows xp was old and limited to 4gb of ram 32bits... Win 7 is limited to 128gb of ram and 64 bits. It's still a powerfull OS. (still better than windows 10 which is a nightmare).

[zero254]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Jon the VGNerd:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Grimsdottir:

I personally don't blame valve for ending support of Win7, I and many others upgraded.


But you want Devs who are working on the latest games that require the most cutting edge hardware, just look at some that are out now. You expect devs to make some of these games on the latest engines, to keep support for a non supported OS that a majority of % of the PC player base no longer uses.

Tell me why should they keep spending money and game dev time trouble shooting their Latest game on Unreal 5, so it can work on a toaster that can't support the newer hardware to even run the game.

The windows 7 lot are the definition of 'sunk cost mentality' given 10 and 7 are literally the same OS beneath the hood, the exceptions being updates and patches. So alot of what you're used to working with is still there. You can get it to run as well as the rest of us if that is your worry as well.

The launch boogies of windows 10 ended like.. 4 years ago. So join us already.



But I also admit a good portion of this crowd might even fall in with 'your game is trash when in reality my PC is a potato and I haven't upgraded the hardware in over 8 years' crowd which I have run into (college campuses are wild man).

I myself am getting Win 11 with a newer and better PC by next year. Win 7 users should accept the fact that Jan 1 is creeping in and they can't stop it. And pirating games will only humiliate themselves even more.

win7 users should laugh

[Zefar]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ValentB:

1-6 more FPS = "better OS".......I wonder how much time he spent deleting all the bloat (only for it to return the next day).

I saw the video where 7 had 100 more FPS in CSGO than on 10 (and XP had 100 even more). Doesn't mean s**t as well as this one.

Now show us games that stutter hard on 10/11 (Yakuza K2 / Yakuza 6 / AC Syndicate) or outright don't run (PURE, CoJ Cartel).

You mean this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU8PzQoR74s&t=31s

Where every core is maxed out to 100% in CSGO? That can't be real. Must be a virtual machine because no way in hell CSGO is maxing out all of the cores at all the times. It also ran real choppy in the start on Win10.

The GPU is capped at 30% on the Win10 but we have no idea what it is capped on Win7.

[Jon the VGNerd]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย zero254:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Jon the VGNerd:

I myself am getting Win 11 with a newer and better PC by next year. Win 7 users should accept the fact that Jan 1 is creeping in and they can't stop it. And pirating games will only humiliate themselves even more.

win7 users should laugh

Mhm, definitely. And they'll be wondering why their Win 7 can't run newer games that don't run on an outdated OS.

[zero254]

I'm gonna ask how many of you actually play games other than us yelling at eachother on the forums

[ValentB]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Jon the VGNerd:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย zero254:

win7 users should laugh

Mhm, definitely. And they'll be wondering why their Win 7 can't run newer games that don't run on an outdated OS.

Win 7 can run older games that are being taken away sooner than EA/Ubisoft Live service games last.

[zero254]

gaas is the real meme here

[SeedsandPlants]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย AntiGrieferGames:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย SeedsandPlants:

Proton supports vulkan, and offers better compatibility for older games, that no longer launch on Windows 10. Vulkan is cross-platform as well, contrary to Microsoft's proprietary DirectX.

OpenGL aswell for non vulkan GPUs?

Yes, if the game supports it. Then it gets really tricky with Zink which I think is vulkan, but on top of open-gl which can get complex, but the tools are there. OpenGL and Vulkan are open-source, and I believe there are already efforts undeway to port vulkan to older gpu which do not include support, but that hasn't been developed yet, hopefully it works out. I bet these tools will land in Linux before they do in Windows.

[FusionBunny]

Moved to Win 10 Pro, my only issue being UAC and how to turn it off

[SeedsandPlants]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ValentB:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Jon the VGNerd:

Mhm, definitely. And they'll be wondering why their Win 7 can't run newer games that don't run on an outdated OS.

Win 7 can run older games that are being taken away sooner than EA/Ubisoft Live service games last.

Linux, with steam's proton compatibility / Wine software, supports older games that do not work on Windows 10, such as 1nsane, and Delta Force 2, both work great on Linux thanks to steam and built-in proton.

[zero254]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย SeedsandPlants:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ValentB:

Win 7 can run older games that are being taken away sooner than EA/Ubisoft Live service games last.

Linux, with steam's proton compatibility / Wine software, supports older games that do not work on Windows 10, such as 1nsane, and Delta Force 2, both work great on Linux thanks to steam and built-in proton.

Yeah there are some games that will just hard crash after awhile on 10 sadly. Just straight up guaranteed lockups. But proton makes em purr on linux

[Complete Domination]

Seeing as XP still works to this day for steam I don't think OP needs to worry.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Jon the VGNerd:

I myself am getting Win 11 with a newer and better PC by next year. Win 7 users should accept the fact that Jan 1 is creeping in and they can't stop it. And pirating games will only humiliate themselves even more.

Piracy is a service problem, if service is outright denied then customers will always find a way to gain access without that service. The only one humiliating themselves is delusional OS corporate lapdogs who think they've become too big to fail and can afford to turn away customers.

[Seraphita]

You're literally whining about steam not supporting an unsupported OS anymore. And then you use the word "delusional". Maaaybe it's time to see whom the word really is for...

[lailaamell]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Zefar:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ValentB:

1-6 more FPS = "better OS".......I wonder how much time he spent deleting all the bloat (only for it to return the next day).

I saw the video where 7 had 100 more FPS in CSGO than on 10 (and XP had 100 even more). Doesn't mean s**t as well as this one.

Now show us games that stutter hard on 10/11 (Yakuza K2 / Yakuza 6 / AC Syndicate) or outright don't run (PURE, CoJ Cartel).

You mean this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU8PzQoR74s&t=31s

Where every core is maxed out to 100% in CSGO? That can't be real. Must be a virtual machine because no way in hell CSGO is maxing out all of the cores at all the times. It also ran real choppy in the start on Win10.

The GPU is capped at 30% on the Win10 but we have no idea what it is capped on Win7.

oh a 5 year old video

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย frank2351:

Stick to current version for existing games: https://windowsreport.com/disable-steam-automatic-updates/

and slowly migrate to other stores. That's what i do.

Win7 is far superior in performance to win10 and win 11 on certain systems. It can make up to 25% difference in framerates.

And then you are going to find out very soon that this is not an option. Rockstar games' launcher, Ubisoft launcher, Battle.net game launcher, and Epic Games all already completely ended support for Windows 7. Can not open them. Will not launch. Can't use it. The choice for "Other stores" is pretty much "slim pickings" for you now. You're going to have to update to Windows 10 some day to continue playing games on PC. There is no way around it.

[zero254]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย lailaamell:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Zefar:

You mean this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU8PzQoR74s&t=31s

Where every core is maxed out to 100% in CSGO? That can't be real. Must be a virtual machine because no way in hell CSGO is maxing out all of the cores at all the times. It also ran real choppy in the start on Win10.

The GPU is capped at 30% on the Win10 but we have no idea what it is capped on Win7.

oh a 5 year old video

It's so sad things got worse in 5 years, Can't even max cyberpunk on a 4090 without fake fps.....truly a lost art.....