Are patches being worked on to allow Steam to run on windows 7 next year?

[*Logan*]

I wouldn't be surprised if someone is going to find a way to get steam to still run next year on windows 7.
Any news on this?

[Cathulhu]

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That would be a hard no, unless you get explicit consent from Valve.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

They didn't do any patches for XP or Vista. They won't do any for Windows 7 either. Nor did they release any patches when Windows 2000 support was dropped. Your only option is to upgrade to a supported OS.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by *Logan*:

I wouldn't be surprised if someone is going to find a way to get steam to still run next year on windows 7.
Any news on this?

There will be no official support. Any unofficial support will be at your own risk and highly advised against, as it would make for a excellent phising vector.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Perhaps if someone designed some kind of Win10 Emulation/interpreter/execution environment for Windows7 so that it could be run flawlessly. But then again, if part of the Win10 execution environment is something you don't trust anyway then there really is no solution and Valve isn't going to spend time and money making it work.
Ironic though that if they built steam to run on "linux", thats not any specific distribution but a generic one that works 'pretty good' on all of them with a few minor hiccups. Imagine if Valve wrote for generic Windows instead of having to retool their entire development(and tosses out the old stuff) whenever Microsoft kicks out a new version.

[xBCxRangers]

I just have a feeling when this happens, i'm still going to be able to play my games (most all of which are 2005 era non DRM games) as i always did. I just have to keep it on Offline Mode.

EA said the same thing when they got away from Origin, and yet i can still play my older games there.

[nullable]

Originally posted by *Logan*:

I wouldn't be surprised if someone is going to find a way to get steam to still run next year on windows 7.
Any news on this?

Ask the XP and Vista users how that's going.

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

I just have a feeling when this happens, i'm still going to be able to play my games (most all of which are 2005 era non DRM games) as i always did. I just have to keep it on Offline Mode.

EA said the same thing when they got away from Origin, and yet i can still play my older games there.

Sure, support may not always equate to functionality, but when functionality eventually breaks the response to tickets/complaints is going to be "we don't support that anymore".

[KalGimpa]

people have been trying for years

so far

the only thing that i have hard that works is a way to stop steam from updating

it is possible someone will find a way to get it to work

the chances are pretty slim that it will be any time soon

[xBCxRangers]

Originally posted by nullable:

Originally posted by *Logan*:

I wouldn't be surprised if someone is going to find a way to get steam to still run next year on windows 7.
Any news on this?

Ask the XP and Vista users how that's going.

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

I just have a feeling when this happens, i'm still going to be able to play my games (most all of which are 2005 era non DRM games) as i always did. I just have to keep it on Offline Mode.

EA said the same thing when they got away from Origin, and yet i can still play my older games there.

Sure, support may not always equate to functionality, but when functionality eventually breaks the response to tickets/complaints is going to be "we don't support that anymore".

Well, are they supporting Return to Castle Wolfenstein anymore? Of COD United Offensive? There's no reason those older games shouldn't play anymore, and if they haven't been supported in twenty years, i suppose there's no worries there.

The issue is using the store, maybe the forums, even though, you can still post at EA, or Epic, or Ubi or anyone who said they rid Win 7.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

I just have a feeling when this happens, i'm still going to be able to play my games (most all of which are 2005 era non DRM games) as i always did. I just have to keep it on Offline Mode.

Yes, you'll be able to use offline mode until the point it breaks. Offline mode is not 100% reliable and at some point will require you to go back online. At that time, if an update to Steam has broken functionality on Windows 7/8 then you will no longer have access. Keep that in mind.

The only guaranteed way to keep access to your library without any interruptions is to transition to a supported operating system before the update that will break functionality on obsolete ones.

[KalGimpa]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

I just have a feeling when this happens, i'm still going to be able to play my games (most all of which are 2005 era non DRM games) as i always did. I just have to keep it on Offline Mode.

Yes, you'll be able to use offline mode until the point it breaks. Offline mode is not 100% reliable and at some point will require you to go back online. At that time, if an update to Steam has broken functionality on Windows 7/8 then you will no longer have access. Keep that in mind.

The only guaranteed way to keep access to your library without any interruptions is to transition to a supported operating system before the update that will break functionality on obsolete ones.

i tried it

downloaded all my games and disconnected my pc from the net

cannot remember how long it took

but steam would not open one time and said it need to access the net to make sure i was legit

i did not know about the work around at that time and did not get to try it

[xBCxRangers]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

I just have a feeling when this happens, i'm still going to be able to play my games (most all of which are 2005 era non DRM games) as i always did. I just have to keep it on Offline Mode.

Yes, you'll be able to use offline mode until the point it breaks. Offline mode is not 100% reliable and at some point will require you to go back online. At that time, if an update to Steam has broken functionality on Windows 7/8 then you will no longer have access. Keep that in mind.

The only guaranteed way to keep access to your library without any interruptions is to transition to a supported operating system before the update that will break functionality on obsolete ones.

Over at EA i never even checked if there was even an Offline Mode. I only have two games there, MOH Allied and and MOH Pacific Assault. Fully playable even though they got away from Win 7.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Would all this crap only pertain to Online functionality not the game itself in Offline?

[KalGimpa]

Originally posted by Wynters:

Would all this crap only pertain to Online functionality not the game itself in Offline?

nope

i had a dual boot going and was using the offline to play my single players

steam sill wanted to go online after a while

[xBCxRangers]

Originally posted by Wynters:

Would all this crap only pertain to Online functionality not the game itself in Offline?

I've talked to the smartest tech folks on this site (for which, i'm not), and nobody, can say with any certainty, "what" is going to happen.

It could happen "this way, or another way. We're just not going to know until it happens.

I'm a part of the Resistance, and feel very bad for folks who will lose their store, or MP access, and the thousands they may have spent.

But i learned, a LONG time ago, to get away from PC, and have been on consoles for decades. I'm only here, to keep roughly the hundred games i have, that a very old, but love them, and i have feeling this at least for me, may end up a nothingburger. But we'll see.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by KalCuey:

steam sill wanted to go online after a while

Part of it is, I suspect, license verification.

Originally posted by xBCxRangers:

Over at EA i never even checked if there was even an Offline Mode. I only have two games there, MOH Allied and and MOH Pacific Assault. Fully playable even though they got away from Win 7.

EA App isn't Steam. Plus, as we've seen, when EA want to kill off access to something, they will do it very forcefully -- just try installing Origin on PC and see where that gets you.