Windows 8.1 broken by Sept update - use compatibility mode for W7

[Amber Starlight]

The update is not working for Windows 8.1. The program creates an endless list of crash dumps in \Steam\dumps\reports. You will probably want to delete these. If you leave the program running, it may be wasting multiple gigabytes of space.

To fix this, launch the program in compatibility mode for windows 7 (right click -> properties -> compatibility mode -> windows 7). You will get a warning on startup, but the client will launch.

[honx]

supermium browser (a chrome fork) currently is up to version 126 (one version behind chrome) and supermium still runs on windows 7 (it even runs on old xp)! so why aren't script kiddies at valve capable of maintaining compatibility to windows 7? steam client uses exactly the same cef cancer supermium uses!!!

[Amber Starlight]

Origineel geplaatst door C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

That's apparently the last version of chromium that supports Windows 7 and 8. So the next update will be the one that kills it.

I don't think you're understanding what I'm saying. They have the capacity to simply not update the client for certain platforms. The windows 7 and 8.1 clients did not receive the January update, because they understood that the new version of chromium is incompatible. They can just maintain this "do not update" flag or however they're doing it for outdated operating systems so that they do not receive updates that are known to brick them, the same way they put that little banner at the top that says "steam will stop running on Windows xyz in 0 days."

If they just don't push an update to us, we can continue using Steam until they break something on their end that prevents an out-of-date client from communicating with the servers.

[Amber Starlight]

Origineel geplaatst door honx:

why aren't script kiddies at valve capable of maintaining compatibility to windows 7? steam client uses exactly the same cef cancer supermium uses!!!

It'd be a lot of work for something that's really out of their wheelhouse. They already have to maintain Steam and everything built on top of it - it would be asking a lot from them to either start maintaining an outdated fork of Chromium on their own, or to switch to an alternative that lacks new features and security patches for the sake of retaining a constantly shrinking userbase.

[Lixire]

Origineel geplaatst door Pscht:

I can understand clinging to 7, but 8.1?

I mean, if we look at both OSes then 8.1 is a much better OS under the hood and I would also say probably the fastest modern Windows release.
I certainly believe that if Microsoft didn't destroy the UI i.e forcing a mobile UI on desktop/laptop users then everyone would have ditched 7 right away

[Lixire]

Origineel geplaatst door honx:

supermium browser (a chrome fork) currently is up to version 126 (one version behind chrome) and supermium still runs on windows 7 (it even runs on old xp)! so why aren't script kiddies at valve capable of maintaining compatibility to windows 7? steam client uses exactly the same cef cancer supermium uses!!!

Chrome 110+ does use sandboxing and other functions that are only available in Win10 and 11. Supermium does away without those by using its workarounds

Workarounds that Google won't support and other vendors like Valve, Discord etc won't do due to the guidelines

[bidulless]

Origineel geplaatst door ★Sinon★ <3:

Origineel geplaatst door Pscht:

I can understand clinging to 7, but 8.1?

I mean, if we look at both OSes then 8.1 is a much better OS under the hood and I would also say probably the fastest modern Windows release.
I certainly believe that if Microsoft didn't destroy the UI i.e forcing a mobile UI on desktop/laptop users then everyone would have ditched 7 right away

hello
true, never have seen surch os, too bad i discovered it too late else it would have been my choice over w7 without any problems ... minus the ugly tiles xd

[76561198814094702]

Windows 8.1 is the best OS of all fast and smooth, Win10 is clunky awful nightmare, I had Win10 for a year and it was awful so I threw it in the trash can went back to windows 8.1, the difference is amazing.

[Lixire]

Origineel geplaatst door bidulless:

Origineel geplaatst door ★Sinon★ <3:

I mean, if we look at both OSes then 8.1 is a much better OS under the hood and I would also say probably the fastest modern Windows release.
I certainly believe that if Microsoft didn't destroy the UI i.e forcing a mobile UI on desktop/laptop users then everyone would have ditched 7 right away

hello
true, never have seen surch os, too bad i discovered it too late else it would have been my choice over w7 without any problems ... minus the ugly tiles xd

I used 8.1 from like 2013 until 2016. lovely experience and also was really speedy even on HDDs and systems with low RAM counts tho once I got an SSD. I just moved to 10 as I usually prefer to be on the latest version available at all times.
10 on HDDs as boot drives is simply unusable

[choclitoss]

yoo broo, u saved me, i was looking for a fix for that issue, i even uninstall de steam client and didn't work lmao thx <3

[GTK87]

thanks