Windows 7 April Update

[Master.Constructor]

July UpdatePack7 2024.7.10 is out and is running fine for me. I've installed it on several of my Win7 machines and no issues to report.

I'm sure that there are many Win7 users out there that are unaware of these monthly updates. My experience has been very good since I started using them in 2021. One download will update a fresh install of Windows 7 SP1 to current day (or you can update the ISO before installing). Save time and bandwidth, it's basically SP2.

Steam seems fine. No real issues to report.

If you have any suggestions on improving the stability or utility of Windows 7 please share with us.

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Update: New Steam client on June 13 seems to be working better than previous.
Update: UpdatePack7 24.6.12 (June 2024) is delivering as expected.
Update: July updates are delivering as expected.

Steam Beta Branch: Stable Client
Steam Version: 1721173382
Steam Client Build Date: Tue, Jul 16 8:24 PM UTC -08:00
Steam Web Build Date: Mon, Jun 24 3:16 PM UTC -08:00
Steam API Version: SteamClient021

UpdatePack7 2024.7.10
- Added KB5039909-x86-x64 (replaces KB5036626-x86-x64)
- Added KB5040497-x86-x64 with disabling telemetry and processor checking (replaces KB5039289-x86-x64)
- Updated universal USB3 driver

[bidulless]

C²C^Guyver |NZB| původně napsal:

It is going to stop working at some point. You can keep denying this fact all you want, but the Steam store pages, say otherwise. If it doesn't need it, why did they update it in January of this year?

Or I guess they put it there for giggles, right?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/42670/Singularity/


* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

You guys can keep continuing to cling on to your outdated and unsupported OS. However, nothing will change that it is outdated and unsupported. You can try to refute this all you want, but the world says otherwise. When support actually does end this whole outcry will start all over again and you guys will cry and moan about how valve didn't tell you that they were going to do this even though they did, a long time before.

hello

Fact from who you @C²C^Guyver |NZB ?
lol , thx for that good laught early in the morning xd

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

When the bubble bursts, wiill you be laughing then?

[Shaggin'Wagon]

C²C^Guyver |NZB| původně napsal:

When the bubble bursts, wiill you be laughing then?

They won't be laughing. They will however be trying to use an older version of the steam client forever and trying to make that work for a while after Steam's current version stops working in Windows 7. Which will last a little longer, 6-8 months. Then eventually everyone will stop talking about Windows 7 and stop trying to use Steam on it then it will fade away to obscurity. The exact same thing happened when they dropped WindowsXP support for steam. I was here in the forums and watched it happen.

Notice how no one talks about, mentions, or even discusses using Steam in Windows XP in the steam forums today? Eventually Windows 7 will get there too.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

I was here too as well. For both XP and Vista.

[Shaggin'Wagon]

C²C^Guyver |NZB| původně napsal:

I was here too as well. For both XP and Vista.

So yep: The same cycle repeats again. There's 1-2 years where people try to cling to an older OS, then they find more copium ways to try and cope with it then eventually they give up and move on because they have to then eventually everyone stops talking about the old OS then it's just gone. We're going through the first few stages of copium from Windows 7 users right now.

[bidulless]

Shaggin'Wagon původně napsal:

C²C^Guyver |NZB| původně napsal:

When the bubble bursts, wiill you be laughing then?

They won't be laughing. They will however be trying to use an older version of the steam client forever and trying to make that work for a while after Steam's current version stops working in Windows 7. Which will last a little longer, 6-8 months. Then eventually everyone will stop talking about Windows 7 and stop trying to use Steam on it then it will fade away to obscurity. The exact same thing happened when they dropped WindowsXP support for steam. I was here in the forums and watched it happen.

Notice how no one talks about, mentions, or even discusses using Steam in Windows XP in the steam forums today? Eventually Windows 7 will get there too.

hello

i hope you will appreciate my cozy background of launch of Artemiss sls mission xd
https://www.launchphotography.com/

https://i.postimg.cc/XqBLhXCT/1Capture.jpg
running both steam, one from april 2023 , the current one i daily use and based on cef 85 and the last one from yesturday running on cef 109
No one know if even after updating to cef >109 the last steam client will still work after and for how long; but thinking that any w7 users does not have some perspectives and solutions like just changing their os is somehow very funny and nothing is eternal, even our Earth xd

[SqueakyTweaky]

The end of is not far when you can't use win 7 here no more , are you people really that ignorant and don't know what has happened in the past? 7 will be History, win 10 is next ( and same thing will happen)

[Master.Constructor]

C²C^Guyver |NZB| původně napsal:

You guys can keep continuing to cling on to your outdated and unsupported OS. However, nothing will change that it is outdated and unsupported.

Thanks for stopping by.

[Abigail From Sneaky Squid Dept.]

C²C^Guyver |NZB| původně napsal:

I was here too as well. For both XP and Vista.

The more scary part is the people who actually wanted to keep using vista.

[Shaggin'Wagon]

Abigail From Sexy Shrimp Dept. původně napsal:

C²C^Guyver |NZB| původně napsal:

I was here too as well. For both XP and Vista.

The more scary part is the people who actually wanted to keep using vista.

What's even worse than that is almost everyone here who is clinging to Windows 7 today were the same people years ago that tried to cling to Windows XP and "refused to update" to Windows 7. But then here they are now on Windows 7 and they are saying they refuse to update to Windows 10. It's a cycle that repeats.

[Master.Constructor]

Shaggin'Wagon původně napsal:

What's even worse than that is almost everyone here who is clinging to Windows 7 today were the same people years ago that tried to cling to Windows XP and "refused to update" to Windows 7. But then here they are now on Windows 7 and they are saying they refuse to update to Windows 10. It's a cycle that repeats.

This was mostly true for me. After seeing the fallout of Vista I stayed with XP until Vista would be properly fixed and optimized but that never happened. Instead Windows 7 showed up and it had it's own issues but also showed promise compared to Vista. Soon it was obvious that Vista was a 'skip it' OS but compared to XP, Windows 7 still needed some work.

It was around the time that SP1 came out that Windows 7 was finally ready for prime time, finally I could transition from WinXP-SP3 to Win7-SP1 with confidence (Windows NT 5.1 to 6.1). I believe this was sometime in 2010.

I was expecting this pattern to repeat after seeing the horror of Win8 and starting to get comfortable with Win8.1 and Open-Shell ... but then MS pulled the rug on 8.1 and we got another mess called Windows 10.

I'm still waiting after 14 years.

[Shaggin'Wagon]

Master.Constructor původně napsal:

Shaggin'Wagon původně napsal:

What's even worse than that is almost everyone here who is clinging to Windows 7 today were the same people years ago that tried to cling to Windows XP and "refused to update" to Windows 7. But then here they are now on Windows 7 and they are saying they refuse to update to Windows 10. It's a cycle that repeats.

This was mostly true for me. After seeing the fallout of Vista I stayed with XP until Vista would be properly fixed and optimized but that never happened. Instead Windows 7 showed up and it had it's own issues but also showed promise compared to Vista. Soon it was obvious that Vista was a 'skip it' OS but compared to XP, Windows 7 still needed some work.

It was around the time that SP1 came out that Windows 7 was finally ready for prime time, finally I could transition from WinXP-SP3 to Win7-SP1 with confidence (Windows NT 5.1 to 6.1). I believe this was sometime in 2010.

I was expecting this pattern to repeat after seeing the horror of Win8 and starting to get comfortable with Win8.1 and Open-Shell ... but then MS pulled the rug on 8.1 and we got another mess called Windows 10.

I'm still waiting after 14 years.

Windows 10 has received 14 major updates since it's original release (which are the same thing as a "service pack" in previous versions of windows). So far every time someone in the steam forums complains that "this game doesn't work in windows 10" people have managed to either make it work directly or find an easy modification in a couple minutes to make it work in windows 10. I have not seen any game or program so far that worked in windows 7 that does not also work in windows 10.

All parts of Windows 10 that people don't like (forced updates, Microsoft OneDrive, Telemetry, data recording) can all be either hard disabled (if someone wants to) or toggled on/off with free 3rd party programs. We can even install and run Windows 10 without a cd key forever (completely legal too) to make the change completely free.

Even the system requirements for Windows 7 and Windows 10 are exactly the same, meaning any computer that can run Windows 7 can also run Windows 10 just fine.

Windows 10 has been ready for prime time at least since 2022. There is no actual technical or functional reason to not upgrade. The only reason anyone has to remain on Windows 7 is just nostalgia: they have used it for such a long time and everything is familiar to them. They don't want to learn anything new.

[Rod]

Shaggin'Wagon původně napsal:

Master.Constructor původně napsal:

This was mostly true for me. After seeing the fallout of Vista I stayed with XP until Vista would be properly fixed and optimized but that never happened. Instead Windows 7 showed up and it had it's own issues but also showed promise compared to Vista. Soon it was obvious that Vista was a 'skip it' OS but compared to XP, Windows 7 still needed some work.

It was around the time that SP1 came out that Windows 7 was finally ready for prime time, finally I could transition from WinXP-SP3 to Win7-SP1 with confidence (Windows NT 5.1 to 6.1). I believe this was sometime in 2010.

I was expecting this pattern to repeat after seeing the horror of Win8 and starting to get comfortable with Win8.1 and Open-Shell ... but then MS pulled the rug on 8.1 and we got another mess called Windows 10.

I'm still waiting after 14 years.

Windows 10 has received 14 major updates since it's original release (which are the same thing as a "service pack" in previous versions of windows). So far every time someone in the steam forums complains that "this game doesn't work in windows 10" people have managed to either make it work directly or find an easy modification in a couple minutes to make it work in windows 10. I have not seen any game or program so far that worked in windows 7 that does not also work in windows 10.

All parts of Windows 10 that people don't like (forced updates, Microsoft OneDrive, Telemetry, data recording) can all be either hard disabled (if someone wants to) or toggled on/off with free 3rd party programs. We can even install and run Windows 10 without a cd key forever (completely legal too) to make the change completely free.

Even the system requirements for Windows 7 and Windows 10 are exactly the same, meaning any computer that can run Windows 7 can also run Windows 10 just fine.

Windows 10 has been ready for prime time at least since 2022. There is no actual technical or functional reason to not upgrade. The only reason anyone has to remain on Windows 7 is just nostalgia: they have used it for such a long time and everything is familiar to them. They don't want to learn anything new.

Wrong again pal. Win7 has better dpc latency for gaming on some processors. Upgrading from 7 due to nvidia dropping driver support resulted in a 3x system latency increase for me. I despise win10 and 11.


The same way win 7 was a 5-10% hit on cpu in some dx9 games over windows xp. These older operating systems are sought after for a reason because technically for games mostly they are superior in raw speed. Every new os simply adds more complexity. Is there a reason an os like 7 technically could not recieve some basic updates for games? Did we need win11?


Anyone who has a bad attitude to win7 is literally due to thier own ignorance corporate shilling.

[xBCxRangers]

I would add to this, i just booted up MOH Allied Assault on Win 7 over at EA, and still works like a charm.

[bidulless]

Shaggin'Wagon původně napsal:

All parts of Windows 10 that people don't like (forced updates, Microsoft OneDrive, Telemetry, data recording) can all be either hard disabled (if someone wants to) or toggled on/off with free 3rd party programs. We can even install and run Windows 10 without a cd key forever (completely legal too) to make the change completely free.

Even the system requirements for Windows 7 and Windows 10 are exactly the same, meaning any computer that can run Windows 7 can also run Windows 10 just fine.

Windows 10 has been ready for prime time at least since 2022. There is no actual technical or functional reason to not upgrade. The only reason anyone has to remain on Windows 7 is just nostalgia: they have used it for such a long time and everything is familiar to them. They don't want to learn anything new.

hello

It's false about disabling telemetry unless you are using an enterprise windows , especially with a the tools so many times recommanded by people ooshutup xd
Many telemetry can't be disabled just by using third party tools that does nothing else than grouping a better maner what you can find in windows 10+ more hardly under tons and tons of menus.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/4328600722517438916/#c4328600722518029169