Steam not starting on windows xp sp3

[Belastingdienst.nl]

Hi, i built a windows xp retro gaming rig, i bought rct2 on steam, installed steam and logged in, then nothing no errors nothing, please help!


my retro specs
Pentium 3 700Mhz
512MB Ram
120GB HDD

[Alexalmighty]

System Requirements
Windows XP, Vista, or 7
512 MB RAM
1 Ghz or faster processor

from the looks of it its refusing to run due to your cpu being subpar

if possible it might be a good idea to refund it and see if you can get it from GOG

[Belastingdienst.nl]

Alright, thanks alot :)

[Schyz]

Hi,

I have the same issue, with a Pentium 3 @ 1,400MHz and 1 GB RAM on Windows XP SP3.

Keeps happening after clean installation, only drivers and Firefox.

It started around the same date OP posted this.

Is Windows XP no longer supported?

Does it mean Steam will then support games that have issues on Vista/7/10?

[Cathulhu]

Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft and no longer supported by Valve.
Based on the January 2017 hardware survey, just 1.24% of the Steam users still use Windows XP.

Originally posted by Schyz:

Does it mean Steam will then support games that have issues on Vista/7/10?

Why should they? That's the responsibility of the developer of the game, not the store selling it.
You don't go to Walmart and demand that they make RCT2 you bought there run on your Windows 10 machine, do you?

[Seven7]

You still can run steam client and games, but remember, that sef.winxp have public exploits and not support part of steam functions (you even may run steam on W2000)

[Schyz]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft and no longer supported by Valve.
Based on the January 2017 hardware survey, just 1.24% of the Steam users still use Windows XP.

Originally posted by Schyz:

Does it mean Steam will then support games that have issues on Vista/7/10?

Why should they? That's the responsibility of the developer of the game, not the store selling it.
You don't go to Walmart and demand that they make RCT2 you bought there run on your Windows 10 machine, do you?

Please cite sources for the drop of WinXP SP3 support.

I don't care what the survey says. I have games on Steam that only work fine on older machines, their developers haven't updated the games to support new machines, hence I need Steam to let me get those games on old machines. And using the Steam client is the only way.

Also, I don't go to Malwart because I don't even know what is that, but I do want to be warned that my games are a rental and not a purchase. I don't think Malwart sells games that can only be played for 10 years. What I expect is that if the game worked fine on XP 10 years ago, it keeps working fine on XP 10 years later.

[shiel]

Originally posted by Schyz:

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft and no longer supported by Valve.
Based on the January 2017 hardware survey, just 1.24% of the Steam users still use Windows XP.


Why should they? That's the responsibility of the developer of the game, not the store selling it.
You don't go to Walmart and demand that they make RCT2 you bought there run on your Windows 10 machine, do you?

Please cite sources for the drop of WinXP SP3 support.

I don't care what the survey says. I have games on Steam that only work fine on older machines, their developers haven't updated the games to support new machines, hence I need Steam to let me get those games on old machines. And using the Steam client is the only way.

Also, I don't go to Malwart because I don't even know what is that, but I do want to be warned that my games are a rental and not a purchase. I don't think Malwart sells games that can only be played for 10 years. What I expect is that if the game worked fine on XP 10 years ago, it keeps working fine on XP 10 years later.

There is so much wrong with this I don't know where to start.

[Start_Running]

You need a fast CPU OP. I'm on an XP rig and it works fine. Besides for decent retro gaming, you are advised to rock at the very least a p4.

[dinkstream]

Works fine on XP SP3, but a bit not reliable. Sometimes it doesn't launch at the first try, so it has to be completely terminated in Process Explorer and then restarted. The strange thing I found that this issue somehow related to previously executed programs which are using video card. (Though it could be merely cause of something I broke in my system.) Anyway, it's still workable and I hope for this best example of extended support to be continued indefinitely. Who else if not Steam, a sort of a great omnipresent library, which selling all kinds of games from all the times should have it? Wait, these is also GOG...

Originally posted by shiel:

There is so much wrong with this I don't know where to start.

I don't see anything particularly wrong with using xp on the old machines or for running old games. I also get your position, Microsoft, but I'm not going to pay you even a dime more. Maybe you are willing to pay for me then? And please, don't forget about shipping me any required hardware along with your new fancy software.

[Schyz]

The issue was that the Steam client was compiled with SSE2 instructions but not with plain SSE, used by Pentium III.

Had to wait until the next stable release and now I have KOTOR again running without issues in a hardware it was developped for.

Originally posted by shiel:

There is so much wrong with this I don't know where to start.

You might want to start going to college.

[x_BackshotDemon_x]

I know this thread is a bit old but i wanted to share my retro Gaming Rig specs


SR-2 Classified
2 x Xeon X5660 4.5GHz
Evga Geforce GTX 950
G.skill 16GB Ram
Western Digital Black 1 x 500GB 2 x 1TB
Windows XP

So far all my old Games runs without issues.