Steam overlay and Windows XP

[BlessedChihiro]

Does overlay work on Windows XP? One person claims that everything works for him. Personally, I have nothing. I put all the necessary checkmarks in the steam settings and the games themselves. The keyboard shortcut does not help either. And so... Are there any guys who dare to try to help me?

[Snapjak]

No support for XP anymore, any tricks or whatever you may be using to actually run Steam on XP... well don't expect much help considering it's been a year now.

[Cathulhu]

Steam itself does not work on Windows XP anymore. So, no, it does not work.

[BlessedChihiro]

Publicado originalmente por Snapjak:

No support for XP anymore, any tricks or whatever you may be using to actually run Steam on XP... well don't expect much help considering it's been a year now.

Yeah ... So we will use Steam without an overlay. Okay Thanks for the exact answer. But I'll probably wait for now. Perhaps there is some kind of trick about which we two do not know.

[Satoru]

The “trick” is

Stop using XP

[Muppet among Puppets]

You should know a lot about network security to handle xp online.

This increases your chances.

[BlessedChihiro]

Publicado originalmente por Satoru:

The “trick” is

Stop using XP

I can't.

[Phantom]

Publicado originalmente por ZatoYaKto:

I can't.

Why not?

There's no reason to stick to XP, at this point, and don't use nostalgia as an excuse.

The main reason why it's discountinued is because of the web framework of Steam.

You don't have to put yourself through unnecesary incovenience.

If there's some other technical reason, i hope you get past those.

[Monono]

Publicado originalmente por ZatoYaKto:

Publicado originalmente por Satoru:

The “trick” is

Stop using XP

I can't.

Use Linux I guess?

[Satoru]

Publicado originalmente por ZatoYaKto:

Publicado originalmente por Satoru:

The “trick” is

Stop using XP

I can't.

Note "I dont want to" is not the same as "I can't"

You are CHOOSING not to

You CAN stop using XP

You CHOOSE not to

[BlessedChihiro]

Publicado originalmente por Robin3sk:

Publicado originalmente por ZatoYaKto:

I can't.

Why not?

There's no reason to stick to XP, at this point, and don't use nostalgia as an excuse.

The main reason why it's discountinued is because of the web framework of Steam.

You don't have to put yourself through unnecesary incovenience.

If there's some other technical reason, i hope you get past those.

The problem is in the computer. He is so old that he can’t pull something better. Or something like that. In short, for technical reasons, I can’t update my OS. I used to sit on Windows 7 and it was great. And here we are.

[BlessedChihiro]

Publicado originalmente por Satoru:

Publicado originalmente por ZatoYaKto:

I can't.

Note "I dont want to" is not the same as "I can't"

You are CHOOSING not to

You CAN stop using XP

You CHOOSE not to

"I can't" means "I can't"

[Muppet among Puppets]

Publicado originalmente por ZatoYaKto:

"I can't" means "I can't"

That is maybe what xp says when trying to get the overlay on.

[Satoru]

Publicado originalmente por ZatoYaKto:

Publicado originalmente por Satoru:

Note "I dont want to" is not the same as "I can't"

You are CHOOSING not to

You CAN stop using XP

You CHOOSE not to

"I can't" means "I can't"

No it means you don’t want to. There’s a difference

[Zekiran]

Publicado originalmente por Satoru:

Publicado originalmente por ZatoYaKto:

"I can't" means "I can't"

No it means you don’t want to. There’s a difference

You really are kinda pushing it.

I own an XP laptop that is *PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE* of being upgraded.

I know I cannot be the only one who has such a device. I am thankfully able to use a w7 machine, completely apart from that old XP box. But a LOT of people *cannot actually afford* a new computer, *cannot upgrade their old one due to hardware issues* or cannot purchase a new OS.

Stop being so completely insulting for a moment. When someone states they CANNOT upgrade, it's because they already KNOW that there are other options.

OP: XP is not at all supported by Steam. So... If you have already tried updating Steam, it will not correctly run on that device any more, and you're kinda screwed even if you had games on it that ran before now. This was discussed to death over a year ago, this was not a new thing at all.

The only solution to running any steam games on an XP is to NOT HAVE UPDATED STEAM on it, before this support ended last year.

[Satoru]

Publicado originalmente por Zekiran:

Publicado originalmente por Satoru:

No it means you don’t want to. There’s a difference

You really are kinda pushing it.

I own an XP laptop that is *PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE* of being upgraded.

I know I cannot be the only one who has such a device. I am thankfully able to use a w7 machine, completely apart from that old XP box. But a LOT of people *cannot actually afford* a new computer, *cannot upgrade their old one due to hardware issues* or cannot purchase a new OS.

Stop being so completely insulting for a moment. When someone states they CANNOT upgrade, it's because they already KNOW that there are other options.

OP: XP is not at all supported by Steam. So... If you have already tried updating Steam, it will not correctly run on that device any more, and you're kinda screwed even if you had games on it that ran before now. This was discussed to death over a year ago, this was not a new thing at all.

The only solution to running any steam games on an XP is to NOT HAVE UPDATED STEAM on it, before this support ended last year.

This “I can’t afford it” is pure nonsense

https://youtu.be/27cRV_4xda8

You could pick up a computer out of a dumpster and get better performance than whatever nonsense aging hardware you’re running.

Again don’t confuse “don’t want” with “cannot”