Is there any way to get steam working on Windows XP?

[schmickulas]

I just created a Windows XP virtual machine and when i tried to install steam it said that Windows XP is outdated, is there any way to get steam working on Windows XP?

[Spawn of Totoro]

Nope.

Valve has dropped XP support for Steam. Unless you saved a previous version, logged in and in off-line mode, with the games you want already there, then there is no way to get Steam on XP.

[Seretti]

Build a time machine and go back to when XP was supported?

[NICEgood32]

Originally posted by Seretti:

Build a time machine and go back to when XP was supported?

Ahhahahhha very funny

[nullable]

Steam ended XP support around January 2019 and if I recall from the Steam hardware survey data a little under half a percent of users were still using XP. Part of this had to do with Steam being based on Chromium and Chromium ending XP support as well I believe.

The ended Vista support at the same time as XP. Win98 support ended in 1997. So by all measurements XP support hung around for an exceptional amount of time. But as with all things, the end comes.

[Satoru]

Steam wont work because the underlying chrome browser is unsupported in XP

[Snapjak]

Originally posted by Seretti:

Build a time machine and go back to when XP was supported?

While you're there try to do something about this current... well just stop 2020 from happening.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Snapjak:

While you're there try to do something about this current... well just stop 2020 from happening.

But think about the fancy " I survived 2020!" t-shirts we can print when its over.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by Snapjak:

While you're there try to do something about this current... well just stop 2020 from happening.

But think about the fancy " I survived 2020!" t-shirts we can print when its over.

You're making a very bold assertion there, friendo :D


But yeah OP: sadly, if you didn't stop your XP machine from updating when they switched over, you're out of luck. I'm Not Happy About It either, but I don't *rely* on my XP laptop unless I'm completely unable to use my desktop. Those older games - half life 1, and some others - are still functional but only if you didn't allow your computer online while steam's running, to update.

[Xextreem]

There are ways. Can not tell here but yes you can still use steam on xp only, you need to know how computers work in software or it's a hard way to do it.

[Recks]

Yet I see youtube videos all the time 2024 posted videos of steam running on XP

[Sabrine]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.