Steam error

[Darky-]

Hello guys,

Since yesteray i have an error on my steam.I try to reinstall the steam in another divice, but for nothing.I reinstall the windows, i try to delete some files from steam folder.. nothing.
http://i62.tinypic.com/av04yt.jpg

I have windows xp sp2, so.. What should I do?

[Apostulator]

I told you. You can not use Windows XP. That is a Microsoft error message. Lose XP; upgrade to Windows 7 (or 8.1)

[Моксим]

ZCXC

[Darky-]

Apostulator eredeti hozzászólása:

I told you. You can not use Windows XP. That is a Microsoft error message. Lose XP; upgrade to Windows 7 (or 8.1)

I do not think, because the steam worked perfectly until yesterday. So.. it's a problem with the new update, because when i start my steam, have made ​​an update and after, the steam doesn't work..

[Apostulator]

XP? are your serious? do you really want to continue this discussion?

[Darky-]

Dude, i think that you have a problem.

[Darky-]

If you can to help me, try. But if you don't have a tip for me, go away.

[76561198002514325]

I have the same problem in Windows 7

[Offordef]

Let me Guess? Athlon XP or maybe even a Pentium3?
Since the last Steam update (May 21st) SSE2 CPU feature is required and this is not supported on older CPU's.
There are some threads with the same error.

[Darky-]

i have amd athlon 3000+

[bravemator]

Do This and That

[Darky-]

Nobody can help me?

[Sir Bowen 🐉]

@Darky:
There are around 10 Threads about Bootstrapper Error on the last 4 Pages in this forum.

It seems like it has nothing todo with Win-XP
more with the SSE2 requirement since the last Update.

Offordef eredeti hozzászólása:

Exactly, the same here.

Tyan Thunder Dual K7 here. (Athlon MP aka XP)
Looks like VALVE requires SSE2 since the last update.
Very unfortunate because many games don't need SSE2 to run but effectively killed my Retro Gaming box.

No workaround as Steam automatically updates to the latest version,
Hope this will be sorted or at least be given an option to run a Legacy Steam version that does not require SS2.

Otherwise everything lower then K8/P4 will not be able to run Steam, P3 and K7 Athlon and lower.

BUT IT IS NOT OFFICIAL CONFIRMED ATM

[76561197967527250]

Darky eredeti hozzászólása:

Nobody can help me?

Only the Valve programmer can change it back, I guess.
Simple Steam.exe need SSE2 is ridiculous. At least the programmer can add a starting option like "-noSSE2" to avoid many victims.

[MrMcSwifty]

Apostulator eredeti hozzászólása:

XP? are your serious? do you really want to continue this discussion?

Is there really a need to be so condescending? XP is still a pretty popular OS, and as others have since pointed out, worked flawlessly with Steam up until now. This "need" to upgrade that you're insisting on wasn't necessary until literally two days ago.

The issue is hardware related. Anyone using older CPUs is going to be impacted by this, regardless of which OS they are running. Obviously, more XP users are going to be affected, since more XP users are more likely to be running on obsolete hardware.

Likewise, I suspect XP users running more current hardware can continue to do so without issue. Perhaps I'll log in on my own XP SP3 install later and check...

[NikoS]

same problem here. "steam client bootstrapper error" just after clicking steam.exe.

System xp sp3

All worked fine. Stoped after just after update.