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linux support is improving and steam has proton out for beta now which allows gaming with windows only games on linux. linux is a free opertaing system
im currently using linux mint 19 on my spare pc and am able to play many games natively ported to linux as well as fallout nv,flatout 2,gta iv,long dark,mount and blade and others using proton on steam with no issues
Well, then you just have to forget about gaming on that pc.
Not like you should game on such pc anyway.
If you want to game while on it, there is plenty of old games you can download outside the Steam.
you can run windows xp virtual environment from within linux for compatibility to windows xp legacy software or use wine if there is not a very large amount of software.
OR.. you can dual boot os's linux mint and ubuntu will install "beside" windows xp on the hard drive not deleting windows from your pc it will allow you to select the space you allocate (free space) from your hard drive to install linux.
you can also run windows 7 or 10 and run a virtual xp environment for work
Got to agree, doesn't sound like you should use such a system to game on at all.
Worse case, install a second hard drive and dual boot.
No one should be using XP any longer as a main IS to game on, with the few exceptions for even having it installed being required software, even then, that's an even worse reason now given XP's lack of support and security seems a huge weakness just waiting to be exploited.
The overwhelming majority of XP era games will run fine on windows 10, just disable the features you don't want and move on, XP has been crap since windows 7 turned up.
Here are a couple of things to think about:
1) What happens to games that ONLY run on XP, or run substantially better on XP? Well, they are gone. You can't start them without the steam client, and you can't run the steam client on XP so they have just been STOLEN from you.
2) What happens to machines that are not able to run anything but XP? Simply, they become garbage to anyone that depends on steam. (My XP machine doesn't have the problem because I have literally thousands upon thousands of legally purchased drm free games for my XP box.)
3) Why can't you just run the last compatible version of the Steam client to run old classic games? Because they don't want you to. There is no other reason. They are too lazy, yes, LAZY to keep the old version of the client working. I mean it would take one line of code to check the system it is running on and download and run the old client, but they don't want the headache of making that interact with the rest of their system, so they broke all your games. Our "friends" at ubisoft figured out how to keep an XP compatible version running, so it certainly isn't impossible.
I have 3 windows 10 machines in the house but I will STILL be using my windows xp machine for some time in the future to play older games, it simply runs them better than 10. Unfortunately, I won't be able to rely on Steam to be my archive, as they have shown they don't care to do that. Learn from this young guys -- software companies don't care about anything except what they are selling you TODAY... they don't care how much you love an old title or how great it still is. Wake up and buy drm free!!!
Supporting an unsupported platform has plenty of problems.
1: It's useless expenses to keep supporting it, especially when programs are moving away from 32-bit.
2: For users, it's unsafe. Unsupported platform connected to internet in modern times means you can get all kinds of malware and backdoor "break ins". Anti-Malware and Anti-Virus can only do so much. And then people will wonder how their account got stolen.
For example the lately surfaced Spectre and other Intel-specific flaws, they have been in the Intel's cpus for decades. And since XP won't get any security updates, these never will get fixed on them when using XP.
Also, if you have physical copies of the game which you had added into your Steam account, you can get the key "returned" so you can install the game from the discs.
mini laptop if you have the money
Should never be using Work PCs to run Games on anyways, buy your own PC
Working in that industry, its amazing you still have a job doing that sort of thing at work.
Windows 7 SP1 64bit ~ is basically the minimum for anything that still has on-going support.
Nothing will happen to your Games, you just can't continue to use Steam (GoG/Uplay/Origin also requires Win7 too) under WinXP or VIsta. One of the big reasons is security, the other is dropping continued support for legacy 32bit OS' which is pointless for apps to continue to devolop seperate versions for any longer. Everyone should have been using 64bit OS since Vista released. Folks really do not have any excuses, you've had since 2006 to get onboard with it.