Can we still play fps games with windows 7?

[chrome]

Hey, I'm wondering if we could still play fps games like Assasins Creed, GTA 5, and more with windows 7. I mean I don't have a bad pc I have an NVIDIA graphics card and an AMD Processor
but I like windows 7 and still don't know what was the use of upgrading to windows 10 it just has more spyware and bloatware where windows 7 has a little bit of bloatware I've watched videos on how to keep yourself safe after Microsoft stopped support for windows 7 last year but I'm still wondering if I can still play games on windows 7.

[Phoenix]

I honestly don't understand the question.

OS support is indicated on the shop/product page, is it not? And how do "FPS" games factor into this?

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

If a game worked on Windows 7 and you still have those same game files, it should continue to work on Windows 7.

The exception is if you have the game via Steam, and Steam and/or the game may have since been updated to not work anymore on Windows 7. In such a case, and you may need to download fan-patches and/or find an older version to make it work. Unfortunately, Steam forces updates and doesn't offer old versions of games (in most cases), but if you can find ways to access an old version, it should still work.

I don't think this is specific to FPS games. That said, if you run into problems and then you find a fix for one game, other games using the same or a similar engine may also be fixable in a similar way.

[Illusion of Progress]

The more immediate hindrance to gaming on Windows 7 is hardware support, not game support itself. Many new CPUs (or rather, the platforms they come on) don't officially support, or have drivers (like USB) for, Windows 7, and require a lot of unsupported, third party work to get it installed or working, if at all. Eventually, more and more software and games will simply not work on it right out the gate (some already don't, like Mafia II Definitive Edition, though a simply file drop gets it working) and might work with a simple fix, and then eventually, those simple fixes will become needing bigger fixes, then none at all.

Right NOW, yes, it works mostly fine, but that is starting to change, and I'd look to move to Windows 10 soon unless you are going to be on your current motherboard for a while longer. I made the change last year when I changed platform, and while much of the nonsense Windows Vista/7 started, was furthered in Windows 10 (let's butcher wallpaper quality more than Windows Vista/7 already was for zero reason...), most of it is little or stupid stuff you can work around, usually... and it's otherwise not too different in MOST aspects. It has a less pleasant UI (IMO), but some nice new features (some of which are admittedly forced on you with no native way to disable or even adjust), and that's about it from the end user point.

[_I_]

if the pc meets the min reqs you can play the game

[Magma Dragoon]

If you really want to avoid Windows 10 you should use Linux and install Windows 7 in a VM and use that just for gaming.

[Carlsberg]

As well as has already been stated pc gaming relies on DirectX which has limited support on Windows 7 so gaming on that platform has no real future, time to move on.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

If you want to play latest AAA games then you need Win 10, simple as that.

[Clan Wolf]

there are many mod distros focused on privacy for win10 all have their pro/con

[Lord Flashheart]

No games that use Directx 12 only.

Windows 10 is basically spyware, but it is better for games.
My machine is dual boot - windows10 /linux.
Windows for me is for gaming only, minimal web browsing - for things like drivers
.

Oh and sometimes go through steam forums when bored waiting on a game server or so.