Do you use Windows XP or Vista to run any old games?

[GRIDLINES]

Asking mostly because I know there are still games on Steam that were made before even Vista was released. Did you know that the disk of Half-Life actually came with a version of Steam?

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1558-AFCM-4577

Basically you won't even be able to launch your Steam library on a Windows XP or Windows Vista computer soon. It's official.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Yes I too would take a guess W7 being around the mid 20s. Giving that Microsoft went out of their way to add compatibility modes, with OS such as W7, and up, shows that they do care what people want, and can only give them a first aid kit, but the rest is up to them on supporting themselves beyond Microsoft willing to do, as not everything will work, due to some limitation, which most games are not having these limitations really, if it's only a few hoops to jump through.

At this point XP/Vista users will have to suck it up, and move on, just like back in 2007 when 98/ME support has ended.

[Berkut]

Windows xp was legend

[TheRandomGuy]

For the record, most of my old games from the 90s, such as Fallout 1/2 work well on Windows 10 or 7, without issues. The only games I've had to jump through hoops for were mid to late 2000s games like Fallout 3 and TES : Oblivion, which needed issues to be worked around, but it wasn't very hard.

Aside from that only actual issues I've had with Windows 10 are bug related due to feature updates, but that's a whole other argument.

[GraySenshi]

So basically they are banning all older games from being played good job

[ostar]

I know this thread got necro'd for a goofy post/reason, but...

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από OPEN:

Did you know that the disk of Half-Life actually came with a version of Steam?

Half life came out in 1998.

Steam came out in 2003.

Hell, even counter strike, a game that was built from half life, was on like version 1.5 before steam came out and forced everyone to get steam to continue playing.


Maybe you were thinking of half life 2.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από GraySenshi:

So basically they are banning all older games from being played good job

Either you didn't read, and just assume what the discussion about, or you're clueless as the next person that wants to throw salt, and act like a drama queen.

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Ekkusubokkusu konturrora:

just archive a last updated winxp steam client that people can do an alternate download of from steam website and everyones happy. Durr not hard linux does this all the time for ancient stuff.

Plus Linux users have all the tools they need to play their games, there even SteamPlay for Linux OS's which makes Windows games have much better compatibility to playing them, I hear nothing but good things for old games for the past few weeks.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

I have an old pentium III on a laptop that run windows XP.

I've been thinking about to turn it into an arcade cabinet and install some old retro games on it that I still have on CD-rom ... but my main gaming PC is on windows 10 so I don't care if steam stop supporting windows xp.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Lemonfed:

I have an old pentium III on a laptop that run windows XP.

I've been thinking about to turn it into an arcade cabinet and install some old retro games on it that I still have on CD-rom.

Sounds awesome.

[76561197961796205]

so it mean that more people going to pirate games on xp.

[Hellsteeth30]

No, between GoG and occasional devs updating games here on Steam I'm good.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Lolita.:

so it mean that more people going to pirate games on xp.

A. Move on to another OS that is supported, and play your games. Most of the Linux distros are free, or get Windows 7, or newer, which BTW FYI that Windows 10 unlicense version is complately free to get, and use as long as you like, and only restrictions is not having access to the Windows store, and the personalization settings, like chaging the UI colour, font, or etc... Plus the water mark that will only show on desktop, but if you play your games in full screen it won't show.

B. Buy your games DRM free from GoG, or etc, check if they offer free games you can redeem if you own them on other platforums, just like "GoG connect"
gog.com/connect

Simply download game, bring it to old outdated system that using old outdated OS, and install, or copy the game folder onto USB thumb drive, and drag, and drop it on to your old outdated system that using old outdated OS, and run the game .exe, and enjoy.

C. Do what you said, then feel bad about it later if something goes wrong, because you'll have a higher chance of getting a virus, and since Windows XP has loads of security flaws popping up for the last 4 years, the odds of something happening just be downloading is much higher compare to the other OS's that has patch, or taken care of majority of security flaws, and the antivirus can only do so much, if it not able to detect, then it will not do anything if somehow got a virus, which is why people keep pointing at the high risk you're talking when using outdated OS's, and especially downloading from unknown/untrusted sources, which is the risk you take when you're trying to pirate software.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Ekkusubokkusu konturrora:

this cutting off any way to play old games we bought kinda makes me less likely to buy new games except from gog

You're just losing support for XP/Vista, if the client stop working, nothing can be done about it, since it's no longer support.

I have been in few dicussions for past few months, haven't found one game as of yet on Steam that's complately unplayble with no way of doing a patch, notepad edits, or anything, and we're upto 26k game games on Steam right now, I'm very interested finding which games on Steam itself, not by disk, that can not be played outside of Windows XP OS, which no one was able to name one game that was unplayble as of yet in any of the discussions I have seen, or been in.