steam support for win 7-8 ending.

SkeeterUK · 30 Apr 2023 at 17:54

Game over: Steam won’t run on Windows 7 or 8 after January 1, 2024

Windows 7 still runs on more Steam PCs than every version of Linux combined.

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General

Added "End of Life" alert for Windows 7/8/8.1. Steam Client support for these operating systems will end on Jan 1st, 2024 at 10am. See here for additional details.

Fixed crash when clicking links in Compatibility Mode alert dialogs

Reduced CPU usage of the Big Picture Mode window

macOS

Added "End of Life" alert for macOS 10.11 ("El Capitan") and 10.12 ("Sierra"). Steam Client support for these operating systems will end on September 1st, 2023 at 10am. See here for additional details.

Fix Steam Overlay crash in some games using Metal graphics API

(This client was re-released a couple of hours later to fix a regression that caused some Steamworks enabled multiplayer game sessions to fail to connect)

(This client was re-released again to fix a crash running some games)

If you upgraded steam lately ud see in the notes about it. Im surprised there wasnt a topic about it since i think a lot of ppl still use win 7 and maybe 8 as well tho wasnt as popular. Just thought id post the topic incase anyone missed the news.

GlitterBalls · 30 Apr 2023 at 18:04

Not used 7/8 for years.

Semple · 30 Apr 2023 at 18:38

I believe 7 officially went out of support years ago anyway.

LostCorpse · 30 Apr 2023 at 19:57

i expext windows 10 will be out some time on 2027-2030
on the basis th mainline support will be out in October 14, 2025

cybersecurity side o things probably means itends sooner as the threat map increases.

Jonny2284 · 1 May 2023 at 09:22

On the March Steam Survey Windows 7 had a whopping 1.11% of the userbase and Windows 8 had 0.20%, at some point you've gotta cut your losses on putting resources on ensuring compatibility and support.

molinari · 1 May 2023 at 09:29

Windows 7 worked perfectly for me, but I upgraded to Windows 11 two weeks ago

Terminal_Boy · 1 May 2023 at 09:41

This will be what finally forces my PC to Win 10.

VincentHanna · 1 May 2023 at 12:40

Baffles me when people stick with old operating systems

Some people were hanging on to Windows XP for years.

theone8181 · 1 May 2023 at 12:51

Wasn't 10 a free upgrade from 7/8 anyway?

DavidTJ · 1 May 2023 at 12:57

VincentHanna said:
Baffles me when people stick with old operating systems

Some people were hanging on to Windows XP for years.

Change can sometimes be unnerving. I have just got a new PC running Windows 11 and I feel like I have no idea what I am doing, even though logically most stuff that I want is the same or incredibly similar to Windows 10.

So when something works people often just stick with it rather than spending time messing with it.

VincentHanna · 1 May 2023 at 12:58

theone8181 said:
Wasn't 10 a free upgrade from 7/8 anyway?

Yeah.

I seem to remember some people thought Microsoft was going to watch their every move with windows 10 or something

Brutal biff · 2 May 2023 at 17:13

VincentHanna said:
Yeah.

I seem to remember some people thought Microsoft was going to watch their every move with windows 10 or something

I wonder if they use a smartphone

Terminal_Boy · 2 May 2023 at 17:28

8 was dog toffee and 10 had a bunch of issues when it was a free upgrade.

As 7 still worked just fine for what I wanted, I’ve stuck with it.

arknor · 2 May 2023 at 17:44

VincentHanna said:
Yeah.

I seem to remember some people thought Microsoft was going to watch their every move with windows 10 or something

they pretty much do, but as someone said above your smart phone is probably getting more useful data from you and your web browser

Rroff · 2 May 2023 at 17:50

SkeeterUK said:
Im surprised there wasnt a topic about it since i think a lot of ppl still use win 7 and maybe 8 as well tho wasnt as popular. Just thought id post the topic incase anyone missed the news.

There was a thread on it, didn't get much interest.

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Rroff · 2 May 2023 at 17:54

VincentHanna said:
Baffles me when people stick with old operating systems

Some people were hanging on to Windows XP for years.

People hang on to older operating systems for a variety of reasons a common one is when older games aren't supported under newer OSes - one of the reasons Ubi have rolled back, for now, their plans to depreciate older than Windows 10 as a significant portion of their back catalogue has an older minimum requirement and/or has issues with anything newer than 7. I suspect Ubi will follow Steam though and push it through again when Steam support ends.

Windows 10/11 are also far less than optimal in many areas - if you do some heavy weight productivity tasks Windows 10/11 is unreliable compared to 7 - it struck me recently when I upgraded an older laptop from 7 to 10 - it largely mirrored the old install onto 10, didn't actually offer any improvements over 7 on it before but actually had disadvantages in terms of extra background activity, malware protection engine chugging far too much CPU time and the **** idiotic, narrow minded, ******* stupid implementation of updates - had to stick a few programs like Shutup10 and WUB to make it less of a pain in that respect.

VincentHanna said:
Yeah.

I seem to remember some people thought Microsoft was going to watch their every move with windows 10 or something

Telemetry with 10 is quite bad actually - I think a lot of people would kick up a fuss if they saw it plain and openly the level it was gathering data about them - it also tends to have a minor but not negligible impact on performance and reliability of the OS.

cainer · 6 May 2023 at 15:36

I'm still on Win 7 so will need to upgrade, is the free upgrade to 10 still available or should i go straight to Win 11?

Rroff · 6 May 2023 at 15:47

cainer said:
I'm still on Win 7 so will need to upgrade, is the free upgrade to 10 still available or should i go straight to Win 11?

You can still activate 10 or 11 with a Windows 7 install/key in most cases. Which is better will be subjective personally finding 11 clunky and buggy despite the more modern UI.

cainer · 6 May 2023 at 16:00

Rroff said:
You can still activate 10 or 11 with a Windows 7 install/key in most cases. Which is better will be subjective personally finding 11 clunky and buggy despite the more modern UI.

Thanks for the reply,
i did a quick google on system requirements as i'm on an old i7 920 from 2010 with just 6gb of Ram and it seems Win 10 might be best,
got till the end of the year to make my mind up though as i'll be holding off until the last minute

cheers

mrk · 6 May 2023 at 16:46

Windows 8 and that metro interface, I never upgraded my machine to 8 from 7, went right to 10 then 11. Metro was awful, 8 seemed too quirky like it was designed to be a tablet OS shoehorned as a desktop OS and I didn't like how it looked at me funny at work.

10/11 are fine, I see people having the same complaints about 11 now that people did for 10 back in the day too, and now look, folks are hailing 10 as the greatest. People will hail 11 as great once 12 is out just you wait and see. The cycle never ends.