Steam Dropping Windows 7/8 Next Year

Steam Dropping Windows 7/8 Next Year
[Mar 28, 2023, 11:59 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Valve announces that at the start of next year, Steam will discontinue support for Windows 7 and Windows 8:

As of January 1 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems. After that date, the Steam Client will no longer run on those versions of Windows. In order to continue running Steam and any games or other products purchased through Steam, users will need to update to a more recent version of Windows.

The newest features in Steam rely on an embedded version of Google Chrome, which no longer functions on older versions of Windows. In addition, future versions of Steam will require Windows feature and security updates only present in Windows 10 and above.

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Re: Steam Dropping Windows 7/8
Mar 28, 2023, 15:37

Verno

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Re: Steam Dropping Windows 7/8 Mar 28, 2023, 15:37

Mar 28, 2023, 15:37

Verno

Hardline Mike wrote on Mar 28, 2023, 15:27:
The Flying Penguin wrote on Mar 28, 2023, 15:21:
Easiest way to install Windows 11 on any PC that doesn't meet the hardware requirements is to use Rufus:

https://www.wintips.org/create-a-windows-11-install-disk-for-unsupported-hardware-with-rufus/

I have an old Dell Intel Quad core Q8400 sitting on the shelf as a charity PC, with 4GB ram and a well used 128GB SSD, and it's running Win11 as fast as a greased pig.

Actually just managed to install it using the normal media creation tool from Microsoft. It didn't even tell me my CPU wasn't good enough, it just installed. I guess that PC Health Check thing is either out of date or is just there to discourage people from trying.

They eased up the requirement awhile ago since TPM isn't a default UEFI flag on a lot of systems that meet the requirement and it was causing confusion in the industry. I don't think they ever updated the PC Health App.

I still have the watermark on my screen telling me that while I am indeed runnning win 11, my CPU doesnt support it. I have yet to have any trouble....but the watermark in the bottom right of the screen is a little anmoying.

5 years old CPU....I mean seriously...WTF am I thinking.... :-eyeroll-:

You can regedit that out I believe.

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