Steam Ends Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 Support

Melvis · Jul 18, 2024

My brother still runs Steam no issues at all on Windows 7, that been said he hasnt bought any new games in along time.......and He does know Linus very well.

maxli86 · Jul 18, 2024

64K said:
I'm not clear about what it meant that Steam would no longer support Win 7 and Win 8. There are still some gamers using those OS there according to their survey. Granted it's about 1/2 of 1% but that still possibly represents several hundreds of thousands of gamers. Also, why is Steam even still reporting these OS in their survey?

For myself I still have working Windows 7 and 8.1, Steam still can run only certain newer game won't be able to launch.
I mainly use old PC to play old games for example Crysis, Fallout 3 and New Vegas etc.
There's a retrospective feeling when playing old games on older PC.

chrcoluk · Jul 18, 2024

It may not be broken now, but ending support might mean they just stop making an effort and validating builds on 7, so one day if it breaks they have already covered their back.

darksf · Jul 18, 2024

Funny thing is that Thorium browser managed to make Chromium 122 engine work on both XP and Windows 7. Tested on Thinkpad T60 W7/32bit works perfect. So why is Steam mongering about dropping support do not know. They could just leave 1-2 devs to support backporting the Chromium to W7 but officially to refuse any responsibility for you running it and that is all.

nageme · Jul 18, 2024

darksf said:
Funny thing is that Thorium browser managed to make Chromium 122 engine work on both XP and Windows 7.

Thanks for the pointer. Maybe Vivaldi should be notified...

More specific links:

Windows 7 & Thorium

Thorium for Windows 7 Webpage.

thorium.rocks

GitHub - win32ss/supermium: Chromium fork for Windows XP/2003 and up

Chromium fork for Windows XP/2003 and up. Contribute to win32ss/supermium development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

64K said:
Granted it's about 1/2 of 1% but that still possibly represents several hundreds of thousands of gamers.

No support for same reason as most companies, I guess: the market share is too small for them to bother.

64K said:
Also, why is Steam even still reporting these OS in their survey?

Don't give them ideas... As long as people can connect, with any Steam version, and report their OS, it should be there.

64K said:
Granted it's about 1/2 of 1%

0.5 x 1 = 0.5.

64K · Jul 18, 2024

nageme said:
0.5 x 1 = 0.5.

Nope

0.5 * 0.01 = 0.005

remixedcat · Jul 18, 2024

qlum said:
As much as I like using Linux (arch btw) I don't think the average person hard-stuck on windows 7 or 8 would know how to work with Linux.

Besides the bigger concern is old games, one may want to run on old hardware on a retro system.
For that retro use-case switching to linux doesn't really cut it. Even if end of the day the games can run in Wine on more modern hardware.

Linux Mint is very much like windows 7 UI and feel. It's very polished and easy to use!

TheFighterJetDude · Jul 18, 2024

darksf said:
Funny thing is that Thorium browser managed to make Chromium 122 engine work on both XP and Windows 7. Tested on Thinkpad T60 W7/32bit works perfect. So why is Steam mongering about dropping support do not know. They could just leave 1-2 devs to support backporting the Chromium to W7 but officially to refuse any responsibility for you running it and that is all.

What about 2000.

nageme · Jul 18, 2024

nageme said:
0.5 x 1 = 0.5.

64K said:
Nope
0.5 * 0.01 = 0.005

? You're restating the same thing. Half of one percent is half a percent.

Hence, the original quote is funny:

Granted it's about 1/2 of 1%

64K · Jul 18, 2024

nageme said:
? You're restating the same thing. Half of one percent is half a percent.

Hence, the original quote is funny:

Yes, we agree on the percentage but to state percentage in decimal form you have to divide by 100 so 1% in decimal form is 0.01

I could have said 0.5 of 1% or 1/2 of 1/100 but it's more elegant mathematically to say 1/2 of 1%

Imouto · Jul 21, 2024

chrcoluk said:
It may not be broken now, but ending support might mean they just stop making an effort and validating builds on 7, so one day if it breaks they have already covered their back.

It's exactly what it means.

Jacky_BEL · Jul 25, 2024

nageme said:
Thanks for the pointer. Maybe Vivaldi should be notified...

More specific links:

Windows 7 & Thorium

Thorium for Windows 7 Webpage.

thorium.rocks

GitHub - win32ss/supermium: Chromium fork for Windows XP/2003 and up

Chromium fork for Windows XP/2003 and up. Contribute to win32ss/supermium development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

No support for same reason as most companies, I guess: the market share is too small for them to bother.

Don't give them ideas... As long as people can connect, with any Steam version, and report their OS, it should be there.

0.5 x 1 = 0.5.

On a side note , security scan of Supermium gives me a trojan warning:

Trojan:Win32/Malgent!MTB

nageme · Jul 27, 2024

@Jacky_BEL
That's odd. Mostly the x86 version.
Flagged by half of the VirusTotal scanners, including Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee, Avast, AVG, but not NOD32, Kaspersky.

The x64 version is mostly unflagged.

darksf · Aug 7, 2024

TheFighterJetDude said:
What about 2000.

Well you should be able to install it if you install KernelEx. I doubt it will run on vanilla win2k.I don't have currently machine with win2k only w98se,xp64sp3,w7-32,w7-64,w8.1,w11 and Clear Linux. You might be joking but some of us on this forum support some retro gear either for fun or because it just works for specific tasks.

TheFighterJetDude · Aug 7, 2024

darksf said:
Well you should be able to install it if you install KernelEx. I doubt it will run on vanilla win2k.I don't have currently machine with win2k only w98se,xp64sp3,w7-32,w7-64,w8.1,w11 and Clear Linux. You might be joking but some of us on this forum support some retro gear either for fun or because it just works for specific tasks.

I currently daily drive 7 but no joke I would love to daily drive 2000 again. The only thing is without the extended kernel. If I am going to use the extended kernel I might as well use XP. And I don't like XP as much. I am just waiting for some good solid browser to be ported to vanilla 2000, sadly I may have to wait a bit because everyone is so focused on XP but no one seems to care about vanilla 2000. But if I am going to go older than 7 it is going to be 2000.

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Steam Ends Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 Support

Trojan:Win32/Malgent!MTB​

Trojan:Win32/Malgent!MTB