Well W7 is practically 15 years old, and already stopped receiving updates itself. It's not really up to Steam to keep it up and running ~~even~~ especially if Microsoft no longer bothers to update the OS, it would just get more and more problematic, and they also had to let it go at some point.

I don't think anyone cares about W8 though, even Microsoft itself barely seemed to put effort in making it work.

[–] Nightweb@lemm.ee -3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I actually disagree here, as I have games that I purchased that only work in win98/winXP/7 I think they should make one “last” version that supports those old systems to facilitate the old games on these old versions. No new features or anything just what’s needed to provide access to these old games

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tried compatibility mode already?

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or machine virtualization, VirtualBox and similar programs are piss easy to learn to use and most machines today should have 0 issue emulating older windows and an old game in a VM

Any issues you might have are going to be hardware related, like really old games not playing nice on no original hardware, but if you've got one of those then just install the last version of the OS and isolate that original hardware machine from any networking and it's completely safe to use as a game console

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