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
Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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 if even Microsoft no longer bothers to update the OS, they also had to let it go at some point.
I don’t think anyone cares about W8 though, not even Microsoft itself barely seemed to put effort in making it work.
Nightweb@lemm.ee 2 days ago
eyeon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Isn’t the last version already that…well…last version?
If anything they could just leverage their work with proton that allows steam to play windows games on Linux to provide similar compatibility shims for old windows on modern windows
kn33@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If I remember right, the first Tomb Raider (at least before the remaster) was shipped with DOSBox to be about to run.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
If you own track mania nations forever on steam, you will be unable to run it on a modern OS. You can install mods to make it work but the game is still for sale and if you’re unaware the mod exists, you’ll never be able to play it again
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There is a version of it on Internet Archive that I don’t know if it’s from Valve or not. It’s zipped installation of Steam. But I had no luck making it work, it’s webpage renderer still crashes at launch. As I’ve read into it, the old version should work for a while without updates.
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Tried compatibility mode already?
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days 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 hardware from any networking and it’s completely safe to use as a game console
Sabin10@lemmy.world 2 days ago
To be fair, it’s not just a steam thing. My understanding of the situation is that chromium is dropping win7 support so anything using chromium will stop working on older operating system.
icedterminal@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Steam uses the Chromium embedded framework in case anyone doesn’t know. This renders the web pages in the Steam client. As mentioned, there’s no point in Valve maintaining the code base themselves when upstream Chromium drops support for 7.
This is similar to when browsers dropped support for Flash. Adobe stopped developing it and the major browser vendors removed their in-house flash plugins.