Re: Steam finally kills Win7/8 support

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:49:47 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

>
It's no surprise --Valve announced their intentions way back in late
2023!-- but now it's finallly happened.* The newest versions of Steam
will no longer run on Windows 7 or 8 (or MacOS 10.13/10.14). So if you
still have a Windows 7 gaming PC, well... say goodbye to any
Steam-launched games on that system.
>
Time to upgrade those old Win7 machines to Linux, I guess.
>
>
>
* as of November 5th. Okay, I'm a bit late with the announcement ;-)
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/4472730495692571025
>
>

You know, we were worried about Steam in the early days for the wrong
reasons. It looks like we will (mostly) always have access to our games,
but planned platform obsolescence in the client requires us to upgrade
our OS software beyond compatibility with the older titles. We lose our
games _that_ way. Did not see that coming.

Is it still possible to download your games with an old client? If not,
then that's the problem. That Steam insists on only its latest version.

--
Zag

This is csipg.rpg - reality is off topic. ...G. Quinn ('08)