Steam is basically a DRM system which means you won’t be able to run any of your existing games on Windows 7/8. It will break all your steam games either immediately or within days.
Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Out of curiosity (I no longer run win 7 at all so can’t check), does this mean steam will give an error if you try to run it on win 7 and will refuse to run? Or is this just valve saying they are no longer committed to releasing any updates for win 7? Or a combination of the two where they aren’t deliberately making it incompatible, but they also aren’t deliberately making it compatible so some patch is expected to break it entirely, maybe even today?
alekwithak@lemmy.world 8 months ago
End of support means no more security updates. MS already ended support for Win 7 which has numerous unpatched vulnerabilities.