ditch windows OS altogether and roll Linux OS. Windows OS is the scum of the earth OS.

Originally posted by Niko-Ni:

How can I make Steam work as much as possible on Windows 7?

You don't. Things will continue to break more and more as systems are developed further and not tested on Windows 7. Eventually things will cease to work on the OS entirely. That's just how things are for unsupported operating system. You're better off switching to Windows 11. Windows 10 is next on chopping board as MS will end support for it this year so it's not really viable option.

From what I understand is that they adopted some new download protocol that isn't compatible with win 7 anymore (correct me if I'm wrong)

Your OS will go the same way as WinXP. Ditch it. Either upgrade or switch to a Linux distro.

All things come to an end, as time move forward, so does fade the use of older OS.

All can do keep looking for workaround, but you keep running into more roadblocks as time keep moving forward, eventually until there is no workaround left. My advice, either A) Move to Linux, or B) Update to using newer Windows OS if your system support it.

There are themes for Linux, and newer Windows to make thing look like older OS themes, you have to look up guides for those, but overall RAM shouldn't be a problem as there is no chip shortage, nor are lack of RAM to choose from, even used market can get it up to half the price of what cost for retail.

I'd be concerned for my PCs security more than anything else. Never use OS which is no longer receiving security updates.

There are methods to work around it for now, but it’s slowly becoming less and less usable. The new download protocol means any games that opt in and need to be updated are bricked on Windows 7.

Just upgrade, 10 is an okay stopgap if you can’t do 11 yet, but it itself is nearing EOL. Linux is an option if you really don’t like windows and can’t go for it.

I'm just upset I can no longer use my windows 98 box for anything useful.

M$ please.

times we're so much simpler on amiga. just insert disk and take a dump while it loads then you can game for ours.. good times

Use Linux.

Originally posted by SpeedFreak1972:

From what I understand is that they adopted some new download protocol that isn't compatible with win 7 anymore (correct me if I'm wrong)

Pretty much that's the way of it. They first stop updating the front end the client in this case and then they start changing the back end.. Eventually those changes make th front end incompatible.

Time to upgrade to 10 or 11 m8. You were given a year plus of warning.

The problem with the advice to upgrade is that it ignores the fact that many older, unsupported games don't work on modern operating systems, so they will soon be impossible to play on Steam unless their communities make compatibility patches for them, which isn't guaranteed. Now players will have to go elsewhere (like GOG) to get these games, and I wouldn't be surprised if Valve doesn't purchase-disable/refuse to carry a lot of older titles in the coming years to avoid legal issues, which is going to be a massive spit in the face to the SKG initiative.

This is a bad move by Valve, because they don't even have to do anything aside from keeping a legacy content delivery system in place as an opt-in feature for people running older OSes on separate boxes or in VMs for older games.

Originally posted by Shotgun:

The problem with the advice to upgrade is that it ignores the fact that many older, unsupported games don't work on modern operating systems

Poeple keep repeating that without giving any example, or at least a true example when they're proven wrong.

You not wanting to download a fan patch to fix a 20 year old game not running on a modern OS is not the great excuse to "have a company support an OS that was already EOL'd by their own creators" that you think it is.

Originally posted by Yzal:

Originally posted by Shotgun:

The problem with the advice to upgrade is that it ignores the fact that many older, unsupported games don't work on modern operating systems

Poeple keep repeating that without giving any example, or at least a true example when they're proven wrong.

Older TW games, games using the PhysX patch, are some recent examples for me personally.

Originally posted by Yzal:

You now wanting to download a fan patch to fix a 20 year old game not running on a modern OS is not the great excuse to "have a company supporting an OS that was already EOD'd by their own creators" that you think it is.

Right. Who'd want to play old games anyway? Companies work very hard to release new quadruple-A titles for me to enjoy, and I should be thankful for them instead of trying to cling to history like some kind of nostalgic loser.

Any more bits of wisdom to share with me today?

Originally posted by Shotgun:

Originally posted by Yzal:

Poeple keep repeating that without giving any example, or at least a true example when they're proven wrong.

Older TW games, games using the PhysX patch, are some recent examples for me personally.

If you mean the 32bit PhysX then this still runs on Win11. It just doesn't run on the RTX50-Series GPUs. So if you have any other GPU, you are fine.