Don't want to know my PC history as in TLDR? Start reading this post past the long line.
I'm playing Horizons and Odyssey on a 10 year old Windows 7 Pro PC to an Acer Predator X34 3440x1440 144Hz curved monitor about 3 feet from my old eyes and it is awesome. Well, this wasn't your basic local store PC as I built it for professional broadcasting audio, video and wedding photography using the full range of Adobe software products and a few custom ones. It was VERY expensive at the time but I was making money in a business and got a tax write off.
Then I retired and atarted playing ED on this PC. My two MSI GeForce GTX 680 N680GTX Twin Frozr 4GB overclocked video cards loved Abobe running in SLI mode but not so much in ED. ED saw only one card and the other was idiling. Then when one died I removered them both and installed a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti feeding that Acer X34 Predator monitor and a more respectible 120 mhz to the monitor everything works great with no lags or dropouts.
Even in some past Community Goals with nt multi-crew Krait Mk II I could have one player in a fighter and a second player firing weapons I installed for them without any glitches or lags but they often get bored and leave.
In the past years ago I have met with Frontier Devs putting a group event together racing around an orbiting station, flying into the tunnels of an outside station and competions landing a Sidewinder with FA off in an orbiting station who can do it better? I miss these Devs but making a living in software all the best to them moving on with their careers.
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So how long will Frontier support Windows 7 for Elite Dangerous? Windows 10 was the PC operating system being sold at the time when ED was released in 2014. But with the issues of Windows 8 many corporations were still running previous Windows versions before spending millions to upgrade. That is probably why Microsoft supported Windows 7 for so long and awesome for us game players.
My guess if Frontier monitors the OS system of the PCs logging into ED and the number of them running Windows 7 drops to insignificant numbers (whatever that is) then they are going to move on.
Next you buy Odyssey on the PC you get Horizons 3.8. If you don't purchase Odyssey then you get 4.0 Horizons. Epic and Steam you tell me later how it works out. If Frontier comes up with a major DLC for Christmas in Dec 2023 updating Odyssey than what happens to Horizons? Personally I think if you purchased Horizons and do not want to move on Frontier is going to support you for the life of the game.
Then maybe Frontier says the game is complete still working out bugs over the years they cannot fix and maybe throw us a bone with the Panther Clipper or a Ghost ship another player suggested which was awesome. But in FE2 and FFE where I could land on atmospheric planets including Earth with several major cities I could look around with a camera in the city. Now that we have to SRVs to drive around will I need Windows 11 home to pull this off should ever happen in ED?
Regards
Fying a Thargoid ship in FE2 landing on an atmospheric planet.. Fly safe...
I'm playing Horizons and Odyssey on a 10 year old Windows 7 Pro PC to an Acer Predator X34 3440x1440 144Hz curved monitor about 3 feet from my old eyes and it is awesome. Well, this wasn't your basic local store PC as I built it for professional broadcasting audio, video and wedding photography using the full range of Adobe software products and a few custom ones. It was VERY expensive at the time but I was making money in a business and got a tax write off.
Then I retired and atarted playing ED on this PC. My two MSI GeForce GTX 680 N680GTX Twin Frozr 4GB overclocked video cards loved Abobe running in SLI mode but not so much in ED. ED saw only one card and the other was idiling. Then when one died I removered them both and installed a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti feeding that Acer X34 Predator monitor and a more respectible 120 mhz to the monitor everything works great with no lags or dropouts.
Even in some past Community Goals with nt multi-crew Krait Mk II I could have one player in a fighter and a second player firing weapons I installed for them without any glitches or lags but they often get bored and leave.
In the past years ago I have met with Frontier Devs putting a group event together racing around an orbiting station, flying into the tunnels of an outside station and competions landing a Sidewinder with FA off in an orbiting station who can do it better? I miss these Devs but making a living in software all the best to them moving on with their careers.
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So how long will Frontier support Windows 7 for Elite Dangerous? Windows 10 was the PC operating system being sold at the time when ED was released in 2014. But with the issues of Windows 8 many corporations were still running previous Windows versions before spending millions to upgrade. That is probably why Microsoft supported Windows 7 for so long and awesome for us game players.
My guess if Frontier monitors the OS system of the PCs logging into ED and the number of them running Windows 7 drops to insignificant numbers (whatever that is) then they are going to move on.
Next you buy Odyssey on the PC you get Horizons 3.8. If you don't purchase Odyssey then you get 4.0 Horizons. Epic and Steam you tell me later how it works out. If Frontier comes up with a major DLC for Christmas in Dec 2023 updating Odyssey than what happens to Horizons? Personally I think if you purchased Horizons and do not want to move on Frontier is going to support you for the life of the game.
Then maybe Frontier says the game is complete still working out bugs over the years they cannot fix and maybe throw us a bone with the Panther Clipper or a Ghost ship another player suggested which was awesome. But in FE2 and FFE where I could land on atmospheric planets including Earth with several major cities I could look around with a camera in the city. Now that we have to SRVs to drive around will I need Windows 11 home to pull this off should ever happen in ED?
Regards
Fying a Thargoid ship in FE2 landing on an atmospheric planet.. Fly safe...
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