Maybe they just want to use PathCchCombine. That's a useful function not available on Win7. (Unlike D3D 12, which technically is.)
Same here, but on my Atari ST. Although Ive also got an UltraSatan - SD card reader in the internal drive bay of one of them - They are marvellous!
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Win95 you joking right im waiting for Windows 1.0 support
And they didn't take the chance to go on the dx12/vulkan (/metal lol) way
I think they just rewrote the name to Odyssey and added v4.0
More likely that both NVIDIA & AMD have dropped driver support (indeed they did almost a year ago). So those that are running Windows 7 (all 2% of steam users (yes I know)) are running, at best, drivers that haven't been updated in at least that long.
I think this may need some time to think as I just changed to win10 last month as win10 is a huge personal data collector.
Still I was surprised that steam ratios are less than 5% of win7 users...(source from 2022)
I guess we couldn't escape from that reality, win7 is dying
It took me 1 month to get rid of all spying tools from MS, all adds, and most of all, xbox tools.
I'm still actively working on windows update pushing to update even when It should be disabled.
It should be configured to update on demand only, but well, I'm still manually updating occasionally.
May you rest in peace my dear Win7 friend
Still I was surprised that steam ratios are less than 5% of win7 users...(source from 2022)
I guess we couldn't escape from that reality, win7 is dying
It took me 1 month to get rid of all spying tools from MS, all adds, and most of all, xbox tools.
I'm still actively working on windows update pushing to update even when It should be disabled.
It should be configured to update on demand only, but well, I'm still manually updating occasionally.
May you rest in peace my dear Win7 friend
Sorry, I just have to be a little annoying after reading certain replies in here, but some of you lot need to upgrade to a Linux distro
A good firewall can block all that garbage. I'm using a -poor firewall (AVG), and it still works well. We'll never be able to selectively exclude specific updates, but at least we can decide when updates are installed. That's good enough for me on my one remaining Windows install.
Damn straight to the point.Sorry, I just have to be a little annoying after reading certain replies in here, but some of you lot need to upgrade to a Linux distro
Pop_OS, Deepin, AlmaLinux, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE user here
#SteamPlay + Python 3 & I can continue playing
yea i'm using AVG too, but ... windows do ignore some rules, from firewalls (no idea how it manages to do that) so i did add a fake WSUS server telling my PC there is no new update ... works for now ...
And for the rest, having xbox is really annoying. So now it"s gone, I feel much better
I wish I could, but I have too many tools (professional & personal) that do not work at all if not installed on windows, and ... I don't really like linux for private use. Though it's the best for professional use in dual boot or secondary machine.Sorry, I just have to be a little annoying after reading certain replies in here, but some of you lot need to upgrade to a Linux distro
I hear ya, I wish it wasn't the case myself. Best of luck o7
I use an external outbound firewall on my router which prevents any computer on my LAN from connection to all these various telemetry, tracking, and update sites (Roku is ridiculous), and it works wonders. I've just blocked all updates to my Windows machine, freezing at version 1909. I also run an application firewall on Windows itself, similar to the old ZoneAlarm, that prevents programs from phoning home that have no business doing so.
As for security, I've got so many protections in place (especially on the browser which I do keep updated) that I have zero worries about this computer becoming infected or compromised. I'm also in the computer version of a monogamous relationship (I only visit a handful of trusted websites and rarely ever install new software), so it's not like I'm "hooking up with strangers" every day.
Unless it's the Home edition you can freeze the feature version via group policy's "select the target feature update version". Not that it matters at this point as anything before 21H1 isn't getting security updates either, so blocking it all has the same effect.
Yeah I have the sad neutered Home Edition, but I was under the impression that even using GP you could only defer updates for so long.
With Pro or above you can manually specify the feature version, and Windows will never download or install feature updates, but will continue to patch that version with normal rules (including the limits on defering security updates and such). Once the feature version is no longer supported, Windows update just says 'updates are available', but can't list or download them.
If you think you may need to change from Home to Pro, you can check royalcdkeys website, I bought win10pro Retail (no restriction whatsoever) for 2€, 2 months ago.
i'm not advertising this site, there are many that does the same, just this one seemed safe & serious, and worked fine for me.