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Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:14:14 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Epic is dropping Win7/8 support Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:14:13 -0400 Message-ID: <0kmovitpmg6fj1ukh3nufqaeefd04sk2fh@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-iEP2rdMWWtQQB53D81HflIY3s0VfIz5iZGAZb6qftfb4SF39aSUxgNLlBFvOZLsBl8HBPA/M/Waot2s!kjo6zaKHyqG/PK785hcmwcv1dfDXDjZSPRGprZgakQJr2JN9aVt8X4S4JC+GDy2PiMjRYRk= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2654 Or rather, the Epic Game Store app will no longer support those operating systems. The 32-bit version of Windows 10 is also getting the axe. Which - given that Windows 7 is now 15 years old (and 3 years out of support from Microsoft - is understandable. As much as I'm a fan of those older operating systems (and honestly, wish support for them would be longer), I get why companies feel the need to deprecate the older OS. But - as much as it grinds me gears to do so - I have to give credit to Epic for /how/ they are handling this transition. Because while they are no longer supporting those operating systems, they are NOT preventing you from running EGS on them. If you have an older version of EGS running on Windows7, it will keep running. No, you won't get anymore updates, and if there's a bug or security issue, don't expect Epic to fix the problem. But if you are just using it to launch games on an older computer, it will keep working. This is how it should be. It's very different from Valve, which actively disables Steam from running on older operating systems, and even if you do get the client running, its unlikely you'll be able to use it actually launch games. Of course, the optimal solution would be just to make the games available as self-installing executables, so players wouldn't HAVE to use a launcher, even after the reseller stops supporting their OS. Oh, if only (GOG) there was some reseller (GOG) who provided so helpful (GOG) an option! But alas, there isn't. ;-P Still, at least Epic didn't do the most-awful thing and force people to abandon their older computers entirely...