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Old August 13th 20, 09:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic
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Default I booted up my very old Windows XP Pro. SP3 this morning...

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 09:15:54 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote:
"Spalls Hurgenson" wrote


| My biggest complaint is that not only doesn't Valve support the OS,
| they actively prevent you from running Steam on it.


I don't use games, but I'm guessing that's a DirectX issue.

No, my understanding is that it is a Chrome issue. Steam uses Chrome
to render its pages, and there's no XP support for Chrome anymore.
Rather than pay developers to backport the Chrome browser technology
to work on XP, they just dropped the OS.


Of course, some *games* won't run on XP - for a variety of reasons,
including its limited DirectX support - but that is a different issue.
I really don't expect "Horizon Zero Dawn", released to PC 18 years
after XP was developed and six years after Microsoft stopped
supporting it, to run on that OS. However, not being able to play a
game from 2005 - one designed for the OS - simply because its gated by
Steam is somewhat annoying.


Wait. So people with old computer games that ran in XP can't play from Steam
anymore? That sucks.

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