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7/9/2025, 10:01:06 AM
>>714949283
>Steam DRM is the reason games don't work on W7
I use W7 and this is such a massive cope lmao
The reason many modern games don't fucking work with W7 is almost always tied to the game engine itself, many devs don't fucking care about backward compatibility for their games and simply lock the access off rather than bother. It's especially noticeable with Unity 6, Godot 4 and UE 5, where you can still run many newer games if you find a way to bypass the OS check.
Honestly the only shitty thing Steam have done relative to backward compatibility is fairly recent, they changed the encryption for downloading game updates, which just doesn't work on older OS, it just get stuck in a loop, and rather than allow older OS to keep the previous download encryption (which still exist, as you can still download them manually from their archives), they just said fuck it.
>Steam DRM is the reason games don't work on W7
I use W7 and this is such a massive cope lmao
The reason many modern games don't fucking work with W7 is almost always tied to the game engine itself, many devs don't fucking care about backward compatibility for their games and simply lock the access off rather than bother. It's especially noticeable with Unity 6, Godot 4 and UE 5, where you can still run many newer games if you find a way to bypass the OS check.
Honestly the only shitty thing Steam have done relative to backward compatibility is fairly recent, they changed the encryption for downloading game updates, which just doesn't work on older OS, it just get stuck in a loop, and rather than allow older OS to keep the previous download encryption (which still exist, as you can still download them manually from their archives), they just said fuck it.
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