{"id":287,"date":"2024-11-25T03:51:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T03:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2024-11-25T03:51:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T03:51:37","slug":"valve-ends-steam-support-for-windows-7-and-8-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/archives\/287","title":{"rendered":"Valve ends Steam support for Windows 7 and 8 users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Those of you still using Windows 7 and 8 that avidly play Steam games might want to consider finally upgrading.Almost two years after Microsoft itself abandoned Windows 7 and 8: Steam&#8217;s most recent client update is the first to not work on the old OSes, more than 11 months after Valve announced it would stop supporting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1125-31-1024x621.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1125-31-1024x621.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1125-31-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1125-31-768x466.png 768w, https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1125-31-1536x932.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1125-31-1200x728.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1125-31.png 1618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This version of the Steam client will no longer run on Windows 7 or Windows 8,&#8221; reads the accompanying documentation of the November 5 Steam client update. &#8220;Users on these OS versions will not automatically update to this new version of the Steam client.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in January, Valve announced that official support for Windows 7 and 8 had officially ended, meaning Steam Support would not be able to offer any technical support for issues users might be facing on those operating systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&#8220;We expect the Steam client and games on these older operating systems to continue running for some time without updates after January 1st, 2024,&#8221; Valve wrote on the Steam support website at the time, &#8220;but we are unable to guarantee continued functionality after that date.&#8221; According to Valve, the embedded version of Google Chrome required for core functions of the Steam client was the impetus for the move\u2060\u2014it just doesn&#8217;t support older versions of Windows anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of October&#8217;s Steam hardware survey, only .28% of users were still on Windows 7, while there were no reported users at all on Windows 8.&nbsp; It&#8217;s surprising that Valve took this long to make the call to end support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you still using Windows 7 and 8 that avidly play Steam games might want to consider finally upgrading.Almost two years after Microsoft itself abandoned Windows 7 and 8: Steam&#8217;s most recent client update is the first to not work on the old OSes, more than 11 months after Valve announced it would stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}