Blizzard Halts XP and Vista Support

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Windows XP came out a couple months before the Nintendo GameCube. If you ask me, it's kind of amazing that it was still supported.
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These games are build on DX9 engines and they got some DX11 updates afterwards. Lest hope they don`t BLOCK them from running on these OS somehow, as no one cares are they supported or not officially as long as they run. I know that these are ancient OS but there are still some people with old PCs that are powerful enough to run these games.
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These games are build on DX9 engines and they got some DX11 updates afterwards. Lest hope they don`t BLOCK them from running on these OS somehow, as no one cares are they supported or not officially as long as they run. I know that these are ancient OS but there are still some people with old PCs that are powerful enough to run these games.
Yep, my Father runs Athlon 64 x4 with HD 5770. Plays games on low, some on medium. And it runs Windows 10, without any issues.
#5454300
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Good stuff! Upgrade or get a Console if you can't afford to maintain a PC.
I know that these are ancient OS but there are still some people with old PCs that are powerful enough to run these games.
Those "some people" are holding back the future... GTFO.
#5454325
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Good stuff! Upgrade or get a Console if you can't afford to maintain a PC. Those "some people" are holding back the future... GTFO.
holding back the future? GTFO?.....did someone pee in your coffee today?
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Not surprised at all by this. I was expecting this to happen sooner than this.
#5454351
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Considering how old the game itself is, I don't see why they wouldn't keep supporting XP, as I'm sure a big chunk of XP users still play it on their old P4s and Geforce 7s. Regardless, I couldn't care less. I don't blame them for this decision and anyone who is still using XP needs to wake up and move on. The other games I am totally in favor of dropping XP support - I'm surprised they haven't done so sooner.
Yep, my Father runs Athlon 64 x4 with HD 5770.
Father with a capital F? Is he by any chance God? 👿
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Those "some people" are holding back the future... GTFO.
Wrong, these "some people" want something else than corporations and it is not bad, they not hold future, they just hold to what is good, because of that you have choice, maybe you want future you would be only spending money on new things even if they are bad, but not everyone want that future, like not everyone want windows 10 ...
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Good, hopefully more companies do this and stop letting people keep holding back technology because they are stubborn and decide they don't like something without ever using it or because they don't like "new"
Wrong, these "some people" want something else than corporations and it is not bad, they not hold future, they just hold to what is good, because of that you have choice, maybe you want future you would be only spending money on new things even if they are bad, but not everyone want that future, like not everyone want windows 10 ...
Too bad for them. If they don't want it, please, for the love of all that is holy, get left behind, and don't complain about it.
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XP is one matter, but I have a hard time taking the arguments about Vista keeping back technology seriously, while Windows 7 is still supported
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These games are build on DX9 engines and they got some DX11 updates afterwards. Lest hope they don`t BLOCK them from running on these OS somehow, as no one cares are they supported or not officially as long as they run. I know that these are ancient OS but there are still some people with old PCs that are powerful enough to run these games.
According to the article...
The games will not run on these older operating systems once they are no longer supported, so we encourage any players who are still using one of the older OSes to upgrade to a newer version.
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Those "some people" are holding back the future... GTFO.
Elaborate please. I bet that Blizzard keeps stats on operation systems used to connect to their servers and found that it isn't profitable to keep support up for XP and Vista, more a financial thing than technological. But I guess there is a workaround to make them games running like on Linux.
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But I guess there is a workaround to make them games running like on Linux.
They run on Linux because the more recent APIs of W7 and later are implemented there by WINE. No one is implementing those APIs on XP.
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From what I recall, there was an actual native Linux binary for WoW, but it was never officially released. I don't really understand why, maybe because it ran fine in Wine so they're like "why bother"? There was definitely a demand for it. At this point, I don't think most Linux users care.
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From what I recall, there was an actual native Linux binary for WoW, but it was never officially released. I don't really understand why, maybe because it ran fine in Wine so they're like "why bother"? There was definitely a demand for it. At this point, I don't think most Linux users care.
Makes sense. Back then, macOS used openGL for games, so making a Linux version wasn't that hard. But hey, don't expect a company like Blizzard to do "crazy" stuff like offering Linux support when they can't even get proper translations done. And the voice actors, oooh the voice actors in Diablo II... Makes me cringe everytime I remember.
#5454748
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They run on Linux because the more recent APIs of W7 and later are implemented there by WINE. No one is implementing those APIs on XP.
And run under OpenGL, WINE translates the DirectX drawing calls. Not sure about the rest but WoW does include OpenGL support so translating DirectX to that isn't even needed, which means that the only thing that needs to be manipulated is the OS identifier check.