My bad

?

DRM-free you mean?

Nah, let me explain

Because of how steam’s integrity validation works, most of the game files have to be open or otherwise easily accessible so they can be read by the server and then compared to the most recent (or in the case of betas, the cached) version so that it can be repaired or reinstalled

uhhh

no

they just run a checksum

That's not what open-source means

Yes Eccles, I know

Which is why I fucking corrected myself

you can literally lock it into a few large pak files

and have a single executable

and the verification process still works

because it's a checksum, that's it

Fair enough

I’ll take that, I got it wrong

Doesn’t change the fact that Eccles is still an XP using boomer<:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

Was

im dreading windows 7 end of life

It was the being forced to change that made me fall out with Steam because of the way they ended the support

Ironically it was Microsoft -sensible- decision to allow the installation of WIndows 10 without a license key that saved me

i dont think win10 will run on my main laptop, and win 10 is a dumpster fire anyway

@system11 Windows 7 has already reached its manufacture end of life, but steam won’t abandon it for a while. A major stake of its user base still uses windows 7

i mean the out of support for OS updates EOL, not sure when that is

Can't be much longer, System11

yeah im sure MS will force the issue soon

It’s already happened

I have an old laptop running W7, it's got the specs to run W10 but won't because W10 is buggy and there is no value for M$ in fixing it

But both Microsoft and steam realize that many users still use it, so the plug isn’t pulled

if it had already happened i wouldnt have pending security updates from microsoft

It’s already happened. Probably just scheduled.

my laptop is 9 years old so not sure if win10 will even work on it. it was top of the range at the time and i cant find -anything- available with a screen as good

if it's got 2gb of ram, it should

but chance are it won't because fuck M$

Ah forgive me, I got my dates mixed up. It’s January 14th, 2020.

its the nvidia display hardware id worry about

you shouldn't, it's well supported

no

W10 works on everything

the screen is a 17" matte 16:10. just try to find anything with that