Message from @Eccles
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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
it'll be the bios that'll fuck you up if anything