asdf2345 Posted October 18, 2020 Posted October 18, 2020 (edited) Instead of making a long list of software that supports Windows 7, I'm making a list of software that doesn't work with Windows 7. There are four categories, the first is: Windows 10+ only, the second is: Windows 8+ only, the third is: Requires modification to work on Windows 7, and the fourth is: Unofficially works on Windows 7. There's likely plenty more software that isn't listed here, so let me know if any Windows 8+ only software gets any mods that lets it work on 7, or any new 8+ or only officially supports 8+ software comes out. Windows 10+ only: Games: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Death Stranding (DirectX 12 only, missing a few APIs, and has an OS block) Forza Horizon 4 (UWP) Horizon Zero Dawn (Same as Death Stranding, but has no OS block, or at least a older patch doesn't) Microsoft Flight Simulator Minecraft Bedrock (UWP) Sea of Thieves (Matchmaking backend comes from Microsoft Store) Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind Other: Facebook Messenger app iTunes Microsoft Office 2019 (Unofficially works on 8.x) NVIDIA Broadcast Oculus Setup/App Presonus StudioOne v5 (Might unofficially work on 7/8, but untested) Windows 8+ only: Game clients: EA Desktop Beta (Requires a 8.x dll, also, the installer has a block that blocks anything under 8.1, and application verifier does not work) Other: Kingston SSD Manager Requires modification to work on Windows 7: Games: Crysis Remastered (You should probably play this with DXVK. This happens without DXVK) Back 4 Blood Alpha (Requires xinput1_3.dll from C:\Windows\System32 to be copied into the same folder as the game .exe and renamed xinput1_4.dll) Mafia: Definitive Edition (Requires DXVK to run. More info here) Mafia II: Definitive Edition (Requires xinput1_3.dll from C:\Windows\System32 to be copied into the same folder as the game .exe and renamed xinput1_4.dll) Need For Speed Heat (Requires modifying the Origin launcher) Postal 4: No Regerts (Unreal Engine bug. It requires a fix that the developers of the game posted) Star Wars™: Squadrons (Same fix as Postal 4) System Shock Remastered (Same fix as Postal 4) Other: Discord (Intentionally breaks screenshare audio on anything below 10, fixed by using a browser or application verifier) Python 3.9.0 (https://msfn.org/board/topic/181979-another-program-drop-the-support-python-390/?tab=comments#comment-1189117) VMware Workstation 16 (Requires a custom installer and replacing vmware-vmx.exe) Unofficially works on Windows 7: Game clients: GOG Galaxy 2.0 (1.2 is superior and supports 7 officially) Games: Anthem Battlefield 4 (Says it requires Windows 8 on Steam, likely a mistake as Battlefield 3, 1, and V all officially support Windows 7. Though Windows 8.x is known to perform better than 7 in game, so that might be why) Boneworks Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection Crusader Kings III Death end re;Quest 2 Destroy All Humans! (Minimum OS is listed as 10, but in additional notes, it says it supports Windows 7 and 8.1. These guys forgot what minimum requirements mean) Detroit: Become Human (Is a Vulkan game, but Windows 10?. People say it actually works better on 7 than on 10) Disintegration (Was patched to fix issues with Windows 7, but minimum requirements still say Windows 10) Doom 64 Empire of Sin Fall Guys Madden NFL 21 Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered Persona 4 Golden Phantasy Star Online 2 (According to Steam, it's DirectX 9.0c, but Windows 10+?) ReCore: Definitive Edition Rust (Game that used to support Windows XP, DirectX 9, DirectX 11, OpenGL, and Vulkan in early access, but now "requires" Windows 8.1 and only supports DirectX 11 and 12) State of Decay 2 Trials of Mana Watch Dogs: Legion Other: .NET Framework 4.8.1 Anki Audacity Blender 3 Calibre 6.0+ CorelDraw 2021 Cryptomator v1.6.x Dolphin v16393+ EA Desktop EasyBCD 2.4 Firefox latest Google Drive iTunes 12.11 iZotope RX 10 Kingston SSD Manager Kodi 21 Microsoft Teams Mindview 8 MKVToolNix 67 MotionController0669 Mozilla VPN MySQL MySQL Workbench 8 OBS OneDrive OneNote app OpenExpert Paintnet 5.0+ PCSX2 PerfectDisk Photoshop 2023 Presonus StudioOne v5 Process Monitor Python 3.9+ QMMP version 2 Rebelle 5 Steam TCPView 4.x x64 Ubisoft Connect Vidcoder 7 Visual Studio Code vmware player 16 VQProbe Windows Mixed Reality Xbox App Yuzu emu EA-2686+ ZBrush Edited February 15, 2023 by Tripredacus 5
asdf2345 Posted October 18, 2020 Author Posted October 18, 2020 Not adding Python 3.9.0 yet, as I haven't confirmed if my fix works yet.
Jaguarek62 Posted October 18, 2020 Posted October 18, 2020 2 hours ago, asdf2345 said: Mafia: Definitive Edition (Requires DXVK to run. More info here) Wait mafia uses dx12?
asdf2345 Posted October 18, 2020 Author Posted October 18, 2020 Just now, Jaguarek62 said: Wait mafia uses dx12? It's either a DX 11.1 or 11.2 feature used or some sort of incompatibility with Windows 7's DirectX 11
Jaguarek62 Posted October 18, 2020 Posted October 18, 2020 3 minutes ago, asdf2345 said: It's either a DX 11.1 or 11.2 feature used or some sort of incompatibility with Windows 7's DirectX 11 Oh ok. Cause It is running perfectly fine on windows 8.1
Nokiamies Posted October 18, 2020 Posted October 18, 2020 Audacity 2.4.2 no longer got official win7 support (source https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Windows_7_OS) but it still starts and works fine using portable or installer versions
Jaguarek62 Posted October 18, 2020 Posted October 18, 2020 I forgot You can add Fall guys. They officially state Windows 10, but it runs fine on Vista (with extended kernel) to 8.1 (including 7,8.0) just fine. 1
surrodox2001 Posted October 19, 2020 Posted October 19, 2020 On 10/18/2020 at 9:20 AM, asdf2345 said: Not adding Python 3.9.0 yet, as I haven't confirmed if my fix works yet. I'm curious what's your fix do and how it works.
asdf2345 Posted October 19, 2020 Author Posted October 19, 2020 Just now, surrodox2001 said: I'm curious what's your fix do and how it works.
karl80038 Posted October 28, 2020 Posted October 28, 2020 Doom 64 on Steam works fine under Windows 7 and probably on Windows 8/8.1 as well. The fact that they only list Windows 10 under supported Operating systems section is odd considering they fully support Doom Eternal on Windows 7. 1
pokeguy Posted October 29, 2020 Posted October 29, 2020 Minecraft Bedrock doesn't work on Windows 7 because it's UWP, also OBS says it's Windows 8 minimum but the latest version works fine on Windows 7
Guest Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 (edited) ITunes 12.11 dropped support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 Edited November 20, 2020 by THK2003 added itunes version
Jaguarek62 Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 1 hour ago, THK2003 said: ITunes 12.11 dropped support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 ???????????????? Oh noooo. Is there any workaround? I rely on itunes
asdf2345 Posted November 21, 2020 Author Posted November 21, 2020 10 hours ago, Jaguarek62 said: ???????????????? Oh noooo. Is there any workaround? I rely on itunes Maybe application verifier
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