minecraft support for xp/vista ends in 2 days

[legacyfan]

the official support for minecraft on vista/xp ends in 2 days on april 1st

[Vistapocalypse]

Minimum Requirements: Windows 7 and up.

Recommended Requirements: Windows 10.

https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360035131371-Minecraft-Java-Edition-system-requirements-

This was already discussed in a December 2020 thread, End of support for Minecraft on Vista.

Edit: Also some discussion on page 70 of the lengthy extended kernel thread in January.

Edited March 30, 2021 by Vistapocalypse

[legacyfan]

ok thanks

[Tripredacus]

They only have "Windows 7 and up" but specify bitness for Linux and MacOS. They really should put the bitness on the Windows requirement, since if the game requires 4 GB RAM, a 32-bit OS isn't going to meet that requirement.

Now the thing I am wondering about is whether you can still use an old launcher on an old OS, or if they are going to block that from working.

[i430VX]

They are going to block that from working, but not really by any sort of API functionality difference, as far as I know. They are changing the account login method to need a Micro$soft account. Which, the old login method doesnt do.

[Tripredacus]

Presumably, you will still be able to play up to v1.12 using Magic Launcher. Not that I ever had a need for running offline, but I just realized I've never played a version newer than 1.12.2 myself. So I would not even consider it to be a deal breaker to have to stick to old versions.

[i430VX]

Thanks for that. I've always just played the latest version, but yeah 1.12.2 was the last that seemed to run well on a fair bit of hardware for me. (In fact, it may be the last at all for linux x86, iirc) When the normal launcher ceases functioning I will try out the Magic Launcher.

[legacyfan]

it a sad day it look like minecraft has been been officially made dead on vista/xp  r.i.p minecraft 2006-2021 for vista/xp  (i even tested unistalling the launcher and reinstalling it and it still gave me this message)

Edited April 12, 2021 by VistaEX

[winvispixp]

have you tried multi mc?

[donnie6232]

Minecraft still working here on xp