Steam and Steam Game Compatibility Thread

[dotexe1337]

a friend was able to run the original dark souls on xp in offline mode. im not sure if he used the regular steam version or if he applied a crack to it, but somehow it worked and played perfectly

[beansmuggler]

On 2/23/2022 at 10:36 PM, TrevMUN said:

Earlier this month I was able to get my version of Steam (Steam API: v017, build June 7 2017) to download updates from the Steam servers again! I edited my initial post to explain what it was I did (or what I think I did) which fixed the issue.

Is this still looking good! Did a fresh reinstall recently and I'm assuming the best method for install/maintenance may have changed again

[Ron4n12]

Downloads no work anymore 

[DosFreak]

Steam is a bloated POS anyway.
Download the game on a machine with a supported OS.
Copy to the game to the XP machine.
I can't be any more specific on this forum unfortunately.

Edited September 12, 2022 by Tripredacus

[beansmuggler]

You *can* do this, but I don't *want* to, as specified in the original post.

[DrunkenTanker]

Steam based on Chromium or Electron. Chromium or Electron developers do not support Windows XP. I don't understand why it was not forked for XP.

[Ten2O]

https://steamdb.info/blog/manifest-request-codes/

 

This has broken downloads. I don't see any way you can get around it. Downloads are dead for good now, as nobody talented enough to attempt to fix them even knows this is a problem.

Edited November 11, 2022 by Ten2O

[xp128bit]

On 11/10/2022 at 7:54 PM, Ten2O said:

https://steamdb.info/blog/manifest-request-codes/

 

This has broken downloads. I don't see any way you can get around it. Downloads are dead for good now, as nobody talented enough to attempt to fix them even knows this is a problem.

I tried to fix the downloads for so long but to no avail. It is possible to transfer your games but most of them time they say update queued and get stuck. Anyway yeah steam is pretty dead for XP, GOG seem to be the way to go.

Edited December 24, 2022 by Tripredacus

[j7n]

Good Old Games also patch their titles to fix problems with new systems by including new libraries that depend on NT6 functions. They have their own steam callad Galaxy.

[JukeBoxHero]

Gonna get XP running on a i7-4790k with a HD7950, will be sure to test a good amount of games.

Also just to add something to think about here, I guarantee you there's a good amount of games that technically are compatible with XP (Sims 3, Sims 4, Battlefield Bad Company, Spore) but their DRM isn't.

Edited April 6, 2023 by Tripredacus