dotexe1337 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beansmuggler Posted September 2, 2022 Author Share Posted September 2, 2022 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron4n12 Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 Downloads no work anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DosFreak Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beansmuggler Posted September 12, 2022 Author Share Posted September 12, 2022 You *can* do this, but I don't *want* to, as specified in the original post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunkenTanker Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ten2O Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xp128bit Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j7n Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_smith Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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