Still running Windows 7 or 8? Prepare for an Epic fail Epic Games Store follows Steam and drops support for older operating systems

Date:
Fri, 22 Mar 2024 11:42:15 +0000

Description:
Epic Games Store gives PC gamers another good reason to upgrade from Windows
7 or 8.

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The Epic Games Store has followed in the footsteps of Steam in dropping support for Microsofts desktop operating systems which are older than Windows 10 although this hasnt happened quite yet.

Epic gave notice in an announcement that support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 (or 8.1) will cease from June 2024, so just over two months time. Note that Windows 10 32-bit will also be dropped, but not the 64-bit version of the OS that the vast majority of folks run. There's no 32-bit version of Windows 11, of course.

So, support from June will be limited to Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11 - and for macOS, version 10.13 or newer of Apples OS.

As mentioned, Epic is a bit later than Valve in closing down support for
these older operating systems, because Steam enacted this measure at the
start of 2024 . As you might expect, there werent many PC gamers that were affected, going by Valves stats fewer than 1% of Steam users had Windows 7/8 installed at the time. And the same is likely true for the Epic Games Store. Analysis: Time to upgrade?

For the small niche of gamers who will be hit by this move, this will obviously be somewhat disappointing. Mind you, when June rolls around, this doesnt mean you wont be able to use the Epic Games Store at all. Itll still work, it just wont get any updates going forward, or be supported in any way. This means that after a while, bits of functionality might fail and the launcher will eventually probably start to misfire or stop working entirely.

Naturally, without updates, youll also be open to any vulnerabilities in
Epics client, but then if youre still running Windows 7 or 8, thatll be the least of your worries the exploits open to leverage in those systems will be far more worrying in nature, of course.

And thats exactly why you shouldnt be running Windows 7 or 8 any longer, anyway. Its time to upgrade, one way or another by which we mean make the move to Windows 10 (or Windows 11, if your PC spec is up to it ), or take the obvious alternate route, a Linux distro (there are some solid Windows-like choices out there , after all).

What about Windows 10 32-bit users? Well, Microsoft does still support them, but there are very few of these folks out there now (certainly in the gaming world Steams hardware survey doesnt even list Windows 10 32-bit anymore, and hasnt for a long time).

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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/gaming/pc-gaming/still-running-windows-7-or-8-prepar e-for-an-epic-fail-epic-games-store-follows-steam-and-drops-support-for-older- operating-systems


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