Playing EVE on Windows 7

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hello everyone

first time i played eve was 10… maybe 15? years ago? i don’t know anymore

either way, windows 7 was the brand new os back then, to which i still stick, because i am a grumpy old boomer

now that i am going through midlife crisis, i decided to fool around in eve again, hyper casual, i just enjoy flying around, mine some asteroids and clap some rats… BUT, aparently eve stopped supporting windows 7 in late 2023 or so

googling forums and stuff there were aparently quite a few people that wanted to keep playing on win 7 but it was met with laughter and ridicule by most, well, here i am playing eve on win 7 on christmas eve :smiley:

ofcourse there are occasionally a few funny graphical glitches, i will try to capture them so you can have a laugh as well

wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year, even though i never really was part of the game, i think the community it created is amazing, hope you can keep enjoying your game for many more decades to come

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So it is still working? They don’t prevent it and you did not need to make modifications or install special components from Windows 10?

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Gross, might as well be running it in Vista

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I am not surprised, I would be surprised, if they were running it in Windows 3.11 or maybe 98.

What is wrong with Windows 7? Personally I didn’t care to leave my XP behind, but that’s Windows for you.

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depends on what you consider “special components”

all i did was install vxkex, which is opensource and developed by various people who still love windows 7

since you can still select dx11 to play eve, it is a matter off faking the windows version to the game client, but i am sure the additional libraries to their job as well

for games that require dx12, there is dxvk, a tool that converts dx12 instructions into vulcan to be usable under windows 7 but that requires a lot more tinkering

still, people mod all kinds of games like elden ring to be able to run them on windows 7… just to avoid wintrash 11 and linux distros haha

hell, some madman managed to make project cars run on xp…

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I prefer to get security updates instead

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I’m wondering If I can play EVE with the Genesis CNC Plasma Cutter we have at work. :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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Bet it’ll run Doom, though.

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Old OS will still run programs, just because Microsoft states it will no longer support the product, doesn’t make it stop working the next day. Windows 7 and 10 can go on for several years operating and being used to run software. They might not work the best on the latest programs, since MS Windows API changes will affect new software packages.

However I would suggest to anyone currently running Windows 7 OS, due to hardware, they should try Linux OS. The hardware dependencies are not as severe as Windows 11.

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Do you use a windows firewall that is installed on its own box?

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Router Firewall is best!

Windows 10update May 2020
Firewall status Off on this pc that runs Eve.

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I have a UniFi router so yeah most firewall stuff is handled on that rather than locally on my own machine

Not sure why you don’t just update that W10 install to the most recent public security updates, you can likely even get ESU for free so you can stay current

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I’m surprised that people will announce to the internet that they are easier to hack than others. vOv

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Windows 7 was amazing. Never knew this was possible, its amazing.

This comes as a relief, for a second I was dreading the old ‘Running a windows 10 VM on a Windows 7 host’ work around. The vxkex stuff looks very good, shame my modern systems do not have W7 drivers.

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