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and steam's taskbar doesn't work at all and just loads this:
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While the store, community and account pages only shows a black screen
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| Author: | K4sum1 [ 10 Jun 2023, 08:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| The main reason I'm making this thread now instead of later is to stop the rumor that Steam will immediately stop working on 7/8 on January 1st, 2024. We've seen the exact same wording with XP, but you still can (kinda) use the client all these years later. It won't immediately break, it will slowly break. However, there's more interest in getting these newer versions working. You could pretty easily get 10+ month newer Steam builds basically fully working with some hex mods on XP/Vista, but by the time that was discovered, they were pretty ancient. However now we know where to look, so it's more likely we could mod Windows or the future clients to work relatively quickly. I doubt we'd get the same 10 months due to CEF being so important to the UI, but there's only one way to find out. More likely than not we would either need to make a custom GUI for Steam or kernel extend to fake 10 and make CEF work in the long run. Just don't say it will immediately stop working. If you find someone thinking that way, please send this post to them. It is technically possible, however, it's not likely going by past events, or even viable to do. |
| Author: | Peacock [ 02 Jul 2023, 18:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| I found a way to run the newest version on steam use (From PotionShop's post): -vgui -dev -nofriendsui -no-dwrite -nointro -nobigpicture -nofasthtml -nocrashmonitor -noshaders -no-shared-textures -disablehighdpi -cef-single-process -cef-in-process-gpu -single_core -cef-disable-d3d11 -cef-disable-sandbox -disable-winh264 -no-cef-sandbox -vrdisable -cef-disable-breakpad on "Target:" on a bat file or a shortcut to steam. Also the Game properties gui menu now works thanks to this. I'm not sure what options are/aren't needed for steam to run |
| Author: | RallyElite [ 09 Jul 2023, 04:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| If someone were to make a custom Steam GUI, it would very nice to see something like the 2010-2014 GUI for Steam. It always looked the best in my opinion, especially the actual library section, and that old Steam logo from that time is just perfection. |
| Author: | Peacock [ 02 Aug 2023, 03:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
New version for 8/1 isn't working with the options anymore. stick with the last version (7/10) |
| Author: | Peacock [ 14 Nov 2023, 17:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
For anyone having problems with the friends UI then use -nofriendsui |
| Author: | K4sum1 [ 17 Jan 2024, 04:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| So 16 days after the end of support and there's nothing broken as of yet. The latest January client still works. We got a little further than XP/Vista already. |
| Author: | K4sum1 [ 22 Jan 2024, 12:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| So latest beta has Chromium 109 now, and it's also for Windows 7 too. They are still doing stuff for Windows 7 after the end of support. |
| Author: | splashy [ 22 Jan 2024, 14:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
that's so weird. i was expecting them to jump to the latest build of chromium and electron. so are they still semi-officially supporting legacy windows? |
| Author: | TheFighterJetDude [ 23 Jan 2024, 16:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
I know, why wouldn't they just jump to 120 ?? |
| Author: | Peacock [ 17 Apr 2024, 15:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| Update: i tested the newer version of steam and the only thing working: is the main library, download page, friends, popup sidebar and game properties. All of the top options are unclickable and loads into separate windows: and steam's taskbar doesn't work at all and just loads this: While the store, community and account pages only shows a black screen |
| Author: | TheFighterJetDude [ 17 Apr 2024, 16:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
Did you disable hardware acceleration stuff ? |
| Author: | Peacock [ 18 Apr 2024, 09:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
Everything was the default |
| Author: | TheFighterJetDude [ 18 Apr 2024, 13:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
Under Steam settings -> Interface , disable hardware video decoding and GPU accelerated rendering in web views? |
| Author: | Peacock [ 24 Apr 2024, 15:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
It's still the same |
| Author: | DoNotThrowOldPCsAway [ 10 May 2024, 14:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| Still works just fine after May Steam update. |
| Author: | TheFighterJetDude [ 09 Jun 2024, 15:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
Still works fine as of June 7th update  |
| Author: | Peacock [ 14 Jul 2024, 01:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| it's still the same with June 16 update from the mega with all of the bugs |
| Author: | TheFighterJetDude [ 14 Jul 2024, 01:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
Same with July 10 update |
| Author: | DoNotThrowOldPCsAway [ 12 Sep 2024, 23:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| Looks like the most recent update broke it. |
| Author: | TheFighterJetDude [ 13 Sep 2024, 03:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
No. |
| Author: | Jaguarek62 [ 13 Sep 2024, 13:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
well it kinda did for me, I have to wait for steam to say that steamwebhelper is not responding and I have to restart it without sandboxing |
| Author: | TheFighterJetDude [ 13 Sep 2024, 15:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
Yeah I noticed that too... However I have a server 2012 build where the latest still works and also on 7 |
| Author: | Peacock [ 07 Oct 2024, 14:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
When closing and restarting steam, It's now only showing the tray icon and downloads in the background after when the account logs in. Nothing is on screen now including the 9-18 version on the mega folder Update: The steam version from 7-16 still shows the GUI (but the older bugs still there) |
| Author: | Lappo [ 30 Dec 2024, 16:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| i found this page https://blog.lightwo.net/steam-client-downgrades-survival-kit.html quite handy |
| Author: | Peacock [ 06 Mar 2025, 20:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| I've tested: https://www.patreon.com/posts/steam-2023-dec-95546652 and it mostly works with the newer ui, "Enter chat room" doesn't work and you can't launch games like Deadlock, but it's fine. I don't know how different this version is then the mega archives, and why it works better the archive version. Edit: There's one issue with "steamwebhelper" having a memory leak, as the main "steamwebhelper" uses 12GB of ram. |
| Author: | DoNotThrowOldPCsAway [ 27 Jun 2025, 09:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| Anybody else not being able to download anything with every attempt ending with "corrupt download"? |
| Author: | Peacock [ 08 Jul 2025, 22:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
Same, reported to steam but after telling me to troubleshot for while then i got: Some games can install or update fine, but other games can't be installed or updated. And got Negotiated HTTP/2 but fixes like this doesn't work: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/16e1l4h/slow_steam_downloads_try_this/ the main errors i get is Unpack failed or Marking bad download source cache*-ord1.steamcontent.com, 1 jobs Edit (Found more people): https://xcancel.com/FurryJokerTFF/status/1940629095425204494 https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/601909079150967151/ https://github.com/Kegworks-App/Kegworks/issues/112 (Mac) |
| Author: | Peacock [ 09 Jul 2025, 23:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
Found this: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1335200/discussions/0/597405077977803904/ and: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/4349988612573450321/?l=koreana&ctp=598
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| Author: | DoNotThrowOldPCsAway [ 10 Jul 2025, 17:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| I am currently using SteamCMD https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD with -overrideminos parameter. For example, If I want to download Half-Life 2 (Steam Application ID 220):
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| Author: | Lappo [ 10 Jul 2025, 18:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Steam on Windows 7/8 |
| yeah steamcmd is a solid tool (adding valve wiki page on it https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD) |
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