Will PR continue to work on Windows 7 even though steam wont?

[dcm]

I'm sure as you've all heard, that steam is abandoning windows 7 support. Will project reality continue to work on windows 7 based systems? Or will I be forced to use windows 10?

On a Personal Note: I'm a windows 7 user myself. I detest windows 10. Even though I have a win 10 partition, I barely use it, only when I have no other choice. I'd rather remain on windows 7, than be forced to use an inferior operating system. If I'm forced to leave windows 7 behind, than is there another way to play PR? Possibly linux? I'm not very technologically inclined so I dont know the first thing about software. I'm primarily an end user of software products and services, and I detest the horrible state of modern software. I'd rather stick to what works. Than have to constantly update and risk more time lost updating and being forced to beta test software.

[Mats391]

We no longer test on Windows 7 (or 8+8.1) and if PR breaks on those OS might not fix it. Same as with Windows XP, if you choose to use deprecated OS you better know how to deal with incompatibilities.

[SShadowFox]

PR doesn't require the Steam client, the login verification uses your browser to connect to Steam.

[dcm]

We no longer test on Windows 7 (or 8+8.1) and if PR breaks on those OS might not fix it. Same as with Windows XP, if you choose to use deprecated OS you better know how to deal with incompatibilities.

But why though? PR is based on BF2 a 32 bit app? Shouldn't it work just fine on older operating systems?

[Mats391]

PR is not just one application. Many things can change. From us moving forward with net Framework as old versions reach end of life, using more modern c++ libraries no longer supported on old OS or things like TLS1.3 becoming standard. All that can break PR for old Windows versions.