With Microsoft ending full-fledged support for Windows 10 later this year, has Blizzard announced when it will no longer support WoW running on Windows 10?
There was a delay of some months with Windows 7, but I remember no longer being able to launch and play WoW on Win 7 anymore beyond a certain point. I won’t have a Windows 11 PC available any time soon, so this is causing me concern.
a windows 10 pc can become a windows 11 pc just gotta turn on TPM in bios
I am surprised that it doesn’t work on Windows 7 anymore. It was even one of the very very few games that even worked with DirectX 12 on Windows 7.
As far as Windows 10 goes, and “not having a Windows 11 PC available”. Why don’t you just install Windows 11 on your computer? The Windows 11 requirements are all artificial and can be easily bypassed. Pretty much any computer that is 15 years old or less can run Windows 11 24H2, and more like any computer from the last 20 years if you include Windows 11 23H2.
I hear they’re cracking down on that somehow. (no idea what exactly that entails though)
That being said, you probably have a few years OP, AFAIK WoW was still functional on Win7 for like, 3 years after Win7’s support ended.
this is completely false. stop outright lying.
your basically just trolling right now.
windows 11 CANNOT RUN ON SANDY BRIDGE AT ALL.
Microsoft isn’t cracking down on anything, but unsubstantiated fearmongering click-bait articles that like to make up doom and gloom scenarios pop up frequently because they get clicks and bring in the ad revenue.
The only “downside” to bypassing the requirements is that you don’t get future feature updates via Windows Update. You do still get security updates and monthly cumulative updates until the feature update that you have installed hits EoL however. Each feature update is supported for 2 years. So if you have Windows 11 23H2, that is supported until November 11, 2025. If you have Windows 11 24H2, that is supported until October 13, 2026. Add an extra year of support if you have the Enterprise version rather than Home or Pro.
To upgrade to a new feature update (upgrading from 23H2 to 24H2 for example), you have to do a manual in-place upgrade, bypassing the requirements again. An “in-place upgrade” is basically the same process as upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11, but instead you’re “upgrading” from Windows 11 to Windows 11. You have to do that at least once every 2 years, and it only takes about 15 minutes. That’s it. No other catches.
Care to explain what part you don’t understand?
Windows 11 23H2 will run on any 64-bit CPU that has NX-bit, this includes CPUs from 2006 and even earlier such as Core2Duo, Core2Quad, etc.
Windows 11 24H2 will run on any 64-bit CPU that supports SSE4.2, which includes most CPUs from ~2010 and onward, such as ALL Core-i3/i5/i7 (every generation).
bro sandy bridge CANNOT RUN TPM 2.0 STOP TROLLING. also blocked and ignored.
I’m talking about the actual requirements, not the artificial requirements. The artificial requirements can be bypassed easily during the installation process, after which Windows 11 will run perfectly.
For those interested in more actual educated information about this, I’d suggest checking out this thread:
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/lets-install-windows-11-on-incompatible-hardware.133/Microsoft isn’t dropping support for windows 10 anymore afaik, they’re just requiring people who want to stay on 10 to pay a sub every year to get updates.
no its just for the one year.
microsoft seemsdesperate to get people on suckdows 11.
I heard it would be for the foreseeable future but the price would go up x2 every year.
I’m switching to wow on Linux soon. I may or may not get banned for it. We shall see.
… uh… you ok there bud?
i may have to when windows 11 gets dropped. am not embracing microsoft tech dude bro ai as a os.
I’m not an expert on this stuff… in fact I’m a bit of a Luddite… but, I thought Linux was perfectly fine to use?
They supported Windows 7 for I want to say at least a year beyond it’s end of support date.
Microsoft actually backported DX12 to Windows 7 specifically for companies like Blizzard and at that point Windows 7 was effectively dead, near the end of its security updates and well beyond the point MS said they would introduce no new features to it.
Given Windows 10 LTSC editions will have support for another 3 years and people can buy extended support for regular editions as well, I think short of Blizzard changing up something about the game engine in a way that utilizes a feature not available on Windows 10 that it’s likely WoW will continue to run on Win10 through at least the end of the next expansion and quite possibly through the end of this current trilogy of nonsense.
Fact is Blizzard goes out of their way to make sure WoW can run on a potato. They know some amount of their customers are on Win10 and would rather not give up the money by telling too many of them that they won’t support it. So they won’t drop Win10 support IMO until 1) there’s some feature in Win11 not in 10 which they really want to use and 2) the amount of players still playing on Win10 is trivial, well under 10%.
That sounds about right.
As for the suggestion of just upgrading my Windows 10 PC to Win 11, I like Win 10 and dislike Win 11, so I don’t want to sacrifice the former OS for the latter or try to set up some dual-boot system. Also, this old toaster was originally shipped with Win 8 and only upgraded to 10 later, so it’s doubtful that it would run Win 11 as well.
If forced by Blizzard to upgrade, I would just buy (yet) another PC in the future that came with Windows 11 and use it mostly for gaming.
just to clarify. since im pretty sure the other worgen is still trolling this thread.
windows tpm 2.0 and 3.0 CANNOT BE RUN ON ANY PC BEFORE 2018.
windows tpm 1.6? and earlier. CAN BE. however. WINDOWS 11 23H2 and later DO NOT SUPPORT THIS. basically if you got windows 11 before 2023 you sort of got grandfathered in. otherwise your SOL.
It’s supposedly “fine” but unsupported. However since you need to use emulation software to run it (proton, wine etc.), I am highly suspicious of warden flagging it as some form of exploitation.