It appears that there’s a log in issue for people running on win 7.
Are you getting the following message?
api-ms-win-core-com-|1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer
Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem
Don’t reinstall as from what I’ve read win7 can not create this dll
Yeah. These are the instructions on another page:
DirectX version can also be changed out of game through the command line arguments in the Battle.net desktop app.
With the Battle.net desktop app opened and WoW selected click on Options
Select Game Settings
Find WoW and check the box for Additional command line arguments
In the new box enter the command for the desired DirectX version:
-d3d11legacy
-d3d11
-d3d12
Click Done to save.
This worked for me, hopefully it’ll work for you too
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Modern day WoW players are still using Windows 7?
You can more than one operating system on your computer. If you like Windows 7 best, you can still use it and also have the newer version of Windows as well.
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WoW predates Win7 by a half-decade.
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The minimum spec page lists Win7 as the minimum but something tells me they probably didn’t test that configuration very often (or at all). The number of 7 users has to be absurdly tiny these days.
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Yea and people still using this stuff and not updating is the reason why we have been seeing so many complaints about people saying their OS is outdated for Dragonflight.
You are able to have more than one operating system on your computer. Use that. And you can still do the stuff you like to do using Win 7. I dont like the newer version of Windows at all. Really terrible.
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in BFA, it kept saying my drivers are outdated. I ignored it and it went away. 
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As much as I like 7 it’s inadvisable to directly boot it now that it’s unsupported and has a growing number of unpatched holes. If one must use it I think it should be in a virtual machine where it’s walled off and the damage of an infection can be contained.
Win7 was pretty solid. Not sure I trust the newer versions with privacy as much.
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Yes, and I had to use a workaround to play the game.
It’s on the support page, I just remembered I can’t post links. Technical support.
Who the hell uses Windows 7 in the year of our lord 2022?
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Probably the same crowd who hung onto XP until the absolute last second it was possible to do so.
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No. You shouldn’t. They are terrible in that regard. That is the reason why so many hackers can get past your VPNs with ease when you use the newer OS. But have a more difficult times with the other ones. They give easy backdoor access and the main reason why is actually so that they can track you in order to send adds to you. Its all a money thing.
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my 2008 Vista laptop was still running in 2015…
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Windows 7 doesn’t respect your privacy either. If you were actually serious about protecting it you wouldn’t be on a Windows based OS.
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If privacy is a concern, likely don’t turn to an OS that hasn’t been updated since 2020.
The install base is somewhere in the 10-15% of all PCs, if not lower. Even if Blizzard claims the game can run on Win7, that doesn’t mean you should and that doesn’t mean they’ll try to optimize the game for that old OS.
It was good, but that time has passed. Win10 or 11 are fine.
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I still have a Vista era laptop, and even upgraded it as far as it can go (SSD, Core 2 Quad, Wifi 6 + Bluetooth 5) but it’s running Linux instead of an old version of Windows.
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It actually is a much better OS for security than what we have now. Also can run some MS DOS stuff with more ease than the newer ones. Much better than Windows 8.
Current Windows OS is terrible. It is back to back to back updates. Worst Windows yet. Shouldnt surprise you knowing that Windows comes from a Software thief.
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your phone is NOT spying on you.
also, it comes with a default feature that tells you what song is playing.
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That and they want to force you into a microsoft store account and they removed things like built in games and the DVD player in media player forcing you to get third party options from even less trusted sources.
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If it wasn’t like $100 for a new operating system, some of us win7 users would love to upgrade
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