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Offline herkie423

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Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?
One question from a dumb modder, me: Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?

I mean, what are the minimum and recommended specs?

 

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Re: Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?
Won't the minimum/recommended specs vary heavily depending on what mod you're playing?
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Offline Shivan Hunter

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Re: Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?
They seem to work fine on Win7 for me :)

Strygon is right re: hardware specs. Though I've never had FS tax my trusty old 1070/i5 2500K

 

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Re: Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?
It all depends on the VP's and the complexity of other ships models.

Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Re: Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?
FSO should work just fine on Windows 7. There are no plans from our side to specifically exclude Win7 from our list of supported platforms, but there may be libraries we use that will impose such an exclusion on us in the future.
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Re: Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?
I can also confirm that everything runs just fine on my Windows 7 PC with a R7 1800x/GTX 1080, but for minimum specs, anything faster than an i5 2500k at stock clock and, say, a GTX 1050 Ti should be sufficient for playing FS2's campaign. If I still had the old hardware around I'd have stress tested it for you.
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Offline herkie423

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Re: Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?
That is really great to hear. And I am so relieved. I'm still running on Windows 7, AMD A8 7600 CPU, 8gb RAM, and Radeon R7 240. Windows 10 OS is still very expensive to buy.

I developed and ran my mods, AFR and TBG with FSO 374 and the above specs and I get an average FPS of 100 (at 1366x768).
« Last Edit: March 30, 2023, 05:02:05 am by herkie423 »

 

Offline herkie423

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Re: Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?
It all depends on the VP's and the complexity of other ships models.

That's why I limited my models in AFR and TBG to the model complexity of BPC. Anything more than the Erebus, for example, was a big no no for me.

But I will soon set up a new DDR4 PC which will cost me around 2k US dollars (200k PHP, equivalent to a brand new motorcycle). I will plan to assemble a PC with Ryzen 9 7300, 16gb RAM, GTX 970 and a 1TB SSD. It's a long shot but I will work hard to get it.

 

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Re: Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?
2000?   I'm sure there are people here who could direct you to a more economical solution for similar results.
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline Novachen

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Re: Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?
I am sure he means an RTX 4070... otherwise 2000 $ are way too high for such specs.

But i am unsure, as he also mentions that Windows 10 is expensive.
Not sure where he lives, but in the western hemisphere you can buy it for 5-15$...
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Re: Will the latest FSOs work with Windows 7?
The free upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 still works, too, even thought the program supposedly ended in 2016.
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