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Do you still use Windows XP?

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stormeus

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DEV POLL: Do you still use XP?
« on: July 09, 2014, 01:43:34 am »
In April, Microsoft announced that Windows XP had reached the end of its life and would no longer receive support, nor would it continue to be updated to patch vulnerabilities and stability issues.

Windows XP was first released in August 2001 and is now nearly 13 years old. With that, XP is simply too old to continue to support. Therefore, the VC:MP and LU development teams are considering dropping support for Windows XP due to the benefits of doing so.

By dropping XP support, we can use more recently released compilers and development toolkits that support various optimizations that would have performance benefits. Moreover, because no development is done on Windows XP, and is now largely done on Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 machines, we will be able to better diagnose and resolve issues that users may be having. We can also use newer APIs available in Windows Vista and above that do not exist in XP.

These are not the only reasons for us to drop support for XP, but they are significant reasons. However, we would like to make sure that the community we're developing for will not be largely affected by such a move; if many players are still on Windows XP, we will indefinitely postpone any plans to phase out support for it. Otherwise, we will continue to do so.

To help us better understand how many players would be affected by the withdrawal of support for Windows XP, please answer the poll above.
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Morphine says:
    them LU devs ranting about how LU doesn't have client pickups
    while us VC:MPers don't have client anything
    ;_;

Stormeus Argo says:
    we have client crashes though
    ohohohohoho

Morphine says:
    LU DOESN'T HAVE THAT

Stormeus Argo says:
    LU - 0
    VC:MP - 1

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Re: DEV POLL: Do you still use XP?
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2015, 07:43:27 am »
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I still use XP Even on a high end mobo. yet its a quad core overclocked to 4.3 GHz 2 gb graphics card.

           Ac cooled CPU with a heat shink device. mobo runs at 70 degrees F... im not really trying to go in depth, but im still too use to Ms Dos after commodore 64 days. windows 98 and up actually annoys me. Xp i can deal with used xp and windows 95 in school so i can still adjust. still using my old IBM keyboard due to has a close feel as the commodore.

 

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