For those of you planning on skipping out on the Windows 7 Validation need to think of a new battle plan. It looks like Microsoft is installing this update 100% in the background, not even requiring a restart to be installed. Beware those of you with Pirated copies of this as well as people with OEM versions of Windows 7.
Windows 7 official support ended recently and inXile Entertainment are now pushing Bard's Tale IV players to install Windows 10 apparently. Considering it was originally playable in Windows 7, players are not liking the minimum system requirements change.
Building on the success of porting WoW's DX12 version to Windows 7, Microsoft has published help for other DX12 devs, which includes a runtime that supports all the features of Windows 10 October Update... including DirectX Raytracing.
That's right, DirectX 12 has come to Windows 7
Seems strange to port it to Windows 7 at the same time they started to notify customers it has reached its end of life lol
Woah, that's great actually! I can finally throw my Win 10 in the trash and go back to an OS that doesn't f*** up my games performance at each update.
well my windows 7 still works..... saves me having to pay the rip-off price :)
I still get validation issues occasionally when my machine starts! And my window 7 is legit!
I have three legit copies through work ($8 a pop) and one I bought as full whack upgrade. Two days after I installed the upgrade on my wife's iMac (After dealing with the infinite loop problem), the screen when black and told me I was a pirate. I managed to fix that though.
Edit:
I hid the update (rather than just ignore it) on my other two PC , just in case
Yup. RemoveWAT is a lifesaver. I haven't had any validation problems since I installed it.
if there is anybody here worried about it, you can just choose not to download it in the update section, or just turn off automatic updates if your not that confident with it.
if anyone with a genuine copy gets a message saying that it is a pirated copy, there are programs you can use to remove the watermark anyway.
looks like MS wont have the pirates beat in this round.