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Extended support for Win7 does last until 2020, but only until January 14th. You have at least until then, guaranteed. That's less than a year and a half away so really not that long from now, probably only one more generation.
Would Nvidia & AMD keep supporting Win7 after Microsoft stops supporting it? It's possible, depending on how many keep clinging onto it, and how popular DX12 gets (or doesn't get).
Steam hardware survey shows Windows 7 holding 36% of OS marketshare, and Win 7 is supported by Microsoft until 2020. I'd say it's extremely likely that the upcoming generation of cards will be supported on Windows 7.
Well didn’t both colors only just recently drop XP from their unified driver stacks?
I think Kepler was the last XP supported architecture, which was a few years ago from where we stand now, but look at it from the other direction and XP was supported for as long as it held a large user base and long after upgraded versions were available.
I imagine Win7 will likely follow the same - if people keep using it, it will remain supported until people get drug away kicking and screaming.
I think this is a good place to start. You can even go back as far as w98 and then you have 2 data points. But you have to keep in mind the acceleration of computing, especially on the gaming side--it's really accelerated in the last few years. If it wasn't for the cryptobubble, things like 4k and vr would have a lot more market penetration at this point imo.I see the latest XP driver is from June 2016. Since XP went EoL in April 2014, one would extrapolate that Windows 7 driver support will maybe end in 2022?
Extended support for Win7 does last until 2020, but only until January 14th. You have at least until then, guaranteed. That's less than a year and a half away so really not that long from now, probably only one more generation.
Would Nvidia & AMD keep supporting Win7 after Microsoft stops supporting it? It's possible, depending on how many keep clinging onto it, and how popular DX12 gets (or doesn't get).
I think this gives us an idea of what we could look for as an indicator. When did motherboard producers stop supporting xp and w9x? And when did the gpu makers? My guess is that these might have been within 6mo of each other. If so, then I think we've got an idea of the timeline by watching motherboard manufacturers as well.Heck, aren't there already motherboard chipsets out there that require Windows 10?
So are a lot of other things, but people still run them.It doesn't matter.
Windows 7 is obsolete.
So are a lot of other things, but people still run them.
Sure, but these are old computers.
There aren't too many people rushing out to buy the $1200 Geforce RTX 2080 Ti so that they can run it on their old Windows 7 computers.
I'm curious as to the intent behind the question. Why would someone spend $600+ on a new GPU with DirectX 12 features for DirectX 12 games and then run it on an operating system that doesn't support DirectX 12?
Is the theoretical scenario that everyone starts using Vulkan instead?