BF2042 - Will Windows 7 be supported?

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@Bongybo wrote:

Does anyone know if Windows 7 will be supported for the final release?

Beta specs say Windows 10 as a minimum.

Cheers

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Yeah @Bongybo ,

We haven't really seen the hard specs for the OS to run the BF2042 game.  But considering what we have seen so far for the beta environment, then the minimum specs do not appear to be any higher than what we also had for Battlefield 5 on PC.

So though drivers and similar stuff can get harder to come by for older Windows versions as time goes by, then all previous 64-bit Windows OS like Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 would appear to suffice.

Best of luck with it and fingers crossed!

Windows 7 is not supported anymore by Microsoft and it says Windows 10 minimum.

Not very difficult to understand.

It will probably run but won't be officially supported and you won't receive any tech support for any issues you may have with the game. That being said it is possible that it simply won't run on windows 7 at all and you'd just be throwing money away.

@BongyboYou shouldn't run Windows 7 anymore, as MS has stopped supporting the OS and it will become more and more insecure as time goes by.

You can still upgrade your Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free. Just download the Windows 10 upgrade assistant from Microsoft and run it.

Unless your PC has some very strange hardware Windows 10 runs just as fine as Windows 7 (perhaps even a little better).

And Windows 10 is a very good and stable OS now, better than Windows 7 IMHO.

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@sinisterNL wrote:

Windows 7 is not supported anymore by Microsoft and it says Windows 10 minimum.

Not very difficult to understand.

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I think that @Bongybo understands this perfectly well.

But it is not everybody who is so fortunate to have whatever money is needed to buy the latest and greatest gaming spec PC available.  So certain and very understandable that many players first will try to see if their old PC will still suffice to be able to join the beta fun next week with the rest of us.  All while they still have enough money to feed themselves and their kids, pay the rent and the bus ticket to get to school or the job, etc...

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@cso7777 wrote:
@CyberDymeHe should be able to upgrade to Windows 10 without spending any money...

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Oh great @cso7777 ,

That would make the choice to do so pretty straight forward then!  👍

I wrongly thought that the free upgrade offer from Microsoft had long since expired, but there are maybe still some way to do this for free?

Here from MSFT's own Win7 page:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-end-of-life-support-information

@CyberDymeMicrosoft said the upgrade only was possible for a year (until 2016), but they actually didn't enforce it (not yet at least).

I have personally upgraded Windows 7 PCs, many times since 2016 (both "in private" and in my daytime job).

I think the last time I did it, was just a month ago.