Even if groups like GOG try to make most games work with Windows 10, older ones will work better on older OS'es. Gaming on Windows 7 will still be good for years and the obvious choice of old enough games. There are still 2 more years of actual support of it (see the MS descriptions about this) and by the end of this period Windows 7 will already have a low enough coverage not to be a primary target of exploiting anymore.Įven if universal exploits are found (that are cross-versions and affecting any Windows OS) most of them will still be able to be community patched. In the specific situation of Windows 7, things are looking good. On the OS part you should be pretty good overall for many years ahead. In this one should not take game vulnerabilities into account since those are not breaches of the OS, but of the games. You may even close-up browsing-related capabilities completely or block most of the TCP ports with very few exceptions. In your case things may be easier than average: on the online gaming part you can allow only the ports used by the gaming services/servers and you can secure everything else. I still practically use XP due to that in some scenarios and I do that in a very safe manner. I know that many times you will have to run an old OS due to compatibility issues with software, in your case - games. So the question remains, for this specific game only usage does Windows 10 give any security advantage over Windows 7 and if so what?įrom a general perspective it is safe enough. Still this is not a Windows 7 related issue, I guess Windows 10 can be hacked through these game vulnerabilities too. Looks like game clients are not safe at all: I don't agree, because I don't think such a system has a big attack surface, but I am curious what do experts say? Some people argue that it is a massive security risk that I keep an EOL OS even though I would not use it for browsing, just for playing the old games I downloaded from safe official sources. As far as I know vulnerabilities in multiplayer game clients are very rare, so there is only a very low chance that somebody hacks the system while I am gaming. I have some games which work on Windows only, but I don't want to buy a new Windows, I would rather keep Windows 7 as a second OS for gaming and use Linux or BSD for working, browsing, etc.
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