Steam has officially terminated support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems. The Steam client on the above system can no longer run normally.
After this change, the Steam platform only supports operating systems such as Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux, and Macos.According to the latest Steam hardware survey data, only 0.28%of users still use Steam on the Windows 7 system, and the number of players using Windows 8 and 8.1 is very small, accounting for only 0.08%, which is classified as "other".
It is reported that Valve has maintained support for Windows 7 since 2009, and it has been 15 years.