VirtualBox seems to work pretty well for me if I need to run anything on XP. Either that, or I grab my XP PC w/ 4GB of RAM, and hook that up without a network connection.
Tip: Sane developers use LOD/etc and don’t load the full-detail for the whole game at once
I never said the whole game, but a largely populated world will have a lot of close objects you don’t want to lower quality of.
This thread is only referring to Studio - we currently do not have plans to discontinue Windows XP support for client.
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Ah, phew! @Nightgaladeld I’d suggest updating the original post as I think that confused everyone (I certainly thought you meant studio and client!) 
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Also to comment on the 64-bit discussion - unfortunately, regardless of Windows XP we can’t make Client/Studio 64-bit exclusive - there are a lot of users that only have 32-bit CPUs and/or 32-bit OS, and this is not Windows XP (last time I checked we had lots of Windows 10 32-bit users). Thus switching to 64-bit would entail maintaining two builds and downloading the right one, which involves some work for deployment/installation process - we currently do not have plans to do that for Windows. (we are, however, looking into 64-bit for Mac to get Metal support)
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But I’m gonna ask the questions that people are asking me now
“Can people still use Studio after you kill it off?”
“So if they kill it off they basically won’t help you but you should be able to use the latest versions, assuming they don’t pull a dodgy Microsoft move and ban it. Just clarify with them that people will be able to use it still. ROBLOX just won’t help you at all with it.”
“So I’ll be able to play games on ROBLOX still?”
“Is this for XP entirely or just SP1/SP2? I’m on SP3 just want to check”
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We’re still playing roblox in school boys
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Oldest operating system I have ever used was Windows 98… I was born in 97. I guess I’ve never used an OS older than me.
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Yes, XP users will be able to keep using Studio. However, we will stop automatic updates and new Studio versions will not run on XP. All XP versions will be affected SP1/SP2/SP3.
This does NOT affect Player.
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Battlegrounds isn’t some AAA 200 million dollar budget game. Just some dude who wanted to make a game. Sounds familiar.
very incorrect
“Bluehole had a team of about forty developers supporting Greene’s work”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayerUnknown’s_Battlegrounds
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The controller for my uni’s big telescope actually still runs on MS-DOS
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Does this mean I won’t be able to build my games on Windows 95 anymore?
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For this, does “removing support” mean you shouldn’t run it on Windows XP, but still works (like Windows 8 on a 7th Generation Intel CPU), or will be blocked from running at all (like NVIDIA Shadowplay on a GT series GPU)?
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I am a bit upset that Studio is being dropped on XP but the client can live. Don’t get me wrong I am (and I bet a market of others clinging to XP) are grateful for you guys extending the client life time but this means those users won’t be able to make a game or even play in studio.
Another thing is if studio just blocks updating itself on XP it can create weird issues. I experienced one before with an older version of studio, It updated and my whole game corrupted. The second time my CSG got corrupted.
As @Wsly mentioned
‘fans from the Philippines tweet me pictures of them playing the game’
If they got inspired to then try to create a game in studio, they can’t. Just seems a little sloppy and a bit misshaped really, it’s like having Sweet without the Sour, the onion without the ring, the ying but no yang.
They are already supporting Windows Vista, a 10-year-old OS, and OS X 10.6, an 8-year-old OS. There is only so much time you can put into making sure EVERY update works on every software iteration.
I double checked, and without XP for studio, they’re still supporting 4 Windows OS Versions, and 7 OS X versions
How are we suppose to make roblox relevant windows 7 memes now???
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Future updates won’t be pushed to XP, meaning you can still use Studio just fine, but new additions won’t be available on XP systems anymore. From what I’ve gathered on this post, if you newly install Roblox on XP, it will install the latest supported version of Studio, but not the most recent. As for current installations, it’s been confirmed that it’ll still be usable:[quote=“DreamingMind, post:36, topic:38019”]
Yes, XP users will be able to keep using Studio. However, we will stop automatic updates and new Studio versions will not run on XP. All XP versions will be affected SP1/SP2/SP3.
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Linux support…
What?
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I would have moved to Linux by now if it wasn’t for roblox. qq
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