Support for Windows XP and Vista ending soon

[DeterminedTorresRBX]

Question, after Roblox drops support for XP and Vista, will we be seeing a 64 bit client? Considering Roblox Studio is already 64 bit, many games are well detailed, which I begin to notice a performance loss especially on a high end PC. Since 32 bit programs are limited and capped to 4 gigs of memory usage, some users were experiencing crashes due to this issue. Since Roblox Studio is 64 bit, there are less reported issues of memory allocation errors than the client itself.

[JulezPlays_TY (Julezz)]

Me too, I Guess my XP experience on ROBLOX since 2007 has ended…

[TayIorRobinson (tay)]

They touched on this at RDC, they said they weren’t going to, as the majority of players aren’t interested on Roblox for Linux, however they’re interested in porting it for Developers
https://youtu.be/5gNzFsJlFbo?t=1569

[JulezPlays_TY (Julezz)]

I’ll try it on my XP computer next week. I will try different test and send you guys some speed results.

[TayIorRobinson (tay)]

Did you forget about switching it off?

[TayIorRobinson (tay)]

Please read Support for Windows XP and Vista ending soon - #37 by AtomicOperation. It’s really not that simple. A lot of the newer librarys that will improve Roblox on newer systems only work on these newer operating systems.

[TayIorRobinson (tay)]

@ProfTXRDIS20

The thing I don’t understand about this is why it’s being posted on the dev forum, when studio isn’t available on those devices anyway. Is this supposed to have an effect on developers at all?

Since the public forum doesn’t exist any more, this is the only place they could put it

@SchwarzWalde

Is this version new eenough for it or do I have to update?

That’s Windows 10, the latest version of Windows…

@PixEclipz

My guess is a lot of XP users will be switching to Debian/Ubuntu, and native support for that isn’t likely to happen in the future, will all of the driver issues around. Who knows though, maybe there could be a RobloxOS distro someday, like steam has done. Hoping for the best in terms of community retention!

Windows XP has been out of support for 4 years now. The most users have, and Roblox is barely interested in porting Roblox to Linux, let alone rolling their own distro.

@superhudhayfa

Next January? Where did you get this information from?

@AtomicOperation

We have no current plans to end support for Windows 7. It’s still very popular, and so unofficially, I would say it’s not likely to happen any time soon. We even have a rendering engineer who refuses to upgrade to Windows 10…

Lifecycle FAQ - Windows

@ProfTXRDIS20

Yes… but shouldn’t it be announced on the blog first? Or at least at all? It will effect players who read the blog more than the developers who create the games, which aren’t even on these devices. If I were ROBLOX, I’d announce this, but somewhere else.

There are warnings when you start Roblox on these OSes

@Nonobou31

if there a download to get the sdk and dlls for vista or xp ?
and if it possible why do not instal the sdk the day of the update date ?

No.

[SaturnianNightmare (SaturianNightmare)]

My experience with putting new programs on XP says otherwise.

[TayIorRobinson (tay)]

What programs did you port then?

[SaturnianNightmare (SaturianNightmare)]

Port isn’t the right term, but I’ve moved the files for PDN and WinRAR to an XP machine and they just worked.

Of course, this was a little over a year ago.

[TayIorRobinson (tay)]

yes, because they support windows xp, and might not just want to provide technical support for users of windows xp

[TayIorRobinson (tay)]

F

[zachjelly]

They won’t be able to run Roblox at all…

[LemurLemmings (Conifer)]

When support for these operating systems ends people could move to Linux or Mac.

[6oi]

@AtomicOperation

it’s becoming more and more difficult to support these operating systems ourselves, and by ending compatibility for XP and Vista we can devote more resources to improving the platform for the rest of our players and developers.

This update leaves me just sitting on the fence. How much did supporting XP and Vista take from improving the platform? Did certain updates release slower than intended because of XP/Vista support? I believe maybe so, but I’m not certain. It could probably be a multitude of different reasons as well.

[Automationeer (Eleanor)]

The savings mostly fall within engineer’s time (they have to spend longer keeping things XP and Vista compatible) and with back-end things, they can now do things that wouldn’t work on XP/Vista.

[6oi]

That makes a lot of sense, thanks. Helps a lot.

[TheAddictPlayer (Garrett)]

Just FYI, the client does not run on Linux and I’m not even sure if a Linux port will ever be made, and Macs can be very steep when it comes to price (excluding older models which may become software EOL’d without any warning, well you can run Windows 10 just fine on a 2007 C2D iMac or Macbook (pro), though I would certainly not recommend it, unless you have maxed out the RAM and put a SSD).

You don’t have much other options than shelling out bucks for a W10 license/product key (although rumor has it that you can use a valid Windows 7 or 8.x license/product key to activate Windows 10 EDIT: That’s what basically I did when I installed Windows 10 on my PC, as I already had a valid and legitimate W7 Ultimate product key… So it seems that this workaround still works) in these cases… Or if your hardware is too ancient, buy another PC.

[Prof_4K]

@theLMGN

Yes… but shouldn’t it be announced on the blog first? Or at least at all? It will effect players who read the blog more than the developers who create the games, which aren’t even on these devices. If I were ROBLOX, I’d announce this, but somewhere else.

There are warnings when you start Roblox on these OSes

This is probably the fifth time someone’s told me that.

@theLMGN

The thing I don’t understand about this is why it’s being posted on the dev forum, when studio isn’t available on those devices anyway. Is this supposed to have an effect on developers at all?

Since the public forum doesn’t exist any more, this is the only place they could put it

Like I said, the blog.

@theLMGN, I’ve already got a good answer from @UnderMyWheel. Thanks for trying to help, but you’re basically repeating replies I’ve already gotten, and info I had already read in the main post. I even replied to someone with a list of about five people who had given me the same information, but I suspect that post was removed

@UnderMyWheel

If a user using XP or Vista starts contacting developers that they can’t play their games, we’ll already know why and will be able to tell them that they need to upgrade to continue playing Roblox games.

[Sentross]

I think this is a good call… I hate to think there will be people who can no longer play now because they can’t afford higher then then XP or Vista, but at the end of the day ROBLOX is only going to constantly improve and I don’t believe players stuck on XP or Vista will be able to play new ROBLOX games eventually anyway.