Intel said that, from Skylake forward, Windows 7 would not be

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>>59229904
>Intel said
>AMD recently said
Sources?

>>59229920

For AMD:
http://www.pcgamer.com/amd-confirms-there-will-be-no-ryzen-drivers-for-windows-7/

I don't have a source handy for Intel's statement, it's older news. It garnered quite a bit of attention about a year ago.

>AMD and Intel takes money from Microsoft
wew, didn't know, it's not like paid shills from both sides shitpost endlessly on 4chan
i hate both companies so fucking much; they just ruin this board even more

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>>59229904
>https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/ryzen-strictly-technical.2500572/page-5
>tfw Ryzen has 17% more draw calls on Win7 than on Win10

>>59229904

That's right Goyim... you need Windows 10 (TM) to run new hardware. We WILL be watching you fap.

>>59233708
>I've used Win 7 about 95% of the time on Ryzen. Only the actual performance evaluation was done with Win 10, as it wasn't up to me. The performance differences are minor, but very constant regardless (in favor of Win 7).
>performance constant in favor of Win 7

OMFkekG

>>59234902
the telemetry and data mining ain't free

>>59229904
You are wrong, tho. They quickly walked back that statement, and Skylake is fully supported. Kaby lake, on the other hand is diffrent, but still supported.
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z270-SLI-PLUS.html#down-driver&Win7 64

>Kaby
Last time I looked it up it was very very unstable and significantly slower.
>Ryzen
Needs more reviews focused on stability and feature support, but so far looks optimistic.

>>59234932
Man that z270 sli plus is a great value

>>59229904
>using windoze

>>59229904
Use a couple of cores from your favorite CPU in a Linux host, and give the remaining cores to a Windows 7 guest with a dedicated passthrough video card. With a cheap USB card the guest can have its own keyboard, joystick, and mouse.

This will hide the new hardware from Windows, solving your problem with a minimal impact on performance.

This will be an issue for perhaps four years, then Seven should run disconnected from Internet due to the extended support end. Then, it would be virtualized, since you possibly wouldn't use your primary OS without an Internet connection.

>>59236297
Hopefully by that time wine and wined3d would finally allow running JA2v1.13 in Linux or W10 without constant crashes.

>>59229904
> In other words, they're not going to make Win7 drivers for new motherboards, chipsets, etc
You got it wrong. We have chipset drivers for Win7 it is just that CPU is not officially supported. Some CPU feature might not work as intended but i doubt it. Ryzen werks perfectly fine on Win7.

My guess is Microsoft helps them make sure their hardware works well with Windows, and MS doesn't want people on Win7 anymore.