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Which version dropped xp support? (unless my info is wrong)
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:56 pm
by invictius
Not really a legacy question, had a look at the change notes and couldn't find anything. I have an explorer extension that reports the minimum windows version to run a given exe, and it's telling me vista for 3.7.1. I don't want to clutter my desktop with unzipping and checking each prior version without knowing if this tool is reporting accurately. Not a concern of mine, have been expecting the change for a while (but thought minimum would jump straight to 7)
Re: Which version dropped xp support? (unless my info is wro
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:25 pm
by Rachael
Officially, XP support is alive and well, but only in 32-bit versions of GZDoom.
64-bit XP is incredibly rare so the decision was made not to directly support it - but that can still run the 32-bit version of GZDoom anyhow. That decision came sometime after 3.0.0 but before 3.4.0.
To figure out which versions had 64-bit XP support it would be necessary to get a PE image analyzer that can read the kernel version minimum setting, or learn its offset and use a hex editor to find it.
(edit: according to
this commit that happened before 3.3.0's release, so 3.2.x were the final versions to have 64-bit XP support)
Re: Which version dropped xp support? (unless my info is wro
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:32 pm
by TDRR
Rachael wrote:64-bit XP is incredibly rare so the decision was made not to directly support it - but that can still run the 32-bit version of GZDoom anyhow
Do note that you absolutely need to pass the +vm_jit 0 parameter if using the 64-bit version of Windows XP, or it will run at 2fps.
Re: Which version dropped xp support? (unless my info is wro
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:35 pm
by Rachael
XP support was dropped in 64-bit versions LONG before the JIT was ever introduced - so that should be a non-issue. This seems like a bit of a red herring - what kind of a setup do you have that would even allow this?
Re: Which version dropped xp support? (unless my info is wro
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 4:18 pm
by leileilol
invictius wrote:Not really a legacy question,
Yes. Yes it is. XP's officially made legacy as soon as TLS 1.0 among major websites were shed a few months ago.
Re: Which version dropped xp support? (unless my info is wro
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:53 pm
by Kinsie
leileilol wrote:invictius wrote:Not really a legacy question,
Yes. Yes it is. XP's officially made legacy as soon as TLS 1.0 among major websites were shed a few months ago.
Official support for Windows XP (incl. security patches) was also ended in 2014.
Re: Which version dropped xp support? (unless my info is wro
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:54 pm
by TDRR
Rachael wrote:XP support was dropped in 64-bit versions LONG before the JIT was ever introduced - so that should be a non-issue. This seems like a bit of a red herring - what kind of a setup do you have that would even allow this?
My fault, sorry for not being more specific. If running the 32 bit version of GZDoom in a 64 bit Windows, you need to disable the vm_jit or else you will get 2fps. At least that is what happens here in Windows 7 64-bit.
Re: Which version dropped xp support? (unless my info is wro
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 2:15 pm
by phantombeta
TDRR wrote:Rachael wrote:XP support was dropped in 64-bit versions LONG before the JIT was ever introduced - so that should be a non-issue. This seems like a bit of a red herring - what kind of a setup do you have that would even allow this?
My fault, sorry for not being more specific. If running the 32 bit version of GZDoom in a 64 bit Windows, you need to disable the vm_jit or else you will get 2fps. At least that is what happens here in Windows 7 64-bit.
That also shouldn't do anything, because vm_jit is disabled by default on 32-bit builds - the JIT compiler's code doesn't work for 32-bit builds in the first place AFAIK.