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MTASA is dropping XP and Vista support
« on: 24 05, 2019, 07:40:57 pm »
Starting July 2019, MTASA is dropping XP and Vista support. We have a very small userbase on these platforums, but we do still have some users. If you are one of these users, please upgrade to Windows 7 or newer.

To be transparent, the reason for the drop is we have to do too many things to work around XP and Vista because of their age. Recently some changes were ran into which wouldn't work on XP and Vista because of kernel compatibility. We made a decision to simply drop the operating systems altogether as they are just far too out of date.

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Re: MTASA is dropping XP and Vista support
« Reply #1 on: 24 05, 2019, 08:26:36 pm »
Does that means XP and Vista users won't be able to run MTA nor the server ?
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Re: MTASA is dropping XP and Vista support
« Reply #2 on: 24 05, 2019, 08:44:38 pm »
Does that means XP and Vista users won't be able to run MTA nor the server ?
MTA it self won't even run

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Re: MTASA is dropping XP and Vista support
« Reply #3 on: 25 05, 2019, 12:05:11 am »
I would imagine that they would still be able to play for a few months after support is dropped as they would be able to continue playing on the last supported build up until either a new major version (1.6) of MTA is released which is incompatible with any 1.5.x or when we update the minimum client version of the server which is usually done automatically for anti cheat reasons. Less than 0.1% of people are still using such an outdated and likely insecure operating system as vista hasn't received any security updates in over 2 years and XP in 5 years, so these people have bigger problems than MTA no longer wasting time supporting their OS. So unless this topic gets 1000 views then probability dictates that this topic won't even apply to any reader.
« Last Edit: 25 05, 2019, 12:10:53 am by Arran »
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