[SOLVED] how long will windows 20h2/future builds be supported with basic gpu drivers

[Pc6777]

im worried eventfully Microsoft will do something I don't like or drop support for a program(just look at securerom and safedisk for example.) I hoard the isos in case this happens so i can always run dual boot/a vm and install an old version and never let it touch the internet or call home to update and use the vm to run offline programs. how long will current windows builds get basic gpu drivers? will future nvidia/amd drivers for future gpus work on the current windows build, the kernel is the same so I would assume they would install? and which brand(amd or nvidia) has better legacy support?

 

[Colif]

So no singleplager games have any ring 0 stuff?

I actually don't know, its possible in the past they did, it depends how old the games are. Most of them were to force you to use a particular CD and many games in the last 10 years haven't been tied to a physical install media. I haven't taken much notice mainly as i stopped finding games I wanted to play. Most of the games I play are on Steam so its all sorted out behind scenes.

 

[hotaru.hino]

And what horrible things did they do to the optical drive?

Details are sketchy, but people did report optical drive issues with StarForce.

I don't care for online games anyway, I play singleplager games 99.9 percent of the time nowadays. So no singleplager games have any ring 0 stuff? I don't care if my multiplayer games I will never play again get nuked, but if anything happens to my precious singleplager rpgs...

The best telltale sign an app wants higher level access (possibly ring 0) is it triggers the UAC prompt every time you run it. A game should never ask for admin privileges.