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Posted 06 March 2016 - 09:51 AM

This is aimed at the principal coders/housekeepers of Open Rails.

Are you still testing your release on an WinXP system? Has support been "unofficially" been dropped? What happens when an WinXP user reports a problem that may not be specifically something related to XNA?

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Posted 06 March 2016 - 10:41 AM

I really do hope so because i am one of those users that has WinXP.

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Posted 06 March 2016 - 01:48 PM

I also use XP to run MSTS and ORTS, and will continue to use XP
as long as I have a PC that will run it.

I also own Win7 and MAY move to that if I can no longer run XP.

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Posted 07 March 2016 - 10:51 AM

Tom, are you running 32 or 64 bit XP? :bigboss:

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Posted 13 March 2016 - 01:11 PM

View PostEldorado.Railroad, on 06 March 2016 - 09:51 AM, said:

Are you still testing your release on an WinXP system? Has support been "unofficially" been dropped? What happens when an WinXP user reports a problem that may not be specifically something related to XNA?

Releases aren't "tested" on anything per-se, as they're just a particular build that people seem happy with. If there is a problem with Windows XP support, it's up to whoever in the Unstable and Testing users is still actually using Windows XP to report the problem before we make the release.

We are currently explicitly sticking to .NET 3.5 and XNA 3.1, which are Windows XP-compatible, and so it is unlikely for there to be a real issue here; very little of our code even notices, never mind cares, what OS is running.

As we're intending (currently) to be compatible with Windows XP, there's no reason to expect such a user reporting a problem to be ignored or discarded any more than any other report. That said, if their issue is actually about the OS then people would be well within their rights to urge the user to upgrade to a supported version of the OS. I don't think this has happened, though.

We would, however, like to drop support for Windows XP soon. Supporting Windows XP does hold things back as both .NET 4.5 and (I can't find anything definitive but all the non-authoritive sources say this) MonoGame require Windows 7+.

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Posted 13 March 2016 - 03:01 PM

Monogame seems to be for 64Bit.

Mono still supports 32Bit.

.NetFramework 4.5 starts with Vista and up. In fact I just installed .NetFramework 4.6 on Vista.

James, I just posted in the other XP thread about Mono Vs Monogame.

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Posted 14 March 2016 - 07:41 AM

Well in this case i will save each release till the day the XP support drops.

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