Windows 10 LTSC for gaming

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Thank you so much for this! Exactly what I was looking for.

EDIT: This worked perfectly for Diablo 4 and The First Descendant.

EDIT II: Diablo 4 does not work. It requires version 1909. The 2021 LTSC is 1904

Looks light I might be upgrading to 11.
Where did you get the info that LTSC 21H2 is based on 1904 (which doesn't exist, but there was a 1903)? The version number for that release is Version 10.0.19044 Build 19044. Checking the 19044 build numbers against official release information lists it as 21H2. The last version of 1909 was build 18363.2274, which is older than any of the 2021 LTSC builds.

This is the release I have on my desktop system and it can run Diablo 4.
 
Where did you get the info that LTSC 21H2 is based on 1904 (which doesn't exist, but there was a 1903)? The version number for that release is Version 10.0.19044 Build 19044. Checking the 19044 build numbers against official release information lists it as 21H2. The last version of 1909 was build 18363.2274, which is older than any of the 2021 LTSC builds.

This is the release I have on my desktop system and it can run Diablo 4.
What the blizzard error text said.


I found out that for some reason my Battle.net app was set to run in compatibility mode for Windows 8. Turned that off and it worked.
 
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There is good news for people who are running regular versions of Windows 10 and think they need to switch to LTSC to get security updates after October. You can use the TSforge option in MAS to enable Extended Security Updates and get updates through October 2028. Read about it here.

As far as gaming on Windows 10 LTSC goes, everything I run still works fine. I did start getting errors from the Xbox application starting a couple months ago:
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This hasn't prevented me from using it to launch games so far. It wouldn't surprise me if the Xbox app completely stops working for all versions of Windows 10 sometime soon. At this point I don't really care since I let my game pass subscription expire last month and most of my games library is on Steam.
 
It wouldn't surprise me if the Xbox app completely stops working for all versions of Windows 10 sometime soon. At this point I don't really care since I let my game pass subscription expire last month and most of my games library is on Steam.
I wonder if it will end up bricking "cracked" xbox app games like Minecraft Dungeons. I doubt groups/individuals that cracked them would go back to fix their bypass method.
 
There is good news for people who are running regular versions of Windows 10 and think they need to switch to LTSC to get security updates after October. You can use the TSforge option in MAS to enable Extended Security Updates and get updates through October 2028. Read about it here.
The page on Massgrave.dev just takes you to a page titled "How to activate Windows/office", which has nothing about the TSForge option being used to get the 3 year ESU updates. Do you need to grab something off their Github?
MS is shooting themselves in the foot hard killing Win10 off this early - the OS really only became stable/mature in 2019. Meanwhile Win11 is still a fucking trainwreck.
 
The page on Massgrave.dev just takes you to a page titled "How to activate Windows/office", which has nothing about the TSForge option being used to get the 3 year ESU updates. Do you need to grab something off their Github?
MS is shooting themselves in the foot hard killing Win10 off this early - the OS really only became stable/mature in 2019. Meanwhile Win11 is still a fucking trainwreck.
A bit down on that page:
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I wonder if it will end up bricking "cracked" xbox app games like Minecraft Dungeons. I doubt groups/individuals that cracked them would go back to fix their bypass method.
I guess it would depend on how it was cracked. If it uses a hacked DLL from an old version of the Xbox app or the MS store it should work forever. If it uses the live version of the MS store or the Xbox app it could break when Microsoft ends support for that service, similar to when Games for Windows Live shut down.
 
Damn, that Massgrave shit is dead simple. I'm now enrolled in the ESU program until Oct 2028...if this dinosaur is still chugging by then I'll bail to LTSC odds are.
 
MS is shooting themselves in the foot hard killing Win10 off this early - the OS really only became stable/mature in 2019. Meanwhile Win11 is still a fucking trainwreck.
MS knows people aren't willing to fork money for MAC and are too lazy to deal with linux.
Win11 is the one with better telemetry and data collection especially with copilot, they will rake the greens with the data sold as not many people know how to debloat their windows and they can always find a way to break it if it's debloated.
 
Maybe by then W12 will be out and not shit...
agreed but seeing as how microshart is infected with jeets they might break tradition and make windows 13 good, that's how many years it will take M$ to disinfect themselves from all the shitty workers which are coincidentally indian.
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i have to admit, it's kinda weird seeing the Education instead of Pro but hey it was "free" so i can't complain.
 
agreed but seeing as how microshart is infected with jeets they might break tradition and make windows 13 good, that's how many years it will take M$ to disinfect themselves from all the shitty workers which are coincidentally indian.
Microsoft was pretty much the pioneer of jeetification. Here's Internet Explorer developers circa 2006.
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It's really hard for me to imagine them staying away from tradition they themselves started.
 
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It's really hard for me to imagine them staying away from tradition they themselves started.
they didn't have a indian CEO to fire all the capable white workers from their company back in 2006 though, they started going down the shitter in 2014 and with AI being the hot shit it's going to get much worse before it gets better...
not to mention they kind of have a monopoly on the normalfag OS that isn't expensive so...

i couldn't think of more shit jokes, poop is too SFW for me.
 
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