Hello Games ended support for TLS 1.0 security protocol a couple of years ago, and it is the DEFAULT security protocol for Windows 7. You will need to install this hotfix from the Windows Update catalog

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3140245/update-to-enable-tls-1-1-and-tls-1-2-as-default-secure-protocols-in-wi

Be sure to make the registry edits included in the hot fix page or this will not work, or optionally, use the "Easy Fix" download. If you are not a Windows system administrator (professionally), I highly recommend using the Easy Fix, as the fix is a bit trickier than most registry edits. Also, you might need a Microsoft browser to download the Easy Fix, it did not work in Chrome for most, but works in Edge for everyone.

I played NMS for a month without every connecting to online discoveries in Windows 7. Got it working for the first time last night with this fix, received 10k worth of Nanites, saw people in the nexus for the first time, and had NPC's who only spoke to me once finally have things to say to me.

GOG FORUM MODERATORS: I know not many people still use Win 7, but please sticky this post for others like me, you will save them some frustration.

Interesting. According to Netmarketshare.com, the number of people using Windows 7 for desktops and laptops is still over 25%. I wonder which number is closer to correct.

(currently using Windows 7)

Well Steam is about gaimg, so those numbers will reflect that gaming hardware is becoming less compatible with windows 7 and gamers are basically forced to W10 if they want the latest hardware (which many gamers do).

I figure your 25% is about right for the wider general usage of W7.

I am also one such user running Windows 7 (you will have to drag me kicking and screaming to use Windows 10) and was looking for a fix for this not realizing it even might have anything to do with the fact I'm running Windows 7. I would suggest a title change to something like "NMS Windows 7 Multiplayer Fix" to make it stand out more as I easily looked over it and could have had this fixed a lot sooner had the title for this post stood out more. Thank you regardless as without this post I might have spent the next few days trying to solve this issue or just given up and accepted that I might never get to play multiplayer assuming it was an issue with the game and not something I could have solved so easily.

Also note Edge recently has been overhauled, its now based on Google Chromes code (Chromium), with quite a few Microsoft tweaks (like using Bing by default for its search engine). Old Edge is being phased out.

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I know you guys love Win 7, I swore by it too for a long time, probably the best Windows for gamers ever made .. until now.

Windows 10 started off being a Privacy nightmare, and was pushed hard by MS.

But since then the world has influenced MS to make it a lot better, Windows 7 has quite a few Privacy issues too which are not so easy to switch off as they are in Windows 10 (Start / Settings / Privacy)

Security has come a long way since Win 7, which is now vulnerable to a lot of exploits unless you keep it offline / air gapped.

And lastly Win 10 has implemented a lot of under the hood optimisations for gamers, far more than Win 7 these days.

If you dont believe me have a read of the following (and bear in mind this was written in 2015, there have been more improvements since then) ..
https://time.com/3975043/windows-10-microsoft-gamers/

MS still make mistakes (I doubt they will ever be completely on top of everything), and with all the new ideas / reorganisation of windows occasionally introduce new issues which they have to keep patching, and I dont particularly like extolling the virtues of Windows (any version, much prefer if the world went Linux based), but imho you would be far better off with Win 10 now - And I think it is still possible to upgrade to Win 10 for free, though MS were supposed to have a cut off date for the free upgrades ..

https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-you-can-still-get-a-free-windows-10-upgrade/

.. If anyone does it, note you now have a digital license for windows, find it and write it down somewhere - Or use Windows new "Create a Recovery Drive" which will make a doomsday UEFI USB recovery for when your HD fails or whatever (needs a 32gb memory stick, and make sure you clean out "Old windows" files via Settings Storage first otherwise the Recovery drive creation will quietly fail, maybe needs a bigger USB stick). I used it a few months ago with my daughters MSI laptop, the System Hard drive (old IDE HD) died so I put in a new SSD, initiated it, so we now had a machine with no bootable OS, I then rebooted with the USB Recovery in = She had a brand new clean windows install ready to go within 30 minutes which preserved the licence on a much better SSD drive.


Edit: Just a food for thought note - If you all have Mobile phones, you have worse things to worry about than Windows :) - Watch the movie / documentary "The Social Dilemma"

I do not have a 'smart' (really it is dumb not smart to have one!) phone either. They are just data-gathering tools en-masse. A 'back-door' in your pocket, personal data and personal life.

Windows 10 gives you little control of your information because that is what it is designed to be, a data-gathering tool for MS and affiliated business (it is all in plain writing in the eula for it). Sure you can mitigate some of that by tweaking options yourself, and you will be doing this plenty as each new update windows 10 puts back default settings for much of that data-gathering. Enjoy checking over your settings each new update or finding some software to do it for you.

Windows 10 for regular consumers is ALL about that data-gathering as this is where MS makes it's money from it's 'free' status.

Windows 10 Enterprise is more like previous windows versions in that you can configure it to not leak data out, and this is what many businesses use as you obviously want to protect their data. Sadly this is not an easy available option for regular consumers (i'd pay for a license for it myself if i could for home use).

Under the leadership that took over around the middle of the Windows 8 era, MS decided to do like google and make user data the commodity it would run from. Every single bit of design and engineering of Windows 10 has been built around that. You can not stop it doing what it was designed to do.

Unlike Windows 7 (and earlier) when MS designed OS to work for the customers needs primarily. Around windows 8 the ideology at MS changed and so did it's software. I don't call it 'spyware' lightly. I don't say i can have zero faith in it's ability to share my data lightly. I don't use windows 10 for a reason, namely it can not be trusted 'by design' it is meant to gather your data and give this to MS so they can sell it, it is how MS can offer it for 'free'.

It is now how the ideology at MS is focused (remember the Xbone when it first came out and was found to be recording peoples living rooms and storing that data on MS servers!). MS has never been a beacon of well meaning and goodness in the world of OS, but with Windows 10 it really has hit another level of 'bad'.

So i vote with my wallet/data and don't give MS money or data anymore.

If you and others are fine with this change in MS business practice, good luck to you all, these people might also be ok with having a i-phone/smart-phone that tells Apple/Samsung/etc your location all the time as well? Again good luck to you, this is not a shift in the technological world i will support ever.

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In terms of Windows 7, MS has ensured it will be difficult for the newest games by not making DX12 for windows 7 (but per game compatibility is possible as we see with WOW and seemingly Cyberpunk 2077) and by forcing hardware manufacturers to stop supporting Win 7 with drivers.

It is still possible to build a newish system with Win 7 (my link build below):

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=309344

And it is still possible to keep it fairly secure (but you mostly want to use Windows 7 offline) and for my part it plays all the games i enjoy (some better than under windows 10 as these are older games) and for the most part i find the vast majority of the latest games junk, or 'uninteresting' as the games industry has focused on realistic graphics over gameplay and game design. Pretty explosions and super detailed blood seems to be the aim here, which i find boring beyond tears.

But if you are a gamer that needs the latest PC hardware and games you will also be a gamer that has no choice but to run windows 10.

I have chosen to go with Linux Mint for the hardware support and internet access (i can trust) and keep Win7 for my favourite games. If a new game comes out that does not support Windows 7 i simply won't buy it, and have a huge catalogue of other games i can play instead.

Never Windows 10, never a smart-phone, never a supporter of data-gathering. We all have to make our informed choices on this.

And finally this has nothing to do with the OP's post. That post is all about helping those of us that might WANT to use No Man's Sky on Windows 7 and might WANT to be able to go online for that (i prefer sp offline in NMS myself).

So we don't need to preach and convert people to a view around the OS. This was a post to help users of NMS and no more. I just wanted to give a rebuttal to your post about 'Windows 10 is fine' alt3rn1ty, because it isn't. Nothing about the changes across the tech world and data-gathering is 'fine'. It needs to be fought tooth and nail in truth, so i wanted to make this perspective clear. Windows 10 is a terrible OS, terrible for your privacy and terrible for what will follow it.

No rebuttal needed imho all windows are a bad choice, prefer Linux myself.

I understand your POV and agree, but for the average users reading these posts they may well not be able to mitigate all security flaws. Your advice is good for those who know how to lock windows down. Sorry but you are imagining something I have not said, nowhere did I say Windows 10 (or any version), or Windows data gathering are fine.

Well so many posts telling people Windows 10 is ok get's under the skin a little ;) I just wanted to make it clear that not all gamers use Windows 10 or are fine about using it (for the reasons given above). Too many apologists make the situation worse, not better. MS need to know they are on the wrong track with W10. And yes Linux is the way to go to avoid much of the OS data-gathering issue :)

I'm also still using Win 7. I can't recommend to play this on Win 7 to anyone, but for me it's perfect, because i don't like an OS that forces updates and spys my private files.

You couldn't pay me to use windows 10. Between not having control over my own PC and the telemetry BS, I will switch to linux before ever touching 10.

I'm running a dual boot Win7 + Linux Mint on a Ryzen 9 3900 12-core. Installing W7 on it was a bit tricky, but it works like a charm. It's really not a technical issue as such (beside the USB-controller by cpu instead MB), but a man made difficulty to make ppl think it's not working and therefore hopping on the disenfranchisement train of their IT with Win10. The only current problem is DX12, but with the latest vkd3d DirectX 12 to Vulkan translation layer library used by Wine, I hope to get rid of the native windows soon after all.
(and yes I'm aware that the W7 doesn't have all the new Ryzen command instruction sets and therefore not get the full potential - but honestly - if I see the sluggish W10 machines I work with in my company, which have even better hardware in it, I'm not even sure if the former sentence is true or just an advertisement BS from MS to sell their crap).

could you give me some hints about installing win7 under a i5 10400 intel cpu (/new pc)? I also would never want to use Win10, i have a win10 laptop + pc at work and currently i'm using win7 + Ubuntu dual Boot.

Well, I don't have an Intel CPU as Intel made it clear to stop support for W7 early on while AMD paddled back (for the first Ryzen generation) later on and supported it (under reserve). For Ryzen, there is a pretty good instruction on (1) how to get it up and running either by using modified drivers or by modifying the device-ids in the driver yourself. Here (2) is how to approach the installation, if you have only a USB installation device.

It will be harder, I think, to get W7 running on newer Intel hardware. There's a forum for 8th generation (3) explaining in general the same problems with USB-on-installation and get-updates-on-modern-hardware-patch (wufuc), but here (4) showing an announcement to support Win7 officially on at least 9th generation Intel hardware by Biostar. I would recommend to start there, see what and how it's possible and if the result would suite your needs, resp. ask there if someone has experience with installation on 10th generation. Good luck and stay vigilant - they will try to break us, but we shall never surrender to their dictation! :)

1: http://maxedtech.com/amd-ryzen-and-windows-7/
2: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11182/how-to-get-ryzen-working-on-windows-7-x64
3: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/installing-windows-7-on-coffee-lake.244857/
4: https://www.ntlite.com/community/index.php?threads/install-windows-7-and-8-1-onto-intel-8th-9th-10th-and-11th-generation.577/page-5

Changing the thread tittle is a good idea, I really want to save some other people the troubles we had, for me it lasted almost two months without multiplayer.. I don't know how to get hold of moderators in this forum though, and cannot change the title myself.