4rsgold Running RuneScape Today

Running RuneScape Today

Looking into what sort of RuneScape gold computers you all use at the moment, we can see that:

3% of you still use Windows XP

35% use Windows 7

50% use Windows 8/8.1

3% use Windows 10

6% use some sort of Mac, with 10.11 (El Capitan) having the biggest share (since Apple auto-update their OS)

About 0.5% use Linux

The rest are on other old versions of Windows

Based upon this, we decided we needed to support:

Windows XP (32-bit)

All newer versions of Windows than that (32-bit and 64-bit), concentrating mostly on Windows 7+

Mac OSX 10.7+

We also decided to add support for 64-bit Linux to that list (currently Ubuntu 14.04+) because:

Compilation is pretty fast on our Linux build system, so it was nice to add it as a pre-step to the somewhat more time-consuming builds for Windows and Mac.

There are lots of tools for Linux that could be helpful for us during development.

We have a dedicated Linux community who would appreciate it (and 0.5% is still quite a few people).

There are lots of platforms based upon Linux that we might like to add support for in the future.

We might want to do something with the new client on our Linux servers at some point in the future (e.g. rendering forum avatars).
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