Extending support for Windows 7

[Doomster14]

Steam dropped support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. As a result, SteamCMD gives the following message when RimPy tries to download mods:

[----] Verifying installation...
[----] !!! Fatal Error: Steamcmd is no longer supported on your operating system version.
You may override this check by passing -overrideminos.
Steamcmd may not run properly and support for this override may be removed in the future.
Please update to a supported OS version for continued usage.

When I manually run SteamCMD, adding -overrideminos option, it works fine. Mods get downloaded/updated, but DateStamp file doesn't, of course.

Please, extend RimPy's support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, adding -overrideminos option when running SteamCMD on these operating systems. Don't add the option on Windows 10+, since it may be removed in the future, and therefore, SteamCMD may fail seeing an unknown option.

Tested on Windows 7 only, but supposedly applies to 8 and 8.1 too.

[rkagerer]

Any chance to get some love on this (or source code to do it ourselves)? Seems like a pretty easy codechange.

In the meantime one workaround I found is to use ProcMon to capture the command line RimPy invokes when launching steamdcmd.exe, and manually execute it adding the needed -overrideminos parameter. i.e. If you set the ProcMon filter to include "steamcmd.exe", then the first captured event, called "Process Start", has the full command line. But doing this gets cumbersome fast.

So I wrote a quick and dirty shim for my own purposes, and made it available here: https://github.com/rkagerer/SteamCmdWin7Shim

You rename steamcmd.exe to steamcmd-original.exe, then place the shimmed executable where the original was. All it does is add the new switch and reflect the command over to your original (renamed) exe.