Thanks TC. 3 pages only one offering help.
For the record I called release notes updated after I call.
But, all the poking fun rudness really "speaks volumes" about our community.
TC hit it on the head, in about 2 years MS will stop support for Windows 7 and this cycle will start again. Tech is always evolving and advancing, we can either embrace the change or we can hope that developers will continue to support what ever OS we hold as the Holy Grail. Unfortunately, supporting an OS that is no longer supported by its developer can be a risky business, especially when security patches no longer flow from said developer.
Nvidia has already dropped main support for their products on 32 bit operating systems and will discontinue critical security support for 32 bit systems January 2019 (we'll see if it happens).
Systems are fairly cheap to build these days, at least the ones needed to play this game. Of course, the more you require your machine to do the more expensive it gets. My main machine is set up for animation, rendering, 3D design, it was a bit pricey but well worth the money and it's 3 years old now and still runs like a raped ape. My music production machine on the other hand serves one purpose and that is to run Cubase 9.5 Pro linked to a Tascam US-1800 interface. That machine (not software) cost me about 250 bucks.
If you do nothing more than word processing, surfing the web and play AH3, building a machine specifically for AH3 isn't going to break the bank. Don't get caught up in the flashing lights of the "newest" hardware.