Win7 / Uplay / sh5

[bert8for3]

Greetings to all here. Been a long time.

1. I'd like to play sh5 again, and wonder if some kind soul could give me a few tips on getting Uplay to run on my Win7 computer? Here's the situation.
2. Old pc rarely used, but still good to go, but is still running Win7. I've always kept it on Win7 thinking I'd want to play again sometime, but that sh5 won't run on Win10/11 (could be wrong, don't know).
3. I last played for a while maybe 2-3 years ago; at that point Uplay was still working on the pc, no problem.
4. From what I've read now, versions of Uplay since April 2014, 2023, haven't supported Win7.
5. I followed a workaround and dl'd a prior version of Uplay and tweaked a text file to fool it into thinking it's running a more recent version.
6. That let's Uplay start up, but the first thing Uplay does is to update itself, and then it won't run.

Does anyone have any suggestions/guidance?


Thanks,
Bert