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The EAX (in fact sound hardware acceleration) related issue is independent of the nvidia driver - same issue happened even if I have an ATI X850. No longer though, since I removed IRQ steering. And about RLoew's patches, yeah - as far as I remember I have PATCHMEM and TBPLUS installed - though I did check the EAX related issue before installing TBPLUS and it was still there, so I guess TBPLUS isn't at fault

It's good performance after the first run. First run sets up a bunch of stuff on your computer (files/folders) and that slows it down a little bit. After that it's alright. And yes, YouTube works like you'd expect. There is a performance setting in settings. If you have ever used Chrome it's pretty much the same layout and should be familiar to you.

I think NOTHEARTOPLAYGAMES has answered your portable question. The version I downloaded is the 132 etc, etc version. I just picked the 32 bit version for XP but didn't notice if there was a portable version. . I suggest you try it. The first time I installed it I chose the "ungoogled" version. Problem was that eliminates Google as being one of the search engines you can make as the default. Since I regularly use Google for searching, I uninstalled it and re-installed it without checking the "ungoogled" mode. There is no "ungoogled" version of Supermium. It is a choice you make during the install.

Greetings ; let me just say that I'm not in a position to make any demands on you; I hope my previous post didn't convey this ; I just picked up from the observation @Reino made previously and, as a courtesy to him, I suggested a way for him to continue fetching iOS (i.e. HLS) YT streams without the need to hunt for and extract POT strings from a browser (or some other way) ; I have no personal interest on this, other than the stated dislike of available (download) options having been removed ... With that out of the way , my Python-fu is certainly worse than yours ; I've now seen that file "_video.py" has been further modified by upstream since 895e762, as can be seen here, so now it isn't just a matter of partially reverting that commit, as I had (foolishly) suggested before... Upstream have changed priorities of yt_clients in 3bd9154, so now iOS would have to be added as third? Let's hope this doesn't break things... In your downloaded "_video.py.diff" patch, I would personally stick closer to how things were on 895e762 , so, instead of: f'For more information, refer to {PO_TOKEN_GUIDE_URL}') + 'To enable these broken formats anyway, pass --extractor-args "youtube:formats=missing_pot"') I would go with: f'You can manually pass a GVS PO Token for this client with --extractor-args "youtube:po_token={client_name}.gvs+XXX". ' - f'For more information, refer to {PO_TOKEN_GUIDE_URL}') + f'For more information, refer to {PO_TOKEN_GUIDE_URL} . ' + 'To enable these broken formats anyway, pass --extractor-args "youtube:formats=missing_pot"') # Only raise a warning for non-default clients, to not confuse users. + # iOS HLS formats still work without PO Token, so we don't need to warn about them. if client_name in (*self._DEFAULT_CLIENTS, *self._DEFAULT_AUTHED_CLIENTS): However, as the English say, "the proof is in the pudding", so the patched code should be (compiled and) tested first for inadvertent "malfunctions" ... Thanks already ...

Probably an RF issue. Try different: Wifi channels / power levels shielding / reflectors USB ports / hubs / cables monitor refresh rates cpu and system clock speeds

Thanks for the update. Was this also before the Nvidia driver install, or after? And are any of RLoew's patches still installed?

Under the BIOS PCI devices listing, both are shown as having IRQ 5. In Win98 device manager too, both still have the same IRQ 5. And yet now everything works perfectly. Very strange and I don't have the first idea what's going on. Another interesting thing - before when I played Hitman Contracts with EAX enabled (SB Audigy 2 ZS), after a while the sound would start tearing and repeating (as if some sound buffer underflow or overflow happened). After this IRQ steering related change, even that sound problem went away. As I said, very weird..

So this is no longer the case?

@SweetLow Hey man, thank you so much for giving me the hint of IRQ Steering. I looked it up online and found that IRQ steering settings can be found in PCI Bus device settings. So I went to pci bus properties in safe mode, then in settings tab, under Device enumeration, changed from "Use Hardware" option to "Use BIOS" option. Left the "Override Bridges" check box unchecked. Then in the IRQ Steering tab, I just unchecked the "Use IRQ Steering" check box (this also disabled all the sub-options: Get IRQ table using ACPI BIOS, Get IRQ table using MS Specification table and Get IRQ table from Real Mode PCIBIOS 2.1 call). Then after restarting, both the VGA driver and SMB via LAN access works perfectly. I admit I don't have the least bit of idea what those options meant. Maybe I only had to disable one or two things or suboptions. I'll test with games further and update here if anything got broken after my changes

Notepad++ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad%2B%2B I am not sure about working on Window 2000: "Notepad++ v6.6.9 is the last version that can work on Windows 2000". Not to mention Windows 95. HomeSite was the thing then. It is not a general text editor, but an HTML editor. Still not WYSIWYG and full control of the code. And there was Arachnophilia written in Java (right, requiring Java 2 runtime environment).

Some computers have problems with Wifi via USB. A fellow attorney from the building asked me for help with an old computer. He bought from a dude a Core 2 Duo desktop for $200. For some reason I get no stable Wifi signal on that computer. And it was running Windows 7. On other computers that same adapter works fine. I was using this one: https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Nano-Archer-T3U-Wireless/dp/B09KTDXPY3/138-3872363-9753139?pd_rd_w=VCIQk&content-id=amzn1.sym.9cf17164-13e4-4652-96f9-f76b8f33fec0&pf_rd_p=9cf17164-13e4-4652-96f9-f76b8f33fec0&pf_rd_r=TRH0PR84S0KZXC3495GM&pd_rd_wg=0XZEU&pd_rd_r=860d8f4c-1a63-4971-a145-69136f4bb8db&pd_rd_i=B09KTDXPY3&th=1

Since I don't make changes directly in the source tree of my fork (I apply a few changes after cloning), I could try to apply 2 diff's with your proposed changes. Could you check if this is what you want (I left out the changes in README.md)? GvsPoTokenPolicy only set to false for HLS. StreamingProtocol.HLS: GvsPoTokenPolicy( required=False, recommended=True, ),

How is the performance with a Pentium D CPU ? Does Youtube play videos ok ?

If you require access to working jabber server please contact me via DM. I can arrange you temporary access to mine for any testing you may require

I was speaking from a manufacturing perspective. See in that reply that Dell had made custom installations that do include the required drivers. They use the OEM source media that was mailed direct from MS to make their recovery media, this it the type of Windows media that I had worked with, not Retail editions which I would consider to be off-the-shelf. Clarification needed in the cases where some companies sold System Builder on its own, which was actually not permitted, so I won't consider those to be off-the-shelf versions.

From MDL forums: Telegram 5.6.3 for XP https://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=24:50247:313#313 Regards

Technically, the developer doesn't have to create a portable version. Any web browser, be it Mozilla-based or Chromium-based, can be 'made into' a PORTABLE version by using a "loader". I've only used PORTABLE browsers for the last THIRTY YEARS.

I assume that you are talking about the version of Supermium in the 'Web Browsers / Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes' section. That version does not seem to be portable or am I wrong? I am using Win XP and would like a portable version that is Google free for Win XP. I found a version at Major Geeks: Download Supermium Portable - MajorGeeks / Supermium Portable 132.0.6834.226_R5.02 Date: 08/26/2025 Size: 192 MB License: Open Source Requires: 11|10|8|7|Vista|XP https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/supermium_portable.html Then at PortableApps.com: Supermium Portable 126.0.6478.261 R7 (web browser with legacy support) Released A new version of Supermium Portable has been released. Supermium is a web browser based on Chrome with legacy Windows support (XP/vista/7/8). https://portableapps.com/news/2025-01-27--supermium-portable-126.0.6478.261-R7-released and there appear to be at least a couple versions at Github ... but they seem to be only for Windows 7 and 8. I've been wanting to try Supermium for a year or so but just not sure which version to work with and if a portable version would work. In the Supermium topic in 'Web Browsers' there is never any talk of a portable version. Would that portable version at Major Geeks be OK to go with? ... I've read the talk about using only an 'ungoogled' version. Thanks ...

Not the folks that I know. They live paycheck to paycheck, not a dime in savings, but can't keep a phone more than a mere six months or so without cracking it. They upgrade OFTEN, *very* often, not because they can "afford to", but because they eventually get tired of the cracked screen that their NEGLIGENCE added to the phone they do have. But that is also just *PROOF* that anybody and everybody can "afford" a phone. These folks were very likely raised BREAKING their toys left and right, with their parents ALWAYS telling them, "This is why you don't have NICE THINGS." So here they are, young adults, STILL BREAKING their toys, but EVERYBODY has choices to make in life, "Hmm, should I buy a new phone or pay for car insurance?" These folks opt for the phone over car insurance. Sure, not "all" of these 'kids these days', but you know what I mean, lol...

Hey SweetLow, regarding IRQ Steering.. I don't think so. I don't see it among enumerated devices, but I have attached the screenshots for various devices for reference. I'm not sure what jumbo frames mean, but if you can tell me where or how I can find the info (i.e. whether or not I jumbo frames are used on the RTL8111 device), please let me know. I'll attach logs/screenshots as necessary. By previous problem solving do you mean the one where I was trying to force detection of only up to 2 Gb RAM?

Do you have working PCI IRQ Steering? Do you use jumbo frames on this device,? And yes, I have to note that you didn't share the results of your previous problem solving...

I'm still working on this. I found my old Pentium 133 Windows 95 system and have downloaded some alternate builds of Pidgin and GTK+2. The rev-a version seems to be the mistake; the original GTK 2.6.10 was the last build for 95 except for a special build of 2.14.4. Google "gtk+2 win95-compatible version" AI Overview:

I wasn't misleading anyone. I said "pluck some 100 Euro notes", not pluck ONE 100 Euro note," or even "pluck a few 100 Euro notes!" We're all well aware that the cost of a modern PC is more than a few 100-Euro notes. I figured the reader would know how many notes would have to be plucked! But quibbles over adjectives aside, I think we actually agree! My whole point was that there's no such thing as a money tree! Most of us actually have to work quite hard to earn enough money to buy a modern PC; thus it was quite arrogant for someone to respond to a complaint about a Web site being deliberately blocked from working on an older PC with "just go out and buy a new one," as if that were a trivial thing for anyone to do!

Not me. I've never understood that. I'm still using a 10-year old 4G phone. People like you describe act as if they actually have money trees, throwing away an over-$1000 piece of equipment every 2-3 years just because there's an even more expensive version out! Because that's how the World Wide Web was designed to work, that's why! The original idea behind HTML was that, no matter how many fancy bells and whistles were added later on, a Web page should still look the same to folks using a browser that didn't support the new bells and whistles. The page may be slow and look like one of those ugly pages from the '80's, but it's still supposed to work. (And for the most part, the WWW really did work that way for its first couple of decades.) I know we got away from that ideal long ago, but I still think it's an ideal worth striving for, rather than Discourse (or whoever) shutting you out of their sites completely because your browser/OS doesn't support all the HTML features they think they might want to use someday. Someone once told me there's a difference between dealing with organic change like the shifting seasons, and the change forced on you by someone who is whipping you forward like a drover, toward a destination of their choosing, not yours. You misunderstand the situation. We don't get to choose whether to use "old school" or "new school" methods! If the Web designer used the "old school" method of sniffing the UA (e.g., chase.com), then we have to use the corresponding "old school" method of spoofing the UA just to get in! Of course, we often have to use "new school" methods as well, like those built into a Web browser like R3dfox or Supermium, or the site will likely not work well (see above) but that doesn't mean we can ignore UA spoofing just because it's considered "old school."

Probably not the first to post about Supermium but it's great. Tried K-Meleon but it didn't work right for many websites. Tried MyPal but never could get it to run. Always blew up on start with the message MyPal has caused an error in kernel32.dll......MyPal will now close. Still have and was using Firefox 45.9 and it did pretty well with the exception that on some websites, such as this one, clicking on a button wouldn't work and many websites I had to make a security exception for Firefox to load the page. But Supermium is letting me go anywhere I usually go with no problems. Everything is displayed correctly and every button works. I'm very impressed and hope the developers (I know its a modified version of Chromium) keep it up to date for any future changes to the way browsers work. My system is an HP Pavilion Media Center with dual-core Pentium D processors running XP Pro SP3 on the one drive and XP Pro Media Center Edition on the other. Very handy to have parallel installations. Anyway hats off to those who work on Supermium. Great job!