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It is! The pictures below show my specs. I will do so. I have a laptop from 2013 that has UEFI boot (and secure boot too I believe), but shipped with Windows 7 (UEFI was disabled though) Interesting. This laptop does support both (how I got it working in the first place). You have a guide or know of one for how to modify the bootloader? Also, if it doesn't work with UEFI, why does Rufus select it automatically when I prepare it.

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I don't think that anywhere outside the USA and Canada K-mart is considered worth a play on words or considered at all. jaclaz

webroot secure anywhere requires the SHA-2 updates, so yes i do have that. and startup repair replaced hal.dll with the Stock Windows Vista SP2 one. will that hinder the extended kernel at all?

There are only two acceptable update levels, and two separate filesets for each; April 2017 (which is the standard for the update distribution), or March 2019 (which needs different variants of ntoskrnl and winload (exe/efi) that are not currently incorporated into the installer, though they will be with the next version); the latter is the SHA-2 update point. This was done to placate some applications that reportedly requested the presence of the SHA-2 update.

That's a TALL order for XP. Vista would be relatively easier, however not easy, and maybe not even fun. For example, the GTX 1000 series has NO XP support, and Vista drivers exist, however their performance is crippled (I believe DirectX performance, specifically) as for the other hardware, I cannot speak for specifically, but generally, 4th gen was the last generation that played nicely with XP, and 3rd gen the last for vista (in most cases 4th has vista stability issues.) It seems that you have 9th gen.

I am 70 years old. I am happy with my computer and windows 10 pro. My default browser is FF 87 portable. Others in the system are the newest iceveasel and mypal. The system works flawlessly and even the March update turned out to be kind. I don't use embedded MS software. I am using MWSnap from 2003 - in compliance mode. I use the 2007 student office in compliance mode. I am using mpc-hc. I added directx 9.29 redist installation in compatibility mode. I ran the pSX emulator and played Rayman, Badicot 3, Bandicot 4, Colin races. I am active on many computer forums and I am curious about the world. I was able to set up windows 10 - it's light and fast. I was able to set Firefox to 1 content processor. I am using 10 blocking add-ons. I have lightly on YT and Netflix. In 10 years I will surprise everyone on the msfn forum

3.66 is the last and final version.

Despite the steam page saying it needs win8.1+, Persona 4 Golden runs fine on vista

New build of BOC/UXP for XP! Test binary: MailNews Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20210320-355db4de-uxp-d249dd517-xpmod.7z BNavigator Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20210320-355db4de-uxp-d249dd517-xpmod.7z source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/boc-uxp/tree/custom-older * Notice: the profile prefix (i.e. parent folder names) are also changed since 2020-08-15 build, you may rename their names before using new binaries when updating from builds before 2020-08-15. -- New build of HBL-UXP for XP! Test binary: IceDove-UXP(mail) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/icedove.win32-20210320-id-f0915f3-uxp-d249dd517-xpmod.7z IceApe-UXP(suite) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/iceape.win32-20210320-id-f0915f3-ia-c642e3c-uxp-d249dd517-xpmod.7z source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/icedove-uxp/tree/winbuild https://github.com/roytam1/iceape-uxp/tree/winbuild for UXP changes please see above.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20210320-86023e9-uxp-d249dd517-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20210320-86023e9-uxp-d249dd517-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20210320-86023e9-uxp-d249dd517-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.3a1.win32-git-20210320-bb6dab5c5-uxp-d249dd517-xpmod.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.3a1.win32-git-20210320-bb6dab5c5-uxp-d249dd517-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.3a1.win64-git-20210320-bb6dab5c5-uxp-d249dd517-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - Issue #1746 - Update pkix code with later NSS code. (005d9c42d) - Issue #1746 - Revert "Additional configuration for NSS lib update." (0038394c3) - Issue #1746 - Revert "Update to NSS 3.59.1.1" (52d5ff242) - Issue #1746 - Revert "Update NSPR to 4.29" (dc468397f) - Revert "Issue #1743 - Update CK_GCM_PARAMS use for PKCS11 v3.0 in WebCryptoTask" (d830832cb) - Issue #1693 - Update NSS to 3.52.1-RTM (fd9fc4ea6) - Issue #1693 - Update NSPR to 4.25-RTM (a9a050901) - Issue #1743 - Update CK_GCM_PARAMS use for PKCS11 v3.0 in WebCryptoTask (4397303e5) - [NSS] Implement constant-time GCD and modular inversion (2642a2150) - [NSS] Prevent slotLock race in NSC_GetTokenInfo (156287f0d) - [NSS] Update root certificates. (c46598c11) - Issue #1693 - Update NSS to 3.52.2-UXP (958eb2936) - Clobber for NSS update (494718c32) - [NSS hotpatch] Hard disable AVX2 in NSS Build System (29a5601f3) - [Toolkit] Update TwemojiMozilla font to 0.5.1 (Twemoji 12.1.6) (6a6772f48) - Issue #1744 - Remove the ability to accept Firefox GUIDS (remove the dual system) (3aa334d0b) - Merge pull request 'Remove the ability to accept Firefox GUIDS (remove the dual system)' (#1748) from athenian200/UXP:phoenix_extensions into master (3064ad3ef) - [CSS] Enable scrollbar-width keyword by default. (d249dd517) Official Basilisk changes since my last build: - Back-end branch pointer update (2ccf2a7) - [SSUAO] Update UA override for YT studio (86023e9) Official Pale-Moon changes since my last build: - Issue MoonchildProductions/UXP#1744 - Remove the ability to accept Firefox GUIDS (remove the dual system) (86e5b48c5) - Merge pull request 'Remove the ability to accept Firefox GUIDS (remove the dual system)' (#1864) from athenian200/Pale-Moon:phoenix_extension into master (bb6dab5c5) My changes since my last build: - Skipped NSS and NSPR changes since I want to keep using NSS 3.48.x in the moment - Skipped Issue #1744 related changes - update TwemojiMozilla.ttf to v13.0.2 based build. (af8585d4f)

I edited this to slowly update this list with working games. My tested games: Call of Duty Modern Warfare - Has rendering issues (as of vk3d version 2.1, the game renders half properly, but crashes on startup) Cyberpunk 2077 - Devs says that the game should work properly only on amd hardware, but in my case rtx 2060 runs the game just ok. Every 2 hours the game freezes (aprox.) Devs game list: AC: Valhalla The Division Control Death Stranding Devil May Cry 5 Ghostrunner Horizon Zero Dawn Metro Exodus Monster Hunter World Resident Evil 2 / 3 D3D12 Library https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases

My dream has come true! Thanks for the info

Well that's true, but there are plenty of workarounds for Windows 8.1. Windows 7 does not work curiously enough. No missing api error, but photoshop will not open.

*shrugs* Photoshop says Windows 10 is required in the system requirements. I haven't actually tried it though.

Why photoshop? I have 2020 photoshop on Windows 8.1 and it runs natively ok. Solidworks I have no idea, but if it uses direct x12, you should definitely take the same brute force way like I did, just try it, copy random files and it might work

Could this be used to run even production applications like Photoshop and SolidWorks?

No, though the game has no checks for Windows 8.1 so it does let me select ray tracing. Whenever I select that, the game locks up. I need to sign off to gain control of my pc again then. I don't think rtx will be possible on non windows 10 computers, but I could be wrong.

Does Ray Tracing work?

About the same as with windows 7 and its d3d12on7. getting 60 - 70 fps with rtx 2060 on medium. On windows 10 You can expect high at 60-80 fps. But this is just the beginning, I'm glad it started and runs reasonably ok. I don't have to use crapdows 10

Hows the performance?

I'm happy to report, that Cyberpunk 2077 is playable on Windows 8.1 with this https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases though I played for 2 hours and I experienced gpu hang once.

Well I haven't figured out how to do that tbh.

You should try making an issue on GitHub

I definitely hope so. It was not able to even launch and now it does. I just have to find someone who is using Amd gpu and maybe volunteer who is using Windows 8.0 to test few things.

Do you think that it will be playable at some point?