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Many years passed and it seemed no one's going to port newer Nvidia drivers to Vista , I decided to do it myself. Also, I decided to do some contribution to MSFN and took some time to create this tutorial . As we know , the last officially supported driver was from the early May of 2016 . This one is from 2017 ! Some may say it's a miracle , you betcha ! It took me several weeks to try and test everything and it works flawlessly ! Had to emphasise a bit (due to some folks not seeing the main detalis). You need to know, I test on a 900 series Titan, and don't know anything about the 1000-series. You don't need the ex-kernel , I tested on a clean Vista with the updates up to 03.2019.* *only because we have lots of updates fans . These are QUADRO drivers and it's not an error ! It's not allowed to share modded copyright protected material here, hence the new topic with the precise instructions follows, it's easy to do when you know what to do in advance . This may seem like a simple mod , agree , but this is only when someone (me) already performed extensive testings on real hardware (not a VM). Tools you need : CFF Explorer , Universal Extractor and any HEX editor you like. Go and grab here: https://ntcore.com/?tag=cff-explorer https://www.softpedia.com/get/Compression-tools/Universal-Extractor-Bioruebe.shtml Download here 376.84 (I like this one more). https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/115278/en-us/ Or the newest Version: 377.83 WHQL (tested , but didn't have enough time to test all of the games). Release Date: 18.01.2018 Language: English (UK) https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/NVIDIA/NVIDIA-Quadro-Graphics-Driver-377-83-64-bit.shtml and extract with Universal Extractor to an empty folder : DELETE ALL folders , except : Display.Driver , HDAudio, NVI2 , PhysX. DELETE these Nvidia "telemetry virus" files in NVI2 folder : NvTelemetry.dll NVI2SystemService32.sys NVI2SystemService64.sys NVNetworkService.exe NVNetworkServiceAPI.dll presentations.cfg progress.htm presentations.dll Add your device to the nv_dispwi.inf , also replace NTamd64.6.1 with NTamd64.6.0 and [NVIDIA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1] with [NVIDIA_Devices.NTamd64.6.0] Having difficulties to do so ? Then read . How to Modify NVIDIA Driver .INF Files https://null-src.com/posts/nvidia-notebook-driver-inf-mod/post.php Now open Display.Driver and extract these with Universal Extractor to another folder: nvlddmkm.sy_ nvd3dum.dl_ nvd3dumx.dl_ nvwgf2um.dl_ nvwgf2umx.dl_ PATCHING : nvlddmkm.sys - go to offset D571F0 (for 377.83 it's at the offset 00D8B7F0) and replace FF84C0740AB8BB0000C0 with FFEB24740AB8BB0000C0, save then open in CFF Explorer go to import directory : ntoskernel.exe and replace KeQueryLogicalProcessorRelationship with KeQueryMaximumProcessorCount memcpy_s with memcpy ***only for drivers starting from 377.50*** strnlen replace with strlen Earlier ones , ignore the above step. In CFF Explorer go to rebuilder and REMOVE the checkmark with "PE header" , but select "update checksum", click on rebuild and save. The other four files - go to import directory : kernel 32 K32EnumProcessModules replace with GetProcAddress K32GetModuleFileNameExA replace with GetModuleFileNameA REMOVE the checkmark with "PE header" , but select "update checksum",click on rebuild and save. RENAME all five patched files to nvlddmkm.sy_ nvd3dum.dl_ nvd3dumx.dl_ nvwgf2um.dl_ nvwgf2umx.dl_ and place them them to Display.Driver . DISCLAIMER Some might not like the use of additional software that may or may not be flagged by their KGB/FSB "antivirus". Per various sources , including me , permanent disabling of drivers signature enforcement is just not possible since Vista , so you'd have to use Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider 1.3b and I'm not resposible in any way ! HOW TO INSTALL the modded driver . Run CMD as ADMIN bcdedit.exe /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING ON bcdedit /set nointegritychecks on Reboot , install the driver. Do NOT restart . Run Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider and choose "sign a system driver". Sign all three ! C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\nvlddmkm.sys C:\Windows\SysWOW64\nvd3dum.dll C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\nvd3dumx.dll Reboot , go and play. Optional : Run RemoveWatermarkX64 to remove the "test mode" watermark . REBOOT. Special thanks to the advisor @win32, who pointed out the location of the version checks in the previous driver (376.11-in the first pic. ), which I finally decided not to use since I found a much better and newer driver 376.84 from the year 2017 (in the pics. from 2 to 6). If you share this topic , don't forget to tag me. @D.Draker. Final thoughts : Vista lives.

@dmiranda@XPerceniol@Dave-H Just a small note - microphone inputs are very often mono, if your source is stereo better go with line in (or check your specific mic input first).

Good point, I completely overlooked that!

The guy behind the website wp.xin.at is also a user of the Vogons forum nicknamed GrandAdmiralThrawn https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=784051 . Surely it is all with best intentions, though you cannot expect someone to check all the sourcecode when doing some backporting.

1 - 342.01, don't know anything about it . The last time I used it was 10 years ago or so , sorry. 2 - But the link is right. Click the link from the post above . Yes . GT730 will work with this driver 376.84 ( released 24 February 2017) Download here .Here it is . https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/115278/en-us/

Done . @win32, the tutorial is finished . Yet the question about the BSODding 32 bit drivers remains open.

youtube.com/watch?v=lBaTzUquI88 I just thought you both could use a brief moment of levity from all the gloom - I hope you guys can see this funny song ... hang in there, guys

Lol, very true.

@dmiranda you'll like this one, very good IMO. I've uploaded my song and changed the pitch, key, speed, tempo, everything and exported again into an mp3 (which further squashed it). You can see its in the green and the level is where you should be, otherwise, you're in overdrive territory. Have fun recording those old cassettes of a time when we were young and fearless and hot stuff (if I do presume so). Yeah, that might be stretching the truth a bit in my case, but now I'm a broken down old horse that lost the Kentucky Derby. Oh well, they crazy kids got nothin' on us

Very welcome again, I'm sitting right here. I'm glad you are having good luck, for if it weren't for bad luck, I'd have none at all.

I've prepared test version with the fix http://startisback.com/StartAllBack_setup.exe

What a wise (or at least normal) government would do ?

None taken. Various, I'm sure of the few such as Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Latvia, even folks from Asian countries come, I'm positive on South Korea at least. No one'll die if they skipped some trips. Mind boggling to me, but, they really aren't bothered by being stuck in traffic or ending up in huge crowds, aren't they? And there's talk of the next potential COVID wave in the autumn... Not suggesting to throw hands up and just let it go slowly, though, just pointing out the perspective many don't consider.