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Hi! My name is Karla, I'm a girly-girl, hard core PC gamer, originally from a small Danish town, currently staying at my relatives in Canada. The reason I joined, well, I liked this place, love at first sight, yes...ok...the main reason is, I got infected with love to Windows Vista from my father, with whom I'm currently living. Due to the fact we recently broke up with my bf, I now got plenty of time for PC hobbies and gaming! I'm seeking help with setting up modern games to run on Vista. I speak fairly good English, boys, I'm not so chatty, but I'll try to reply to everyone!

Interestingly, in the US and in the UK, it won't be a thing in EU countries any soon, there are serious doubts about its compliance with GDPR and other EU privacy related Laws: https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-threads-app-in-the-eu-irish-dpc-says-metas-new-twitter-rival-wont-be-launched-here/a1927220337.html It is not at all clear if there will be "blocks" of some sort on the app for EU citizens (or EU countries) or something similar. jaclaz

Looked in which updates updated files DX, they have been replaced several times, so the list is about this: KB4503269, KB4530692, KB4539602. Maybe some more, but it is difficult to find individually, so the last cumulative KB4534310 has it all. But in addition to preparing the game developers, users must also make preparations, install system updates that add support, as well as video card drivers, so that there is support. Although 970 is so old, but it already fully supports DX12 mode (12_0), so in Win10 you can play all games with DX12 support on it. And Cyberpunk 2077 only works in DX12 mode, no other lower versions are provided there, as stated in their message. Yes, then the necessary update is already there, no newer ones are needed. The video driver must be newer than February 2019, at which time support was added. So if the game still does not work, then apparently they added something else that does not allow it to work properly. And also try dxvk, maybe through it will be able to get the image.

I'm just here to post a friendly reminder in case anyone needs a bit of brushing up on what is and isn't acceptable around here: Forum Rules

Hi Karla, welcome to the forum! I hope you enjoy your stay here.

With all due respect, Tommy, I'd really appreciate, if you don't lump us all together in one blob, I was very polite to everyone, so as AstroSkipper. There's only one user, whose name starts with V., and you know whom I'm talking about. He's literally chasing us all over the website, nothing helps. He does what he wants. I was going to ask a question, is he protected? I'll leave this question for the next time. Thnx.

As I'm new here, please guide me to the place where I could get help with setting up modern gaming on Vista with nVidia. Much appreciated.

... The "optimizejars.py" script is contemporary with the Firefox ESR 17 release, i.e. late 2012 (!) : https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-esr17/source/config/optimizejars.py https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr17/raw-file/tip/config/optimizejars.py Until that period, it was actually part of Mozilla Firefox's (open) source code... Later on, Mozilla deprecated that script and opted to use (non-public) omni.ja optimising routines built inside their compilers' infrastructure ... So, the publicly available optimising script is a reflection of how omni.ja optimisation was done in 2012, but I find is an acceptable approximation for, at least, the FxESR 52 era (2017) ... I haven't actually followed the rest of that story on Firefox versions > 52.9.0, because Mozilla dropped support for my OS... This all regarding the official Pale Moon browser is quite a different story ; for "normal" omni.ja archives, in order to extract them successfully with 7-zip without the header warnings, you first have to de-optimise them, as already reported by @DanR20 : Place "omni.ja" adjacent to the script, then (with py2.7.18 installed) run: python optimizejars.py --deoptimize ./ ./ ./ Then extract the de-optimised archive with the program of your choice... As for "palemoon.res", this is indeed a renamed "omni.ja" file, but Moonchild, in an attempt to protect his copyrighted resources, decided to pack it with a custom encryption/optimisation, utilising the Brotli compression encoder, in a way to specifically thwart normal extracting applications ; if you ask me, it was just to vex those advanced PM users who were accustomed to making special modifications to the browser by modifying code extant inside omni.ja itself... I have kept records and the "encrypted"/un-extractable omni.ja archives first appeared in: PaleMoon_unstable-29.0.0a6-uxp-master-git-20201114-g511ac54-pm-master-git-20201114-g07d3f0a.win32[buildID=20201114181134] omni.ja was renamed to core.dll at that time; the final renaming to palemoon.res was implemented in the next unstable build: PaleMoon_unstable-29.0.0a6-uxp-master-git-20201116-g241f06b-pm-master-git-20201117-g86b6cb4.win32[buildID=20201117182045] The first stable PM version with its "omni.ja => palemoon.res" archives made un-extractable was v28.16.0; there were some complaints in their forum, but soon all was forgotten ; if you'd care to read, some links (there are more ) : https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=204401#p204401 https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=204337#p204337 https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=216675#p216675 https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=229232#p229232 ... The great JustOff to the rescue: https://github.com/JustOff/mozjarr/tree/master However, I have no intention of upsetting MC and co. at all ; this tool exists, but JustOff's traces are currently lost ; that fact alone makes the tool itself probably an "abandonware"; besides, this community here is not in need of it, because @roytam1 has not followed MCP's path and "omni.ja" files in all of his UXP releases remain user-readable/extractable ; in any case, under normal conditions, a simple user shouldn't even mess with those archives: https://mike.kaply.com/2013/05/06/dont-unpack-and-repack-omni-jar/ (the latest case where the maintainer himself posted instructions necessary to fix the "about:addons" bug in latest St52 is just an exception to that rule ...)

China has nothing of its own, it's still Google engine under the bonnet, so all the usual google servers where it sends data to are still there, but with the new chinese telemetry added upon.

I just wonder for how long will you post off-topic, derailing spam? Post after post, personal attack one after another. Aren't you tired? If someone removes the insults from your posts, the style of them would maybe fit to some social network, maybe. All those "hate speech" talks, when there's none. And please accept my congratulatons on the Independence Day from Great Britain.

If you don't believe me, here is the official instruction for developers how to activate d3d12 in Win7. For example, Cyberpunk 2077 runs in Win7, and it works in DX12 mode. In dxdiag it will be DX11, and without preparation on the part of the game developer it is impossible to just run any game with DX12. And as for updates - just install the latest cumulative update, it already has everything.

Not all members enable "signatures" (I don't). You can turn them off and on view profile settings.

Such a startup manager, which controls all startup entries, notifies newly created one, and gives the option to block it, I also consider a security programme. So, it is already on my internal list of security programmes for Windows XP..

Here's the right link. Choose and then click. https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.28/

FileHippo used to be a good source for old programme versions. Unfortunately, that has changed. What you download there lately are only downloaders. Total crap! I have been avoiding this site for a long time.

OK ... I guess FileHippo doesn't have what I want ... I will go to your link since I now know what size to look for. Thanks ...

Thanks for this ... I wasn't sure what to download, many things there with that version number. The download I got at FileHippo is only 1.68 MB. Does that sound about right? It's not a very big program or download.

To each their own. If we were really that concerned, we would have to admit that we should not be running XP. So again, "to each their own".

It was simple, yet ok and clever for that times, Nero indeed had several legit services running, if you installed the full package, like with the search bot for winXP. Called "Nero scout". So seemed fine, even for the crappy NOD32 or AVAST, they both completely ignored it. I'm sure you can find similar stories, many people had the combination of AVAST+NERO during that era.

Yep! We all have our tactics. But Process Hacker is not a normal Task Manager. It provides additional security features I already described sufficiently. And here is your System Information window taken from my installation of the version 2.39: Hitting Ctrl-I and bam, there it is. One additional click on CPU or I/O, you see all further information. Of course, it is not three-in-one but the version 2.39 is much more recent. Always important in terms of fixing old bugs. But as I already said, to each their own!

You just answered yourself, not sure what you don't like or not happy with, malware hides itself under multiple layers, or disguises itself under normal software names, I remember my ex-girlfriend installed a keylogger on my laptop, when I was cheating on her, and it was running under the name "nerohelper.exe", which of course had nothing to do with the real German Nero software. I found it with the help of Process Hacker.

It's again off-topic and has no relation to the German Mastodon and/or Twitter, which is the topic here. I'm asking you once again, please stop off-topic, don't derail the thread. Thnx

But then again, to me, VirtualBox is my biggest and most-used "security program". Run anything I want, without regard to crashes and holes, without regard to uninstall remnants left behind, without an internet connection to communicate anything whatsoever. Then delete the VM and revert to the base VM, clone it, and start all over again.

My driver is from 2021, oen of the last ones for 7 and 8. RDR2 runs perfectly fine. DXVK, I tried today, no result. Looks like the game can be added to a full no-support list!

No, but Astro specifically asked to hear from XP users running Process Hacker under XP. I run XP and run Process Hacker under XP, so I provided my two cents.

That looks cool @NotHereToPlayGames, but do you consider it to be a security program?

I only have two versions that I have kept over the years. Version 2.28 is the last that doesn't do an auto-update check without asking me (I hate phone-home auto-update checks!). I was going from memory when I replied at work and it's not processes, RAM, and CPU - version 2.28 has this for a System Information view: Version 2.23 has this view for System Information and I prefer all of that info right there on one screen (I am aware that the same info can be viewed in different screens on newer versions), I just like hitting Ctrl-I and bam, there it all is:

Yes, sample.ini is just there to give you an idea of the feature, you supposed to create your own *.ini file based on it.

Dearest @JFX, thanks to @Antonino I just discovered the DISM feature you announced in comment #1239750 which I missed at the time. I use command line parameters extensively but, in the instructions in the first post, I couldn't find a parameter to specify a custom DISM config.ini file, like it's already possible for many others WinNTSetup settings. Is it already available ? In case affirmative, what is the correct syntax ? Thanks for this amazing tool, V.

hello karla and welcome to msfn (ive heard you have good pastrys there as well)

New News regarding Firefox: - If you are on Win7/8.1 you can't download the Beta/Nightly installer anymore. If you visit the installers website there will be a notice, something similar to "Firefox is only supported on Win versions above 8.1". If you still press at download v115 Stable Offline installer will be downloaded instead - The Beta/Nightly installers aren't blocked, they still download the latest version (117a1) - 115 Beta release notes weren't mentioning the EOL of 7/8.1 - the stable version now does

Maybe I got parameters mixed up at home, IDK, I just tried again on work computer with a slightly updated Python 3 script from here and can confirm optimizing it indeed changes header in the way that makes 7-Zip report an error. Also had problems when I tried both Py2 and Py3 script at first in a virtual machine at home and both Python interpreters reported IOError 13 - Permission denied...pretty sure my downloads folder had all permissions...or maybe I was too tired to see what was wrong. So it's a bit clearer now. I did a very simple mod on two other browsers I haven't used in a while (SeaMonkey and Waterfox Classic) that did not have the fix Matt A. Tobin came up with years ago here. User CSS would be uglier, so I guess unset for -moz-windows-compositor and re-set for -moz-windows-theme: aero-lite.

Thank you! Do these include bloatware-telemetry?

If you like, but not sure what difference it would make.

Hi boys, am I also endangered, while in Canada?

Your driver is missing this dependency *shown in red on you photo. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dependency+in+programming

In any case, save this driver, you might need it in the future, it's a very rare one for Kaby!

He meant NDISsetcoalescabletimerobject.

How to Find On-Board Intel HD Graphic Series, Device ID https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Se17-uYWL8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MUD1WsQ8pU

just add your device ID, if it doesn't find it! there's 1000000 millions of tutorials about it.

I tested these myself; Versions: - Intel Graphics Driver: 21.20.16.4508 - Intel Display Audio Driver: 6.16.00.3164 (Windows 7) - Intel Display Audio Driver: 09.22.00.621 (Windows 8.1/10) Supports Intel Iris graphics, Intel Iris Pro graphics and Intel HD graphics on: - 7th Gen Intel Core processor family (Codename Kaby Lake) - 6th Gen Intel Core processor family (codename Skylake) - Apollo Lake - Intel Xeon Processor E3-1200 v5 Product Family - Intel Xeon Processor E3-1500 v5 Product Family - Intel Xeon Processor E3-1200 v6 Product Family https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/INTEL/ASUS-PRIME-Z270-P-Intel-Graphics-Driver-21-20-16-4508-Beta.shtml

Nope! https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/53.0/releasenotes/ The Fx53 "installer" version won't install the browser under Vista SP2; the "zip" version of Fx53 can be made to run under Vista SP2 if the "subsystem version" string inside the main EXE's PE Header is lowered (with specialised tools) from 6.1 to 6.0; media capabilities of the browser will remain broken, though; the app does no longer have access to Vista SP2's WMF patented decoders (h.264, aac, mp3), because Mozilla devs had excised all support for Vista SP2's WMF version (which is inferior to Win7's WMF version, but this was already discussed in the (distant) past) ...

Right! BTW, quoting Benjamin Franklin and promoting Kaspersky is a contradiction in terms. The poor man would surely turn in his grave if he became aware of the misuse of his words.

Terrorists and looters still need to be policed and punished. National interests still need to be protected, like in this case with TikTok. Otherwise it's just anarchy, not freedom. I can't even imagine, if we had no police, who'd protect us from those evil forces that literally shove Kaspersky down our throats?

I totally agree with your statement. The headline of this topic is crystal clear. Promoting Kaspersky in each and every thread, which has nothing to do with security programmes, is definitely off-topic, propagandistic, annoying, and embarrassing. The desperation must already be pretty great when someone feels compelled to do something like this. The motivation for such behaviour is of course clear, but we leave that to the reader's imagination.

No, they didn't it's just rumours. There's no indication of any actual KB number, just pure speculations. Did you read the article yourself? It's an update for one game that is discussed, not for windows 7 itself.

Perhaps some other updates and/or a suitable video card are required. I have all updates installed. For example, in one of the updates (I forgot which one, I think it was March or February 2019) they partially added support for DX12, d3d11 files are updated there too, maybe this will help.

I too don't understand why he is so strangely and annoyingly promotes Kaspersky virus in each and every topic, even here! And looks like he is talking about politics without any consequences! I created this topic to talk about Twitter's owner outrageous behaviour and how we find a better replacement for that ruined network.

Sorry to hear about the problems you're having Scarf. I can't say I know of any way my batch script could interfere with Win32's installer, so unfortunately I'm probably not going to be of much use here. Are you experiencing a crash with my script before it gets to the option to reboot? As for any 'remnants' from running my script, there shouldn't really be much. The script copies Win32's files to a temp folder under 'C:\extendedkernel_*randomnumbers*' and writes these temp files into the registry entry located at 'HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations', so that Windows would move and rename them on reboot. The folder is normally deleted at reboot. You can try and have a look in these places to see if there are any temp folders or registry entries to delete in the event of a failed install, although PendingFileRenameOperations is normally cleared by Windows on reboot anyway, and I'm not convinced this is the reason for the errors you are seeing. Note that if the temporary folder under C:\ needs deleting, you will need to take ownership and give yourself permissions to the folder's contents first, as the custom install script makes TrustedInstaller the owner of the files.

I wonder what % of internet users roll without extensions? Didn't even Mozilla say back in the day that most of their users don't use extensions?