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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!

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.

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.

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.

It is very light. No significant CPU load and very little RAM consumption. My computer has a very old single core CPU. So, no problem at all.

You're very welcome, we are always glad to help our fellow members! And AstroSkipper provides with top-notch security software only, don't forget to read his other very useful threads! See his signature.

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.

Means he gave you a link to an "online" installer. It's not right.

My startup manager gives a notification for every newly created startup entry. Trust is good, but control is better.

Yes, they don't! I kinda think the German WinHex could also be more than good for someone who is somewhat tech savvy to find the threats hiding deep inside of the RAM hidden areas. It has a function to open any RAM area, even the protected areas, where malware oftenly resides. One would still need to know how to analyse them though.

Right! There are many cases where AV programmes don't warn the user about such strange threats.

Thanks for posting such a typical case! That's a very good example what I meant in terms of security programmes. Finding strange processes is the best everyone can do first. You can't seriously hand over all security tasks blindly to an anti-malware programme or whatever. You have to take a look at what's going on inside a computer yourself.

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.

Observing the background processes, noticing new and possibly malicious threats and getting systray notifications when new drivers or services are installed, all that can be done by Process Hacker. Here is a quotation from Process Hacker's homepage: And here is my assessment: That's what I call a security programme at its best. If you don't know what's going on in your system, you don't need to worry about security and possible measures. Then you will just have to blindly trust other programmes and leave the security of your system to them. I personally would never do that. But, to each their own!

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.

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:

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

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.

Seems, I missed adding this to the F1 Help, there is a -dism: switch taking a file name relative to the DISM folder WinNTSetup_x64.exe NT6 -dism:Sample.ini

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.

Hi, Obviously! Delete TickTack asap and go back to Denmark.

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

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

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.

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

You're welocome! Official sources is what always preferred on this forum! Enjoy.

... 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 ...)

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.

Many will stay and pay.

Thank you! Worked on my laptop! Many thanks for the links from official sources! This one is newer than I had, so I updated.

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.

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.

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.

Hello! Portuguese is supported, but the file wasn't there, since Windows Me is a bit buggy. We're working on fixing that.

after merging intl updates, vc2015 no longer builds without fixing: 6:52.88 c:\devel\myUXP\obj-vc15-i686-pc-mingw32\dist\include\mozilla/TextUtils.h(142): error C3250: 'uc': declaration is not allowed in 'constexpr' function body 6:52.88 c:\devel\myUXP\js\src\builtin/intl/LanguageTag.h(530): note: see reference to function template instantiation 'bool mozilla::IsAsciiDigit<char>(Char)' being compiled 6:52.88 with 6:52.88 [ 6:52.88 Char=char 6:52.90 ] if you want vc2015 able to build again, you may need to create a patch. EDIT: created a rebase-branch for HACKFIX vc2015: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/tree/vc2015 I don't know how far it can go, but at least we can try for now.

Dave , I had successfuly installed XP 64 (long time ago, without any updates) on my Haswell Laptop from 2013-2014 using only this AHCI driver . iaStor64.sys ver. 11.2.0.1006 x64 I don't remember where I got it . P.S. I can send it to you, of course.