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  1. Nice to see some of the old guard still around here - hi folks! xpclient, I have Not found that anything about Win 10's virtualization logic has been helpful since I've been using VMware for a long time. I get all the virtualization I need from VMware - which works quite well. As far as I can see all Win 10's virtualization tech has done is make the system much less efficient at other, normal things. Honestly, other than a bit of polish here and there (e.g., Win 10's tendency not to make you reorganize all the icons on your desktop quite so often when monitor layouts change) I can't say it's doing more for me in any part than Win 8.1, which in turn just tidied up and polished what Win 7 did, ad nauseum. I have a pretty good feel for how much computing it takes to get whatever done, having lived and used computers since the 1970s. I did an instruction execution count / MIPs comparison not long ago. Back around 1980 a big PDP-11 minicomputer booted up in a few minutes as I recall. Given the power difference between that system back then and a modern microprocesor now - not even counting multiplicity of cores - to execute enough instructions to boot up that PDP-11 would take much less than 1 second. And in fact I know some folks who, for whatever reason, have software emulators for those ancient systems, which run the old RSX-11M Plus OS MUCH faster than back in the day on purpose-built hardware. We should be getting a LOT more done with these modern machines. Yet we can all feel the sluggishness in the desktop. Just dragging files around (or e.g. unzipping a big archive) in WIndows has gotten horrendous. Delete one file on solid state storage and get a progress bar? In my day job I move 2 GB zip files around a fair bit. It's how we package things. To unzip one of these big files (yes, I still think of 2 GB as big) with Windows Explorer takes something like half a minute. 7-zip from the command line takes literally 1/10 that - i.e. 3 seconds. No lie. And that's running in Windows 10 with a file system so bloated that it can't even read/write files at anywhere near the speed my hardware can actually support. Since when did I/O storage get faster than CPU/RAM? Ridiculous! Win 8.1 delivered some rearchitecture of the desktop, and sure enough things got less "sticky" than with Win 7. If you started something long - oh, I dunno, maybe an unzip operation - you could do something else useful instead of the desktop just getting stuck. But now we seem to be back to that. I've had several cases where Explorer just became unresponsive - on this monster workstation. It's sickening. I need to be able to multitask freely - it's the nature of my work. And... From the Is the Grass Really Greener department, part of my job responsibilities involve using Macs also. I've received Big Sur updates on several of my systems. MacOS is going the same way - loaded down with gunk, it turns a reasonably fast system into a slower one. Ugh! Sorry for any Unix/Linux afficionados out there, but that architecture has NEVER been better than Dave Cutler's VM system design, yet the commercial companies using both seem to be layering on so much BS that neither seems like it will hold the weight. And for what? So they can sell client-server model computing again? I was comparing some benchmarks made on my circa 2012 high-end workstation with PCIe 2.0 running Win 8.1 vs. this big new 2019 tech model with PCIe 3.0 running Win 10, in which I have a seriously powerful GPU... Even though I had resurrected Aero Glass with Big Muscle's tool on that older system - and NOT on the newer one, see for yourself which did Fonts and Text rendering faster... Red is the old system. No way 9 year old tech should be able to outpace modern tech. The OS is the problem.
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  2. here's mine: vista x64 on my netbook.
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  3. 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
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  4. The Windows 8/8.1 ActiveX Flash Player was always a separate download, but I've always assumed that it's functionally the same as the one for earlier systems. It's probably because it has a different way of installing into the operating system than it has on earlier versions of Windows..
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  5. If someone needs the direct links for the modded chinese flash 34.0 installer packages: ActiveX/Win8+ https://www.flash.cn/flashplayer/340092/install_flash_player_ax_win8_cn.exe ActiveX/WinXP: https://www.flash.cn/flashplayer/340092/install_flash_player_ax_cn.exe NPAPI/WinXP: https://www.flash.cn/flashplayer/340092/install_flash_player_cn.exe PPAPI: https://www.flash.cn/flashplayer/340092/install_flash_player_ppapi_cn.exe
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  6. It so happened that I bought a prebuilt PC in February of 2014 that came with Windows 8.1. That PC is named MSI Prestige MS-7903 - it is a desktop with a micro-ATX motherboard (MSI A88X Gaming), it runs an AMD A10-7890K APU, 32GB of Hyper-X 2133 MHz Non-ECC DDR3 Memory. It uses an AMD Radeon R7 120G SATA SSD for the system and a WD VelociRaptor 10K 250GB HDD and a basic Thermaltake 430W (or whatever) PSU. Everything is packed into a Silverstone Milo ML03B case. In June of 2020 I made an upgrade - I bought an AMD Radeon RX 550 Low Profile to enable dual graphics. I needed a new PC at that time 'cuz my old one had BSOD troubles and I had no time to diagnose it. It were my school exam time coming, so I just bought a new PC. I have done some sound/thermal isolation on the case, so it is not as loud. There were some time that I wanted to install Vista x64 to this PC, but I decided not to do it since Vista lacks FastBoot and TPM on my MOBO doesn't work correctly. (Still I don't know it is TPM v1.2 or TPM R2 since UEFI reports v2 while Windows says 1.2 version). I also have installed a few patches - OldNewExplorer, StartIsBack and AeroGlass 8, I hate the lack of transparency in Windows 8.1. Now, I almost never use this computer, about two or three times a year - I have resurrected my Vista machine and bought a gaming computer in 2017. It just sits on my balcony, I use it to watch YouTube and browse social media. I can't say that Windows 8.1 is my favorite OS, one of them, but not the most. Had no trouble using or administrating it. I also like Windows 8.1 Metro style, 'cuz it is better in my opinion than Metro in Windows 10 (it is too rounded). So, if you are looking for an OS with modern features like FastBoot, SecureBoot, nice interface with an ability to tweak it, and not outdated NT-kernel like Vista, something like Windows 7, but still supported - Windows 8.1 is your choice. P. S. sorry for my English, I am Russian, as you can see on my system screenshot...
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  7. Fixed ! I will report here what i done Firefox google certificates are Gtsrootr1 Gtsrootr2 Gtsrootr3 Gtsrootr4 i added certificates snap in to mmc and i checked the above certificates: They are installed ... so the procedure listed by heinoganda worked . I installed Alpine 2.22 also in win 7 and it works ...Alpine 2.22 64 bit uses win 7 certs Alpine 2.22 32 bit instead provides an addictional directory My win xp sp3 is 32 bits, in the ialpine 2.22 32 bits nstall.txt the developer wrote "Copy all the certificates in the folder libressl\certs to C:\libressl\certs. Create such folder in your computer if it does not exist" but it does not work, so i opened this topic .... Your suggestions are right because browsing folder C:\libressl\ there is a README file ... (i paste here the content) "LibreSSL will check certificates not using the certificates installed in your Windows computer, but it will use those saved in C:\libressl\ssl\certs. The directory name is different, i change it according to README to C:\libressl\ssl\certs , and it works So thanks to drive me on the right path . Have a nice day ! P.S. Does Heinoganda is still part of this forum ? i have a question for him
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  8. This driver should fix GPU hang https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-beta-45783-windows-78 If you're alright with disabling DWM, you could go for this instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qQ-cuC3svc
    1 point
  9. i know. i still need to find another used GTX560. as for the guy who replied to you mentioning windows 10. dont mention windows 10 to me. that is asking for me to ragepost...
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  10. @roytam1 thanks! No problem.
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  11. What a coincidence ! I had been scammed too . And that man turned out to be a "lawyer" ! Who would've thought !? And I feel like I was scammed by HP too , when their expensive laptop went bad in 2007 (after 1 year of light usage). On topic , I think it's still not a problem to obtain a legal Vista DVD , I've seen some cheap retail versions (on the well known auction) . Also , if you have a branded PC , just buy cheap OEM installation disks , it is 100% legal , just make sure the manufacturer matches the logo. I still have all of the original Vista DVDs OEM (supplied with the Siemens and some other of my PCs ) and they activate themselves without a problem. Oh , and gotta have the sticker too. If you need service packs , they can be installed later.
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  12. Does anybody remember those days when it actually made sense to use IE as a daily web browser? They are never going to come back...... IE is going to be killed off completely few months later...
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  13. My dream has come true! Thanks for the info
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  14. 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
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  15. New ASUS SABERTOOTH X99 & ASUS Z10PE-D16 WS XP x64 Drivers: (07-18-2018). Device Drivers: Intel(R) C610 series X99 chipset LPC Controller - 8D44, Intel(R) C610series X99 chipset PCI Express Root Port #1 - 8D10, Intel(R) C610 series X99 chipset PCI Express Root Port #3 - 8D14, Intel(R) C610 series X99 chipset PCI Express Root Port #4 - 8D16, Intel(R) C610 series X99 chipset SMBus Controller - 8D22, Intel(R) C610 series X99 chipset SPSR - 8D7C, Intel(R) C610 series X99 chipset USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 - 8D26, Intel(R) C610 series X99 chipset USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 - 8D2D This is a mixed archive of some new July 2018 compatible / stable XP x64 drivers for the SABERTOOTH X99 & Z10PE-D16 WS motherboards. Please be careful to match the drivers to the appropriate devices for your motherboard within device manager. Be sure to make a Backup of your Operating System always before ever proceeding with installing new drivers. Some of these drivers if not most of them can possibly work with other X99 or related motherboards. Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/yv3n8li3ov5skwt/SABERTOOTH_X99_%26_Z10PE-D16_WS_XPx64_%2807-18-2018%29.rar/file Enjoy! - XP-x64-Lover
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  16. My desktop: As simple as it is, I like it this way
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  17. I had been meaning to respond to this topic for a week, but I'd been so preoccupied with work and other commitments that I hadn't had the chance to ... until now! I wanted to leave a huge thank-you, @XP-x64-Lover, for all you've done in finding these drivers and allowing those of us sticking with XP64 a chance to upgrade to hardware a bit more recent. Between your drivers and the trick explained by Matt's Repository for getting XP/XP64 drivers for the nVidia 9XX series, on Memorial Day Weekend I was able to finally give my desktop the badly needed overhaul I'd been wanting to do since my first posts at MSFN back in 2014! That's 64 GB of DDR4 RAM, SABERTOOTH X99 motherboard, Intel i7-6950X CPU, and a GeForce GTX TITAN X. I wasn't able to get the SSD thing sorted out, so I wound up using the IDE method, which has worked amazingly well with my existing install. Since @bluebolt figured out a way to get an install of XP64 working on a NVMe 2.0 drive, I may skip the SSD and attempt a fresh install off of that instead, since the X99 has a bay for NVMe drives. For now, though, I'm just excited to have not only put my hardware troubles behind me for now, but that I've now got the RAM upgrade I've wanted for years!
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