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These sites are real pigs: YouTube, HDtracks and new Discogs (contains a mandatory YouTube window). Discogs announced with great fanfare how the dynamically loaded discography list would deliver an improvement in speed. What I used in the past to disable the embedded YouTube doesn't work anymore. Listening to 10x transcoded music is the last thing I want to do.
New Moon is sitting with memory use oscillating between 1 gig and 2.5 gigs. I didn't think it could go over 2 gigs in 32-bit but apparently it can do large address.
Nothing we can do about it I guess, but I want to express my frustration and disappointment.
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I can't make a print screen of an image that is bigger than the monitor, excluding toolbar space. Those are the ones I'd be most interested in saving. And there would be loss of quality from repeated encoding.
I remember when website authors intoroduced the trick where the image wasn't its own element, but a background color defined in Style tags. Nothing could download it without digging through the cache. Eventually Firefox added support for it. But they have new tricks up their sleeve.
If I click on Tools -> Page Info -> Media, I can download the image from there. It has a HTML extension. On other webpages with a large number of linked resources this is inconvenient.
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When I try to save a album artwork from Rate Your Music, I get a text file saying;
"Your export could not be completed because your browser is blocking scripts from Google (reCaptcha). Make sure to either whitelist Google scripts to run on our site or disable the related browser extensions that are blocking it."
For example, here. (Any artwork is the same.) https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/kylie-minogue/kylie-7.p/buy/
1. Click view cover art.
2. Solve the captcha.
3. Artwork is loaded.
4. Right-click to Save Image As.
5. Get the error "coverart_2.jpeg".
They seem to have some kind of "hook" that runs on saving and does the switch. It is stupid because the image is loaded to the computer already, but cannot be saved. Such hooks should not be allowed, and image saving should be made more resilient. I've seen something simular on other sites, where the status bar gets busy when I do a save. And the image is reported as being 0 px.
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YouTube comments have stopped crashing. I've not changed the New Moon version nor rebooted the PC.
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7 minutes ago, MinimumAttic410 said:
but i am playing old XP games only. i know these cards are not gamer cards but games i play shouldnt be so demanding.
With undemanding games you get more fps, and can increase the resolution, until the GPU is fully utilized. Your screenshot of Most Wanted shows 71 fps and 68%. Maybe you can limit the framerate. Back in WinXP times people without a gamer setup migh have gotten 30 fps, 800*600.
Some of the earliest "modern" passive cooled video cards had the heatsink loop around the edge to catch some draft above the board.
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Upgrade to another video adapter that has a fan. Jerry rig a case fan onto the heatsink (will be louder). Does the case have a good airflow? Problem is that the video card's heatsink in down in a pocket, so air will mostly go over it.
I don't think the silent cards are meant for demanding gaming, but for a quiet movie theater PC, where the load is lower.
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They changed something recently. It used to work, but I had to do the captcha every day. All I changed on my end is updated New Moon to the latest version.
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Can't enter with Opium / Chrome 107. This browser actually works. There is a long pause before the next checkbox appears.
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I can't enter Fanart.tv, which is perpetually protected by Cloudflare, using New Moon 28. The captcha checkbox can't be dismissed.
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On 4/1/2024 at 7:18 PM, Dietmar said:
CMPXCHG [EBP], EAX instruction compares the value in the EAX register with the value at the memory address pointed to by EBP. If they are equal, the value in EAX is stored at that memory address
Can you explain the purpose of this function? I don't understand why it writes the same value from a register into the memory location. The memory already contains that value (when they are equal).
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I think they should summarize the differences between these browsers on the download page (whoever makes the download page). The choice of 6 browsers is confusing if you just want an old style browser for XP. I initially went with Serpent 55 because I thought it to be the newest, until I was told that it hasn't received as many updates since creation.
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On 750 the temp rises in proportion to the utilization, even if the clock stays high. Seeking speed is very fast because it has the extra speed available when needed.
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DXVA is Microsoft's way of accessing it. And DXVA2 exists to promote Windows Vista. MPC-HC gives a choice between DXVA and CUVID. I always choose the latter to not depend on Microsoft.
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What's the use of PhysX in games that this card can handle? That would be additional load on it. I do not know a single game that relies on PhysX, and don't have this bloat in Program Files.
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Why would you use New Moon 27 today?
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From what I gather reading this page, Wikipedia collects all/most JavaScript ever downloaded from them into the storage database so that it doesn't need to be downloaded again. With more features accessed, the size of it grows. And it is stored separately for every wiki/language cos presumably they each can have different versions. My English MediaWikiModuleStore:enwiki is 3 MB. SQLite Manager hangs trying to display that row, but it can be exported to a text editor.
They think it is a good thing, and only disucss how not throw errors when a quota is exceeded. No matter how big disks get, software always expands to fill them.
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In MPC-HC they have an interface that accesses PureVideo via CUDA. The decoding is done with the same hardware module, but they say that it is done with a CUDA wrapper. There is also a very useful FLAC encoder that uses CUDA, FLACCL from CUETools. It was too slow to be of use with GT 610, but with GT 750 it is very good. At the highest setting it encodes much faster.
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How much memory do you have committed in Task Manager when the game has been played for a long time? I'm not familiar with the RAM reading that this OSD gives, if it is the total including driver memory.
For Most Wanted you can lighten the load by turning down some settings, like the shadows and the orange tint (it still remains plenty brown with it off).
If the card is fanless, it might not be usable at full load in Summer. I previously had a GT 610, and it overheated and crashed after a long chase with the cops (aaargh). But it also had a higher power consumption being a previous generation model.
Don't you need CUDA to watch videos with GPU decoding? I think what the program reports is a small missing DLL. The bulk of the CUDA stuff is still there. I no longer use WinXP, so I can't check what the name of it was.
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The list in that dialog box is empty for me. I have seen something there in the past, but not now. When I looked through the entries using SQLite Manager, I saw my username in a few of them.
In Opera 12, I don't see anything from Wikipedia in persistent storage. Other wikis have 500-700 kB. Perhaps it considers the browser too old to use. Its global quota looks to be 10 MB for all sites together.
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Thanks, I don't know SQL wizardry. Last time I touched it was almost ten years ago.
Looks like the biggest consumers are various Wiki sites: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Fandom, Wikinews. Each language domain has an entry between 1 and 3 megs. Wikipedia has become noticeably slower over the years with the same basic Monobook style and visual editing turned off. On talk pages they discuss how pages for some popular subjects need to be shortened, and on an old PC it is clear why.
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Maybe you have a problem with the PC hardware. I have GTX 750 Ti with the latest iCafe drivers and it works. I wonder if it would be stable under NT 6 on the same harware.
Some games do not work under XP because they run out of 32-bit memory. Then the system spectacularly crashes. Direct3D9 seems to take double the memory, in video RAM and in system RAM (in the Paged Pool address space, which can be listed by PoolMon). If I alt-tab out of a game, it copies some of the video memory into system memory. Video memory use fall to near zero. OpenGL doesn't do this. Maybe it helps when alt-tabbing back in. On XP SP1, the paged pool was around 100 MB. On XP SP3 and the latest Server it is about 300 MB, and the problem may not be experienced. But possibly can because these new cards have a lot of memory on board.
I can compare memory use using Euro Truck Simulator 1.35, which is a very demanding game, and supports both Direct3D and OpenGL. It will crash in Direct3D after driving through new maps for 15-20 minutes. A crash also occurs with GTA SAMP using the default cache memory setting, which is optimized for modern PCs.
The Sims 2 FreeTime actually causes a BSOD when launched repeatedly. I couldn't understand the reason. It does not use much memory. Perhaps the driver has overlooked something when reloading a cache, and they've stopped testing it in depth for an obsolete Windows version. With this game there was some blame passed between developers of Maxis and nVidia, but supposedly it was resolved, but not for me.
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It is obviously a result of one or a few sites storing oversized "cookies", possibly to sneak some advertising in. SQLite Manager lists 19801 entries inside the table webappstore2.
After an exercise of reading backwards, on the first page I recognize entries for hdtracks (possibly a culprit), softonic, pristineorganics, reddit, msfn, wikipedia, google, deezer (suspect), imgur (suspect), rateyourmusic, gtaforums, facebook. Looks like it may hold useful settings and logins that I need to keep, or I would need to log in to every place again, and likely don't remember the passwords.
Any way to sort this table "by size" to narrow down the bloat?
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My "webappsstore.sqlite" in New Moon is 150 MB. When I view it with a text editor, I see it full of JavaScript and keywords apparently related to advertising from Shopify and similar domains. This is a ridiculous amount of data. Can I see in the browser to whom this data belongs to, and clear it without deleting this file in its entirety?
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I don't like this. On Reddit you have to constantly try to please the other participants and only say things that are generally agreed to be true within that community, and speak in the right tone. And I don't mean to speak politely, but, for example, use meme vocabulary or use cute/feminine expressions. It's hard to guess what is right at the moment. If you say something that challenges the status quo, you get punished by an army of "moderators".
On Reddit I'm stuck at 7 points of post reputation, and can't ask any support questions. I can't return to a thread for followup without squinting to avoid seeing the votes I've received.
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My Browser Builds (Part 5)
in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
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Yes, almost always, when a site is rewrited fro the ground up today, it will make use of bulky scripts, and often appear as an "app" (maybe with a loading bar). To find something to download from a site like YouTube, I usually still need to open it to list the content. The titles don't always have unique keywords that will return the entries via Google search. I like how YouTube-DL has become smart now and can follow the Google redirect from search results. But if I want to read the text, for example, on an e-mail site like Protonmail or Discogs, then I need to browse it normally.