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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. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66721
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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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    The crash on YouTube before commenting keeps coming back. I might be able to get to the comments box if I take my time, and allow the loading to calm down beforehand. It happens in both New Moon 28 latest version, and Serpent 52.
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    Ok, seems like clearing the cache may have helped.
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    Google changed something. When I go to a YouTube page and scroll to the comments section, New Moon now crashes. It was working yesterday and earlier.
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    Who would bother to sell any item for $5, post an advertisement, and package it? If it is worth $5, it will never go on sale and unfortunately be in trash.
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    I've had this issue with persistent CPU usage after closing heavy sites. But it's quick to work around by closing the browser and opening it fresh. Quicker than installing any patch.
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    If you want icons, then those need to be replaced in shell32.dll and a few other dlls (netshell, mydocs,...). I made a replacement for WinXP SP1 a long time ago, but never made anything like this for recent SP or Server because it was too much work, and Resource Hacker sometimes causes corruption if saved multiple times. I heard of a scripted wizard for this created by someone with an account on Deviant Art. I think it was called "Inexperience". But I have never used it myself. It may support multiple versions of Windows.
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    Recently, about a month ago, YouTube incrased the CPU usage on their pages. It is no longer possible to watch without stutterring on a Conroe CPU. To watch the videos, I only need YouTube-DL from this forum and Media Player Classic. I do not need FFmpeg. Direct watching with new MPC-HC is unrealiable. Seeking is slow. And my computer has a strange problem where the network is lost if certain video applications are active. It almost always happens when trying MPC-HC. Most videos are small enough that they can be downloaded to disk in reasonable time and then watched comfortably, with fast seeking over sponsorships.
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    It doesn't come up on used market. If someone sells a "750" they have no idea which one it is, because the seller only sees the outside label, and it will likely be GM107 instead of GM206. A "960" a mighty big beast. But so far I see good encodes in h.264 for all content I'm interested in. These video cards can play multiple high bitrate streams simultaneously, seek very fast. No need for a new format that is only designed so someone can get patents.
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    I have a 750 Ti too. There is a newer model of 750 that is GM206, and also 960 that work under XP for h.265. Even out of 3D a video player doesn't need a lot. If I choose "3D surfaces" in MPC-HC, I can rotate the picture, which I need once in a blue moon from a video shot on a smartphone. There are advanced color filters that can be run on the GPU, but if I intend to watch a film as the producer intended, I don't need those either.
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    They added VP9 in Pascal, which doesn't function on XP because there are no drivers. But luckily nobody releases films in VP9 format. On the web, there usually is an alternative normal h.264 video, or the bitrate is so low that the video can be played on the CPU. H.265 exists on the film "market," and is supported in second generation Maxwell. If your goal is only to transport the video stream to the GPU, something like CUVID/NVDEC is more straightforward. But that needs a working display driver. The "X" in DirectX stands for a complete package of stuff that games need.
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    If you just want to read a Discourse forum, you can focus the page and scroll it with the arrow keys.
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