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If Russians didn't start it, someone else would. Humans suck, always have, always will. Not even a century passed since the end of WWII and it's not like there wasn't any other conflict since. It's the same s*** repeating throughout history over and over again. A cataclysmic, tragic and pathetic race indeed. The following song... ...will remain relevant until humans go extinct, which hopefully happens sooner rather than later.
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Chromium 72 can handle it, 71 doesn't. Something about classes, fields in them, not sure, didn't find any similar examples. I meant to say it doesn't work in versions less or equal to 71. Though the actual >= operator in C and other languages means greater or equal to, but since 71 was on the left side, I guess it still came out right.
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Enable AHCI mode on laptop with no AHCI switch in BIOS
UCyborg replied to we3fan's topic in Windows XP
AHCI driver becomes relevant when SATA controller is actually operating in AHCI mode. Searching around gives hints that the chipset may indeed be capable of supporting AHCI mode. If official BIOS doesn't have the option, maaaybe it could be done with BIOS modding, but that's way beyond my expertise, just a speculation. -
Since SeaMonkey was mentioned, the browser part looks interesting. Similar to classic Firefox GUI wise, but different enough that extensions need some amount of tailoring towards it. At first glance, it may have a little bit more support for web bells and whistles than UXP browsers or maybe SeaMonkey has something that UXP doesn't or the other way around. I'll give it a spin, curious about memory usage, leaks in particular. I have a hard time imagining classic Firefox like browser that frees all associated memory when closing sites/tabs. That stupid web app I have to suffer with at work...those NPCs there finally broke working JavaScript for good so a bunch of pages don't load anymore in current versions of UXP browsers, SeaMonkey, Chromium 71 >=... I haven't checked the corresponding Firefox version... Guess I need another browser just for that piece of crap. As it should be!
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I had to lookup the meaning of #1 and #2 - first time I hear of it, so learned something new. To comment on the above - yucky! I don't wish to anyone that they're forced to save money on stuff like this. When I got home from work yesterday, the trip meter in my car was showing exactly 666.6 km. Thought to myself jokingly: "Well, now the devil is coming for me.". Then a little later I saw on TV that Putin went totally nuts...
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Windows 7 support long gone , but still on the current OS list !?
UCyborg replied to D.Draker's topic in Site & Forum Issues
https://theclick.gg/gaming/features/most-demanding-pc-games-2021/ -
Windows 7 support long gone , but still on the current OS list !?
UCyborg replied to D.Draker's topic in Site & Forum Issues
I noticed that, but for consistency, then you'd also have to add entries for older Windows versions without exact edition (assuming we leave existing Win10, Win11 etc. editionless entries) to have the option to not specify edition for any OS, so you'd end up with bigger number of entries OR change existing Win10, Win11 etc. entries, but that would convert all Win10, Win11 etc. users to Pro, Home, etc. even if they might be using something else...yeah, the latter doesn't sound like a good idea. -
Windows 7 support long gone , but still on the current OS list !?
UCyborg replied to D.Draker's topic in Site & Forum Issues
Backwards compatibility down to D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_0, the exclusive new features are not mandatory to use, the new programming paradigms specific to D3D12 remain though. There seems to be very little D3D9 code in there, just querying some infos or something at first glance... It does call D3D12CreateDevice here with MinimumFeatureLevel (passed in EDX/RDX register) set to 0xb000, which is defined as D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_0: OK, but the point that was made earlier was simply that D3D12 library was backported to Windows 7 with some limitations. Nothing more, nothing less. And using only capabilities of D3D11 compatible cards is the valid use case. You're talking about implicit dependencies, there can be also dynamic dependencies, which is what Vulkan and D3D12 are in RDR2's case. https://www.dependencywalker.com/help/html/application_profiling.htm -
Windows 7 support long gone , but still on the current OS list !?
UCyborg replied to D.Draker's topic in Site & Forum Issues
I do that too if I consider it self-explanatory or easy to look-up. You'd have to profile RDR2 on the system that has all dependencies to be able to see everything it loads. The picture shows static dependencies, but other libraries are loaded at runtime. There's footage on YouTube showing it running both in Vulkan and D3D12 mode, eg.: That D3D9 dependency is probably a leftover from older iteration of the engine or maybe they do intro cinematics with it? Latter seems unlikely as it's really old fashioned to use another rendering API for those, much older games from Rockstar did it though, think GTA III era GTAs. Your definition of "true" D3D12 game seems to be the kind that utilizes its exclusive features from feature level 12_2 and consequently requires newer GPU, eg. one of RTXs on NVIDIA side and the like. I wouldn't say other games with lesser requirements makes their usage of D3D12 any less real. Devs should have less work building upon existing D3D12 code should they decide to use new features in the future. They get to skip this - Porting from Direct3D 11 to Direct3D 12. -
Integrate everything search into explorer, replace windows search
UCyborg replied to ibay770's topic in Windows 11
I mean the question in the first post is how to integrate Everything, a 3rd party search engine, into Explorer to be used in place of Windows Search when you type something in the Explorer's search bar. Restoring Microsoft's old search bar doesn't give you that, Windows Search is still used behind the scenes. -
Windows 7 support long gone , but still on the current OS list !?
UCyborg replied to D.Draker's topic in Site & Forum Issues
Seems there's not much interest in documenting which games actually use it. Not much results if you Google "D3D12On7 site:www.pcgamingwiki.com". But you may get a rough list of games on Steam that use it Googling "dxilconv7.dll site:steamdb.info". dxilconv7.dll is a unique dependency of D3D12On7 and SteamDB records list of files that come with each game on Steam among other information. -
Windows 7 support long gone , but still on the current OS list !?
UCyborg replied to D.Draker's topic in Site & Forum Issues
@Tripredacus BTW, you guys forgot to add Windows 11 on the OS list located where you edit your profile. And since it's been out for a while and we have a sub-forum for it, it would make sense for it to be selectable on that list as well. -
Integrate everything search into explorer, replace windows search
UCyborg replied to ibay770's topic in Windows 11
@TSNH That's an answer to a completely different question, not the one in OP. And a bad one since it basically tells how to modify UAC configuration, which as a person who just wants old search bar, you don't want to do. The correct way to get back an old search bar would be this registry tweak: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{1d64637d-31e9-4b06-9124-e83fb178ac6e}\TreatAs] @="{64BC32B5-4EEC-4de7-972D-BD8BD0324537}" -
Oh that. yup, that I noticed. Guess that's just how the forum software is made. I remember seeing the same behavior on another forum as well which also seemed to be running a version of Invision Community.
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Still positive on the quick test...damn virus!
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I guess it's more to do with browsers' limitations or (in some cases?) extensions are expected to do some things differently.
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360 Extreme Explorer Modified Version
UCyborg replied to Humming Owl's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
People here sure love Windows updates. I started to prefer to leave the OS alone when it comes to updates few years back as long as I'm aware that I don't have a problem which an update will definitely fix. Don't mind so much the updates themselves as the process itself, which always seems to leave the room for things going wrong in strange ways. However, updates made past the OS mainstream support date, those I find the LEAST interesting.- 2,340 replies
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360 Extreme Explorer Modified Version
UCyborg replied to Humming Owl's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I actually started using Pale Moon's native user agent by default few months back and the experience wasn't so bad, even though I visited a couple of random websites since. And that's also an alien web browser for most of the population. I don't believe there's a single person in the world that doesn't do it to some extent, so there's that.- 2,340 replies
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360 Extreme Explorer Modified Version
UCyborg replied to Humming Owl's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I hope, but I'm not sure. First they're saying user-agent is being phased out, now they're saying they're testing if their UA sniffing logic still works!? It seems these days it's not as much about locking the website out entirely, but hiding features from the site if you're not on the "right" browser.- 2,340 replies
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360 Extreme Explorer Modified Version
UCyborg replied to Humming Owl's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
pepflash = PPAPI The original Chinese version or the Russian repack have both versions of Flash. So is XP and yet you're still using it. As for Flash, there are websites out there archiving Flash content, so...- 2,340 replies
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360 Extreme Explorer Modified Version
UCyborg replied to Humming Owl's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Both Firefox and Edge fake user agent for some websites. Also https://developer.chrome.com/blog/force-major-version-to-100/ You can bury your head in the sand and pretend and it doesn't happen, but it doesn't change reality.- 2,340 replies
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360 Extreme Explorer Modified Version
UCyborg replied to Humming Owl's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Check the status of Flash Player on chrome://plugins page. Even if you have both, you can only use one at the end of the day. It prefers PPAPI version by default, which is supposedly better sandboxed, but NPAPI version has better performance. If Flash is installed system-wide, it should be able to pickup on that version as well. When multiple versions are available, another is picked for usage by disabling the rest on plugins page.- 2,340 replies
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I am resting. My throat still feels slightly odd and I cough every once in a while, otherwise returning to normal. Yes, I can read them normally without logging in.
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Maybe it's just running as fast as it can, uncapped? Never owned power hungry GPU on that level though. Most power hungry GPU I owned was ATI Radeon HD 4890. I don't remember the temperatures anymore, I bought after-market cooler Akasa Vortexx Neo for it primarily because stock was so loud. Net says its max power consumption is supposed to be around 190W. I was mostly into older games anyway, I doubt this would change much even if I find more time for them (rare exception there and there perhaps, eg. Amnesia: Rebirth looks like an example I may check out eventually). So I don't see myself replacing current equipment anytime soon.
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Was it? Most of the text is useless IMO. What shadowing and caching should I disable? My BIOS has none of these settings. Probably why they trimmed the message. Honestly, probably the most regular mortal can do is to check their hardware with Memtest and the like, try different driver versions if the known driver file shows in BSOD, experiment with power management settings.