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Which with a CPU that does 4 threads simultaneously translates to 100% on a single core CPU without hyperthreading. Full core utilization is natural for the code that's not waiting/sleeping. Very common with older games, though not as bad in that context and taking history into account, when CPUs were slow, unless we're talking about those that actually consume 100% to display Win32 configuration dialog, which one doesn't spend a lot of time in, so those webpages still win in ridiculousness department. JavaScript abuse at its finest.

Since you folks are practically using (different) WIP development snapshots of the software, that could be the reason for something breaking for someone, but not the other person.

I was going off the Russian repack initially, but the performance without hardware acceleration is comparable to recent versions of other better known browsers based off Chromium (Chrome, Vivaldi, Edge) on later Windows versions as well as Linux. I haven't exactly dug deep into the history, I know it's not supported with Chrome 49 neither, but don't know whether it was supported on XP earlier. I remember stumbling upon a WineD3D build in the past that's supposed to make Chrome 49's HW accel work on XP, but it hasn't worked correctly on my end. The CPU itself can take it as the other 940 model with the same core and everything (+ unlocked multiplier) is clocked at that frequency. Of course, I tested it that it's actually stable. The only way to overclock it if it has a locked multiplier is to do it along with the neighboring components. Who knows what you've read. The term is a bit vague when you take it apart, but in these circles, it tends to be interpreted as acceleration provided by graphics hardware. I check some Chromium browsers out of curiosity, though I don't depend on any site that wants Chromium to be functional. Someone told me once it's stupid to limit yourself to one browser. I still prefer to keep my life simple and that includes one browser at the time. I don't know any browser that does hardware video decoding on XP, but some do canvas acceleration (misc 2D stuff comprising webpages) and WebGL using GPU. PotPlayer (dedicated media player) can use DXVA 1.0 on XP, though depending on how you configure the player, it may not be the most compatible. Specifically, I've had problems combining DXVA with madVR video renderer, so opted to use CUDA (Nvidia specific API, also useful for things other than video decoding) instead of DXVA. I think the problem with Chromium's software fallback codepaths is that putting already decoded video frame on the screen is very slow.

Tried build 2250, last time I messed with 2206, the problems from back then I noted still exist. Doesn't look like a go-to YouTube browser on XP to me, no hardware acceleration of any kind and presentation is slow. Common Chromium thing really because why optimize software fallbacks like it's 1997. Frame drops are common here at mere 720p @ 30 FPS and it goes super laggy when going fullscreen while not changing the video resolution. Contrast that to Firefox based browsers (tried recent roytam1's forks of Pale Moon and Basilisk) that can do 1440p @ 30 FPS without frame drops. Obviously faster CPU (current one is AMD Phenom II X4 920 (over)clocked at 3 Ghz) would probably let me break 1440p line in FX while slower would make things more miserable in Chromium. Since no HW acceleration of any kind, WebGL goes through SwiftShader, so it's practically useless for WebGL content. And to put cherry on the cake, unable to identify to a website with a certificate; after selecting one, it shows some Chinese error page with the text embedded in the image. Problems disappear when running it on Windows 7.

On Manjaro Linux, Dev build can be installed by entering the following command into the terminal: pamac build microsoft-edge-dev-bin Or for installing the Beta build: pamac build microsoft-edge-beta-bin Nobody uploaded stable build to AUR at the time of this writing. Seems to work as good as one would have expected from any Chromium based browser on Linux. Media playback in the browser integrates with KDE Plasma desktop environment, so you get the notification icon in the system bar (same thing as notification area in Windows) that opens playback controls. They also show on the lock screen.

A man has to fill the void with something.

I've had a desktop a long time ago that had similar quirks. There'd be a bit of Windows splash screen, a bit of BIOS left over screen with added Windows' messages about setting code page and at some point it would just sit there for several seconds with no disk activity. Granted, it wasn't that long (cca. 10s) and TBH, I don't recall anymore if there was just one waiting period or even two. That PC had 233 MHz Pentium, 128 MB of RAM, some variant of ATI Mach and 2x 2 GB disks communicating via SCSI interface. It was used to run quirky (regarding compatibility with newer OS) accounting software. Eventually realized there wasn't much point in running it on that slow and noisy turtle since a better option was available, so I decomissioned it and migrated the software to the much more capable machine. The software was put inside a Windows 2000 virtual machine. I never knew whether the waiting part was just the way it was or something could be done about it.

How did you contact them exactly? Which email? Technically, you don't own Windows 98 neither, you just have a license to use it. It's not like a lot of developers have it any good neither. If you're working as one for the living, the final result is often not yours (never even?). The company owns the software, you're just a cattle to achieve their goal that only gets chump's change in return. Don't tell me it's not a chump's change, Cristiano Ronaldo makes millions yearly for kicking the ball around... Steam is just another distribution channel that happens to offer DRM among other features to game developers. And they happen to have sales when prices really drop, I guess that's one factor that contributed to popularity of the platform. If you're a developer, you're not required to use DRM, just have to look beyond AAA developers. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a good example. Obviously obtainable at places other than Steam, but even if you get it off Steam, it launches without it. How times have changed, back in 2004 it was like: "Wut? I need an internet connection and activate Half-Life 2 online? Screw that, I'm buying DOOM 3." Later: "Crap, why does this game lag so bad?"

I doubt the person responsible for this place is into old computers. Can confirm AcmlmBoard is rubbish on smartphones, have to zoom-in and scroll left and right all the time to be able to read anything. Maybe there's a browser out there I'm not aware of with text wrap or something that would make it bearable. Historically, it seems to me that creators always wanted something more, hence Flash Player came to be. It wouldn't have existed if the browsers were as sophisticated back then. Scripting is kinda needed if you want to do interesting things. Notifications come to mind in the context of the forum software.

Encountered most glitches with 8 (and 8.1) so that's what I'm picking for the worst. Can't decide on the best, too many things wrong with each version. 7's the oldest I can tolerate for daily use. That was before multi-monitor taskbars were a native feature, so Actual Window Manager is a must. Of course this software is useful with older/newer Windows as well, it's just a bit more profound with older Windows. Though if you also like T-Clock Redux and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, can't use them on AWM's taskbars since it's essentially alien to them. 7's still many years before MS reworked their paging algorithm, can't say I like the fact that with my mere 4 GB of RAM, even when there's enough of it free, it still insists on putting junk to page file, which eventually results in slowness if you left something running in the background for a while and came back to it at a later point. So 10's the first version with reworked paging algorithm, sane console windows that can be resized properly and even Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 software works 100% correctly on it. There was something odd on Vista - 8.1 that made certain system event sounds (I like sound feedback) not play all the time as long as HRTF effect (aka. Surround checkbox in the control app) was enabled. Apparently 10 was the first time since Vista when more work was put in the sound architecture (Low Latency Audio), didn't really expect the changes would have positive effect on X-Fi MB3.

Has the battery survived through all these years?

If you read their terms of service, using alternative web front-ends to access content on YouTube is also forbidden. They also started removing comments for no good reason.

Seems you're getting somewhere. Are system drivers you're referring to from Microsoft? Those that aren't, maybe they could be updated. Good question since we apparently don't even know what it does in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine Shifting priorities is making a compromise by making something else slower. I'm not sure where I'd go from here as far as further tweaking is concerned, but would definitely leave it be for a while.

At least for 16-bit InstallShield installers, there's supposed to be a mechanism built in the compatibility infrastructure that invokes the 32-bit version stored in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\InstallShield. Though I remember reading on VOGONS some time ago about people having to download 32-bit version manually. Guess it doesn't always work.

True, just saying with computers you almost can't avoid problems that make you wanna throw it outta the window, LOL! Two really nice things about Linux; no licensing/activation and related nonsense and no random crap running in the background. Also why MS can't get simple things like Night Light right? Well it works in version 1809, but in later builds the setting that picks the times from location doesn't really work reliably, it seems to always pick fixed times as if you had the other radio button checked, even though it says it's using the other times. TBH, this is a classic blatant lie made by such companies to make user feel cozy to still be in "supported" land, but even if the software in question has a critical bug that prevents its basic function to ALWAYS work correctly, they won't do s*** about it. "Buy our latest version or f*** off!" Edit: the only difference between MS and certain other companies being that MS somehow gets away with nonsensical decisions made in newer versions of software (at least with Windows) while such decisions would be fatal for a smaller company. But who knows, maybe even the latter doesn't always apply. A lot of people have s*** for brains.

Since they've specified UEFI and TPM 2.0 as minimum, final build is likely to reflect that. It's possible for 32-bit code to be faster on lower-end 64-bit CPUs. 64-bit instructions are bigger so less will fit in caches. I still mostly lean towards 32-bit flavors of programs (which the new Win11 should support) while using 64-bit OS for compatibility with 64-bit only stuff and because it's the cleanest way to address all available RAM. I haven't dug deep into performance difference between 32-bit and 64-bit code, it seems to depend on the task at hand. The only thing that hasn't slipped from my memory, years ago I was setting up DarkPlaces engine to play Quake with updated graphics and some other modifications. 32-bit version of the engine ran at a tiny bit higher FPS while the 64-bit version loaded maps a little faster (think 1 FPS faster while already above 100 FPS / 1 second faster loading time). I think games aren't the most interesting when it comes to speed coming from bitness, but modern ones love to load crapload of assets into RAM. Other programs doing something like encoding, compressing etc. might be more interesting in that regard. It's also possible to have significantly higher memory usage with 64-bit version of the program than actually needed, some of you might have read about Chromium devs implementing pointer compression in their code to reduce it. Have you heard of many problems inherent with Linux?

Well I guess most people don't buy TV to force themselves to watch programs they don't like for 8+ hours a day, almost every day. I'm on leave this week and it feels like I've escaped from hell. No eye burning, no headaches, no stupid customers on the phone, no countless emails from said stupid customers to dig through and finally no dealing with that stupid software in any way, shape or form and its countless bugs.

Yeah, System Restore should cover it. You can try switching this one without rebooting, instead of a reboot, you can simply disable it and re-enable it Device Manager. No idea, you don't have any option but to try and see. Before you make any changes, monitor the latencies with LatencyMon while using computer normally so you'll have some numbers to compare. You have newer hardware than I do so theoretically, you should have better chances of not encountering problems with MSI. I haven't found official word about NVIDIA and MSI, but they supposedly default to the old mode on consumer/gamer GPUs for compatibility with their old chipsets. Their professional cards (Quadro), as well as AMD cards, have MSI enabled by default.

You may try switching some devices to MSI mode. Windows: Line-Based vs. Message Signaled-Based Interrupts. MSI tool. The GTX 1070 is probably the first candidate to try that is likely to work in that mode, maybe also the audio controllers. Don't know about those chipset entries. Tread carefully; make the change to 1 device at the time and see how the system works afterwards. And make sure you get to know how to restore the original settings from outside the operating system because if you change the critical device that doesn't work in that mode, such as SATA controller, it can happen that the system no longer boots until old settings are restored. Registry can be edited by booting from Windows DVD, accessing the repair options and running regedit from Command Prompt, where you select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then Registry->Load Hive... where you browse to your normal Windows root partition from where you navigate to and select Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM, input the name under which it will appear under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and then you can browse to appropriate settings and undo them. Back when I messed with these settings, I did it all manually with registry editing, never tried the mentioned MSI utility.

Commands for setting correct keyboard layout for DOS in Windows 98 in autoexec.cfg and config.sys are fine out-of-the box on Slovenian version. Looks like I've stumbled upon a very old VMware specific quirk.

Found a quirk in Slovenian version of Windows 98 SE; in registry, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\MediaPath is set to C:\WINDOWS\Medij - but the actual folder is still called MEDIA. So when you go to Control Panel to set sounds for events and click the Browse button, it opens My Documents folder while it normally opens the media folder set in registry. Number of user folders' names are translated, not the same way as on today's Windows where Explorer displays translated name, but the folder on the file system still has the english name. Also interesting to note, known command line utilities and commands such as ipconfig, tracert, dir, del, copy are all translated. None of the NT systems are that thouroughly translated. I guess updating non-English versions of these systems is practically impossible today if you don't have the updates for specific language yourself or someone else has archived them and made them available. Also, didn't I have Slovenian keybaord layout in the DOS prompt all those years ago? I don't have it now. Any ideas if it can be changed and how? It's English despite being Slovenian everywhere else. I tried deleting US English layout, just in case, even though Slovenian was already default, but no change.

Installing invidious always-dash script unlocks certain videos that refuse to load otherwise and extends a quality selector so videos may be viewed in higher resolution up to 1080p (+ 60 FPS, if applicable). The script has to be modified by adding matching URLs of Invidious instance(s) one intends to use. The script is needed only when viewing the site without being logged in, logged in users have a quality setting they can change. Though compression artifacts might still be noticeable since there doesn't seem to be a way to select a codec, so everything is streamed using H.264 (relevant issue on GitHub).

I registered here because of Big Muscle's Aero Glass. That was 6 years ago! Seems so distant now. It's enough time to notice some people seemingly disappearing and some new ones appearing. There are also lurkers lurking in the shadows, some present for a long time, others less.

No. Their devices communicate via USB using virtual COM port. Many INFs wouldn't work then. It's not a critical error that would abort everything. I haven't a clue what OP's issue is. Both INFs work for me, at least I could force install through Add legacy hardware wizard since I don't have an actual device to test. I tried to replicate the bug with original INF by deleting usbser.sys from C:\Windows\System32\drivers and running sc delete usbser from Command Prompt, but still the driver service was installed and usbser.sys appeared in drivers folder, so who knows under what actual circumstances does this bug they speak of appear.

http://maxedtech.com/about-testmode/ - I'd go with Disable Driver Signature Enforcement method on this one. Seems it wasn't copied right from the browser, the whole file is perfectly valid. And here's the description of the issue you're experiencing: Why CDC Serial Device installation fails on Windows Vista and 7 ?