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Huh, already a year passed since this thread was created. Maybe there's still a tiny bit of chance for a surprise release of AG, the author did at least take s stab at it. One has to wonder what actually changes for the end user as far as changes to DWM are concerned. Out of curiosity, anyone here likes centered window titles and whether that can be achieved with Stardock Curtains?

Windows XP doesn't have DWM, so screen tearing outside apps that request it for themselves is normal. I don't remember VSync ever being a thing for Direct3D windowed mode, but it can work for windowed OpenGL. Your other problems are not the norm.

Figured I forgot to change maximum prerendered frames setting (1) on XP install, that would make all the settings even with 10 install. And the fact that Prototype was played with VSync enabled (on both OS, it was disabled in Wolfenstein) makes things more interesting. Obviously, just turning off VSync smooths things out. Still, no major performance differences between OS, as it should be I believe, though I can't speak for any cards in the center of this topic. Maybe they just never exposed that information in XP branch of their software. That their cards wouldn't utilize all available bandwidth on a version of a bus that came out in 2003...that'd be even more bizarre.

Says "PCI Express x16", no info about which generation. I checked with GPU-Z 2.36.0, it switches between 1.1 and 2.0 modes, depending on the load. I rarely play games these days, last DX9 game I played a while ago was Prototype and it definitely played smoother on my Windows 10 install than on XP. The difference is significant that no FPS meters and such were needed to detect the difference. Surely the driver on 10 install is newer (in 430.xx range), but I haven't noticed any speed difference with the older 368.81 in games in general on Win7 and later systems. I remember when DOOM (2016) came out and it was unplayable on the 368.81 driver, so couldn't stay on that version forever. Anyway, back to XP, there is another game that feels as smooth as should be on both XP and 10; Wolfenstein: The New Order, though this one uses OpenGL.

You don't have to be in a domain nor use MS account to be ale to install Store apps. It gives you a nag to sign-in when you click the button to install it, but you can close it and then the installation begins. Still, no way to tell it nicely that you don't want MS account after you install Windows other than disconnect from the internet...

I use HP VoodooDNA (full name is HP Laser Gaming Mouse with VoodooDNA) that was bought back in 2011. The right button requires stronger pressure when holding it, otherwise the contact gets lost so button up event is fired before it's physically released. Unfortunately, I don't remember when exactly that started to occur. Pretty sure both left and right buttons were even for the first 3 years at least. No issue described in the linked thread.

MySQL Workbench 8. It puts a warning that it's being run on an unsupported operating system and while it may work fine, to keep in mind that it wasn't designed for that platform in case you run into problems.

At least on MBR systems, if you have prepartitioned disk with a single boot partition, you can install the whole OS on it without any problem by selecting said partition in installation wizard, where everything is installed. If you have unpartitioned disk and select unpartitioned space, it will create several partitions. The default layout was changed several times, it started with small "System Reserved" partition, then the size of it was increased as recovery image (WinRE) grew in size. In latest iterations of the OS, the default layout includes 50 MB partition with boot files, 2nd partition accommodating operating system and the 500 MB (it's actually 498 MB in my test virtual machine) 3rd partition with WinRE. It's odd that cumulative update would complain about the reserved partition, especially in a single boot partition scenario, but OS upgrades do pose at least one question from updating component POV in a scenario where such partition exists, eg.: "What do I do if I can't fit the new recovery image on the old "System Reserved" partition?".

I would disable internet connection sharing on the hotspot, then BRIDGE it with Ethernet adapter. Select both "Ethernet" and "Wi-Fi", right-click on one of them and click whatever is the equivalent of "Bridge Connections" in your language. Assuming it works and there aren't any physical connection issues, you might have to set IP settings manually on one of the machines. Windows 10 will complain about the IP conflict in Event Log while Windows 98 should give a warning right after logging in.

Suspend winlogon.exe with Resource Monitor and terminate dwm.exe. Resume it after you're done. You don't want to log out/leave user session with winlogon.exe suspended.

Practicality. It happens to work for me and with a bunch of annoyances in older versions, transition wasn't particularly shocking.

This doesn't really cover real 3D scenarios one usually encounters in practice, it's almost like a web-equivalent of glxgears, mostly useful to tell whether 3D works at all. Try WASM port of Doom 3 engine - introductory page is here. But even good old WebGL Aquarium is enough to tell when there's something off about 3D performance. It's going to be slow because the browser doesn't use 3D capabilities at all on XP. At least WebGL should be fully doable through OpenGL, but is run in pure software no matter what flags you flip.

It's true, 14.28.29213.0 is the last, even on XP x64, newer versions give errors about missing APIs when loaded by applications.

I could try if I find it, they say 14.28.29213 is the last.

Links to official installers for last XP compatible Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (version 14.28.29213): x64 - https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/566435ac-4e1c-434b-b93f-aecc71e8cffc/B75590149FA14B37997C35724BC93776F67E08BFF9BD5A69FACBF41B3846D084/VC_redist.x64.exe x86 - https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/566435ac-4e1c-434b-b93f-aecc71e8cffc/0D59EC7FDBF05DE813736BF875CEA5C894FFF4769F60E32E87BD48406BBF0A3A/VC_redist.x86.exe Edit: I reported the post, moderator may delete this, I overlooked they were already posted.

Yeah, was already installed, my onboard sound wouldn't work without it. Says "PCI Express x16", no info about which generation.

No idea, I only use DVI ports.

I've been using KeePass (version 2.xx) for over a decade. It predates all these fancy-schmancy password managers you hear about these days.

Regarding video downloading extensions, Ant Video Downloader is another one. It requires FFmpeg, user must point it to ffmpeg.exe, then the download is just two clicks away; click on its toolbar button and select one of the detected video streams on the website.

Are you saying the slowdown occurs only if some application is on the slow monitor, but not otherwise? That'd be strange, because AFAIK, DWM refreshes at the speed of the slowest monitor, so the slow monitor always bogs all the others down.

On my end, if I put the second screen to 75 Hz while keeping the first at 59 Hz, things are fine on the first screen, but anything placed on the second one is laggy. If only second screen is active, it's fine, likewise if both are at 59/60 Hz (or 75 Hz), everything is smooth regardless of which screen a particular application occupies.

Windows 7's DWM simply doesn't handle mixed refresh rates properly. If you want all 3 monitors active at once, all of them must run at the same refresh rate.

I mixed up NVIDIA and ATI systems. If I got this right, you practically copied whole main folder content from one system to another and then it started working? It's like as if some file initially got corrupted on ATI system.

Latest Version of Software Running on XP is more fitting. [Moderation note: Agreed, done.]

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