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You're welcome. Although I'm not an expert on Vista, more on XP and 7, I still follow it and collect drivers, updates and programs. Glad to be of help. By the way, I noticed that the icons and buttons on MSFN are not showing up, you need to install Fontawesome fonts, then the icons will show up. https://fontawesome.com/v4/assets/font-awesome-4.7.0.zip

Did a driver test, in the Unigine Valley benchmark. Driver 347 does not support GTX950, so I set it as GTX960. As a result, in DX9 and DX11 modes the difference in fps was within the margin of error. The processor is weak, dual-core Athlon, but so far I have no opportunity to test with a more powerful processor.

When the driver is there, but I only gave the inf stub, there is no sys file there, look at the contents of the inf, there are sections just to add the correct device name, nothing else. Such fps, it's rare after all. And monitors that support that many Hz are even rarer for those who don't have Win10. And I think it's marketing at all, the human eye can't see more than 85-100 Hz.

No, the device can't work. I can, for example, make the same plug for the network card, and it will appear to be installed, but of course it will not work. If it worked like that, you could "make" drivers for any device on any OS. Intel ME works at the BIOS level, so it doesn't matter if there is a driver in the OS or not, or even if the OS is installed at all, the motherboard receives signals directly from the network card. But without a driver at least from the OS you can't access, for example, programs.

PCI-controller, I realized, there the necessary IDs only for 7+, I added for all, so the driver signature is gone, when during the installation will write that the driver is not verified, click "install this driver anyway". https://mega.nz/file/rrh0iQYZ#OuPCI6IaqzoFi2jF95PPu6zl9cbJ5yaoewuOTp0OMaQ On the network card my drivers didn't install at all, because you can see that the system driver is installed, maybe it has a newer date so the system thinks it's the most appropriate. So try installing the driver in fully manual mode: ПКМ на сетевой карте - Обновить драйверы... - Выполнить поиск драйверов на этом компьютере - Выбрать драйвер из списка... - Установить с диска. Дальше указать inf файл драйвера. Try TP-Link_6.250.0908.2011 driver first, if it doesn't install, try another driver. If both fail to install, take screenshots of the error. This is Vista after all, it might be a bit different here, I'll check the performance later. I'm not giving drivers, I'm giving plugs that make it so the Device Manager doesn't show non-installed devices, but there is no driver as such.

Found all the drivers, for the chipset all drivers are just inf stubs anyway, so should install without problems. I found two drivers for the network card on Vista, they are both from TP-Link, but they should work, it uses a realtek chip anyway. First try TP-Link_6.250.0908.2011 driver, it is newer and the network card will be called simply "Gigabit PCI Express Network Adapter" with no brand name. https://mega.nz/file/6zoXSCCS#MOEY53F1KIDeJhG53P2euw8zKVvOyh8KhXbAn_v4XSA Try installing the 365.19 driver on your video card through Device Manager.

The nv_desktop_ref4i.inf has a very small list of video cards, for example my 950 is not there. The main part of video cards is in nv_dispi.inf, but almost all IDs there have no SUBSYS section, so a suitable ID will be found there.

Yes, need more information about the video card, who is its manufacturer. Maybe the video card was bought in China and a laptop GPU was installed there instead of a desktop GPU, but the ID was changed to the usual one. I have even met such video cards.

USB try this driver, I have it working on my Z77 chipset on Vista. https://mega.nz/file/v7gFiALD#3WjTHP0Mx7idmuJ38SfUjkRC7epYR-3B3KTAUjQmMDo Video driver is not clear why it is not installed, I have GTX950 (PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1402) and driver 365.19 was installed by the installer without errors. What if you unzip the driver and install the driver through device manager? Also, what is the letter of the system disk, WinNTsetup sometimes assigns a different letter than C, and because of this some programs have errors.

It installed on Vista, but on startup it gives the error "Unable to start virtual machine". Virtualization is enabled in BIOS, the computer meets the requirements.

The miracle didn't happen.

I've only used the drivers from WU a few times, but there were always problems, like OpenGL was a low version, or there was no OpenCL/CUDA, or DXVA didn't work. But my video cards were older, maybe back then drivers were just made to work.

Thank you. Everything is fine here, everything is supported, which it should be.

What about functionality? As far as I know, WU graphics card drivers had worse support for different technologies, e.g. OpenGL version is usually lower than the manufacturer's driver, CUDA and OpenCL may not be supported, performance in general is lower. Please make a screenshot of GPU-Z.

Many antiviruses don't like any sfx modules at all. Even in the original 7z.sfx from 7zip some antiviruses find something.

The required updates are not installed. You need to install platform update KB2670838, SHA-2 support KB4490628 and KB4474419-v3.

What system updates are installed? New drivers may require Platform Update KB2670838 to work. The SHA-2 updates seem to be installed, without them there will be a Digital Signature error. Try installing different drivers, especially older than 474.11.

Compile an up-to-date version of MPC-HC/MPC-BE, but with VMR7/9 support so that hardware acceleration works.

No, all updates are up to date, I installed office and installed Legacy Update, it showed the same list. I also found the KB832668 update, it is required for Win 98-ME, it adds ctfmon. Project2002 and Visio2002 were separate components at the time and not part of the main office suite, so I didn't add them.

It means that your OS has accumulated a lot of problems that are causing the slowdown. Because on all computers where I have done a restore, I have not noticed any change in performance after the restore. For example, my main computer I'm writing from now has been restored twice, first in 2017, when my network failed due to a conflict between antivirus and firewall, and second time in 2020, due to a program that installed an incompatible driver. But the OS still works fine today, no problems or bugs. Yes, restore points do not give a 100% guarantee that there will be no problems at all, or it happens that restoring from a point fails, but in 75% of cases the OS will be restored to the state at the time the point was created. Incidentally, the recent worldwide Windows crash could well have been quickly resolved if Win 10 had Recovery Points enabled.

You misunderstood me, I repair computers, not only their hardware, but also reinstall the OS, virus removal, recovery, and so on. You just don't understand how a restore point works. It restores files and registry entries as they were when it was created, so the OS at the time the restore point was created = the OS after the restore. Of course, if the OS has a lot of bugs, it's easier to reinstall, they accumulate gradually and usually restore points don't last that long. But if something breaks a well working system, a quick rollback is best. For example, the wrong driver can cause a BSOD, safe mode doesn't always work, and rolling back from a point will quickly and correctly remove that driver.

Except that this advice is harmful. I do computer repair and over the years have been able to recover a large number of systems using restore points. And on my computers system recovery has saved the system from reinstallation several times. On Win 10-11, restore points are disabled, so any problem there means you have to reinstall the whole system, so I enable system restore there too. And even SSD wear and tear won't be an excuse, because a full system reinstallation gives more wear and tear than an occasional non-big restore point.

Yes, with the files from pm26xp-no-manifest, palemoon-26.5.0-20240601.win2000 started.

@roytam1 In Windows XP SP1 on a Pentium III E, the system crashes into a blue screen with error code Stop: c000021a when running palemoon-26.5.0-*********.win2000, except palemoon-26.5.0-20180718.win2000.old, it starts. What could be the problem? Does the browser require SSE2 instructions?

But Nvidia's help claims that DX12 is supported even in Kepler and Fermi: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3711/~/which-nvidia-gpus-will-support-dx12%3F But all this is of course marketing, there is no DX12 there. I'm not a gamer, so I didn't check out the games. I know for sure World Of Warcraft and Cyberpunk 2077 before some update support DX12 in Win 7. But I compiled the D3D12On7 test and it works for me.