Jaguarek62

Guys please. this topic was not originally vista vs 7 and 8 so stop arguing. it is your choice what os are you willing to use. Thank you

So first of all why are you hostile againts me? where did I accuse you of something? What exactly have I done to you??? Alright this was my last reply to any of your posts, but you seriously misunderstands me. [Moderator's note: Suggestions about illegal activity, even indirectly, are not permitted here]

That’s not completely true. Firstly this is a 3 years old post and modding has been reverted to it’s original state after this backlash. Single player might work with a cracked copy, but not with steam or cd version. Even single player depends on online function such as social club to verify game ownership, stock market in single player is online based. I only play multiplayer with friends nowadays anyway so even cracked version of the game would not cut it (not to mention I don’t support game piracy)

You don't need security updates to stay secure. Just do not download random s*** from the internet. Also having secondary laptop for internet banking is not a bad idea. Windows Vista/7/8 will be usable as long as software do support them.. (extended kernel is saving vista right now) and btw vista is getting server 2008 esu security patches I guess if you're the president of the usa then don't use windows xp?

I agree with you on everything but this. I don't have anything against it (apart of onedrive). Also it starts right up on my pc. Anyways I could not agree more. Nice summary

Yes, I’m sure. Even if you use the old launcher you cannot play on the newest patch. This prevents you from playing online. Trust me, I would love to say that it works

Vista was, is and will be good os. Your problems had to be driver related. though I would not replace 8.1 with vista I don’t see why some could not. The extended kernel project is miracle and it is secure as much as windows 7 since you know, no updates too :p

Vista does not support my gpu, my capture card, my nvme drive. Vista does not support games that I play, programs that I use. As an example I can list programs crucial for me: Glasswire, VMware workstation, teamviewer, photoshop, paint.net, visual studio and teams (since I both study and work at the same time). I play Beamng drive (does not work), Gta V (does not work), CS:GO (does work with latest steam client), Minecraft (soon will stop working), NFS heat (does not work).

I DIdn't install any telemetry updates, also no compattelrunner.exe in my windows folder. I'm quite happy with how windows 8.1 looks, windows 7 look looks dated in my opinion (Don't kill me for that )

Have you tested it?

I know about this method, but nvidia did something that prevents the driver to work properly.

By the way, the only difference bewteen nt 6.1 and nt 6.3 section is this: %NVIDIA_DEV.2204% = Section165, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_2204 %NVIDIA_DEV.2206% = Section165, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_2206 %NVIDIA_DEV.2484% = Section165, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_2484 %NVIDIA_DEV.2486% = Section165, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_2486 = mine rtx 3060Ti unfortunately, modding the inf does nothing (code 43)

I feel like I was scammed. Now I can't even use MY OWN hardware... it is artificial block. They should have at least let us install the windows 7 driver.

Nvidia only blocks rtx 30xx series on windows 8.x rtx 2060 still works on the latest driver version.

But that was also true for rtx 2060 yet the driver still included 8.1 anyways, I’ll probably downgrade my pc to windows 10 until I find solution to this

460.89, but I also tried 460.79

working on 7:

I've uninstalled them using ddu, but the setup just wont go. stating "This version of windows is not supported". On windows 7 everything worked great. even the older driver from rtx 2060 got immediately picked up. I mean this is some serious letdown. I would not purchased the gpu if I knew that.

Well, this is it? I'm seriously shocked. I guess my downgrade to windows 10 will be sooner than I expected. I got code 43 in device manager, nvidia said that my os is not supported. even modding the inf does nothing. https://prnt.sc/w9aogb

Oh yeah, I’m working on it. Just glad, that it works for now to finish my transfer period to spotify. (Apple effectively lost paying customer). True indeed. Oh yeah, 3 clean installs of the os itself. The problem is, that the driver only installs through inf file. You cannot use compatibility mode and install it any other way. Amd made sure to block nt 6.2 and 6.3 everywhere they could. Also that is HUGE bs, because on the box for rx 480 Windows 8.1 is displayed and not whole year after this card has released, they dropped the support? My ryzen pc build is running rock solid though, nvidia drivers are just awesome, not a single bad word against them. Nvidia seems to care about windows 8.1 and I love them for that that was ax 200 (wifi 6 spec pcie card) and his respond to one of the person asking on their forum.

also when I was browsing intel driver support, I found this:

Well this is not as easy as you may think. Not only am I iTunes subscriber, I own iPhone 12 and iPad, and synchronization only works through iTunes. Well game developers are only seeing dx 12 for some unknown reason. They ONLY really care about Windows 10. I guess screw anyone using 7/8 or linux and MAC? Amd gpus no longer works stable enough on windows 8.1. I've tested rx 570 and vega 56 and browser acceleration did not work and I got some gpu hangs and driver crashes. It uses wddm 1.1 so... Until they fix their s***, windows 10 is unusable for me and I'll try to learn linux (altough I don't like many things on linux)

I'm starting to understand that I'll never win the battle against windows 10. Since iTunes ended support, everything is kinda all over the place for me. For how long do you think will at least browsers and steam support Windows 7/8 ? also Nvidia can end the support soon. I'm fully aware that no-one except you guys here cares about older operating systems and it is really sad People are happy with telemetry filled, ugly looking, unreliable crapdows 10. I think 2021 will be the last year I'll be able to enjoy 8.1 before downgrading to windows 10 Discord is already complaining about screen share ("For the best experience, Please upgrade to windows 10").

I think you need to use their software for calibration etc.. Does the older one works though?

I actually don't. Just got the feeling of that from your previous post. I wonder now, if microsoft changed some behavior to resemble xp if haswell is running okay on both xp and 7 but not on vista.