Jaguarek62

Hi, I wanted to share my experience of running Windows 8.1 on Dell inspiron 15 3567 with 8th gen i3. I honestly did not expect this but after 40 hours of searching for all drivers, the system works amazingly well. Compared to Windows 10 the battery last around 6-7 hours compared to just 4. It also is more snappy. Even though there is no official support and no official drivers, the laptop is rock solid. Never had any bluescreen, nothing. I'm just wondering how windows 10 can be possibly worse when it has all the support (from dell, intel etc..). Ram usage is also lower on 8.1. Came from 3.7gb to just 1.6 gb. Btw that 3.7gb figure was taken from clean install of windows 10 (no preinstalled dell bloatware). Also I can set display brightness independently (like when the computer is on charger or running from battery). That did not work on Windows 10. On Windows 8.1 there is no random "Fan ramp up" when the computer is running idle or playing videos. I tried windows 7 but unfortunately dell locked windows 7 in bios. It actually says that windows 7 is not supported on this device and bios prevented it from booting (very strange in my opinion). I have picture of this behavior if anyone is interested. Windows 8.1 is running on this device since november 2020 btw.

Honestly IDK what you want to hear. Is it a clean install? if so then disable superfetch, windows update. Vista has always been slower for me on the same hardware in comparision with windows 8 for example but never "super slow"

Oh shoot. So I can't revert it to 8.0 behavior?

Greetings, I like the behavior of windows 8.0. Windows 8.0 automatically pins every single new application into metro interface. Is there a way to make 8.1 to do the same thing? Thanks

Oh my! That would be amazing!

Yeah well that was the first thing I did and it leads to code 43

Well I like amd but lets be honest their drivers sucks even on 7 and 10. And the fact that they skipped 8/8.1 all together makes it even worse. How can you explain to customers which bought rx 480 which had OFFICIAL 8.1 support that they will no longer offer them driver updates. I think it is against their own EULA. I like nvidia cause their drivers are super good and stable. I use geforce experience and shadow play. nvidia dropped their support for 8.1 with rtx 30 xx but they still continue to release drivers for rtx 20xx and older.

Can I ask you how is your experience with rx 550 drivers on windows 8.1? I had terrible experiences with amd drivers on 8.1

Oh yeah but Idk if I will be able to have it on my main pc. nvidia, intel and amd are doing ther best in cooperation with microsoft to eliminate everything below 10.

Where is my "I use vista on secondary machine"?

Usb type c update is only for 8.1 and server 2012 r2

I know. My host os is Windows 8.1 running vmware workstation 16. The vm tools installers just gave me an error that vista is not supported.

Hi, I've installed clean vista on vmware workstation 16 but the driver installation failed complaining about vista being unsupported. That makes no sense since it is a virtual machine? How should I proceed?

install WUFUC. it sometimes pops up after reboot, but don't worry about it. https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc

I've seen google only mentioning windows 7. Windows 8.1 was not even mentioned. Important: We will continue to fully support Chrome on Windows 7® for a minimum of 24 months after Microsoft’s End of Life date, until at least January 15, 2022.

Screenshare works, but audio does not. In browser it works and when you use app verifier and spoof windows 10, audio works too. It is intentional

Well yes, I'm aware of that. But discord still list windows 7 as their os requirement. Since they still list windows 7 I think we should not add it yet. source: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/213491697-What-are-the-OS-system-requirements-for-Discord-

So I temporarily downgraded my bios to 2017 one and vista installation gets little bit further. Now I get Windows is preparing to start for the first time (again rough translation) and after this finishes I get different bsod. this time it says this: Hal initialization failed

what is it?

I know. I actually asked them what has changed in 0.20 and they said that they changed their engine to implement dx11.1 (previously they used dx 11.0). But who knows what is really causing the issue.

Now that you mentioned it, I upgraded my bios back in 2019 because it was incorrectly reporting cpu frequency on windows 8.1. The bios has a "feature" that lets you pick your operating system or if you don't it will automatically detect it. It says that windows 7 and 8.1 are no longer supported, but it works great on both operating systems. Maybe it broke vista though? also vista gets picked up as "Windows XP or other legacy microsoft product" this is a rough translation. Windows 7 is reporting as "Windows 6.1.7601 in uefi mode" and finally Windows 8.1 gets reported as "Windows 8.1"

is this what you mean? https://prnt.sc/wd2wxr

Hi, for the kicks and giggles I tried installing vista sp2 on my ryzen 5 1600. for some reason even on legacy boot and mbr format, vista fails to boot after first part of the setup. It ends up in this bsod: 0xc00021a (status access violation). Anyone here knows what that means exactly? also it is an hdd no ssd, pure sata hdd.

Alright that's it! Please stop arguing about operating system that you're not even using! Before you post something, try the os in a vm with the extended kernel. Otherwise don't tell lies like @D.Draker already pointed out.