NotHereToPlayGames

It's definitely older and definitely on-topic.

Awesome! I'm hoping you find the root cause. I'm an engineer. My engineering mind says your issue has NOTHING to do with POSReady. If you lived within a 100-mile radius, I would personally volunteer to borrow your computer and install all of those POSReady updates ONE AT A TIME. Yes, I was under the impression that your radar was targeting POSReady as a "requirement" to run Thorium SSE2.

That's why! These "vulkan" files (as far as I have WITNESSED) are only needed for XP x64. They're not needed for XP x86. They're not needed in Vista. They're not needed in Win7. They're not needed in Win10. I do not have any 8.1 machines to test whether they are needed or not. But it is a VERY SAFE assumption that they are NOT needed based on Vista/7/10.

What OS are you running?

No, sorry, you are reading too much into it. It was only after running it for SEVERAL hours that I was able to WITNESS the NEGATIVE side effects (YouTube would pause all audio/video for half a second or so once per hour or so). This is a great flag for sessions of one-hour or LESS. But I cannot advocate "for" it for users that keep something like YouTube open for HOURS upon HOURS.

Listen, BOTH you and I are no "dummines" when it comes to computers. We BOTH know our way around computers! Firefox is a telemetry nightmare. Firefox forces the user to go through extreme firewall rules due to its "loopback" quote-unquote "feature". MOST users are CLUELESS when it comes to FIREWALL RULES SETUP (I do NOT include you in this subset of "users"). MOST users when faced with a "firewall poppup" upon launch of Firefox just click the STUPID dialog where the firewall asks "is this a WEB BROWSER" or the firewall just ASSUMES "yes, this is FIREFOX, so I'll just use default "web browser" rules. No offense to these "users", but this really is the STUPIDEST thing I have ever witnessed over the years - "just let Firefox make ANY connection it wants to, I'll accept the default firewall rules, I trust Firefox". THIS TRUST IS MISPLACED! Firefox really is the biggest telemetry nightmare I have ever come across! AND THAT INCLUDES A CHINESE/RUSSIAN REPACK OF 360CHROME !!! This "loopback" (1 byte several times each and every second) was referred to as a *BUG* in the days of Windows 2000, it's just "accepted" as 'normal behavior' by Firefox users today that DO NOT CARE (nor KNOW HOW to monitor these "loopback connections"). A CPU cycle is a CPU cycle. Make it perform a task and that means other tasks are delayed. I am NOT a Chrome/Chromium "fanboy". This world is full of "lesser of two EVILS". All OT regarding Thorium, of course. But let's be perfectly honest, if THORIUM (or 360Chrome!) made the HUNDREDS (literally!) of telemetry connections that FIREFOX does (esp FIRST LAUNCH), none of us would turn a blind eye !!! YET ALL FIREFOX USERS TURN A BLIND EYE REGARDING FIREFOX TELEMETRY CONNECTIONS !!! Firefox users "today" really are VERY different from those that used it in the 90s. Tout privacy and security but clueless that they have "sold their soul". "Do as I say, don't do as I do." But I digress...

While I have no doubts of that (I myself used to be a DIE-HARD "Firefox Only") type of computer guy, for every "2.7" of those people that you claim have switched to Firefox, I can show you 65.4 that tried Firefox, hated it, and opt for Chrome. Go to the computer store and look at the desktop icons. Especially ACER computers - for the past eight years, those ACER computers come with FIREFOX PREINSTALLED! Hasn't budged the needle one "millibtye" in Firefox's Doomsday Marketshare. Again, I myself used to be a DIE-HARD "Firefox Only" type of computer guy. Dating back to when it was called PHOENIX.

My only suggestion, if you really REALLY want to PROVE that POSReady is the REASON for Thorium WORKING on your POSReady partition, then despite the time that this will entail, you must install those POSReady updates ONE AT A TIME and test Thorium before and after each and every one of them. Scientific Method

I am HIGHLY interested in the "root cause". I am hereby on record claiming that your Thorium issus is NOT RELATED TO POSREADY. *DATA* is inconclusive, but even you as a mathematician must admit that the *DATA* is steering in that direction. Has the developer of Thorium been asked if s/he runs POSReady? Has the developer of Thorium even TESTED on SSE2?

Nobody else has the same issue. We have multiple users citing no issues with Thorium on non-POSReady. You are the ONLY one. By all means, track down WHY and keep us posted. It seems to me that perhaps a BIAS is creeping in towards POSReady being your "saviour" yet it has saved no one else.

No it isn't. You have something blocking connections to i.imgur.com. His attachments are working just fine. You cannot compare to other posts unless you are also verifying that those attachments are hosted at i.imgur.com.

I reinstall my XP at least three times per year! I know EXACTLY the state of my XP. What I'm hearing you say (if I recall correctly) is that you do NOT install this often. So no offense, but I really do not believe for one second that you can "remember" what you did to the registry 5 years ago, let alone 20. I *DO* think that something you did in your registry 20 years ago is *WHY* your POSReady is not behaving the same as your non-POSReady as far as Thorium is concerned. How many "default" browsers did you install and uninstall in those 20 years? Did they have MALFORMED registry entries such as the Thorium .reg file? (I do not use the Thorium .reg file, I have no clue if this claim of inaccuracy is correct or not.)

I really REALLY don't think it's that "easy" to deduce/conclude. Have you ever MANUALLY edited the registry in your POSReady? Have you ever ran Malwarebytes in your POSReady and it removed registry entries that a "default XP install" places there that Malwarebytes sees as "malware"? Did you REPEAT those registry tweaks/fixes/cleans/optimizations in your non-POSReady? Didn't you say your XP partition was first installed DECADES ago and that you do not reinstall often, that you can keep your XP running smooth by fixing registry entries? Don't you really have to perform "all of that" in the non-POSReady before claiming that POSReady is the "only changed variable in this multi-variable equation"?

Regarding --enable-low-end-device-mode --- I have officially ABANDONED its usage. I listen to YouTube all day long here at work and with this mode, my audio stops about once an hour for only a second or so, but IRRITATING AS H#LL. Even if I only hear 6 to 8 of those "stops" throughout a work day, that's 6 to 8 too many.

Interesting indeed. But if I am keeping track properly, there has been THREE reports of Thorium WORKING without POSReady to ONE report of Thorium NOT working without POSReady. My statistics classes in college would refer to the ONE as the OUTLIER.

It says "no" for my work computer (no surprise). Will have to see what the home computers say. My hunch is that my home i7 is also a "no" but that anything single-core is a (resounding) "yes".

I am "fairly certain" that I have tried this flag IN THE PAST and witnessed the same - no effect in XP. I would have to retest in XP, to be honest, it was too long ago, but I am certain that I did try it. And I also removed it and perhaps even "unconsciously" discredited those that suggested it. It is working in Win10 - but that serves no purpose for this thread, THANKS FOR REPORTING YOUR XP TRIAL.

YES! My only conclusion is that these are not "100%" VULKAN files. The UPSTREAM Chromium programmers seem to be using "something" contained within these SO-CALLED "vulkan" files for some other purpose. And forgive the directness, but I lose confidence in those that tell me I do not need these files. I am not a "dumb" computer user, I know my way around computers. I'm no "genius", but I know my way around computers. I need these "vulkan" files on my XP x64.

I have. Regardless of what you and D.Draker think on this matter, I CANNOT LAUNCH 360CHROME ON XP x64 "when I follow your advice" regarding VULKAN FILES.

All I can tell you is that on an XP x64 system, I NEED THESE VULKAN FILES !!! Period!

lol, my Thorium experience is EXTREMELY limited - until when/if it ever becomes "ungoogled".

No matter. Regardless, I am impressed with this flag and so far "it's a keeper". However, I have witnessed these types of flags do great things in Win10 but do NOTHING in XP. I'm kind of waiting to see if @AstroSkipper has success with it on his XP.

That is NOT "my" thread, "for the record".

I wouldn't quite say it that way. I think it was also you (do not remember!) that was suggesting I axe "vulkan" .dll's. THAT suggestion KILLED my Chromium-based on MY computer. So yeah, I started "listening" a tad differently. "Is what it is"

It's still in Ungoogled Chromium v122. I cannot verify Thorium (also at v122!) from here at work.