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Those artificially boosted requrements of that era were mostly related to PVP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Video_Path It was in the interests of companies to exclude XP and Vista RTM because "in January 2007 the developer Alex Ionescu announced that he had found a method that allows end users to bypass Vista's Protected Media Path. This would allow digital content to be played on equipment that does not implement DRM restriction measures" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Media_Path From what I remember, but can't find any articles, those "loopholes" were fixed in XP SP3 and SP1 of Vista in 2008. "These restrictions only apply to DRM-restricted content, such as HD DVD or Blu-ray that are encrypted with AACS, and also apply in Windows XP using supported playback applications."

Climate change deniers aren't common nowadays, and looks like someone can have real hard currency benefits from such opinions.

I can be mistaken, but that requirement is related to DXVA1, that old version will still open up and work on SP2, but no acceleration will be available, so on that Celeron max 360p, 480p at best. On such old hardware no acceleration is possible anyways, like in my case with the ancient Intel Extreme Graphics on Toshiba.

Comparing to Celeron, Pentium is of a higher tier, especially if we compare desktop to notebook (Toshiba). Besides, my laptop had 512MB of RAM, it was the highest possible amount for the early 2003. Later I upgraded it to 1GB of DDR ram. That was the max. amount the chipset allowed.

While 5W is perfectly fine for standby, 21W on the high load 12v rail seems too low to test a 1200W PSU, especially considering the fact the modern ones have 12v single rail.

Any service pack past SP3 can't be official.

Another big let down! RoboCop: Rogue City Alex Murphy Edition Requires a 64-bit Windows 10 operating system and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 with DirectX12 (not available on Windows 7).

Twitter is behind the login wall and other annoyances. Looks like the vast majority of MSFN members don't even have Twitter accounts. Here's a free, simple to read alternative, no login and/or payment required. https://nitter.net/Tripredacus/status/1744808661153644573

I'm obviously not an XP expert anymore, if I ever was, but something tells me, those updates are no longer that important anymore. The times and the threats, they were written to deal with, are long gone. When was the last update for XP, a decade ago? I even find the first release of XP64 to be faster than the second one, so I maybe port MPC-HC on it someday.

This Service pack 3 is heavily bloated and slow. It was always the case with my Celeron Toshiba (2003) or any other right era hardware I used. Possibly later, when the first Core Quad came out, it became less apparent. I can relate to those people who prefer to run MPC-HC on SP2.

The latest and probably the last good ported for XP should be 1.9.7 at max., MPC-HC version 1.9.18.46 doesn't even work with Vista. I haven't tried on XP, surely won't work due to LAV filters, also. Take note, that version 1.9.18.46 is at least two years old.

New versions don't support Vista anymore at all. Be it with DXVA or without, they dropped support a couple of years back, maybe more. The player starts OK, but can't load the filters and crashes or does nothing.

Perhaps that's why it's free.

Horror films aren't generally recommended for sensitive people.

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VPN in the form of crx for Chrome on XP. "uVPN has a no-logs policy and is based in Hong Kong, a country that is not a member of the Five, Nine, and 14 Eyes alliances that collectively share surveillance data. So uVPN can truly uphold its no-logs policy." Honestly, i'm not sure whether it's good or not about it being based in Hong Kong. https://secureblitz.com/uvpn-review-is-uvpn-safe-to-use/

UltraVPN 1.0 Claim to have Free (Trial?) Version https://ultravpn.soft112.com/

UltraVPN Paid Version "UltraVPN is registered outside of the US" https://ultravpn.com/

Just a note, not to be confused with Hide IP Easy.

All the same, my neighbour tried some time ago.

Almost forgot, Hide ALL IP VPN review published December 04, 2020 and Verdict. ".. has some good sides - it can unblock BBC iPlayer and Hulu content, it allows torrenting, works with a wide range of devices, and has some extras. It isn’t expensive, either." https://hide-all-ip-portable-version.soft112.com/ "It was last updated on 24 December, 2023. Hide ALL IP Portable Version is compatible with the following operating systems: Windows"

Hide ALL IP VPN is alive and kicking. Interesting feature: "UDP Games (Such as WOW, BF3, DNF, TANK OF WORLD etc), can reduce game lag and hide game IP for play blocked country games", also blocks WebRtc leaks. https://www.hideallip.com/ I'm not available for more detailed discussions, sorry, I'm on holidays.

I wish nice holidays to everyone!

@yoltboy01, better not to quote his link, his github page has games copy protection cracks source attached. Russian hackers' page that crack Securom Digital rights protection or similar. If clicked, it's all in Russian, but one can translate what it's all about.

Please start another thread, it's absolutely NOT related to WebP.