D.Draker

Delete Windows DX files, not the redist. (if you ever had one), but the system, see what happens, lol. Even any sound runs off it. Look at my old Xonar, it runs off DX10, that's because I use a very old driver. Newer will run off 11. I assume it would run run off 12 in Windows 11, but the drivers for my card don't even exist for Windows 11.

Do you have old links left? History deleted?

I wonder whether they also introduced this low quality demand on the background image, can someone check? I don't wanna risk mine. Thanks for understanding, everyone,

It's fake, the integrated card of the oldish (15 years old, or so) i7-4770 can't do DX12. Windows emulates it in soft mode. It would be painfully slow, if you start even simple gaming. Windows 10 reports 12 simply because it's the default DX on Win10. The same as Vista reports its default DX11, even if it runs on a 10-only GPU.

Strange, it's around us for a quarter of century. It's a very important part of any system, the usage is wide, from Video Acceleration (DXVA) to gaming. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/what-is-directx/#dt-heading-what-is-directx

I tremble in fear when I hear Java, I'd never allowed anyone near any of my computers with Java.

No, it's only for those who use their PCs for browsing. The most severe cutting point is DirectX version, at least since 2001. XP was pointless for many people since it's DX9.0 only, the same as 2000, whereas Vista boosted it up to 10, then 11. Win7 was pointless since it's only 11, the same as Vista. Heck, 8 and 8-1/2 were also pointless, they still didn't reach DirectX 12.

While I feel you, it's not completely fair because they don't teach on customised and/or hacked software. Modified kernel is still a hack, and your favourite Windows 2000 would be a corpse without it, let's face it. While in 2017-2019, Vista was still kicking arse without any kernels. That would be a much fairer comparison to Windows 11.

It's already confirmed by several members.

Same here, probably he has a virus attached to the image? I'd say 7kb is a good difference! Who knows what's stuffed inside!

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Of course it is! I don't know ho would suggest it. It's not a bad format per se, but definitely not for a profile pic. BTW, the site still says: "Accepted file types: gif, jpeg, jpe, jpg, png, webp · Max file size: 0.05MB"

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Oh hello, friend, welcome to the forum, why hadn't I noticed you before, how is this possible?

What kind of proof do you need, and why? Since when we don't trust each other?

It seems it's the new low limit, like I already assumed above. The moderators' team do their best, but it's probably done to reduce the storage costs on the server.

You're welcome, enjoy! Tag me if you need anything.

Use archive org,! Intel simply deletes old drivers from time to time, and those will soon be 15 years old. So use archived pages.

It was, up until the end of 2022. Some games still need it.

You're welcome, I still use parts of it in portable mode, but I never install it per se. Anything Haswell and up will only give you headaches with Vista x64.

I assume you already tried those? There were links given across the forum already, the official drivers shouldn't be hard to find. https://msfn.org/board/topic/182659-can-someone-help-me-with-intel-hd-2500-drivers/#findComment-1204233

Hi, welcome back. It's usually the case with all of them. They started to add a resistor in an attempt to prevent this. In any case, a good UPS is always a must. EDIT. I don't remember the exact value, but you can look it up easily.

I think I'll hold off with my picture! I don't want that size.

wassup, my friend? You haven't finished the testing?

Windows Vista Extended Kernel is no longer developed, at least from what we see here. It's now 2025, 2021 is long gone, and you won't be able to run new software on it anyways. For example, you would only be able to run Chrome from 2 years ago, do you really need that? That said, I deeply regret it stopped updating!