SigmaTel71

I wonder what applications could be manipulated by this method. Will such work on modern browser installers like Google Chrome or Vivaldi? ____ Also, are there any plans on DXGI patches to bring DirectX 11.1 support in future or it's not related to extended kernel?

Whoa! That's a very nice feature. Were you inspired by BlackWingCat's NNN4NT5 thing while making this possible?

I have tried to run the game through wrappers like DXVK and WineD3D, but no luck with that — the graphics card is not a graphics card. Even the GT 730. So, yeah, the game uses DX11.1. Maybe one day we'll see that backported to Vista like some strange people did to XP?

There are too many "anti-vaxers" in Russia that don't trust any vaccine exist on the market. At the same time, our government thinks about allowing tourists vaccinated by other than Sputnik-V (aka Gam-COVID-Vac) to pass Russia's borders. I'm waiting for Friday to complete my vaccine cycle. I planned to vaccinate with a single-component Sputnik Lite vaccine, but it was not available to use in early July (and has less efficiency), so I went for dual-component Sputnik V.

I doubt that MSI Afterburner can detect minor versions of DirectX API, but the overlay tells that the game runs at D3D11. So I have no clue why it refuses to start in Vista. Maybe it uses DirectX 11.1, like you said.

It's designed to be used in Windows 2000/XP, it does not work in Vista.

The driver version is absolutely the same. NVIDIA uses the same driver package both for Vista and 7, so I have no idea why the game throws such error. The problem is that I'm looking for the solution myself (and asking for help). Maybe it has something to DirectX initialization? Could they differ in Vista and 7 in case of DirectX 11?

Unfortunately, you were wrong - it works in Windows 7.

I'll install Windows 7 on the separate partition to check if your version is true.

Why does Aero work and enCore RT benchmark as well then? DXDiag reports that all hardware accelerations are enabled.

World of Tanks supports DirectX down to DirectX 9 as a fallback renderer in environments like Wine. DirectX 11 at feature level DX10.0. enCore RT benchmark that is told to be incompatible with Vista, runs without any issues.

Well, no luck even on real hardware. I tried WMI spoofing to make the game think I run Windows 7, but it didn't work too. Any suggestions?

Some people reported that it works on Windows 7 and its server equivalent as well.

I guess @winvispixp should try AdoptOpenJDK. It has a little better performance and still allows to install JRE separately.

Never try installing Extended Kernel on systems that were installed using localized media (e.g. using Russian version of Vista). So you should install en-US version first, go through Extended Kernel installation procedure and install Russian MUI in the end.