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Yor're right - but it's the identical subnet mask an the identical BIOS version! (see Win7-GPU-Z below). What do you mean? I did try the (latest XP) 368.81 version with the same result, and - thank you - will try 347.26 later too. But as for me downscaling the resolution is obligatory, and afaik this was omitted after 344.75, so the test will be more academic... 1GB would have been (more) than enough for me, the hunger for VRam is sick imo - but i can only acquire from the (2nd hand) markets...

Well, this is weird: whilst the 344.75 driver could easyly be istalled for an (MSI) GT710 1GB GDDR3 here, it's not possible to install it for the Gigabyte GTX 750 TI 2GB GDDR5 Rev A2 (Low profile). My system: Gigabyte Z170. Did try it first while ,working' on the internal (Intel HD 530) DVI port. And then with the Monitor plugged to the external DVI of the GTX750 too. Tried it by adding it from the device-manager, and with NVidia setup.exe. Anytime the same error: "I/O process stopped because of end of a thread" (in german: E/A Vorgang wegen Threadendes abgebrochen). The Device Id: 10DE 1380 , Subsystem Id: 1458 3667. It's definitely no HW issue: On the same system/disk no problems on Win7 (same driver version 344.75 / 64 bit) and for linux neither! Could be the 2GB Memory of the card be too much for XP/32? Maybe the modern GDDR5 memory? Many thanks in advance for your suggestions!

The ASUS PRIME B860M-A CSM ? Edit: No, probably not, as CSM in this case means "Corporate Stable Model - a commercial program designed to provide stable and reliable motherboards." (see here).

But that little throttle hopefully won't detract too much playing ,Moorhuhnjagd'? No kidding: i wouldn't see any reason to upgrade from Alder to Raptor Lake at all (a fortiori not for an XP user)!

That was to suppose, and you may consider yourself lucky if there's no degradation in that core. Did the board get the latest bios update? i knew this already since over a year, because i read computerbase regularly !

Could you detect whether it was an E- or a P- core which crashed?

What about cloning the 13th gen XP-partition to a separate nvme and trying to boot the 14th gen system with it?

Dear @VistaLover, i only can affiliate this! But on the other side, it's my firm conviction that it's important to get a ,OS plan B' nowadays. I do know you for years now (from this forum), but i can't remember if you ever wrote about or mentioned linux. I personally once made a decision to not use Windows beyond 7 (aka 6.1). And today, after some failed attempts, a lot of frustration (a high level of frustration-tolerance is required!) and hard efforts (see above ) i can solemnly state: that was right! Whenever booting up, i can choose between XP, 7, and linux - and meanwhile i use the latter about 95% of the time. If you're interested how XP-ish (in looks and feel) a linux can be configured, (within minutes!) (but without being Windows of course!), simply ,like' this post, and i'll give you some screenshots of my desktop in a pm. If you say: no sorry / thank you / not for me / have it already - simply do not react to this post . Kindest regards!

I think i'll never love linux (as i loved XP ) - please take a look at the log when i add the option --log-file=mpv.log: <log stuff> So, where the heck do i now have to put the mpv.conf finally? i found these lines too: [ 0.004][d][global] config path: 'scripts' -/-> '~.configtde/mpv/scripts' [ 0.004][d][global] config path: 'scripts' -/-> '~.mpv/scripts' [ 0.004][d][global] config path: 'scripts' -/-> '/etc/mpv/scripts' but if i copy the mpv.conf to '~/.configtde/mpv/scripts' i get the error (red font in the konsole): Can't load unknown script: ~/.configtde/mpv/scripts/mpv.conf - Wow! Ok, now i created a directory '~/.mpv' where i put the 'mpv.conf' into - e voila: the configuration finally applies! The CPU consumption is now at moderate 15 % for playing the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsSMmdwh89Y. Thanks @nicolaasjan - in this case tor ,compelling' me to investigate the problem further!

Unfortunately no - these are in fact already the parameters you recommended me some months ago (in the palemoon/basilisk forum), i only added the [vcodec^=avc] now. For some reason, it seems that the options are ignored completely. The setting fs=no for example does not apply, and even with bestvideo[height<=720] the resolution is at a rediculous 3840x2160 (4K) - 16 times larger than specified: me@compi:~/Portable\> ./mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsSMmdwh89Y (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (av1 3840x2160 59.940fps) (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (opus 2ch 48000Hz) AO: [pulse] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float VO: [gpu] 3840x2160 yuv420p AV: 00:00:20 / 00:16:59 (2%) A-V: 0.000 Dropped: 110 Cache: 12s/11MB i wonder why the options - apparently - do not apply here: both executables, yt-dlp and mpv - reside in '~/Portable' , and the config file is '~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf'. Not so much that i could have done wrong?!? Edit: Now i copied the mpv.conf in the directory of yt-dlp and mpv - no change!

I've only a rough idea of the technical/copyright background, but i do not ,like' the libdav/dav1d AV1 codec of that video at all . Watching it on linux/mpv, no hw acceleration is possible on a relativ modern core i5 6600k and it even drives him hot (at load of about 60 percent!). One would have to throw away 8 year old hw and get a newer pc to watch it wihout heating up the house - not very sustainable!

Many thanks again @j7n (and @nicolaasjan too!), indeed, that update (KB2533623 for kernel32.dll) fixed the specific problem of yt-dlp_win7.exe here (and probably some other issues that i hadn't discovered yet ). So, in case that Python 3.9 support of yt-dlp really would be dropped in october (god beware!), i'd be prepared ...

Thank you too, @j7n, the installation of the kb4457144-x64 couldn't be comleted here, after 15 minutes there was an error "configurating the update" and it took another 15 min to (imperfectly) rollback, simply annoying... Maybe i'll come back regarding your kind offer later (with a pm), for the moment i'm done ... Win7 was only an intermediate step for me, and meanwhile i spent 95% of the time with Linux... and now: back to topic, as this is a forum for XP !

Since i'm on a system with XP, Win7, Linux and Grub-bootloader, a disk image is a bit tricky - with identical partition uuids...

I'm afraid: no (SP1 only) - Thanks for your assistance, i'll boot to 7 and check the dll version later. Tbh, i'm a little bit concerned and afraid (again) to install that update KB4457144 - 230 MB - who knows how much junk it will dump in an installation beside. i think to try it on a test disk before... Edit: the kernel32 is version 6.1.7601.17517 - from 2010