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What @D.Drakersays is ironclad. Faulty drivers can easily kill hardware, I had an Nvidia card killed due to overheating (over-voltage?) by their faulty driver 364. Just use search, it's well described.

Why you just won't copy-paste the whole post here? Have you no respect for MSFN?

I have an answer - I could care less whether their registration's working, not working. I simply don't register on pirate forums, I can allow myself to buy a legit OS once in a twenty years. Therefore, no need to waste time on pirated content. Mentioning of that forum is banned by @Tripredacus.

I read @D.Draker killed his B85 mobo with those originals, not sure about the fixed. What exactly did you fix?

Looking forward to it! EventSetInformation is a Win8 telemetry function. Can block it completely. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/evntprov/nf-evntprov-eventsetinformation

Sorry for the off-topic, these are more beautiful to my taste, pleasant colours and look more like XP era drivers. 36x,xx has a more "moderm" look. Besides, 352.xx and 355,xx have the better Directx9 speed. 368 give nothing new to XP.

Or you can use these. https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/NVIDIA/NVIDIA-GeForce-iCafe-Graphics-Driver-35573-for-XP.shtml But REMOVE the iCafe folder before you install!!! For this, you need to extract the .exe archive and edit the .inf file "nvic" by adding your device id. Which should be taken from the device manager.

I meant your Nvidia Quadro M4000. What prevents you from using it with XP? Do you need drivers? D.Draker has them, I can ask. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/quadro-m4000.c2757

And yes, sorry dear, CatsXP developer says your card is too old. sorry again. So apply the flag ASAP. I'm sure Dave's got a better card, that would explain a lot. Source. "The graphics card is too old, the driver is not being maintained, and many problems have not been solved" https://www.catsxp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=12720#p12720

@Karla Sleutel, some guy says he found a solution for 7, most likely, supposedly must work for Vista. Dave may need to save it for the future use with the kernel 136, when more of the troubles will arise. I translated from CatsXP forum. chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blocklist https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1390#issuecomment-2860420313

XP is a different matter. Also, you most likely use DX9 wherever is possible, XP simply can't use anything else. Win7 and Vista (DirectX11) is another subject. I highly doubt Karla uses Windows XP. And it's also proven "Supermium lags on a clean windows server 2012 r2 and windows 7 with update kb4474419". Overall lagging can contribute to the poor, choppy video playback, no? https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1357

The quality drops with this method. The original VP9 of H265 downgraded to H264 with same size, and H264 simply can't hold that amount of pixels at the same size. Not good. BTW, they started to serve H266, at least I got them from my London IP.

Then it doesn't properly support video acceleration, not to be confused with the UI rendering acceleration. Also, I can only guess, but looks like Dave simply has a much more powerful CPU to distribute the load onto it from the GPU.

Direct X11, I wouldn't even try it with Supermium, try to force DX9 via earlier mentioned flags.

1 - None of the old, earlier mentioned troubles with those sites were fixed. 2 - Now, even Tok Tok no longer functions. https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1382#issuecomment-2851338386 3 - How is this even possible, if the declared version allegedly runs on 132nd Chromium? 4 - "Expect 132 R3.01 soon." https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1382#issuecomment-2852404269

I have the same issue on Windows 8.1.

British Gas, Nvidia gaming site, Twitch TV and all those that needed "experimental features" fixed?

There was a patch released for 7 and Vista to fully support 4K, as in the ability to boot from them, but it got deleted very soon, probably they also made one for XP? https://news.softpedia.com/news/Improve-Windows-7-SP1-and-Vista-SP2-Compatibility-with-Advanced-Format-Disks-216563.shtml Nothing about 4Kn though.

So we may safely assume, no support for XP was ever inttended. Look here, https://aidanfinn.com/?p=13179 "Why Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V VHDX 4K Alignment Is So Important The current VHD driver assumes a physical sector size of 512 bytes and issues 512-byte I/Os, which makes it incompatible with these disks. As a result, the current VHD driver cannot open VHD files on physical 4 KB sector disks. Hyper-V makes it possible to store VHDs on 4 KB disks by implementing a software RMW algorithm in the VHD layer to convert the 512-byte access and update request to the VHD file to corresponding 4 KB accesses and updates."

AI answer.

I see, but how any of this is related to 1050 Ti and its inability to use drivers under XP?

Booting from such a drive, no. Storing allegedly pirated content, such as films, games and 2160p WebRips, on an external drive with 4Kn sectors, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format

A lot of evidence on youtube. With 1050??? Which driver?

Use search, find this video. Translate the description from Bulgarian, you will see no acceleration will ever work in Pascal 1000 series. Add ten bucks, buy a 1070 instead of the garbage 1050, if you're willing to try, 'cause 1050 will simply BSOD on you. The driver WITHOUT H/W acceleration is in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwTvvQ3MuDk

@mjd79have your ever tried --memory-pressure-off ?