[WIP] Windows Vista Extended Kernel

[LonghornXP]

34 minutes ago, mina7601 said:

You need to do this:

Ok, it work for some apps. But...

Here are some problems.
1. chromesetup opens, but it says "no update is available" even I already adding it.
2. edgesetup same opens, but it says "cannot connect to internet. if you're using firewall, please allow edgeupdate.exe". Strange
3. firefox setup (I use v90) is completely works but the app itself says RtlQueryPerformanceCounter isn't available in ntdll.dll. Strange 

[Sergiaws]

8 hours ago, LonghornXP said:

Ok, it work for some apps. But...

Here are some problems.
1. chromesetup opens, but it says "no update is available" even I already adding it.
2. edgesetup same opens, but it says "cannot connect to internet. if you're using firewall, please allow edgeupdate.exe". Strange
3. firefox setup (I use v90) is completely works but the app itself says RtlQueryPerformanceCounter isn't available in ntdll.dll. Strange 

I have the same issue, some apps can't connect to https pages, specially it happens in Edge Setup, Brave setups and other online setups.

[Sergiaws]

I tried to fix that installing tls updates for server 2008, but no luck.

[LonghornXP]

28 minutes ago, Sergiaws said:

I have the same issue, some apps can't connect to https pages, specially it happens in Edge Setup, Brave setups and other online setups.

Yeh... but firefox setup completely works fine in me. Does it work in u?

[Vistapocalypse]

7 hours ago, Sergiaws said:

I have the same issue, some apps can't connect to https pages, specially it happens in Edge Setup, Brave setups and other online setups.

You posted July 30 that “Microsoft Edge is working fine,” but have you been able to install Microsoft Edge? If yes, please post details.

Online setups might require recent Chrome or Firefox as default browser?

[LonghornXP]

Oh ya, can IE10 or 11 work under Vista? (I k'now this question is useless but it might be great if IE11/10 in Vista working flawlessly)

[Brickedandroid]

@win32 

Please add these following functions into ntoskrnl.exe (for build 6002 and 6003):

wcscpy_s

IoUnregisterPlugPlayNotificationEx

strcpy_s

strcat_s

vsprintf_s

_vsnprintf_s

KeSetCoalescableTimer

strnlen

_snprintf_s

swprintf_s

sprintf_s

memcpy_s

[Sergiaws]

On 8/20/2022 at 11:13 AM, LonghornXP said:

Yeh... but firefox setup completely works fine in me. Does it work in u?

Didn't tried Firefox, but Seamonkey is working fine, even the setup, but don't know if it is http or https, since the startup page of seamonkey is an http page still.

 

22 hours ago, Vistapocalypse said:

You posted July 30 that “Microsoft Edge is working fine,” but have you been able to install Microsoft Edge? If yes, please post details.

Online setups might require recent Chrome or Firefox as default browser?

When I ran Edge in Vista, I firstly installed it inside a Windows 7 vm, then I copied the folder when I installed Edge to my Vista system.

[SigmaTel71]

That's quite unusal, WGC cannot be spoofed to Windows 7. Is that WMI messing with me?

[win32]

It may have called RtlGetVersion directly, read the PEB, or worse, read SharedUserData which means a driver would have to modify it.

Anyway, I now have a driver that synchronizes the RTC with other system timers. I see that even my Xeon X5670's RTC runs slow on Vista. So I will try on here, then I will offer it to others.

[win32]

This driver did not succeed in calibrating the timers, but I used it to help me run 373.06:

[D.Draker]

On 8/26/2022 at 4:58 PM, win32 said:

This driver did not succeed in calibrating the timers, but I used it to help me run 373.06

Hi , interesting , do you mind me asking, is there a benefit in using 373.06 over the 377.83 from my tutorial ? I mean , this one's much older . Perhaps better FPS ? 

Anyways , I don't mind to try ! What "timer driver" and where to downlaod it ? Instructions on how to install that driver ? Thanks.

P.S. I'm curious why do we need a timer driver for Nvidia drivers ? Yes , I read they may have timing troubles after 347.88 on certain systems . Is this the reason ?

And I'm assuming it works only with the ex-kernel installed.

[D.Draker]

Also , what did you do to the DX diagnostins so it finally reports the right amount of VRAM ? Mine still says I have 2.5GB of VRAM on a 12GB card  , lol. I even have some games run into troubles . They simply won't utilize more than the amount which is reported by the DX tool.

[SigmaTel71]

3 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

I'm curious why do we need a timer driver for Nvidia drivers ?

Any GPU, not even mentioning the driver, requires a very precise timer that can peek down to milliseconds. No matter if that's NVIDIA, AMD, Intel or S3 Chrome 540 GTX.

[D.Draker]

2 hours ago, SigmaTel71 said:

Any GPU, not even mentioning the driver, requires a very precise timer that can peek down to milliseconds. No matter if that's NVIDIA, AMD, Intel or S3 Chrome 540 GTX.

I'm aware of that , thanks . What I meant is I never needed to add any 3rd party drivers for newer Nvidia drivers to work , apart from the Vista default ones. But then again , it depends on ones hardware , I guess.