Supermium

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Meant as NOTHING MORE than A STARTING POINT.  Add to, remove from.

Totally up to the end-user preferences.

[NotHereToPlayGames]

1 hour ago, Saxon said:

Everything starting Vista is d3d11 capable

You're not following the whole conversation.  All of this was to answer the specific needs of somebody on XP.  Why are you throwing Vista into the conversation?

The first solution I offered does not work in XP.  This solution does.  The person we are helping is on XP.  Not Vista.  Not 10.  Not Kylin.  Not TempleOS.  Not MythOS.  et cetera...

[hidao]

12 hours ago, Dave-H said:

Hmmm.
Can I just check something?
You're not trying to use 360Chrome.exe as the launcher, I hope!
That's the executable for the 360Chrome browser.
The exe file for the launcher is 360Loader.exe.

 

 

11 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

If it were me, I would *delete* anything-and-everything Supermium (files, folders, registry) and start completely over, all brand new!
ESPECIALLY if I had a *corrupt* profile writing MULTIPLE BrowserMetric files - there should *NOT* be MULTIPLE FILES.
No matter how "complex" my profile is, I would DELETE IT ENTIRELY and start completely over, all brand new!

 

Instructions are for XP x86.

1) obtain Supermium - this tutorial will be using v132 R1 (most recent Supermium)
download the nonsetup.zip
https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/releases/download/v132-r1/supermium_132_32_nonsetup.zip

2) obtain winPenPack X-Launcher
original Source = https://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.15
but it will take you to here = https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpenpack/files/X-Launcher/1.5.4/X-Launcher_1.5.4.zip/download

3) extract both to temporary folders - we will only copy from them and not use them as-is

4) for the extracted Supermium -
     a) DELETE setup.exe - personally, I have *never* clicked this!  *NEVER*
     b) DELETE NotoEmoji.ttf - *zero* use to me, if you need this font, install manually like any other font, i *never* trust anything called "setup.exe"
     c) inside the Supermium subfolder -
          i) DELETE all three of the Supermium Classic/Ungoogled .cmd files
          ii) DELETE uninstall.exe
          iii) DELETE the two widevine files - Widevine only "partially" works in Supermium and things like Netflix do not work, a partially-functioning Widevine is *USELESS* to me
          iv) optional - DELETE all but the languages you actually use from Supermium's Locales folder

5) for the extracted X-Launcher -
     a) DELETE the _source, _tutorials, Backups, Documents, Downloads, and Lib folders - the ReadMe folder is not needed either but for the sake of a public tutorial, I leave it for the "license"
     b) RENAME X-Launcher.exe to X-Supermium.exe (or just Supermium.exe) - this and the next file need to have the same exact name
     c) RENAME X-Launcher.ini to X-Supermium.ini (or just Supermium.ini) - this and file just previous need to have the same exact name
     d) DELETE the Software_1 and Software_2 folders inside the Bin folder
     e) DELETE the Software_1 and Software_2 folders inside the User folder
     f) I replace the X-Launcher .exe file icon with a Chromium icon, a Supermium icon could also be used, but this tutorial will not go through the icon-swap instructions

6) create the folder where your Portable Supermium will reside - I used C:\Miscellaneous\SupermiumPortable
     a) copy or move all of the X-Launcher [from Step 5] contents (two empty folders [Bin and User] and two files [the .exe and the .ini] and place them in C:\Miscellaneous\SupermiumPortable
     b) copy or move all of the Supermium [from Step 4] contents (one and only one folder named Supermium) and place that folder in C:\Miscellaneous\SupermiumPortable\Bin (Supermium is a SUBFOLDER inside the Bin folder)

7) EDIT the X-Supermium.ini file  --  sample file included in next post
     Read through the existing .ini before editing, the power of this file is only limited to the imagination of the user
     For example, I have some profiles with registry files where my OS has *DIFFERENT* "default browsers" solely depending on which brower I keep open and the OS has *NO DEFAULT AT ALL* if no browser is open
     You can opt to use a "portable registry" or you can opt to let Supermium use your OS registry, flexibility is endless, all up to the needs of the user

8) Launch using X-Supermium.exe, create desktop or start menu shortcuts that point to X-Supermium.exe
     No startup commands needed because all startup commands are moved to X-Supermium.ini's Parameters line
     Shortcuts can have their own icon via OS settings, et cetera

Oh, I have always thought you used 360Chrome.exe as a launcher

 

[NotHereToPlayGames]

3 minutes ago, hidao said:

 

Oh, I have always thought you used 360Chrome.exe as a launcher

 

Not always.  I actually prefer X-Launcher over-and-above 360Chrome's launcher.

360Chrome's launcher has an embedded "integrity check" that can cause problems on some systems (but not on all systems).

360Chrome's launcher has embedded telemetry that has been removed during the patching/modifying of my 360Chrome releases - but its original existence should still regard it as as "suspect" over launchers that do not contain such embeds.

X-Launcher is more "universal".

[hidao]

15 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Not always.  I actually prefer X-Launcher over-and-above 360Chrome's launcher.

360Chrome's launcher has an embedded "integrity check" that can cause problems on some systems (but not on all systems).

360Chrome's launcher has embedded telemetry that has been removed during the patching/modifying of my 360Chrome releases - but its original existence should still regard it as as "suspect" over launchers that do not contain such embeds.

X-Launcher is more "universal".

Thanks for your experience

[Dave-H]

@hidao

Assuming you actually have a copy of 360Loader.exe, can you try using that to launch Supermium with the INI file you had before?
I would be interested to know if it does in fact work.
Remember, you will have to change the name of the INI file to match the EXE file's name, e.g. 360Loader.exe will need an INI file called 360Loader.ini.

[hidao]

26 minutes ago, Dave-H said:

@hidao

Assuming you actually have a copy of 360Loader.exe, can you try using that to launch Supermium with the INI file you had before?
I would be interested to know if it does in fact work.
Remember, you will have to change the name of the INI file to match the EXE file's name, e.g. 360Loader.exe will need an INI file called 360Loader.ini.

Actually,I have never known what is "360Loader.exe"...

[Dave-H]

360Loader.exe was included in the distributions of the 360Chrome browser here.
If you have any of the associated zip files, it should be in there.
If you haven't got it, I can give you a copy.

[hidao]

13 minutes ago, Dave-H said:

360Loader.exe was included in the distributions of the 360Chrome browser here.
If you have any of the associated zip files, it should be in there.
If you haven't got it, I can give you a copy.

This one?

I have used it,and it wasn't working...

[NotHereToPlayGames]

That's the wrong file.  That's also not a "portable" version of 360Chrome.

The loader that we are referring to only exists in the "portable" versions of 360Chrome.

[hidao]

19 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

That's the wrong file.  That's also not a "portable" version of 360Chrome.

The loader that we are referring to only exists in the "portable" versions of 360Chrome.

Oh, thanks, I decided to give it up, skip this conversation

[Dave-H]

@hidao

OK, but here it is anyway if you want it.

360Loader.zip

[Karla Sleutel]

On 3/23/2025 at 10:50 AM, Dave-H said:

Just going back to Browsermetrics for a moment, someone here has reported the same issue with Edge, so it looks like it's something that can probably happen with all Chromium-based browsers. A new profile was recommended there too, and apparently fixed it.

@D.Draker already asked @win32 to remove the unnecessary disk killing "feature", it was several years ago, when the project was only starting.

https://msfn.org/board/topic/184046-future-of-chrome-on-windows-7/page/38/#findComment-1245198

[Karla Sleutel]

On 3/23/2025 at 3:31 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Why are you throwing Vista into the conversation?

He said Vista and up. Not only Vista. That includes all OS starting with Vista (NT6.0) and Win10/11 Dave H. uses. They all support DX11, the question is, would your card be capable of DX11, most likeky no, considering the fact you wrote about your hardware.

[Karla Sleutel]

On 3/23/2025 at 3:13 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

No, you use what you want, I'll use what I want.

D3D9 sets a cache of 4 files.  D3D11 sets HUNDREDS of cache files.  In other words, SSD Killing Feature  

This happens because the browser simply can't get a hold of D3D11 hardware feature {no direct bypass happens} due to the fact of using the obsolete, Windows 2000 Era DX8{9} GPU, or it's simply very cheap (OEM) version or the such.

So the browser emulates DX11 in soft mode, and the load distributed to the CPU, resulting in the enormous cache. Clear?