How to adopt Win7 drivers to Vista ?

[ED_Sln]

But XP is still much faster

Edited August 26, 2024 by ED_Sln

[ED_Sln]

@D.Draker Tested it on a powerful computer. Core i7 3770K overclocked to 4.4GHz, 16GB DDR3 RAM overclocked to 2133MHz. 

 

[George King]

@ED_Sln Thanks for Benchmark tip! Installer doesn’t work on XP, But app works just fine. I just UniExtracted it under Windows 10 and then run under XP  

 

EDIT: I got really similar results on my testing machine with brand new SZMZ GTX 960

Edited August 27, 2024 by George King

[D.Draker]

On 8/26/2024 at 4:14 AM, ED_Sln said:

 

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But XP is still much faster

 

Yeah, but XP can't do neither DirectX10 nor DirectX11, so it's irrelevant. Throughout the last 10 years (or even more) most good games are DX11 only.

I remember I played Hellgate: London in 2006-2007, it already had DX10, and the downgraded DX9 version for XP didn't look as good as the Vista DX10 version.

[ED_Sln]

1 hour ago, George King said:

Installer doesn’t work on XP, But app works just fine.

Oh, they updated the installer, it now has a digital signature for 2021. My installer is old and not digitally signed, I downloaded it back in 2013 and it works in XP. I can upload the old installer if you need it.

23 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

Yeah, but XP can't do neither DirectX10 nor DirectX11, so it's irrelevant. Throughout the last 10 years (or even more) most good games are DX11 only.

But there are a lot of good games on DX9, you can even say most of them, I don't like the new games, with few exceptions.

Edited August 27, 2024 by ED_Sln

[D.Draker]

11 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

But there are a lot of good games on DX9, you can even say most of them, I don't like the new games, with few exceptions.

Agree, but then again, you'd need DX11 because to run old games and adopt them to even 2006 era monitors (like 1920x1200) you'd need something like dgVoodooCpl, and those demand DX11.

This is the only way to run the XP era legend Sacred Plus 2004 (for example).

Checkmate. lol

[D.Draker]

On 8/21/2024 at 11:19 AM, George King said:

Well, thats my file

And those? Claims to be "signed".

https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2020/04/intel-usb-3031-for-windows-vista788110.html

[D.Draker]

On 8/25/2024 at 11:52 AM, ED_Sln said:

By the way, I've noticed one problem on all drivers. DXVA Checker reports that there is DXVA2 support for h265-10bit codec, but hardware acceleration works only for h265-8bit. On Win 7 h265-10bit works.

Which player do you use, PowerDVD, by any chance? I remember it blocked DTS-HD on Vista, also MPC-BE did the same! And MPC-HC works fine with DTS-HD MA and all 10-bit accelerations!

MPC-BE is pretty much glitchy garbage.

https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15/43436.page

[George King]

6 hours ago, D.Draker said:

And those? Claims to be "signed".

https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2020/04/intel-usb-3031-for-windows-vista788110.html

Thats probably file from SMXDIY according to mentioned password. I will build ported drivers for Vista or 7 too, same as I did for XP/2003. But not sure when. I still need to finish new POWIS which covers any deployment scenario. Then add into XP2ESD same image rebuilded with all updates for Vista and 7 and when I have this done then will come to porting drivers. Of course signed drivers with my custom certificate.

[ED_Sln]

12 hours ago, D.Draker said:

Agree, but then again, you'd need DX11 because to run old games and adopt them to even 2006 era monitors (like 1920x1200) you'd need something like dgVoodooCpl, and those demand DX11.

This is if you use universal dgVoodooCpl, but for many games there are separate patches and usually they work in XP, or there is universal uniws, it supports many games. And games that take the resolution from the driver can work at any resolution, for example I played CS 1.6 and UT 99 at 4k resolution on XP. But for some reason in Win 7 they support maximum 1920x1080.

6 hours ago, D.Draker said:

Which player do you use, PowerDVD, by any chance? I remember it blocked DTS-HD on Vista, also MPC-BE did the same!

I use MPC-BE, I like it better for track control and chapter rewind. I've never used Vista, I always have either XP or 7, so I don't know such nuances.

[D.Draker]

On 8/28/2024 at 2:51 AM, ED_Sln said:

I use MPC-BE, I like it better for track control and chapter rewind. I've never used Vista, I always have either XP or 7, so I don't know such nuances.

Whoever makes MPC-BE intentionally gimps down the hell out of Vista. MPC-BE places artificial blocks, while MPC-HC doesn't You proved it to yourself. DXVA checker says 10bit - yes, supported, at the same time MPC-BE refuses to play 10bit on Vista. The same with HD sound, why? OMG, why? The dudette that makes MPC-BE takes everything from MPC-HC, then blocks certain functioning on Vista.  Evidently, he has a strong disdain to Vista.

Edited August 29, 2024 by D.Draker
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