How to adopt Win7 drivers to Vista ?

[ED_Sln]

13 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

Giving a link just as an example.

Yeah, I've seen that too, but there's no way I've been able to replicate it. Maybe it's not as noticeable on lower end video cards, but I don't have a high end video card to find out.

[D.Draker]

17 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

The processor is weak, dual-core Athlon, but so far I have no opportunity to test with a more powerful processor.

Then try this one, much newer driver. Works on Vista (despite what nvidia says)

https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/NVIDIA/NVIDIA-GeForce-iCafe-Graphics-Driver-37260-64-bit.shtml

[ED_Sln]

1 hour ago, D.Draker said:

Then try this one, much newer driver. Works on Vista (despite what nvidia says)

Tested the driver 372.60 on the Athlon. In terms of minimum FPS it has the highest of all.

Edited August 24, 2024 by ED_Sln

[D.Draker]

11 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

Tested the driver 372.60 on the Athlon. In terms of minimum FPS it has the highest of all.

Thank you for the test, 372.60 is also my favourite, it's a leaked developer driver which was acquired by iCafe. 372.70 is of course the usual throttling crap.

Mind me asking, is there a benefit of using 6003 Vista over 6002 build? I didn't like 6003, it gave me slower performance overall.

[D.Draker]

On 8/22/2024 at 10:13 AM, George King said:

I don't remember, I just scanned how is update installed on live system and grabbed registry changes to be able to integrate it into Vista PE. In past I have also figured aout how to enable servicing again on boot.wim, but it's useless to do something with that crappy PE.

Looks like it's simply another telemetry for USB introduced with Win7. That logger can be safely disabled, if I'm not mistaken, it wasn't even active in the original Vista without that KB.

https://df-stream.com/2014/01/the-windows-7-event-log-and-usb-device/

[ED_Sln]

41 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

Mind me asking, is there a benefit of using 6003 Vista over 6002 build? I didn't like 6003, it gave me slower performance overall.

I didn't notice any system slowdown after the upgrade, Vista itself is slower than Win 7, especially with that processor. I only done defragmentation because the OS is installed on HDD. But although I only have the minimum set of programs installed, if I install everything I use, maybe it will get slower, but once again I don't want to reinstall and check without updates, the installation was long.

[D.Draker]

13 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

I didn't notice any system slowdown after the upgrade, Vista itself is slower than Win 7, especially with that processor. I only done defragmentation because the OS is installed on HDD. But although I only have the minimum set of programs installed, if I install everything I use, maybe it will get slower, but once again I don't want to reinstall and check without updates, the installation was long.

Vista boots up and is overall much faster than Win7, but I always ran it on Intel, maybe it's AMD specific only. I'm not sure what good all those outdated patches can achieve though.

[D.Draker]

17 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

Tested the driver 372.60 on the Athlon. In terms of minimum FPS it has the highest of all.

Thank you for the test, would you be willing to test the unique 372.73 it's also my favourite, it's a leaked developer driver which was added only via MS update. 

And if you do, please compare the brightness, as it seemed to me 372.73 is a bit brighter than 372.60. No one has this driver, no one knows about it.

32-bit

https://catalog.s.download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/driver/drvs/2016/09/20926157_0d7cd25eb8d6143283c1d6302695f3fc38a0daaa.cab

64-bit

https://catalog.s.download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/driver/drvs/2016/09/20926155_2f5bb23b249fd6c60a37d064e211d872d2fe9d42.cab

 

[ED_Sln]

10 hours ago, D.Draker said:

Thank you for the test, would you be willing to test the unique 372.73 

Again why no GTX950, so installed as 960.

[D.Draker]

16 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

Again why no GTX950

lol, I dunno, prolly it's not popular among the devs? So, 372.60 is in the lead, then. Did you notice the brightness changes among those drivers?

[ED_Sln]

20 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

lol, I dunno, prolly it's not popular among the devs?

Yeah, it's really weird, if it might not have been in the 347 driver, the 950 came out after the 960, why was it removed in 372.73.

20 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

Did you notice the brightness changes among those drivers?

No, I didn't notice any difference in driver performance, but I haven't tested in games, I think in real games this CPU will be a weak point, so a more powerful CPU is needed.

[ED_Sln]

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.

[D.Draker]

12 hours ago, 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.

Looks like some artificially implemented block, like in the case with Nvidia drivers capped to low refresh rates.

H265 10bit works in the driver 382.16 (if you followed my written tutorial). Or in the driver 398.11 made by win32, but for 398.11 you need to have the ex-kernel installed.

[D.Draker]

13 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

Yeah, it's really weird, if it might not have been in the 347 driver, the 950 came out after the 960, why was it removed in 372.73.

 

347.90 came out after, it even includes Titan X. I think the first driver to officially support 950 is 347.09 or 347.25.

13 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

No, I didn't notice any difference in driver performance, 

I was asking about the brightness changes.

[ED_Sln]

11 hours ago, D.Draker said:

347.90 came out after, it even includes Titan X. I think the first driver to officially support 950 is 347.09 or 347.25.

No, the 960 and 950 came out later than all the other 900 series video cards. And specifically the GTX950 was released in August 2015, and driver 347.90 was made in March 2015, so it's not surprising that the 950 isn't in it.

11 hours ago, D.Draker said:

I was asking about the brightness changes.

The brightness hasn't changed. Neither in the system nor in the video. Although I still switch the color settings to full range (0-255) out of habit.

Edited August 26, 2024 by ED_Sln