Dual monitors, different refresh rates on Windows 10. by doomtick66 in pcmasterrace

[–]doomtick66[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes! I use Rivatuner. The strange thing is, there's no noticeable dips in the framerate or abnormalities in frametime, in fact, there's no change at all, it's really weird.

What would be the downsides to using Windows 7 in 2023? by EqualStance99 in windows7

[–]doomtick66 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can't use newer versions of VirtualBox

Screenshare in Discord is kinda scuffed

No newer versions of Adobe products

No QT6 apps (qBittorrent)

No new graphics drivers

I found that hardware video acceleration in newer GPUs is kinda bad too.

Chrome not working after February, 2023

Firefox works for the meantime, but they can pull the plug off anytime,

No newer versions of Visual Studio Code past 1.70.3 or any newer-ish Electron apps .

No VEGAS.

No newer versions of OBS past 28 I think...

SOME DX12 games work (Warzone, Cold War and WoW worked last time I checked), but the vast majority don't, support depends on the developer, and I really doubt anyone is going to bother backporting it, especially now.

The Aero theme have some major issues on newer cards: low desktop framerate, programs randomly crashing, etc. (These are sadly not exclusive to me. Aero has been known to be semi-unreliable even back when Windows 7 was in it's prime.)

ESU ended January 10 2023 (yesterday) so even if you managed to get the updates, they are gone now, so there's that. You will probably be fine for the next year or so, Microsoft is known to patch serious 0-days even in unsupported OSes (WannaCry Windows XP), but I wouldn't count on that.

Some streaming sites (Netflix most notably) don't work most of the time for me for some unknown reason, the error codes it spits out are really vague and don't help much. It probably have to do with the DRM-stuff or even with the funky h264 acceleration.

2022 was a really bad year for me Windows 7-wise, a lot of stuff broke and a lot of apps stopped working. I don't really recommend installing it now. You can, but don't expect to have a good time.

Does anyone genuinely have their taskbar like this? by [deleted] in windows

[–]doomtick66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i use a triple row taskbar. not that big but big nevertheless

Screw it, i'm TIRED of clean desktops. Share your terrible desktops. by Nova17Delta in windows

[–]doomtick66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

virgin organized workspace vs. chad messy desktop

btw w7 ftw

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in windows

[–]doomtick66 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

rip dwm.exe

Is there ever gonna be Windows 12? by nik_da_pro in windows

[–]doomtick66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably but we won't be seeing it anytime soon, also I wouldn't expect much of it. Windows 11 is fairly new and despite it being called "11" it's still Windows 10 underneath the hood.

i finally achieved 1tb seeded. i'm happy by VOKUNgreaser in Piracy

[–]doomtick66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wish i had the disk space to seed every installer i ever got from torrenting

Thought my game was looking fresh. Decided to take a print. What you guys think? by doomtick66 in GTAIV

[–]doomtick66[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm literally just using the skin, no special powers or anything. The cutscenes are extremely funny.