🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 23:23:40 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
<rstow...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:26:44 -0700, Tecknomage
> <tecknode@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >
> >My Desktop rig is WinXP SP3 with a nVidia GeForce 7900GS 512mb.
> >
> >Every time I start Far Cry 2 a dialog says my drivers are out of date,
> >BUT they are NOT out of date.
> >
> >According to nVidia I DO HAVE the latest WinXP drivers.
> >
> >There may be updated drivers for Win7 or Win8, but NOT for WinXP.
> >
> >Is there a way I can stop the Video Driver Check?
> 
> Where does the dialog come from?  An NVidia app?  Windows itself?  Far
> Cry2?
> 

Far Cry 2, it's their driver check.


> I run FarCry2 on Windows 8.1 with the latest and greatest GeForce
> drivers all the time.

You DID read my original post?

My rig is WinXP and I will NEVER use hoggish Win8, especially since I
would have to manually reinstall my 100+ apps.


> 
> The biggest problem I see is that you are on WinXP, and if it is
> connected to the Internet there is a guy in Russia using your machine
> as a pedoporn server right now, which will soon turn up in searches
> from officials near you who have similarly easy access to your
> machine.  That may or may not be related to the actual dialog you're
> seeing, but it's something that should wake you up in the middle of
> the night screaming.  In the day of the modern Internet, you do NOT
> want to run an operating system for months after the vendor has
> dropped support for it.

I run a very good antivirus and I'm offline 95% of the time (not
connected to the net).

> 
> Seriously.  Run as fast as you can from XP.  The warnings have been
> all over, right in front of everyone's fucking faces.  For years.

You actually believe Micro$oft?

Before I retired, I was an IT Technician and Computer Specialist.
There is nothing wrong with WinXP IF YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT SAFE.

I haven't had any viruses, hacks, or Windoze crashes in decades.




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=========== Tecknomage ===========
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         IT Technician
           (retired)
         San Diego, CA