First post, by 386SX
Hello,
I've a mini-itx board that should require specifically only Win 7 32bit I don't have, so to test the weak iGPU I installed on it my own genuine Win 8.1 32bit o.s. but with slower results that I know the older o.s. would run on it. I installed correctly all the drivers and everything works even if a bit under the stress of such heavy o.s., but I suppose the accelerated Dx9 GUI and the various changes on this version doesn't make it perfectly compatible with the Intel GMA gpu. I was wondering if beside some DirectDraw simulator that did speed up a bit old games rendering, there're any ways to really make the o.s. work just like Win 7 should. I think I've read somewhere that Win 10 did introduce some tweaker for older games that Win 8.x don't have and in fact the few compatibility options doesn't change anything. Considering everything anyway works and the driver model of the GPU is WDDM 1.1, which are the possibilities before buying an already discontinued o.s. in the retail version? The driver does work and install on Win 8.x and even DXVA acceleration works. But old Dx6/7 tests run like half the frame rate it would run on Win 7. Directx9 games instead depends a lot on the gpu limitation so no increase are really possible there.
Any way to make Win 8.x to run in a old syle GUI and lighter mode?
Thanks