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When a modern operating system built for multicore CPUs and GPU-accelerated compositing is forced to run in a display mode designed before many readers were born, the result is part engineering curiosity and part living museum exhibit — and that’s exactly what happened when Windows 8.1 was...

Oracle’s VirtualBox 7.2.0 ushers in the most consequential update to the desktop hypervisor in several years, delivering first-class support for Windows 11/Arm virtual machines on Arm hosts, a redesigned user interface, expanded hardware feature passthrough, and a long list of stability and...

Oracle’s VirtualBox 7.2 marks a decisive, architecture-focused expansion of the open-source hypervisor: the 7.2 cycle brings explicit Windows 11 on ARM host and guest support, fresh compatibility work for modern Linux kernels (notably initial support for the 6.16/6.17 series), UI and usability...

Oracle’s VirtualBox project has taken a major step toward making Windows on Arm a practical option for desktop virtualization, with the 7.2 development cycle bringing explicit Windows 11 ARM guest and host support, preliminary Linux 6.16 compatibility, reworked Guest Additions for Arm, and a...

Windows 7 arrived as a counterpunch: a carefully tuned, performance-minded release that salvaged the innovations of Windows Vista while shedding its worst excesses — a reboot of public perception that turned a tarnished chapter in Windows history into a rediscovered foothold for Microsoft’s...

Yeah... Modern hardware w/ Windows 7 doesn't mix well. Only driver I am missing is my well graphics driver. I have a Ryzen 5 with the Radeon vega graphics and it definetly does support WDDM because it runs windows 10 and 11. To be super specific, this is my computer.

Hi everybody. I'm new here. I write this post here because i can't have any answer on feedback hub and tech support. I use Octane Render and i have two 3080 ti (12gb) but i know that the WDDM make unavailable about 33% of vram. I've already asked to Octane and Nvidia team but they said what i...

Hi, 2 days ago I upgraded to Windows 10 my HP ProBook 450 G0. After I realized my graphic drivers are not working properly I tried to update them to the lastest listed at drivers download section for my model. After this I had BSODs and couldn't even see login screen. I removed installed...

AMD release their driver for Windows 10 Preview. Ref and download: Link Removed Up to date Graphic drivers can always be found in the Update section of the forum: https://windowsforum.com/threads/graphic-drivers.11365/page-27#post-643920

On my Windows 8.1 64-bit computer, my graphics card is AMD Radeon HD 7560D, and according to the system requirements for Windows 10 on the website, I meet all the criteria. I have DirectX 11, I have WDDM 1.3, my resolution is 1600 x 900, my processer has 3.2~ GHz, I have 6~ GBs of ram and I have...

I have a nvidia geforce 9300m GS 256 MB. I assume it is A MicrosoftDirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver? So direct x9 is 2007 or so vintage and I have a WDDM DRIVER FOR WIN 7. NOW WHY CAN'T I INSTALL WIN 8.1 PREVIEW. Retail stores are selling 8 with computers with BIOS not UEFI...

Portions of DX11.1 are being made available to Windows 7 users via the new IE10 Preview for Windows 7. If you don't wish to use the browser but do want the extensions then a standalone is available here: Download: Link Removed

NVIDIA GeForce 308.80 Windows 8 WHQL drivers. Download: Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

Nvidia have announced that their driver will be fully Windows 8 compliant when it's new R302 drivers are released. These are expected to surface early next week. Reference: Link Removed

You may have noticed when using Windows 8 how the graphics seem to have more clarity and just generally look better. This is down to something called WDDM 1.2: The Windows Display Driver Model or WDDM for short allows Microsoft and GPU devs to add new features whilst also making better use...

Hello everyone, Today, here at Windows7Forums.com we are excited to announce the next public testing version of Windows 8! You may remember the Windows 8 Developer Preview went live in September 2011. Since then, Microsoft has remained hard at work on the next version of their Windows operating...

Fixes an issue in which Windows 7 RTM and SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM and SP1, stops responding when you use a WDDM driver. More...

Fixes an issue in which Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 stops responding when you use a WDDM driver. More...

Fixes an issue in which Windows crashes on a computer that uses a WDDM 1.1 graphics adapter and has multiple monitors attached. This issue occurs in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Hi I have searched for an answer to my problem for a while, but I cannot find one so I am posting here. I have been having trouble for a long time with BSODs, and the occurence is happening more frequently. Sometimes the system may just randomly restart and not leave a log in my minidump folder...