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Does Windows Vista Support Video Hardware Acceleration?

Renton577
By Renton577
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So I've been putting together an older nostalgic rig and I put Vista on it and for the life of me I can't get hardware acceleration for videos to work. I have the latest drivers for Vista and using the newest Firefox for it as well but YouTube for example doesn't have GPU accelerated video. Is there possibly a browser I don't know about that supports it with Vista Support?

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If its a nostalgia rig, is it really necessary?  It really shouldn't be online anyway.

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WiFi5: Ubiquiti NanoHD OpenWRT (~500Mbit at 80Mhz) Switches: Netgear MS510TXUP, MS510TXPP, GS110EMX
ISPs: Zen Full Fibre 900 (~930Mbit down, 115Mbit up) + Three 5G (~800Mbit down, 115Mbit up)
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Using newest Firefox? Like newest for Vista or overall? Firefox dropped support for Vista years ago. There was another thread just while ago discussing best browsers for older Windows.

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