Let's install Windows 11 on incompatible hardware

Hazel123 · Mar 10, 2024

Good point. It's not bad - it has 2gb ram and had the later atom N570. Still an atom but it wasn't too bad. How would Netflix look with a stretched screen though?

spapakons · Mar 10, 2024

Netflix adapts the image to preserve the movie aspect ratio. That means for good old 4:3 resolutions (800x600, 1024x768 etc) you will see black bars top and bottom of the screen, like you would see on an old square TV set. For wide resolutions such as 1366x768, 1280x720, 1280x800 etc you will see no black bars or thin black bars depending on movie aspect ratio. If you watch old 4:3 TV series, such as Star Trek in a wide resolution you will see black bars left and right, like on a modern TV set. If you always want to fill the screen, match the aspect ratio. For example I set my TV to 1400x1050 for 4:3 series or old movies and 1920x1080 for everything else.

Bree · 2024-04-24T21:31:09-0400

As spotted by erpster4 MS have raised the system requirements for 24H2. Now SSE4.2 is required, else the PC wont even boot. AMD's SSE4a is no longer sufficient, even though it includes PopCnt.

Lance1 · 2024-04-24T21:52:45-0400

Bree said:
As spotted by erpster4 MS have raised the system requirements for 24H2. Now SSE4.2 is required, else the PC wont even boot. AMD's SSE4a is no longer sufficient, even though it includes PopCnt.

Well that stinks! But it Looks like I'm in. Good info thank you.

Bree · 2024-04-24T22:05:58-0400

Lance1 said:
Well that stinks! But it Looks like I'm in. Good info thank you.

with a 12th gen i5 you're well above minimum specs. Even my System Two with its 1st gen i5 has SSE4.2 and can run 24H2. With the revised requirements my lowest spec machine that can run 24H2 is now a laptop with a Pentium B950 from 2011.

spapakons · 2024-04-25T00:28:27-0400

After the official 24H2 release is out in October or November I will try replacing certain system files with the respective ones from 23H2. If I am successful upgrading my test laptop (see 1st system specs) to 24H2 I will report here. There is a chance that they are trying to scare us to upgrade our systems. Remember Windows Vista? All early adopters were rushing to buy a new graphics card with WDDM drivers or even a new computer. Later it was revealed that neither was necessary. Vista 32-bit could run on their old computer with Windows XP drivers for their old graphics card (XPDM mode). Don't do the same mistake. Wait for the official 24H2 release. By then there might be a workaround, like replacing certain files, to install 24H2 on old systems.