"D3D12.DLL missing from system" - no more Win7 support for NextPVR?

[DSperber]

DSperber

You did mention you had the means to revert back to 7.01 and realistically that would be your only option if you wished to keep using NPVR on Windows 7.

Ray

Well, tonight I decided to go back and restore my weekly 6/22/2025 image of Win7 C-partition, which still contained an installed fully customized and personally colorized-Guide version of NextPVR 7.0.1. I updated to the no-longer-Win7-compatible 7.0.2 on 6/27, so this got me back to that state of having a usable NextPVR Server/DVR when my normal production Win7 was booted on that dual-boot machine.  Yes, I also did have to reapply the assorted system and software updates I've applied over the past 4 weeks, but at least I've now got NextPVR 7.0.1 now back active and working as before... no matter how rarely I really play with it.

I also have Win10 dual-boot available on that same machine and NextPVR Server/DVR is installed on that Windows as well (to cover me for whenever I want to be in Win10 for a while), and it is now at 7.0.2.

While recently researching the whole situation and deciding if I would do the work to get it back, I discovered that I actually had been dynamically upgrading NextPVR for quite a while now, either running NPVRSetup.exe and/or looking at the Web App and seeing that an update was available, and just letting it run that way. So I actually didn't have the complete ZIP file version (i.e. NPVR.ZIP) for each version released over the past few years, if I had actually wanted to truly manually reinstall.

I then looked at this other forum thread that provides instructions fo doing a full offline install of NextPVR. And it provides a URL to download the current ZIP file (7.0.2 at this moment). I was also able to find an older 7.0.0 ZIP file from the VideoHelp web site. But for some reason I couldn't find the 7.0.1 ZIP file that I was really looking for. There doesn't seem to be a repository for older ZIP files here on this forum, only a way to get the latest version.

==> Just for my own satisfaction and to have in my own installer repository, is there a URL available from some download location to specifically get that ZIP file for 7.0.1, which is the last one that still runs on Win7?  Much appreciated if you can provide it. Thanks.

[mvallevand]

No there is no collections of these NPVR.zip files for Windows but your are free to keep your own.

However sub has reverted to an older version of the libSkiaSharp which I am testing now and it works on Win 7. Turns out there are significant issues with libSkiaSharp on arm and arm64 platforms so it isn't working well anyway. The release shouldn't be that far off.

Thanks for pointing out this Win7/8 issue and should sub move libShiaSharp to a higher version that doesn't support DirectX 11, I will expect there will be a "final" release NPR.zip available for hanger oners.

Martin

[DSperber]

Excellent news!

I will await the next release with the reverted libSkiaSharp which still supports Win7. And at that time I will be sure to download the corresponding full ZIP for my personal respository.

Thanks for the news update.