Friday, April 13th 2018
NVIDIA Officially Drops Driver Support for 32-bit Operating Systems
NVIDIA is ending GPU driver support for 32-bit operating systems. The list of affected operating systems includes Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10, Linux, and FreeBSD. Owners on 32-bit operating systems will still have access to critical security updates until January 2019, but they will no longer receive Game Ready Driver upgrades that include performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes. The same goes for the GeForce Experience software. Nevertheless, current features and services in the software, like the optimal game settings, are not affected whatsoever. They will continue to work on 32-bit operating systems. By today's standards, most computer users are already using a 64-bit operating system. So, NVIDIA's latest change should only affect the minority of the population.
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27 Comments on NVIDIA Officially Drops Driver Support for 32-bit Operating Systems
waiting for those win XP people to start crying......lol
BOUT TIME!
Proof
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/windows-xp-installations-revived-after-4-years-hardware-drivers-question.243323/#post-3828325
On topic, I feel this was coming a little late. I'd expected Nvidia dropping support for 32 bit would have happened a few years ago.
WinXP doesn't have a snipping tool. :P
Sure OEM, office work with IGPU which just spams word documents with 50 lines of content yeah, but anything even remotely connected with the word performance - 32b should have died in the region of 2010 for good.
retro gamers ?? like me I srtill run XP , vista 7 [ no way in heck that malware ''service ''called win-10 ] even with this 900 card I can still use xp with it but a older driver , really a later driver is not needed . thing is in the end is how your new latest stuff is more proprietary as ever and you now build as they see fit not as you need to fit your needs anymore
think . we make it all and force you to that malware service called 10 only or it don't work , were able to cut our workforce seeing we don't need them for any support outside of 10 and still charge 500 bucks for a hardware .
its all win , win for them and now you spend your money to support them instead of them supporting you and your needs .
I look for win- 7 and 8's to be gone this time next year it will be win-10 or nothing / or you got nothing . well Linux for all non gaming uses . matter of fact that all Microsoft got going for them today anyway is there strangle hold on PC gaming . if it was not for that why use it anyway when Linux covers the rest easy for free .?