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Nvidia Ends Mainstream Support for Fermi GPUs and 32-Bit Operating Systems

posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 09 2018, @12:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the 32-bit-should-be-enough-for-anyone dept.

takyon writes:

NVIDIA Moves Fermi GPUs to Legacy Status, Ends Mainstream Driver Support for 32-bit Operating Systems

This week, NVIDIA has announced that they are ending mainstream graphics driver support for Fermi-based GeForce GPUs. Effective as of this month (i.e. immediately), all Fermi products are being moved to legacy support status, meaning they will no longer receive Game Ready driver enhancements, performance optimizations, and bugfixes. Instead, they will only receive critical bugfixes through the end of the legacy support phase in January 2019.

While the announcement mentions 'Fermi series GeForce GPUs,' the actual support plan specifies that mainstream driver support is limited to Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal GPUs. So presumably all Fermi products are affected.

In the same vein, also effective this month is NVIDIA dropping mainstream driver support for 32-bit operating systems, as announced in December 2017. Like Fermi, 32-bit operating systems will still receive critical security updates through January 2019. This update also encompasses GeForce Experience, which will no longer receive software updates for Windows 32-bit operating systems.

Previously:
Nvidia to Stop Writing Drivers for 32-Bit Systems (Eventually)

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  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Monday April 09 2018, @02:17PM (2 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Monday April 09 2018, @02:17PM (#664431)

    Keep in mind that there is a 32-bit Windows 10, and that some people do in fact use it. While I'm usually the last to know, I haven't heard anything about 32-bit Windows 10 going away.

    Then again people using 32-bit Windows 10 probably aren't using silly video cards that need eight nuclear power plants to run them.

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  • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Monday April 09 2018, @03:58PM

    by vux984 (5045) on Monday April 09 2018, @03:58PM (#664507)

    "Then again people using 32-bit Windows 10 probably aren't using silly video cards that need eight nuclear power plants to run them."

    Right. 32bit windows 10 exists mostly for some little tablet devices, low spec hardware, embedded, and and backwards compatibility. None of those entail sticking in a next generation nvidia gpu into it.

  • (Score: 2) by toddestan on Wednesday April 11 2018, @03:28AM

    by toddestan (4982) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @03:28AM (#665215)

    Then again people using 32-bit Windows 10 probably aren't using silly video cards that need eight nuclear power plants to run them.

    Actually, you have that backwards. The people using 32-bit Windows 10 are doing it because they need to use some silly video card to run eight nuclear power plants. Said silly video card is some horrible propriety thing that cost well into 5 figures and only has drivers that were written for Windows 2000.

    I wish I was kidding.