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on Sunday December 24 2017, @11:59AM
from the remember-when-32-bits-was-an-UPgrade? dept.
from the remember-when-32-bits-was-an-UPgrade? dept.
Nvidia to cease producing new drivers for 32-bit systems
While most people have probably made the switch by now, yet another reason to drop 32-bit operating systems and move to 64-bits is coming. Version 390 of Nvidia's graphics drivers, likely to arrive in January, will be the last to contain support for 32-bit versions of Windows (7, 8/8.1, and 10), Linux, and FreeBSD.
There will be another year of security updates for 32-bit drivers, but all new features, performance enhancements, and support for new hardware will require the use of a 64-bit operating system and 64-bit drivers.
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Nvidia to Stop Writing Drivers for 32-Bit Systems (Eventually)
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(Score: 2) by crafoo on Monday December 25 2017, @08:13PM
In a world with 64bit ARM multi-core processors cost a few dollars, people still clutch 32bit x86 crap and hug it close to their chest. Maybe one of the shittiest personal computer architectures ever conceived, with easily the worst peripheral bus. In a world where the Amiga and Atari ST exist. Oh please, keep running your hardware interface software on a shit non-realtime OS running on buggy hardware that was ridiculous the day it was introduced, let alone 30 years later.