Nvidia drops support for Fermi GeForces and 32-bit operating systems
We bet that more than a few gerbils still have a Fermi-era Nvidia GeForce graphics card laying around, perhaps in a secondary machine still running 32-bit Windows. All good things must come to an end, and this past Saturday, Nvidia announced that it's officially dropping driver support for GeForce graphics cards with Fermi GPUs on board. The company is also ending support for GeForce cards on 32-bit operating systems. Nvidia Quadro drivers aren't affected by these announcements.
Nvidia has published a full list of graphics cards that will no longer get driver updates. Since the company's desktop graphics-card naming is mostly sequential, it's easier to roughly think of GeForce GTX 500-series cards and earlier. Those worried that their older machines with those chips inside might get hit by a driver-level exploit can rest easy for a little while, as Nvidia says it'll still provide critical security updates through January 2019. From now on, only GeForce chips in the Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal series will get driver updates.
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