NVIDIA Ends Driver Support for 32-bit Operating Systems

kilyan

2017-12-22 11:51

So the new branch should come within the end of next week, according to this article? they just released 388.71, if they knew already 390 branch would come around this period, they could just skip this and release directly 390 with the fixes of 388.71

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Bogeyx

2017-12-22 12:07

Could this enable further performance improvements for 64bit systems? Getting rid of some old compromises?

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Netherwind

2017-12-22 13:35

Can they finally update the 10 year old NVCPL? AMD has done it twice in recent time but nVidia with all that green money...noooo.

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Ricepudding

2017-12-22 13:46

Considering in this day and age no one should really be on a 32 bit system i don't think many will be effected. Those that are most likely needed to upgrade their pc a long long time ago. Steam stats still show just under 2% of the userbase is still on 32bit system of some sort

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DLD

2017-12-22 13:47

Scumbags.

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rl66

2017-12-22 14:01

Bogeyx:

Could this enable further performance improvements for 64bit systems? Getting rid of some old compromises?

NO i guess... Just less work to release driver and maybe a more light package. Nothing exeptional.

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rl66

2017-12-22 14:07

Ricepudding:

Considering in this day and age no one should really be on a 32 bit system i don't think many will be effected. Those that are most likely needed to upgrade their pc a long long time ago. Steam stats still show just under 2% of the userbase is still on 32bit system of some sort

Considerating that the 64bit version work fine with most prehistorical hardware ( exept with AMD 64 754/939, blame AMD for this) and that modern 32 bit use most of the time iGPU or APU : it won't affect a lot of people 🙂

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Glidefan

Moderator

2017-12-22 14:49

Netherwind:

Can the finally update the 10 year old NVCPL? AMD has done it twice in recent time but nVidia with all that green money...noooo.

Honestly, i *loath* the way AMD designed their interface. The driver was one of the reasons i jumped ship. nVidia's nvcpl does need a face lift, but i love how the options are just there, in a tree, just a single click away.

#5503602

Yxskaft

2017-12-22 14:57

Nvidia just needs to speed up the control panel and it'd be perfect. AMD's is too bling IMO and gives the impression of bloat. It could affect people just wanting to get a xx30 for their old PCs.

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Kaleid

2017-12-22 15:36

Slow? In my view it is superfast. I just hope it would have a browsertype of login for it to keep its settings,

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-Tj-

2017-12-22 15:47

Bogeyx:

Could this enable further performance improvements for 64bit systems? Getting rid of some old compromises?

I hope so..

#5503639

Agent-A01

2017-12-22 16:36

Less time spent on 32bit means more time on others; so better quality releases/better optimization will happen.

Jonathanese:

Honestly, I think this is good news. "Nvidia just needs to speed up the control panel and it'd be perfect. AMD's is too bling IMO and gives the impression of bloat. It could affect people just wanting to get a xx30 for their old PCs." "Slow? In my view it is superfast." Mine generally takes about half a minute to load. It has been degrading over the years. In fact, recently it has been totally resetting my displays any time I change a setting. It basically just sits there with the monitors off for a good 30 seconds. For some settings, this is longer than the time it gives to confirm. Like disabling stereoscopic red-blue 3D (because THEY ENABLE IT BY DEFAULT). Game settings more or less lock up the GUI for a solid 10 seconds each time I change a setting like AF. So yeah, I think there are ways to drastically speed up and improve the interface in general. I'd also like to see some legacy features be available again (without driver mods). Things like the extra odd AA modes (SSAA would be nice to see again, despite DSR). Them having an OC panel was also cool (bits), and would make sense since they already have everything else locked down (I want my BIOS mods back). But mostly just speed it up for chrissakes.

Use NVinspector. It's an advanced NVCPL but it's instantaneous in applying/loading settings.

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intellimoo

2017-12-22 18:18

With most modern AAA games sloppily wanting 16GB these days, it makes sense.

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Alessio1989

2017-12-22 18:40

good, 32-bit environment should be present only on wow64 for legacy software, we do not more need 32-bit drivers at all.

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JJayzX

2017-12-22 23:01

Seems like a bunch of you forgot that 32 and 64 bit drivers have always been separate, so no, the file size wont decrease and no extra improvement from having anything less as it will be same. They will have more time and focus though which hopefully does bring future improvement but i doubt it. Companies cut stuff to save money, so if anything they reduced hours with this.

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schmidtbag

2017-12-23 00:37

Bogeyx:

Could this enable further performance improvements for 64bit systems? Getting rid of some old compromises?

Directly, no, probably not. It might shrink the installer size by a couple MB but that's about it. However, this is one less thing Nvidia has to pay attention to, so they will have more efficient use of their time. And as a result, they ought to yield better drivers.

Emille:

Why anyone would even consider installing a 64 bit O.S in the last 5 years regardless of how much ram you have is insane to me. Even if you had only 4gb and didn't get the benefit of >4gb ram you still don't see a performance penalty either and it leaves you with a ram upgrade path.

I'm guessing you meant 32 bit? Anyway, you can blame that on Microsoft, and Intel. Microsoft, because they didn't try very hard to push 64-bit Windows XP, and Intel because they were still releasing non-64-bit CPUs as late as 2007. There are also a few cheap laptops out there where they only work with 32-bit EFIs.

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Netherwind

2017-12-23 16:51

Aretak:

I pray that they ignore people like you asking for change for the sake of it. The current control panel just works. It's not pretty, but it doesn't bloody well need to be. It's fast and easy to get to the option you want to change. AMD's new setup looks amazing, but is a slow, bloated, labyrinthine mess that values form over function. Why any Nvidia owner would look upon it and think "damn, we're missing out" is beyond me.

And I pray that nVidia ignores people like you. It takes some time to start. It takes several seconds to load 3D settings It takes a few seconds to apply changes made in 3D settings It ignores Win10 scaling (if viewing on a 4K screen) I didn't know the AMD one was buggy and bloated but that's still not a reason for nVidia to refrain from updating something which is so very old.

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Fender178

2017-12-23 19:06

Not surprised that this is happening. To me this should have happened a long time ago considering there are games out there that are 64 bit only. How many people are on 32 bit in this day an age either with Linux, Mac OSX or Windows on their actual hardware (not a Virtual Machine) Not many either gaming or business. I know there are some IT business users who use a Windows Xp virtual machine for legacy software and the same goes with gamers who can't run a specific legacy game that they want to play.

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Kaleid

2017-12-25 04:49

Jonathanese:

"Slow? In my view it is superfast." Mine generally takes about half a minute to load. It has been degrading over the years. But mostly just speed it up for chrissakes.

Eh, for me the UI starts in an instant. Seems there is something wrong on your end. (Radeon settings)

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KissSh0t

2017-12-25 09:13

Kaleid:

Eh, for me the UI starts in an instant. Seems there is something wrong on your end. (Radeon settings)

Same here, click it and it loads instantly.