News Nvidia confirms end of Game Ready driver support for Maxwell and Pascal GPUs — affected products will get optimized drivers through October 2025

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End of the line for a wide range of iconic graphics cards

Nvidia confirms end of Game Ready driver support for Maxwell and Pascal GPUs — affected products will get optimized drivers through October 2025 : Read more

 

[Phaaze88]

Eh, as long as security updates continue.

 

[rluker5]

The old cards have trouble keeping up with the latest games anyway, so security updates are enough to play the slightly older games that look nearly as good.

 

[Dementoss]

I have an Evga 1070 ti and play at 1440p. I don't play a lot and, none of my games are AAA FPS games, or very recent so, it still does a decent job of RPGs and MMORPGs, until I buy an RX 9070 XT later this year. Oblivion Remastered and Elder Scrolls 6 will likely bring the oldie to it's knees...

 

[abufrejoval]

Just swapped the GTX 1070 in my 22-core Broadwell Xeon against a GTX 1080ti that got returned to the pool yesterday: booth are doing a quite reasonable job running games at 4k, although not at 'ultra', running Windows 11 IoT with support until 2034, as well as all kinds of Linux.

Because it looks like Windows 12 won't be supporting either.

I see that as the real issue: M$ may decide to change something significant in the driver architecture to close the performance gap to Linux/SteamOS and those changes won't be backported to these hardware generations, while Windows 10 drivers work with its 11 refresh.

The main appeal of the Broadwell and the GTX 1080ti is their broad hardware and software support, so many slots and ports to plug things into for experimentation and 128GB of RAM to virtualize everything while the energy consumption is actually quite modest and pretty much on par with a Ryzen 7 5800X that offers near identical multi-core performance.

As bad as this is, AMD is much worse: they have deprecated support for hardware that was still being sold as new at the time (e.g. Richland APUs). And they are the only x86 PC vendor I know that skimps on Windows Server signatures on their drivers: Intel has done that, too, but only on some SmartNICs not CPUs, GPUs, or mainboards.

 

[ihatewindowss]

I have an Evga 1070 ti and play at 1440p. I don't play a lot and, none of my games are AAA FPS games, or very recent so, it still does a decent job of RPGs and MMORPGs, until I buy an RX 9070 XT later this year. Oblivion Remastered and Elder Scrolls 6 will likely bring the oldie to it's knees...

I went from the same at 1440p to a 9070 XT and the 1070 ti was a great card but at 1440p the 9070 delivers. The 9070 is still a little behind in rocm vs CUDA but it's very good for graphics. I don't ever want to own a nvidia card again. The display out from AMD on linux is pure frames.

 

[GeorgeLY]

As long as they going to provide drivers for Linux this is fine. I had older card in an old server that stopped being updated, so I was forced to switch to Nouveau. Unfortunately it is still very bad. Kind of opposite to AMD, where open source driver is the one to use even for modern cards and it supports ancient ones as well.

 

[Antiphonal]

My daughter has a Titan Xp with 12GB of VRAM in her computer. That thing still runs strong all these years after I bought it. Will be a sad day when it is finally retired.

 

[hotaru251]

The old cards have trouble keeping up with the latest games anyway,

I play MHWIlds on my GTX 1060.
Its only 30-45fps on low and aint prettiest, but its entirely playable and enjoyable (as MH games are about combat not looks)

I been wanting to upgrade, but I dont wanna pay nvidia for gimped 60 sku gpu (and i am a 1080p gamer so i dont need a 70tier or higher) & I can't go team red as I have some stuff that just doesn't work well w/ amd gpu's so that isnt an option for me either.

Looks like i'll just find a cheap used 2060 if i need a new gpu until nvidia finally decides to make a worthwhile entry gpu again that isnt legit highway robbery.

 

[Amdlova]

Even gods have to die! The best Nvidia cards!

@hotaru251 try find a cheap used 4060 😀 amazing card old games can play at 4k with easy, some new games can play at 2560x1440 even stalker 2 at high can play at 60 fps with fake frames at 1440p

 

[JackrumMadthing]

My 1080 is still on the 560.94 drivers from August 2024, I actually went back to it after accidentally updating.

Without anything close to it, Star Citizen is the new (it actually was for a while) Crysis. Some might say Cyberpunk, which is not a bad choice for stress testing as well.

My 1080 moves both very smoothly on my 1920x1080 setup, not a single jitter or issue related to performance. nVidia released the Kraken with this card, and in today's throw-away consumerism society re-populated constantly by ever increasing shinies....

...it sure feels like they regret having created this beast mode artefact level product that still stands up there very solidly.

MY POINT IS....who cares
Card works fine on old drivers, and will continue until your need for HD finally breaks your bank, and rellegates your trusty 1080 to the kids (very happy kids) PC.

 

[timecop1818]

Eh, as long as security updates continue.

when was the last time there was a GPU driver security update?? and what did it affect?

 

[abufrejoval]

when was the last time there was a GPU driver security update?? and what did it affect?

The main thing that differentiates computers from biological beings is that in IT a virus affects 100% of a given species. And you can't hope that swallowing vitamines or resting will fix the problem for you.

Let's be glad that so far malware contamination via GPUs a) hasn't been a daily issue b) may have someone at least trying to fix it (design weaknesses can't be fixed after all).

And the malware crowd might want to move there, once other defenses become to arduous.

Because otherwise your PC with an older GPU may quite literally turn on you, typically when you least can afford it.

After more than two decades at the core of real-time payment processing, anything without security support from a vendor to me feels like running naked high-voltage wires through your home. That support won't guarantee survival, but it reduces the odds in your favor.

Is it enough? Only time will tell.
Is it better? At least it doesn't lower the barrier. And enemies always look for the weakest spot.

 

[eza]

Finally upgraded my 1080 Ti a few months ago, as it was beginning to struggle with some newer games, and got a 9070 XT which is a mighty fine graphics card. It's running whatever I throw at it with no complaints. I look forward to it lasting for at least eight years, like the last system did.

 

[abufrejoval]

I play MHWIlds on my GTX 1060.
Its only 30-45fps on low and aint prettiest, but its entirely playable and enjoyable (as MH games are about combat not looks)

I been wanting to upgrade, but I dont wanna pay nvidia for gimped 60 sku gpu (and i am a 1080p gamer so i dont need a 70tier or higher) & I can't go team red as I have some stuff that just doesn't work well w/ amd gpu's so that isnt an option for me either.

Looks like i'll just find a cheap used 2060 if i need a new gpu until nvidia finally decides to make a worthwhile entry gpu again that isnt legit highway robbery.

I have both a GTX 1080ti and a 2080ti in my collection. While I bought the 2080ti mostly for CUDA, I was a bit disappointed that it didn't seem much of an ugrade in games.

But when I decided to try it as an upgrade to one of my kids some months ago, I found that with new drivers and DLSS it did really rather well at 1440p or even 4k with lesser settings.

So yes, at 1080p I'm sure it will do ultra everywhere and 2nd hand it shouldn't be that expensive to get.

 

[timecop1818]

The main thing that differentiates computers from biological beings is that in IT a virus affects 100% of a given species. And you can't hope that swallowing vitamines or resting will fix the problem for you.

Let's be glad that so far malware contamination via GPUs a) hasn't been a daily issue b) may have someone at least trying to fix it (design weaknesses can't be fixed after all).

And the malware crowd might want to move there, once other defenses become to arduous.

Because otherwise your PC with an older GPU may quite literally turn on you, typically when you least can afford it.

After more than two decades at the core of real-time payment processing, anything without security support from a vendor to me feels like running naked high-voltage wires through your home. That support won't guarantee survival, but it reduces the odds in your favor.

Is it enough? Only time will tell.
Is it better? At least it doesn't lower the barrier. And enemies always look for the weakest spot.

every consumer “malware “ in 2025 is some idiot downloading an exe and running it.

I haven’t ran any AV on my computers in decades and I’m not planning to. because to not get infected I simply don’t have to download stupid things and run them.

my point is security updates for some number of years old GPU are not going to make any significant dent in increasing or decreasing the number of idiots who continue downloading and running malware on their own.