It's over GTX Bros

>>105763168 (OP)
>actually wanting new Nvidia drivers with their current shitshow

>sir, the 1080 is still too popular and in use in 2025, what shall we do???
>stop the driver support. immediately.

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/unix-graphics-feature-deprecation-schedule/60588

Support for Maxwell-, Pascal-, and Volta-based GPUs
The release 580 series will be the last to support GPUs based on the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures.

RIP IN PEACE MAXWELL, PASCAL & VOLTA

>>105763168 (OP)
This means fucking nothing. If you actually believe that Nvidia has up until this point been hard at work optimizing the latest shit for Maxwell and Pascal, then you're a fucking idiot. There's been no point updating your drivers as an owner of one of those cards in years. It's just a placebo to keep dumb gaymers happy and thinking that they're getting some sort of upgrade, because they're never going to read the actual changelog.

>>105763168 (OP)

>>105763168 (OP)
>Nvidia overcorrected too hard after 3.5 GB
>Never overcorrected like this again and has been steadily providing worse products with defective components
There's no reason to buy any Nvidia GPU after Pascal.

Do nvidia gpus have open source drivers?

>>105763684
they have the kernel module part open now for newer gpus, but the actual driver is still closed. unless you count reverse engineered nouveau, but that isnt worked on by nvidia

Dont care, still using gt450

i've never even had a need to upgrade my 1080?

>>105763861
Thanks, are nouveau drivers any good?

>>105763168 (OP)
The last time I updated my GPU drivers was the Kyro Hercules II driver specifically to bring compatibility with Mafia. Do people actually waste time updating drivers after their first clean format on a new computer/card?

>>105763278
How did they knew that since 2018?

>>105763878
lol, lmao

>>105763417
Nvidia's later GTX 970 drivers prioritized the 0.5GB slower ram first, to gimp the card.

>>105763938
well fuck then

I still use a 1060 6GB and I only play games made in 2015.

>>105763878
No. Their performance is abysmal.

Turing(16X0 20X0 series) chad, we won

>>105763417
The 3080 was a good card at MSRP. It isn't directly Nvidia's fault that you were unable to buy them for anything close to that for years thanks to the crypto boom. They course corrected again after giving people too much performance with that though, banishing the x80-class cards to smaller dies and eradicating the x80 Ti line entirely. Now you have to pay x90 prices if you want the big die.

>>105763941
Those fucking niggers, I thought my card was nearing EoL.

>>105763878
no

im sure all 3 volta owners are going to be furious

>>105763168 (OP)
Isn't that just a Windows issue though?

>>105763168 (OP)
do what is the big deal? do i just need to save the installer for my 1070?

Poor Volta

>>105764286
There's no way that they didn't add on to the shortages.

>>105763168 (OP)
Who even runs the new clownworld games? Old drivers were far better before ngreedia began to troon them out with the unwanted features and telemetry

>>105763168 (OP)
Nooooo
not my 750Ti.....
What ever will I doooooo...?
)-:

>>105763878
I'm using it on Linux it's awful

>>105763168 (OP)
So they'll stop support in like a year or 2.

>>105763168 (OP)

>>105763168 (OP)
>accidentally updated to recent driver
>everything start to fall apart
>revert to two years old driver
i think they are already trying to sabotage old cards honestly

owari da

I'm going to keep waiting and see what happens. Gta 6 isn't even out yet

>>105767909
We're following the apple model of service.

Drivers barely ever need to be updated

>>105763168 (OP)
Why do they have to kill off all 3 at the same time?
I plugged in my 980ti last year and surprisingly was still totally usable.

>>105768209
Guge generational improvement is over. It's crazy how few good games come out to necessitate a new gpu.

>>105768375
Meme tech like path tracing and frame gen/mfg are kind of cool the first time you see them.
I can't think of anything else. If I stuck with the 980ti and a 1080p screen I don't think I would have missed out on anything substantial.

>>105767909
I had an overclock on my 1070Ti, that was rock solid stable. EVERY time I updated the driver I had to dial back the OC right after, 3 separate times. fuck njudia

>>105763168 (OP)
I haven't updated my GTX 970 driver is years.

>>105768496
The only thing that makes me want a new gpu is I have a quest 3 and a lot of vr slop is poorly optimized and need brute force

>>105763168 (OP)
>AMD dropping support for pre-RDNA cards
>Nvidia dropping support for everything pre-RTX
>Intel not even making drivers for their first gen Arc cards anymore(Their second gen came out last year)

got a low profile 1650 so doesnt affect me