It might finally be time to retire that GeForce GTX
590, and while you're at it, you should consider upgrading to a 64-bit
operating system, if you haven't already. Otherwise, don't expect Nvidia to
release any more GPU drivers for your platform.
Nvidia
announced that it is ending driver support for 32-bit OSes effective this
month. That means no more Game Ready driver updates or
other performance enhancing driver releases, and also no bug fixes. The company will, however, release
security updates as needed, through January 2019.
The same applies to Nvidia's GeForce Experience
software—it's dropping 32-bit support, though "existing features and
services such as optimal game settings will continue to work on Windows 32-bit
operating systems," the company noted.
This isn't much of a surprise, both because the
majority of users have long since updated to a 64-bit version of Windows, and
also Nvidia stated in December of last year that this was going to happen.
There isn't much reason to roll with a 32-bit OS these days, save for older
system with dated hardware or in rare cases where compatibility might be a
concern. Most of those systems wouldn't make for very good gaming boxes anyway.
In related news, Nvidia is also discontinuing GPU
driver support for its Fermi-era graphics cards. This also goes into effect
this month, and just as with 32-bit OSes, the only GPU updates for Fermi will
be critical security patches through January 2019.
The first Fermi GPUs arrived in April 2010. They're
found in GeForce 400 and 500 series cards, such as the GeForce GTX 590 pictured
at the top of this article. Fermi
GPUs were built on a 40nm manufacturing process and have since been superseded
by Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta.
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