It's over with Nvidia's support for 32-bit operating systems

Last year, the largest graphics card manufacturer announced the cancellation of support for 32-bit systems. At that time, it was still abstract and unclear exactly when this would happen, but now the "burial" is confirmed. After this month, users of Nvidia's hardware that have installed the 32-bit operating system will no longer receive new drivers updates and the accompanying GeForce Experience program. This applies to Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Linux and FreeBSD systems.

If for some reason you still have a 32-bit OS computer, the end of support is not the end of the world. Your graphics card will continue to work properly with all the features, but in the future it will not get additional optimization or any new features. In case a critical error is detected, Nvidia will, in exceptional cases, fix that, but this support promises till January 2019.

By the end of the current month stops also the support for graphics cards with Fermi architecture, and these are graphics from the GTX 4xx and 5xx series. If you have one of these cards, as a rule older than six years, it's the same whether you still have a 32-bit or 64-bit system because the new drivers for these cards will no longer be.

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