Nvidia has announced that they will be dropping support for the Fermi GPUs.
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4654
Effective April 2018, Game Ready Driver upgrades, including performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, will be available only on Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal series GPUs. Critical security updates will be available on Fermi series GPUs through January 2019. A complete list of Fermi series GeForce GPUs can be found [url=http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4656]here.[/url]
They also announced awhile back, that they will be dropping support for 32 bit versions of Windows.
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4604/~/end-of-nvidia-driver-support-for-32-bit-operating-systems
NVIDIA is making the following updates to our operating system support effective April 2018:
Drivers: Game Ready Driver upgrades, including performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, will be available only on 64-bit operating systems. Critical security updates will be provided for 32-bit operating systems through January 2019.
This includes the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows 8/8.1
Microsoft Windows 10
Linux
FreeBSD
GeForce Experience: Software upgrades with new features, security updates, and bug fixes will be available only on Windows 64-bit operating systems. Existing features and services such as optimal game settings will continue to work on Windows 32-bit operating systems.
Effective April 2018, Game Ready Driver upgrades, including performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, will be available only on Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal series GPUs. Critical security updates will be available on Fermi series GPUs through January 2019. A complete list of Fermi series GeForce GPUs can be found here.
They also announced awhile back, that they will be dropping support for 32 bit versions of Windows.
NVIDIA is making the following updates to our operating system support effective April 2018:
Drivers: Game Ready Driver upgrades, including performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, will be available only on 64-bit operating systems. Critical security updates will be provided for 32-bit operating systems through January 2019.
This includes the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows 8/8.1
Microsoft Windows 10
Linux
FreeBSD
GeForce Experience: Software upgrades with new features, security updates, and bug fixes will be available only on Windows 64-bit operating systems. Existing features and services such as optimal game settings will continue to work on Windows 32-bit operating systems.
On a side note...
They did add limited DirectX 12 and WDDM 2.2 compliance to Fermis. So as long as you use an older driver, but not too old. You could use a Fermi GPU for a dedicated PhysX card, without your WDDM feature level dropping down on your newer GPU. This is something they promised a long time ago and did a piss poor job on delivering, but hey, they did finally do it. FWIW
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-fermi-cards-get-d3d-12-support.html
They did add limited DirectX 12 and WDDM 2.2 compliance to Fermis. So as long as you use an older driver, but not too old. You could use a Fermi GPU for a dedicated PhysX card, without your WDDM feature level dropping down on your newer GPU. This is something they promised a long time ago and did a piss poor job on delivering, but hey, they did finally do it. FWIW
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-fermi-cards-get-d3d-12-support.html
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4654
Effective April 2018, Game Ready Driver upgrades, including performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, will be available only on Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal series GPUs. Critical security updates will be available on Fermi series GPUs through January 2019. A complete list of Fermi series GeForce GPUs can be found here.
They also announced awhile back, that they will be dropping support for 32 bit versions of Windows.
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4604/~/end-of-nvidia-driver-support-for-32-bit-operating-systems
NVIDIA is making the following updates to our operating system support effective April 2018:
Drivers: Game Ready Driver upgrades, including performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, will be available only on 64-bit operating systems. Critical security updates will be provided for 32-bit operating systems through January 2019.
This includes the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows 8/8.1
Microsoft Windows 10
Linux
FreeBSD
GeForce Experience: Software upgrades with new features, security updates, and bug fixes will be available only on Windows 64-bit operating systems. Existing features and services such as optimal game settings will continue to work on Windows 32-bit operating systems.
They did add limited DirectX 12 and WDDM 2.2 compliance to Fermis. So as long as you use an older driver, but not too old. You could use a Fermi GPU for a dedicated PhysX card, without your WDDM feature level dropping down on your newer GPU. This is something they promised a long time ago and did a piss poor job on delivering, but hey, they did finally do it. FWIW
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-fermi-cards-get-d3d-12-support.html