Fermi support for Windows 10/DX12 delayed indefinitely

[Orangey]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9472/windows-10-launch-day-gpu-support-summary

Earlier this morning NVIDIA posted a knowledge base article entitled “Windows 10 will not load the NVIDIA display driver for my older graphics card in my PC that has multiple graphics cards”, which addresses the use of mixed generations of GPUs in a single system. In the article NVIDIA notes that WDDM 2.0 drivers – being necessary for DirectX 12 support – are not currently available for their Fermi GPUs. Instead Fermi cards are still using WDDM 1.3 drivers, or in other words the driver base for Windows 8.1.

The article itself is focused on the compatibility issues that can occur mixing WDDM 2.0 and WDDM 1.3 products – basically, you can only have one or the other active at once within a single driver since both modes can’t be used at the same time – however the more important outcome of this article is that it confirms that Fermi DirectX 12 support is behind schedule. NVIDIA is still committed to bringing DirectX 12 support to Fermi, however it will not be available for today’s Windows 10 launch, and NVIDIA has not announced a specific availability date.

Ultimately what this means is that only NVIDIA’s Kepler and Maxwell GPUs (the 600 series and newer) will support DirectX 12 as of today’s launch.

So much for that then. Hopefully Nvidia have learned a lesson about over-promising here. In addition they also managed to repeat the Vista fiasco:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/28/windows_10_update_nvidia_driver_conflict/

Looks like I will be giving Win10 a miss on my TX for now. Will probably try my luck when the first DX12 game comes out, hopefully that goes according to plan.

 

[muziqaz]

Booo, what do ya know, AMD drivers are bad.

Anyway, still haven't received an update myself, so those who do not push might not receive it in coming weeks, since windows update servers are always slow, and when you factor this huge OS update, then it would be understandable that they take things slow
so nvidia still has time to release several patches