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Nvidia to End Support for All DX 10 Based Cards – Anything Not DX11 is being Left Behind

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Nvidia has just recently announced something very important, it appears that they will be ending driver support for any and all Geforce GPUs below the Geforce 4xx Mark. I.e. they are ending support for all non-DX11 based cards, leaving only Kepler, Fermi and Maxwell with driver support.
Nvidia Coporation

Release Driver 343 onwards, Nvidia will no longer support anything except Fermi, Kepler and Maxwell
I am still rocking a GTS 250 for my casual rig. And I can understand there are those who still gratefully run an 8800 Ultra SLI configuration. Sadly, however, support for these old giants will soon cease. In their time (especially the 8800 GT ) these cards stood high and mighty. However, their great run will finally come to an end, at least as far as Nvidia Driver support is concerned. Ofcourse, any critical bugs in the drivers before Release 343 will still get fixed, but there will be no further support for these drivers and no optimization updates. Here is the official table of cards which Nvidia shall stop supporting. Basically the Geforce 8 Series, 9 Series, 1xx series, 2xx series, 3xx series and Geforce 405 from the 4xx series will not be supported anymore.
It is worth noting here that current release is the Geforce 335.23 so we still have a little time to go. I would also like to clarify that “bug” support that Nvidia has promised. Basically Driver 340, the last driver for all these old beasts, will be debugged till April 2016. However there will be no further improvements of any kind. No game optimizations, no nothing. Basically just driver maintenance. I would request a moment of silence for all these gaming masterpieces but with DX 12 coming up, this is only to be expected. However DX incorporation usually takes time and I doubt we will see it (DX12) anytime soon. Also with AMD dropping hints of #2isbetterthan1 all over the place, we should see Vesuvius aka R9 290X2 and consequently the much anticipated GTX 790 pretty soon.


Read more: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-support-dx-10-based-cards-not-dx-11-left-behind/#ixzz2vw3SjbFJ
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Very harsh and not good news for the older generation cards :( My other computer is still rocking an 8800GT, which still copes fairly well in games .
 
Those 8800xxx are 7 - 8 years now so seems to be a fair line in the sand. I guess the would rather invest the time and effort in newer tech which is fair enough.
 
I don't tend to update my 8800GT much anyway, so I guess I am not that fussed. There will be a lot of older gen users who will be peeved at this news though.
 
Can't see anything wrong with Nvidia doing this tbh, aren't the cards affected like 6+ years old?

Will be moving onto Direct X12 soon enough. I see this as progress. All good things..
 
TBF,nothing that new and intensive will run well on the older cards I suspect,so Nvidia is probably trying to simplify its driver development.

It does mean my 9300 IGP is not going to be supported soon,but TBH its not that powerful anyway!!:p

I wonder if the Linux open source driver will be fine,ie,still is developed for?? Hopefully.
 
DX10 is dead and has been for a long time, i see no need to support ancient GPU's for a dead API, it adds unnecessary to costs and development time.

Nothing wrong with this decision.
 
Ugh, I only bought a GTX260 216 the other week to replace an HD4670 in my old workstation... :(

Not the end of the world as it was cheap as chips and there will still be old drivers, but it is a touch annoying.
 
malachi said:
But aren't games still been developed using dx9?
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I would think DX9 development will continue to be supported for as long as Free 2 Play games use it.

At this moment both AMD and Nvidia still do.

This is simply about DX10 as no one uses that.
 
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It's a natural move since these older cards can't keep up the pace in the newer games.

However I was still sad the day I saw my GeForce256 wasn't supported any longer !.
Still that doesn't keep me away from making cool "Retro-gaming rigs".
I LOVE playing Murder Death Kill 2 (MDK2), Sacrifice, Messiah, Evolva, Giants Citizen Kabuto, No One Lives Forever, Hitman Codename 47, Project I'm Going In, Thief on my Retro gamer with 256MB SD PC133, Intel Pentium III 866MHz, Herules 3D Prophet DDR-DVI (GeForce256 32MB DDR), 80GB HDD and Windows 98SE :D
 
Gripen90 said:
It's a natural move since these older cards can't keep up the pace in the newer games.

However I was still sad the day I saw my GeForce256 wasn't supported any longer !.
Still that doesn't keep me away from making cool "Retro-gaming rigs".
I LOVE playing Murder Death Kill 2 (MDK2), Sacrifice, Messiah, Evolva, Giants Citizen Kabuto, No One Lives Forever, Hitman Codename 47, Project I'm Going In, Thief on my Retro gamer with 256MB SD PC133, Intel Pentium III 866MHz, Herules 3D Prophet DDR-DVI (GeForce256 32MB DDR), 80GB HDD and Windows 98SE :D
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WHAT!?!?!?! No Voodoo 2 or Banshee to go with that?
 
AMD did this a while back now, when they dropped support for the 4000 series. (Or at least went quarterly)

I thik it's good news. Allow more resources to go in to developing drivers for cards that matter.
 
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