NVIDIA offended my cards

[CaithLynnSayes]

So I rotate computers often which means I have 2 older computers i'm planning on giving away to family members who can use them.

• i7-3770 - 16GB - GTX780Ti (3GB)
• i7-2700K -32GB - GTX1060 (6GB)

I'm currently in the process of making sure they are as clean and up to date as can be when i ran into a snag i didn't expect. I've downloaded NVIDIA GeForce Experience for both of them in order to get them the latest Graphics drivers, but when i try to do that, it tells me on both machines that NVIDIA GeForce Experience can not run because these systems are not supported (anymore). It offers me to check out a page called "EOL Windows driver support for legacy products" with a long list of older cards. https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3473/

First of all, ouch, #offended. Secondly, these 2 cards are not on that list so i'm a little confused. Has anyone run into this problem and know what to do?

Thanks.

 

 

Current specs, in case you wanna know: i9-9900KS - 128GB - RTX3090Ti

[Solo Alpha]

26 minutes ago, CaithLynnSayes said:

Has anyone run into this problem and know what to do?

My 2 cents : No ( owning a RTX 3060 Ti myself), but the drop of support for your mentioned GPU's have been announced widely by NVidia and techsites. By the looks of it NVidia prefers to support only the last 2 iterations of cards ( RTX 20xx and RTX 30xx ) as Game Ready Drivers. I guess they are of the opinion it obsolves them from releasing newest drivers and working Geforce Experience for models before the RTX 20xx series, especially since older cards do not support raytracing by hardware ( or were never meant to work with it ).

Edited June 19, 2022 by Solo Alpha

[Arielle Popstar]

Well I hope not and judging from here my 1050, 1060 and 1070's are still supported in the latest driver release: https://www.overclockers.com/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-driver-516-40-whql-update/

I did see something about Nvidia no longer supporting 32 bit OS's in case that is a factor.

[CaithLynnSayes]

31 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:

no longer supporting 32 bit OS's in case that is a factor.

They are both 64bit systems so that should not be a factor. I did download from that link you gave. I'll see what that does for them, thanks.

[Bree Giffen]

You just need the latest driver. Not the whole Geforce Experience. I looked in Nvidia’s downloads website and there is 1060 driver released 6-15-22. 

Edited June 19, 2022 by Bree Giffen

[animats]

The NVidia 1060 is unsupported now? That's the most widely used graphics card among Steam users.

LL collects stats like that, but doesn't publish them.

Update: Bree says, above, it's just the GeForce Experience thing, which is for broadcasting to Facebook and such.

Edited June 19, 2022 by animats
Correction

[Silent Mistwalker]

4 hours ago, Bree Giffen said:

You just need the latest driver. Not the whole Geforce Experience. I looked in Nvidia’s downloads website and there is 1060 driver released 6-15-22. 

That is exactly what I do on my older machines. 

The driver released on the 15th is causing some issues for some people in SL. There's a thread in the tech support section about it that was posted today, I think.