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Ruh Roh, has XP finally hit the driver wall with the 600 series cards?
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Al Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1682 Credit: 477,343,364 RAC: 482 |
I was perusing the EVGA website looking at drivers, since it's been a while and I'd see what was new and exciting. I run XP64 on most of my rigs, and thought I heard there was a new driver out. Well, I looked at XP, didn't see anything real recent, then thought I'd check Win7. Here is what I found: Release Date Type Version OS 12-17-2012 Driver 310.70 Windows 7 64bit 11-26-2012 Driver 310.61 Windows 7 64bit and 11-26-2012 Driver 310.61 Windows XP 64bit I suppose I knew that this day would eventually come, but it appears to be the end of the road for XP and updated drivers. Has anyone heard if this is it. or do they just need to do a little more tweaking to get it right before they post it for download? |
Sutaru Tsureku Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 |
I never installed graphic card manufacturer drivers. Only drivers from the officially NVIDIA homepage. Have a look there, I found all 6xx series GPU drivers, except for GTX690 - for WinXP 32/64 bit. GeForce 310.70 Driver WHQL Dec/17 2012 (e.g. for your GTX670). * Best regards! :-) * Sutaru Tsureku, team seti.international founder. * Optimize your PC for higher RAC. * SETI@home needs your help. * |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
I agree, I always use the Nvidia drivers. I am on the mailing list so get an email when new drivers are released. |
Al Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1682 Credit: 477,343,364 RAC: 482 |
Duh, didn't even think to go there. Sorry for the false alarm, I should have done more research before posting. Thanks for the heads up! |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Whew....ya had me going there. One of my ambitions for today was to start upgrading the kitties' crunching farm to 310.70. 2 XP 64bit, 6 XP 32bit, and 7 on my daily driver. I always download drivers directly from nVidia's own site too, but had not looked there yet. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
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