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NiLuJe · 10-22-2019, 09:54 PM

It won't help. As was mentioned, you *are* running the final 32bit drivers nVidia released for your card (the way nvidia internally versions its drivers is just a bit quirky, which makes parsing the device manager output slightly trickier), which happens to fall in the same batch of drivers as the latest generations.

TL;DR: You'd be using the same driver on a newer card (unless it's so new that it wasn't even supported before the 4xx branch, in which case, you won't even have any hardware acceleration at all on a 32bit OS). And before someone chimes in, Linux won't help, they discontinued 32bit support at the same time.

TL;DR: 32bit OS are EOL. That's your issue, not having up to date drivers is simply a byproduct of that fact.

10-22-2019, 09:54 PM	#56
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,480 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	It won't help. As was mentioned, you are running the final 32bit drivers nVidia released for your card (the way nvidia internally versions its drivers is just a bit quirky, which makes parsing the device manager output slightly trickier), which happens to fall in the same batch of drivers as the latest generations. TL;DR: You'd be using the same driver on a newer card (unless it's so new that it wasn't even supported before the 4xx branch, in which case, you won't even have any hardware acceleration at all on a 32bit OS). And before someone chimes in, Linux won't help, they discontinued 32bit support at the same time. TL;DR: 32bit OS are EOL. That's your issue, not having up to date drivers is simply a byproduct of that fact. Last edited by NiLuJe; 10-22-2019 at 09:58 PM.