Following my usual pattern of staying on the trailing edge, I am currently using Windows 8.1 as my main system. I've got an nVidia graphics card with a driver that works fine. So I would not expect to have to upgrade except if I want to upgrade the card, which is what I want to do. I had thought that I could just get older drivers if they had stopped supporting 8.1 by the time I did this. I don't play very demanding games and tend to keep drivers for years. Rarely had any problems forcing an update, and don't like updating every few months for no good reason.
But when I go to the nVidia drivers site and look for drivers for the card I'm thinking of getting, there are none for 8.1, only for 7... ???
Go to: https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx
And select Geforce 16 series, then select any card, it doesn't matter. The drop-down for OS version has 11, 10, and 7, then Linux and whatnot. But no Windows 8 or 8.1 for some reason. Why would there be NO drivers? Surely there was support before 8/8.1 ran out of service at the beginning of this year? Wouldn't those old drivers still be in their database? And if not, then why are the Win 7 drivers still there?
This is a real head-scratcher.
Edited by Alchemist, 22 June 2023 - 02:48 PM.
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