Everything has an end, this happens in all areas of life and technology is no exception. Something that is demonstrated once again in these hours with the decision of NVIDIA to abandon driver support for 32-bit operating systemsas well as for all your GPU architectures. A decision that affects everyone equally, since Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows 10, FreeBSD and Linux will be in trouble.
As reported in their official announcement, version 390 drivers will be the last to offer support for 32-bit platforms: «After release 390, NVIDIA It will no longer release any GPU architecture drivers for 32-bit operating systems. Later versions will not work and cannot be installed on 32-bit operating systems. " In other words, there will no longer be updates with performance and stability improvements, nor will new features be incorporated that will arrive with the new versions of each operating system.
Yes, security patches will continue to arrive until January 2019, that is to say that those who still continue using 32-bit operating systems have just over a year to finish making the change to 64-bit platforms, in order to maintain improvements and also bug fixes and security patches, something that is always essential both in production environments and in equipment used in a home or domestic way.
Also NVIDIA's family of NVS graphics cards will no longer receive support After the version 390 drivers, specifically the NVS 310 and NVS 315 range, although in this case the security patches from low to critical category will continue to arrive until December 2019, while the critics will continue to do so until December 2021.