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    Nvidia to drop 32-bit driver support

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by thegh0sts, Dec 24, 2017.

  1. thegh0sts

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    thegh0sts, Dec 24, 2017
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    Well, that might reduce the inf file size by few hundred megs.
     
    Vasudev, Dec 24, 2017
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    Since the last several years there's been no reason to have 32-bit anything, to be honest.
     
    HTWingNut, Dec 24, 2017
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    i remember when the athlon 64bit was A big thing. nothing benifited from it....now 64bit is never talked about and actually has purpose
     
    JRE84, Dec 24, 2017
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    This basically.
     
    MahmoudDewy, Dec 25, 2017
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    i don't disagree, just wondered why this took nvidia so long to do. But then I bet there's some users who don't know better I guess, by that I mean aren't as tech savvy.
     
    thegh0sts, Dec 26, 2017
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    There are still a lot of low-end/low-cost computers that still use 32-bit versions of Windows, but few if any would have a discrete GPU.
     
    saturnotaku, Dec 26, 2017
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