Why there is no XP gpu drivers ?

Looking for the latest possible gpu drivers for xp . I can not find a modded inf file on lv2g , I do not know other websites with modded drivers so maybe someone can help ? .
I have a strong enough to play newest games 8800GTX in SLI and I want to use XP due to best performance.
I'm not very impressed with DX10 and 11. Dx9c is enough for me - I will be grateful for your help.
Btw - I wonder why there is no gpu drivers support for XP even on modders pages - is it MS lobby promoting their new systems ?

 

oh ... here was the answer, but disappeared - in any case, the driver you posted ( 266,xx ) has almost a year old , and does not contain the latest SLI profiles .

 

Because XP is dead. It's a 10 year old OS people need to stop supporting it at somepoint.

 

as the above post said xp is dead and xp doesnt have any better performance than windows 7. xp is only good on older machines with old hardware no point staying with just get windows 7.

 

I think people just want XP to die, but its hard to kill it off. xD
But Windows 7 does perform equal or better compared to XP and according to MS Windows 8 might run even better.

Same with the PS2.
It should have died ages ago but the damn thing still sells and get new game releases.

 

I'm not going to die for XP. As for the games performance I do not agree because most of the games runs on my laptop a lot better on XP than on the newer systems ( I mean Vista and 7 ) I understand that XP is dying - but why the deskop cards are still supported and mobile not anymore ? . As I mentioned , on my hardware - for which I paid a good money in 2008 - I can still play the latest titles and I want to doing it on XP (this is my choice - I have the right).
I do not want war with the operating systems in this thread , or read a review which one is better - everything I need is a current XP gpu driver

 

AMD started supporting its mobile Dx10 to Dx11 mobile GPUs when they ditched Dx9 users + XP. D;

But i dont know about Nvidia, but i think their Nvidia Verde driver program did something similar.
Best bet would be to check Nvidias own forums or something, or maybe someone with a similar setup pops up here to help.

 

Yes - this is what I hope for

 

While I can sympathize with this sentiment, you do have the right, but if there isn't any support for it, your SOL unless you know how to mod drivers If there is no support, there is simply no support. The manufactuers need to spend there resources where the money is at, and thats really not XP anymore.

Even the Government is doing away with XP. Of all places, my job switched to Win 7 to "get away from a dead O/S." And that was the directors comment, not mine.

 

It's not DYING, it's DEAD. Like someone else said, you have the right, but the GPU manufacturers also have the right to stop making drivers for outdated OSes.

 

Don't understand why you are so stuck with XP, the so circulated "XP gives better performance than vista and 7" statement was probably true when windows 7 first came out, but nowadays it's very matured and optimized.

Since neither AMD nor Nvidia supply driver support for XP any longer, you will be forced to used VERY OLD drivers, which can't be good for any serious gaming. I fail to see how your computer runs "much better on XP than on newer system", with the latest drivers on windows 7, your 8800M sli should deliver better fps in most recent games than sticking with XP and over 1 year old drivers.

 

You have a laptop from 2008, vista was already launched and windows 7 was on the horizon. I can understand wanting xp over vista a few years ago, but even vista eventually got decent with the service packs. XP is 10 years old and that is unprecedented for an OS to have lasted this long. You don't see drivers for windows 98 or 2000 and they dropped support for those years ago because those OSes were getting outdated. The same goes for xp, you have the right to stay with it, but support for xp with drivers lasted way longer than for other legacy OSes so if you want to stick with xp, you are consciously making the choice to go without driver support. I'm not surprised that laptop support was dropped earlier than desktop support considering the usual life cycle of laptops, they are changed every few years and very few people still have machines that came with xp on them. Mine died on me after 6 years of service and even that is a very long lifetime for a laptop.

 

i still think WinXP >> WinVista

ah ^-^, i still play the PS2 even now

 

Support for XP is dead. I have a couple old machines and use XP on them, but they're like 8-10 years old, and XP is a perfect fit, and have drivers nearly as old. But they run older software and games designed for it.

You're looking to use XP for newer software and hardware and it ain't gonna happen. So if you want to use XP, use it with what's available, otherwise switch to 7.

I don't buy the "XP is faster with games than Vista or 7" argument at all. Maybe if your hardware is very borderline able to play something you might eek a couple FPS out of it with lots of tuning. Otherwise performance will be near identical or faster with Win 7 even with the newer drivers.

 

DirectX is a programming API. It's for developers. There's no reason for you to be particularly impressed with either API.

8800 series supports DirectX up to 10. Some new games will simply require DX10, you will have no choice. DX10 also requires either windows vista or 7. Unless you update, you won't be able to get access to those games. Major game franchises like Need for Speed and Battlefield, among others (Just Cause 2 and a few more) have already dropped support for DX9 with their newest titles.

As stated, since XP is deprecated and provides only monthly security updates that don't necessitate design changes, you're better off with windows 7.

 

1st march 2011 is the latest official BETA ones i could find and January 18th for WHQL NVIDIA Driver Downloads - Advanced Search

 

Hi there
I'm not going to pay $ 120 for Windows 7 when with XP I can play all interesting games to me . Only Just Cause 2, Battlefield 3, NFS TR, .... and Hallo 2 require more than Dx9c for today , and I do not have a need to play it ( something I forgot ?) .
It does not matter how old XP is , or how many peoples do not like it - the point is how usefull is it to me .
I will change OS when the time will come . Thank you for your response - especially MrDJ - how could I miss it ? .
And I'm still waiting - maybe someone has a link to a website with something that I'm looking for .

 

it looks like part of the usefulness issue itself is the lack of driver support - but if the march one is new enough, hopefully that fixed your issue.

best of luck

 

Yes, best of luck. We are not saying you should update your OS, you made it pretty clear you wanted to stick with xp. What we are saying is that you are consciously choosing to use an old and outdated OS and that you shouldn't expect to have much driver support for it.

Hopefully, someone will come up with an alternative, but i wouldn't get my hopes up.

 

you see that the gaming technology goes with the OS, so its really logical to forget an old type of OS and utilize the modern ones, vista and 7, that goes with dx10, dx11 etc.

 

for the longest time, i stubbornly stuck with XP until that fateful day, when i bought 8 gigs of ram and i had to go with a 64-bit OS. So i begrudgingly installed Vista 64 and to my surprise, it worked very well.

Similarly, as soon as win7 became available, i installed it immediately. Everything just works on 7 for me. I think it is the best OS that ever came out of the MS camp

 

Actually, the point is that there are no new drivers for XP because it's old as hell. It doesn't matter how much you want the answer to be different, they don't exist.

 

I like how the OP mentioned he wants to play Battlefield 3. DICE explicitly stated from early development that game is Vista/W7 only as it only uses DX10 and DX11...

As much as I want XP Support to go longer for the majority of the computer users out there, the time is coming to the end for it. Companies moved on and the OS is starting to EOL. There is nothing you can do there...

 

Please again - do not post about change the system . I said I like XP , and I want to stay with it for now - if You can not help me - do not say anything
Yours sincerely
Pit

 

There's no helping you. You can't get new drivers. Have a nice life.

 

brb, will write new drivers for ya.

Truth be told, there really isn't any helping you. There are no new drivers. No one supports it anymore.

 

Time to upgrade. There is no reason why you should't upgrade to Windows 7. Windows 7 is better than XP in every conceivable way.

And IMO, Microsoft, AMD and Nvidia should stop supporting XP. Help people move on to what is better in every way.

 

Microsoft has stopped support for XP in April 2009: Microsoft Support Lifecycle

Extended support through 2014 but that's for corporate licensed products.

 

Well the OP stated that only Just Cause 2, Battlefield 3, NFS The Run and Halo 2 requires Dx10 or higher to run.
Nah im just trolling you, U MAD? xD

What i was going to say is that Halo 2 doesent really require Dx10, its a Dx9 game but it requires Windows Vista or later, but its easy to cheat it so it accepts XP.

 

I like how the OP refuses to accept that XP is a discontinued OS like Me, 2000, 98, 95 etc. and expects us to still help him yet at the same time refusing us to tell him the truth that there is no assistance to done.

If the OP refuses to accept that then I think there is nothing to discuss on this thread and a mod should lock it. The answer is simple: There are no new driver updates for XP platforms since 2009 and if you insist on staying with XP, then stick playing older game titles. If you want the latest drivers and the latest games to run efficiently, you will need to find a way to go to Vista or 7, which there are many ways you can do it without breaking the wallet so to speak.

 

Damn counter trolled. D;

 

So ... I was hoping that maybe someone on this great forum will able to help for some way - that's why I started this topic. Very sorry for the confusion . I wish everyone good luck , and definitly please of closing this thread.