So the new branch should come within the end of next week, according to this article? they just released 388.71, if they knew already 390 branch would come around this period, they could just skip this and release directly 390 with the fixes of 388.71

Could this enable further performance improvements for 64bit systems? Getting rid of some old compromises?

Can they finally update the 10 year old NVCPL? AMD has done it twice in recent time but nVidia with all that green money...noooo.

Considering in this day and age no one should really be on a 32 bit system i don't think many will be effected. Those that are most likely needed to upgrade their pc a long long time ago. Steam stats still show just under 2% of the userbase is still on 32bit system of some sort

Scumbags.

Bogeyx:

Could this enable further performance improvements for 64bit systems? Getting rid of some old compromises?

NO i guess... Just less work to release driver and maybe a more light package. Nothing exeptional.

Ricepudding:

Considering in this day and age no one should really be on a 32 bit system i don't think many will be effected. Those that are most likely needed to upgrade their pc a long long time ago. Steam stats still show just under 2% of the userbase is still on 32bit system of some sort

Considerating that the 64bit version work fine with most prehistorical hardware ( exept with AMD 64 754/939, blame AMD for this) and that modern 32 bit use most of the time iGPU or APU : it won't affect a lot of people 🙂

kilyan:

So the new branch should come within the end of next week, according to this article? they just released 388.71, if they knew already 390 branch would come around this period, they could just skip this and release directly 390 with the fixes of 388.71

Driver is actually coming in early January 2018.

I think that was the right move as long as they keep supporting their legacy hardware.

Netherwind:

Can the finally update the 10 year old NVCPL? AMD has done it twice in recent time but nVidia with all that green money...noooo.

Honestly, i *loath* the way AMD designed their interface. The driver was one of the reasons i jumped ship. nVidia's nvcpl does need a face lift, but i love how the options are just there, in a tree, just a single click away.

Nvidia just needs to speed up the control panel and it'd be perfect. AMD's is too bling IMO and gives the impression of bloat. It could affect people just wanting to get a xx30 for their old PCs.

Netherwind:

Can the finally update the 10 year old NVCPL? AMD has done it twice in recent time but nVidia with all that green money...noooo.

I pray that they ignore people like you asking for change for the sake of it. The current control panel just works. It's not pretty, but it doesn't bloody well need to be. It's fast and easy to get to the option you want to change. AMD's new setup looks amazing, but is a slow, bloated, labyrinthine mess that values form over function. Why any Nvidia owner would look upon it and think "damn, we're missing out" is beyond me.

Slow? In my view it is superfast. I just hope it would have a browsertype of login for it to keep its settings,

Bogeyx:

Could this enable further performance improvements for 64bit systems? Getting rid of some old compromises?

I hope so..

Honestly, I think this is good news. "Nvidia just needs to speed up the control panel and it'd be perfect. AMD's is too bling IMO and gives the impression of bloat. It could affect people just wanting to get a xx30 for their old PCs." "Slow? In my view it is superfast." Mine generally takes about half a minute to load. It has been degrading over the years. In fact, recently it has been totally resetting my displays any time I change a setting. It basically just sits there with the monitors off for a good 30 seconds. For some settings, this is longer than the time it gives to confirm. Like disabling stereoscopic red-blue 3D (because THEY ENABLE IT BY DEFAULT). Game settings more or less lock up the GUI for a solid 10 seconds each time I change a setting like AF. So yeah, I think there are ways to drastically speed up and improve the interface in general. I'd also like to see some legacy features be available again (without driver mods). Things like the extra odd AA modes (SSAA would be nice to see again, despite DSR). Them having an OC panel was also cool (bits), and would make sense since they already have everything else locked down (I want my BIOS mods back). But mostly just speed it up for chrissakes.

Less time spent on 32bit means more time on others; so better quality releases/better optimization will happen.

Jonathanese:

Honestly, I think this is good news. "Nvidia just needs to speed up the control panel and it'd be perfect. AMD's is too bling IMO and gives the impression of bloat. It could affect people just wanting to get a xx30 for their old PCs." "Slow? In my view it is superfast." Mine generally takes about half a minute to load. It has been degrading over the years. In fact, recently it has been totally resetting my displays any time I change a setting. It basically just sits there with the monitors off for a good 30 seconds. For some settings, this is longer than the time it gives to confirm. Like disabling stereoscopic red-blue 3D (because THEY ENABLE IT BY DEFAULT). Game settings more or less lock up the GUI for a solid 10 seconds each time I change a setting like AF. So yeah, I think there are ways to drastically speed up and improve the interface in general. I'd also like to see some legacy features be available again (without driver mods). Things like the extra odd AA modes (SSAA would be nice to see again, despite DSR). Them having an OC panel was also cool (bits), and would make sense since they already have everything else locked down (I want my BIOS mods back). But mostly just speed it up for chrissakes.

Use NVinspector. It's an advanced NVCPL but it's instantaneous in applying/loading settings.

I have been using a 64bit O.S since when vista forst came out and my PC was a piece of #### laptop. Why anyone would even consider installing a 64 bit O.S in the last 5 years regardless of how much ram you have is insane to me. Even if you had only 4gb and didn't get the benefit of >4gb ram you still don't see a performance penalty either and it leaves you with a ram upgrade path.

Netherwind:

Can the finally update the 10 year old NVCPL? AMD has done it twice in recent time but nVidia with all that green money...noooo.

NVCP is horrible and slow. They need to seriously overhaul it from scratch. I don't know if this means they now they can rework it but they seriously need to do it.

With most modern AAA games sloppily wanting 16GB these days, it makes sense.

the end of an era. nerds will rage. I'd care if my old laptop was still alive but it's dead. yah I'm pretty sure they'll speed up nvcpl everyone knows its way too slow. I think it would also be cool if they had some type of export settings for after a clean install. I'm ALWAYS clicking off the same 5 options on a fresh driver update. - "set up stereoscopic 3d" (luckily win 10 made that WAY faster in the display settings section ... but then I still have to activate 'enable advanced in game settings' in nvcpl ... and set snapshot quality to 100 in the registry not sure why that's on 50 by default but a lot of stuff is disabled by default and it's annoying) - "change resolution" output dynamic range > Full under change resolution - "adjust video color settings" > w/ NVidia settings > dynamic range full so that vids in VLC don't have grey blacks.. - "manage 3d settings" power management code > max performance so that my GPU actually works "the way it's meant to be played" and not under-clocked on "idle low power states" (aka any random time it wants to give me a lag spike in the middle of everything/gaming not idle...). max pre rendered frames to 1 to reduce input lag. threaded optimization on because I've noticed emulators run faster with it once or twice (dolphin--probably with some multithreading api) and never noticed any down side would be REALLY nice if there was some way to apply a few settings to the global profile with 1 f#@%ing click. instead of click, wait 30 seconds, click, wait 30 seconds, click, f*ck off to get a coffee and add another 4:30, click, wait 30 seconds, click, wait 30 seconds, click, f*ck off to walk the dogs add another 15 minutes, click, run an errand / do some work add another 15 minutes, click, wait 30 seconds ... on EVERY SINGLE DRIVER UPDATE. by the time i'm finally done it's 15 minutes to an hour and half and it's literally insane. lol... should not be that cumbersome with so many steps to do the same damn thing every time. I know I could make a custom global profile w/ NVidia inspector but that would only include 3d settings and they're constantly adding/changing all the options and Im somewhat of a purist thoroughly uninstall / ddu cleanup / and generally trust their development and only touch what I know I want to change. I would love to see this: give us a 1 click export/import global profile and ALL nvcpl settings not just 3d settings. then faster nvcpl responsiveness wouldn't even matter to me but sure, that too.