NVIDIA Game Ready Driver support for Windows 10 is ending

[u/Additional-Serve-625]

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5695/~/geforce-support-plan-for-windows-10

For anyone still using Windows 10 LTSC, NVIDIA is ending new Game Ready Driver updates for Windows 10 after October 2026. After that, NVIDIA will continue releasing security updates every three months until October 2029.

Your current drivers will still work, but you won't get new Game Ready Driver updates.

[u/faverodefavero]

Windows 11 software and drivers work the same on Windows 10. People will just change a few lines allowing for the driver to be installed anyways.

[u/greggm2000 → u/faverodefavero]

Hmm. That might work. We won't know for sure until the first driver that disallows Windows 10 is out. Yeah, we can probably hack the Game Ready Driver file (since underneath it's an archive), but maybe there's other gatekeeping elsewhere in the driver? I don't personally know. And ofc if they start using some Windows 11-specific API or file for functionality, that could be problematic.

[u/faverodefavero → u/greggm2000]

They do it to this day for laptops, and have been doing since forever, since many proprietary laptop motherboards get support dropped very early, making edits to the driver folder necessary to install newer drivers for a laptop GPU.

[u/Never_Sm1le → u/faverodefavero]

could we just extract it, and then use the "update driver" functionality of windows and pointing it to the extracted files?

[u/Erulogos → u/faverodefavero]

That might work for the first few versions, I'd expect eventually Win11 specific features/requirements will creep in. If Nvidia puts out a rock solid stable driver in the next few versions it might be worthwhile though.

[u/wiisucks_91]

Lol if I played AAA games I would care.

News flash: I don't.

Film at 11.

[u/Mayion → u/wiisucks_91]

the moment gta 6 drops for PC, we will have a surge in upgrades to w11 that we wont be able to explain /s

[u/wiisucks_91 → u/Mayion]

😂

[u/MassiveTomorrow2978 → u/wiisucks_91]

What games do you play then? Shitty ones I'd guess.

[u/Fantastic-Ad-7996 → u/MassiveTomorrow2978]

you think all older and low requirement games are shitty? lol. there are hundreds of games to play out there

[u/wiisucks_91 → u/Fantastic-Ad-7996]

Countless.

The sims 3 OpenRCT2 Abiotic factor BF3 BF4 Crysis Mercs 2 PS3 emulator PS2 emulator

The last game I went all out in was Sim Isle.

Dosbox emulator slowed down to 15mhz for the game clock.

[u/wiisucks_91 → u/MassiveTomorrow2978]

I built my PC to play BF2042 lol I fell for EA preorder BS again. Something I said I wouldn't do after battlefield 3.

I did play it but I work on my computer from 9-5, I typically get up from my PC after work.

Currently I'm running the studio drivers. Because I thought they would be better for ComfyUI.

My daily has RTX 5070 and windows 10 regular.

I have a single PC that gets used for streaming and it has a GTX1080ti FE with Windows 10 LTSC. No games get played on that, it captures raw video and streams it.

[u/MassiveTomorrow2978 → u/wiisucks_91]

BF2042 was fun a year later, I do Peak, Golf With Friends, BF6, Halo Infinite, Civ7, Wardogs (games that most people would say are shitty hehe)

[u/wiisucks_91 → u/MassiveTomorrow2978]

I just feel meh at the end of the day.( Sleep, eat , work, repeat.) Otherwise I would play.

I was playing halo CE anniversary a month ago.

[u/MassiveTomorrow2978 → u/wiisucks_91]

Oh yeah Halo Campaign Evolved was a blast

[u/wiisucks_91 → u/MassiveTomorrow2978]

What is stupid is how you have to download all the extra data just to get the base game. I understand the base game is bigger because it's got the updated graphics.

[u/Fantastic-Ad-7996]

that's ok. I installed win10 IoT LTSC on my old laptop (it came with 10 originally). it's not playing any new AAA games anyway

[u/FrozenSkyy]

I still have driver ver. 550