This week, Nvidia announced that they are about ready to end support for their Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta based GPUs. The GPUs based on these microarchitectures include the entirety of the GeForce 9-Series, the GeForce 10-Series, and a few of Nvidia's Titan cards.
Nvidia says that they are planning a final Game Ready Driver release for these cards in October 2025. After that final Game Ready Driver update, these cards will only receive quarterly security updates for three more years, which would be until October 2028. After that point, there will be no more updates released at all, leaving those still using these cards at risk of whatever new security issues would arise.
Nvidia notes that the support lifetime for these GPUs has reached 11 years, which they say is "well beyond industry norms." The GeForce 9-Series came out in September 2014, with the 10-Series first hitting the market in May 2016.
Windows 10 RTX GPU Support
When it comes to Windows 10 support, Nvidia says that they are extending support for all GeForce RTX GPUs until October 2026. This is a full year of extra support from Nvidia after Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows 10's on October 14, 2025.New 580.88 Driver
Yesterday, Nvidia released the new 580.88 driver.This is a new Game Ready Driver that adds DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation support to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It also adds support for DLSS 4, Frame Generation, DLSS Super Resolution, and Nvidia Reflex to the upcoming release of Mafia: The Old Country.
There are also several fixes included in this 580.88 driver release:
Fixed Gaming Bugs
Fixed General Bugs
- FIXED World of Warcraft: displays artifacts when ray tracing is enabled [5273429]
- FIXED Battlefield 2042: random square artifacts may appear around lights during gameplay [5284105]
- FIXED Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered: Lower performance after updating to R575 drivers [5412725]
- FIXED Starcraft Remastered: Objects may display slight artifacts [5162957]
- FIXED Cyberpunk 2077: Micro-stutter may be observed when VSYNC is enabled [5243668]
- FIXED JX Online 3: Artifacts may appear on the water surface [5247344]
- FIXED 32-bit games crash when using DXVK translation layer during startup [5252103]
- FIXED Control: game may crash when ray tracing is enabled [5261356]
- FIXED ABZU: Corruption observed in the water [5330078]
- FIXED EA Sports FC 25: General stability issues [5331630]
- FIXED Dirt 5: Game crash on startup [5349426]
Fixed General Bugs
- FIXED Blender: Black dots on reference image [5339988]
- FIXED Cloudflare WARP: Display mode change blocked on Advanced Optimus systems [5368524]
- FIXED GPU scaling option is missing from NVIDIA Control Panel / NVIDIA App when DSC monitor connected [5156168]
- FIXED Windows Photos: Trimming a video may cause the colors to be changed [5158063]
- FIXED GPU video memory runs at slightly lower speed after enabling NVIDIA Smooth Motion [5370796]
- FIXED For some systems running hybrid graphics mode, dGPU may not go to sleep [5232857]
- FIXED Samsung 57" Odyssey Neo G9: Momentary flicker may be observed when resizing window [5243530]
- FIXED LGE 27GX790A-B: Blank screens when running in DisplayPort 2.1 mode with HDR [5334029]
