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Official Driver Supporting GTX 970 and up found


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[had to correct this, the "listdevices.txt" was misleading, only exactly ONE driver supports GTX 970 and GTX 980. Other GTX 9x0 / Titans were mentioned in later drivers, but were not in the inf files.]

Interesting find while explicitely searching for drivers older than those on the NVidia-Site, but after the launch, on www.forum-3dcenter.org

http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/344.11/344.11-desktop-winxp-32bit-international.exe

More infos:

https://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=556959

I tried it, and my GTX 970 was detected and runs fine (no SLI, though, even though it is active, and detected on W10 64bit).

Excerpt from ListDevices.txt:
 

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UDA Package name: GeforceWeb Public International


nv4_disp.inf:
    DEV_06C0 "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480"
    [...]
    DEV_1380 "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti"
    DEV_1381 "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750"
    DEV_1382 "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745"
    DEV_13C0 "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980"
    DEV_13C2 "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970"

 

NVidia mostly lists drivers AFTER this one on their site (there may be one or two more inbetween containing the 970+, but i did not detect any more. Jaclaz?).

 

Oh, and one further insight:

There exist inf-files for OEM cards (i.e. nvmii.inf for MSI) that indicate later drivers (347.25, 347.88) support these cards as well, as long as they are from said OEM.

(look i.e. here: https://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/30969-modding-nvidia-oem-inf-files/ )

Using these may be possible, but as these may have other settings (assuming OC, requiring better cooler, etc.), it is always a bit risky.

If they can be used for your card without inf-modding, you just pinpointed a driver tailor-made for your card, congrats... :cheerleader:

 

Starting with version 350.xx, 970+ are neither mentioned in the listdevices.txt, nor in inf-files.

I suspect, this has something to do with XP 32bit dropping out of support with Microsoft on April the 8th 2014, so NVidia possibly joined the bandwaggon here... or was "encouraged" to do so by Microsoft, and only OEMs that were complied to deliver drivers for a certain time got some support. But thats just guesswork...

 

For modding inf-files to have 970+ GPUs use the GTX 960 drivers, which seems to be working well, search on MSFN (maybe later i'll link to those threads - give me some time...).

According to an analysis of the later drivers, of which the 368.91 (iCafe) seems to be the latest, while 368.81 is the latest generic, remember, that there exists more than one GTX 960, so choose well:

NVIDIA_DEV.1401 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960"
NVIDIA_DEV.1406 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960"

 

Edited by ragnargd
Was too cocky... corrected... and addendum for OEM
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I've tried to get 368.81 working with the 970M. I've gotten it to install on my laptop, but the Nvidia control panel says "You are currently not using a display attached to an Nvidia GPU", and Furmark doesn't see the GPU, only the integrated Intel HD.

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9 hours ago, asdf2345 said:

I've tried to get 368.81 working with the 970M. I've gotten it to install on my laptop, but the Nvidia control panel says "You are currently not using a display attached to an Nvidia GPU", and Furmark doesn't see the GPU, only the integrated Intel HD.

Using Optimus switchable graphics? it's supported only for Win7 and above. Check if you're able to drive the internal display solely by the nvidia card in BIOS settings.

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On 5/19/2020 at 9:46 AM, IntMD said:

Using Optimus switchable graphics? it's supported only for Win7 and above. Check if you're able to drive the internal display solely by the nvidia card in BIOS settings.


I'd need a modded BIOS for my MSI GS60 2QE MS-16H5. I'd love it if I could disable the Intel HD, even in Windows 7 and above

 

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On 5/20/2020 at 2:31 PM, asdf2345 said:

I'd need a modded BIOS for my MSI GS60 2QE MS-16H5. I'd love it if I could disable the Intel HD, even in Windows 7 and above

Try ask about it users on forum http://forum.notebookreview.com in MSI section. Maybe in topic ***The MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 970M Owner's Lounge***

This forum in past have users who are actually modified bios of laptops.

There is also this section on msi forum: Private Unofficial Modified BIOS'ses & EC-FW  -  these are UNSUPPORTED AND UNOFFICIAL BIOS files, and donation is required.

Links that i mention as is (it should work now):

1) http://forum.notebookreview.com/

2) http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/the-msi-gs60-ghost-pro-970m-owners-lounge.762769/

3) https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?board=51.0

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