Thread: NVIDIA is gearing up to end 32-bit OS support
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Old December 29th 17, 05:23 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
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Default NVIDIA is gearing up to end 32-bit OS support
On 12/28/2017 07:43 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 28/12/2017 15:26, Mark Lloyd wrote:
Is that anything like PAE? Something that Windows doesn't really
support (supposedly it does, but not for increased RAM).

Some of the 32 bit Windows server OSs support PAE properly and can use
more than 4GB of RAM.

But MS never allowed that on normal end user versions of Windows. I
think it could cause problems for third party drivers or maybe they just
wanted to force us to move to 64 bit sooner.

I think it's the latter.

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