Nvidia Stealing from us?

DrGreenMonster · October 27, 2019

Ok I am new here, but long time viewer. Now perhaps I am missing something obvious to all of you, and in my older age I've lost touch with something in the tech world? So truly please give me any data I am not considering, or have missed?
I once was on my way to be A+ Cert. once long ago, before the first divorce, etc. etc. LOL SO I do know one or two things about that box with windows in it! ha :)
I have a PNY GTX 770 2gb XLR8 which I bought around 2014/2015? can't recall.
Either way, two of the reasons I bought it was because it had both 3D and VR support. Since then the latest drivers for some time now, have removed those functions.
Further, No Man Sky graphic settings went from 50% to now 30%. Minecraft was at 90%, now 50%. Can't get Doom 2016 to launch at all now, I could go on.
Now I understand in time, games requirements can/WILL increase, but functionality of something like 3D and VR, seems like I paid for something that has been straight up taken away.
Also I think it should be noted, that these are the drivers directly from NVIDIA, not PNY.
So am I wrong here? Thoughts?

Streetguru · October 27, 2019

17 minutes ago, DrGreenMonster said:

Ok I am new here, but long time viewer. Now perhaps I am missing something obvious to all of you, and in my older age

Just reinstall the older drivers then?

There's probably just some bug in the newer drivers, but few people are still using that card so they're unlikely to fix it.

It could also just be some random windows 10 problem potentially.

tech.guru · October 27, 2019

you are lucky nvidia even provides updated drivers for a card that old. you can always downgrade the driver.

SkilledRebuilds · October 27, 2019

The PNY GTX770 XLR8 also released earlier than when you bought it by a year or two.. and it wasn't the flagship part either.

Yes,.. for its time, and a while, its perfect,.. you know/said demands change,

The 2GB VRAM is a known issue for DOOM,..(alongside many titles these days).not just your GPU,..most 2GB VRAM GPU's suffer greatly without resolution decreases.

Besides some diagnosing of Drivers/Windows 10 flaws or doing a Win10 clean and reinstall (inbuilt to Win10 now) it may just be expecations vs reality on some particular titles but obviously not all, many games will still run well on such a GPU, but newer ones (esp VRAM hungry ones) will demand sacrifices.

As per Minecraft losing so much, driver swaps, and general googling around should come to better conclusions and answers.

hollyh88 · October 27, 2019

no, your gpu is just very.. bad. it was good but man using that to this day is just not going to happen. you are wrong yes. older gpu's tend to have more difficulty with newer games and tech/software and thus can't support newer updates. due to those updates needing to be made up to date for the newest software and games. so older gpu's will get hit worse. especially a card with 2gb vram.