If you have a GeForce GTX 600, GTX 700, or GTX 800 graphics card based on the Kepler architecture, you’re in luck, NVIDIA released new drivers for these three families that are already officially available and that reached both Windows 7 and Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

It’s a curious move, especially considering that NVIDIA ended support for these graphics cards in 2021, so they haven’t received new drivers for a long time. There is an explanation for everything, which is that these new drivers contain an important update that, according to the description of the green giant addresses several security issues.

The description varies slightly depending on the NVIDIA drivers we will be using. So the 474.82 drivers for Windows 10 and Windows 11 are limited to address a few security issues, but were released as versions with WHQL certificationwhile version 474.89 for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, which also addresses security issues, has no such certification.

This is because Microsoft does not accept new drivers in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 because these three operating systems were not supported, so It is no longer possible to obtain the certification. In any case, don’t worry, if you download these new drivers from NVIDIA’s official website, you can rest assured that they won’t cause you any problems.

Obviously, none of these new drivers contain performance improvements or important changes that affect the features of these graphics cards, but because they address serious security flaws, they are important. If you have a GeForce GTX 800 or older You should download and install them as soon as possible. If you don’t know how to do it, that’s okay, here I explain how to install graphics card drivers.

I take this opportunity to remind you that it is NVIDIA that provides official support at the driver level GeForce GTX 750, GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 900 and higher, that is, to all those graphics cards based on Maxwell of the first or second generation and higher. If you’re thinking of upgrading your graphics card because it’s very old and no longer supported, you’ll be glad that the market has normalized and you can find many options at attractive prices right now.