In a surprising turn of events, NVIDIA's latest driver update, version 576.40, has reinstated support for older CPUs lacking the POPCNT instruction, such as the Intel Core 2 Duo. This development allows users to pair these legacy processors with modern NVIDIA GPUs on Windows 10 systems without...
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