I have an old Quadro 2000 on my PC, Windows 10.
I downloaded and installed the trial versions of some On1 products and they don’t start at all, reporting the request of Vulkan run time libraries version 1.1. On my PC is Installed the version 1.0.26.0. The last NVidia drivers for the Quadro 2000 is installed.
Can I update the Vulkan driver?
And how?
Hello @forti.giorgio, welcome to the NVIDIA developer forums.
I am afraid the Fermi GPU generation has long since been deprecated. There are no newer drivers available for Windows 10 than the 32-bit version 377.83 which only supports Vulkan 1.0.
While there might be third-party solutions to install Vulkan support for 1.1 and higher, it is not recommended since the mismatch with the GPU driver will very likely cause issues.
I am really sorry!
Time to change the old Quadro 2000 with a newer one.
But what the best for working on photos?
I never play video games, I only need a very good color for my Eizo monitor.
I think this depends really on the rest of your system and your budget. Just upgrading the GPU on an old 32-bit Win10 system is really not good idea.
Of course I can recommend building a system with the newest GPU generation since it also has AV1 encoding support if you are into Photo/Video creation. But of course the previous gen GPUs are also still available and viable for any creator workflows.
I don’t want to give specific recommendations here since I am obviously biased, but please consider upgradng all of your system parts, especially the OS, for the sake of security at the least.
32 bit?
No, my PC is Win 10 64 bit with 32 GB of RAM, relatively good for working and for photo developing.
I usually use one ot two VMWare virtual machines together (both Win 10) and other application, all together.
On this PC I develop websites with Visual Studio 2022, non a “light” application.
I think the whole system is good for working, not “the latest and the best”, but good.
The graphic card is actually the worst part of my PC, sure the oldest one.
The budget is not high: I know the graphic card is old, but still works and if not for this problem with On1 software I did not think to change it. I’m interested in On1 software because a friend knows it well and could teach me.
Well, I guess I misinterpreted that. The last Fermi GPU drivers for Windows 10 were only 32-bit as far as I am aware.
I would say upgrading to an Ampere GPU would be already a huge step and they would not hit your budget too much. So GeForce RTX 3000 GPUs or the equivalent (formerly Quadro) Workstation RTX series.