Resolve the issue of Nvidia’s latest win7 driver not working due to the signature!

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by canonkong, Jul 1, 2023.

  1. James Bond 007

    James Bond 007 MDL Member

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    I have another system that runs Windows 10 1607 LTSB (US English) and I put my GTX 1660 Ti (Turing) into the system. The Nvidia drivers for this card require Windows 10 1709 as a minimum as stated by Nvidia in the driver release notes :
    Using the method in post #42 with the driver mod provided by canonkong I was able to install the Windows 10 472.12 standard driver in Windows 10 1607 LTSB with the GTX 1660 Ti.

    The driver was installed in Test Mode and works in normal mode. The Nvidia Control Panel also works fine.

    Here is a picture of the GTX 1660 Ti with the modded 472.12 driver in Windows 10 1607 LTSB (US English) :
    1607-1660Ti-472.12.jpg

    So my conclusion is that the Turing (GTX 1600 / RTX 2000) series and at least some of the Ampere (RTX 3000) series cards (RTX 3050 excluded) can be made to work under Windows 10 1607 LTSB / Windows Server 2016 using the mod for the Windows 10 472.12 standard driver provided by canonkong and suitable edits of the nv_dispi.inf file in the 472.12 driver package.
     
  2. iRudeBoy

    iRudeBoy MDL Novice

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    This is very cool man!!! I have long dreamed of a driver for windows 10 1607 ltsb working under GTX 1660 Super. Can you help? There is another very stable favorite driver old v442.50, I have been using it for years, I really want to continue using it. Can you help with modifying that file? I uploaded the driver to Google Drive, as an installer and unpacked files. I beg you. drive.google (put a period and com) /drive/folders/1bZv-8qzrmBfMEaTQgB5-YnWbB3luf7GY?usp=sharing
     
  3. pm67310

    pm67310 MDL Guru

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    Use... 472.12 work fines
     
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  4. iRudeBoy

    iRudeBoy MDL Novice

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    maybe it's good, right now it has to be used, it was only necessary to correct the .inf file by adding copies of its ID GTX 1660 Super in a couple of places, on build 1607 it works fine. However, if you compare the size of the driver 472.12 and 442.50, then the newer driver is 128 MB fatter, they crammed a lot in there, maybe a bunch of security fixes and other technologies. After all, we roll back the OS in order to reduce the load on active processes, in this way a lighter driver can bring a better latency response.

    can you help with that driver version v442.50? I can pay for help. I left a link to the driver in Google cloud above.
     
  5. conthuongbome

    conthuongbome MDL Novice

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    Thank you very much
     
  6. Lt_RasGer

    Lt_RasGer MDL Novice

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    #66 Lt_RasGer, Jan 15, 2025
    Last edited: Jan 15, 2025
    Easiest way is to enable testsigning on Windows 7, when not using "secure boot".

    bcdedit /store X:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD /set {default} testsigning yes

    X is my partition with the EFI-bootloader on GPT Disk.

    This lets me install 475.14-desktop-win7-64bit-international.exe

    Without testsigning use NVidias latest WHQL driver: 474.11-desktop-windows7-64bit-international-whql.exe