I’m guessing the whole point of this is to boost AI. Pre-RTX have no tensor cores, therefore it would be a waste of time to open source.

I guess it’s the GSP which isn’t there on the pre rtx cards. Also, most of the stuff is moved into the firmware as a blob (hence the need for the GSP) so the drivers are not really open open. But it’s still a refreshing move

Call me Mr Cynical, but I’d guess that most of the super secret licensed proprietary stuff was moved to the firmware rather than being in the drivers.

I was kind of hoping that Pascal and Volta would still be included, given how much of a userbase still has those, however from Nvidia’s standpoint, I can kind of see it? These are almost a decade old. But either way, i’m sure they have some other corporate bullshit in mind

Sounds like you have more issues than the driver. I would suggest looking up proper configuration for your machine