Did you know the NVIDIA Windows 10 Drivers for Quadro and GeForce RTX Turing based GPUs are incompatible with Windows 10 RS2 or earlier? This includes Windows 10 Threshold 1, Threshold 2, Redstone 1, and Redstone 2 operating systems.
Incompatible Windows 10 versions:
|
Version |
Codename |
Marketing Name |
Release Date |
|
1507 |
Threshold 1 |
July 2015 |
|
|
1511 |
Threshold 2 |
November Update |
November 2015 |
|
1607 |
Redstone 1 |
Anniversary Update |
August 2016 |
|
1703 |
Redstone 2 |
Creators Update |
April 2017 |
If you are using those versions of Windows, you will encounter the following error message during the installation process.
To resolve this, please update to the follow Windows 10 versions:
|
Version |
Codename |
Marketing Name |
Release Date |
|
1709 |
Redstone 3 |
Fall Creators Update |
October 2017 |
|
1803 |
Redstone 4 |
April 2018 Update |
April 2017 |
|
1809 |
Redstone 5 |
October 2018 Update |
November 2018 |
However, if you specifically need Windows DirectX Raytracing (DXR) and RTX Ray-Tracing support, please use the October 2018 update which is Windows 10 version 1809.
|
Version |
Codename |
Marketing Name |
Release Date |
|
1809 |
Redstone 5 |
October 2018 Update |
November 2018 |
For more information about DXR support in Windows 10:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/directx/2018/10/02/directx-raytracing-and-the-windows-10-october-2018-update/