THE CRUNCH
A modder known as SupraGSX has released unofficial drivers that bring Nvidia's Pascal-era graphics cards, mainly the GeForce 10-series and Quadro P2000 to P6000 range, to Windows XP 32-bit. The project targets retrocomputers and emulation rigs, letting old games run on far more capable hardware than the era originally allowed, and it comes with modern display support to match.
The new ForceWare 382.69, as the custom build is numbered, is a spin-off of driver 368.81, which the report describes as seemingly Nvidia's last Windows XP release, and it adds the modern display handling that driver never had. That includes DisplayPort HBR2 and HBR3 support (High Bit Rate, the link speeds that let monitors run high resolutions and refresh rates), HDMI 2.0 identification with mode-retry fail-safes, and improved scaling and aspect ratio settings in the Nvidia Control Panel.
Support is fairly complete across the Pascal lineup, covering the GTX 1060 through 1080 Ti, both TITAN X generations and a range of Quadro P-series cards, with the notable omission of the GT 1030. An experimental build adds the GTX 1050 Ti. Early testers report it working mostly fine, including on ultrawide screens at high refresh rates, and the author takes bug reports and feature requests on the Vogons forums.
As with any unofficial driver, caution is advised: the installer is downloadable from the project's releases page, but it should not go on systems where data safety matters. A fork offering Windows XP 64-bit support was deleted, though its binaries reportedly remain available on Mega.