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Tacotardis42:
Hello everyone! I was running the media creation tool to install windows 10, and it told me my graphics devixe was not compatible with windows 10. My device is Nvidia Geforce 7050, which is EOL, so it makes sense hat it wouldn't work right. Would installig windows 10 still work? I don't play any games on that computer anyway, so all I want for the graphics is that I can use the comouter normally. Is there any way I could do that without buying a new graphics card, or would the graphics not work correctly? Thanks in advance!

Boggin:
If Windows finds an incompatible device then the upgrade won't succeed, which is why it's giving that error message.

However, you could try installing this driver prior to upgrading although I don't know if it is backward compatible with your current Windows version.

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/84889/en

If you need to roll the driver back and you had problems with it in your current version, then you would need to boot up into Safe Mode - but in any event before you change your current set up, create an external system image first.

Tacotardis42:
So is the software the main problem? If so, I think I may be able to get it through the installation and update the driver from windows 10. But do you know if it is just the driver software, which is a relatively easy fix I've heard, or could it be the hardware? And I checked, and the graphics card meets the minimum requirements of directx 9 (it's 11) and WDDM 1.0 (it's that exactly). So it looks promising that it is only the software.

Tacotardis42:
Personally, I'd rather go through he installation and reapir the driver later if it's an option, than to try to install the driver for a different version of windows and hope for the best. Should I try to go through with the installation? It looks like it'd let me.

Boggin:
If it allows the install, then try that route.

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