CUDA support dropped for 500-series and older cards, in newer drivers?

[VirtualLarry]

Can someone substantiate this? Did I miss the memo?

One of our members is making that claim, in Computer Help forum, and I don't believe I've ever heard any official announcement of such, that CUDA has been discontinued for older NV cards of Fermi and older.

Edit: Ok, our AT member is incorrect, they did not remove CUDA. They removed an API for CUDA video encoding, and are replacing it with their hardware encoding API instead.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=4895485#post4895485

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=391269

 

[i7Baby]

Maybe that's why PowerDirector doesn't support Hardware Acceleration with old nVidia drivers - http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-ultra/spec_en_AU.html?&r=1

"For users of NVIDIA cards who have updated to graphics driver 340.43 or later, the video hardware acceleration feature in PowerDirector is no longer available. To re-enable hardware acceleration, please download and install an earlier driver."