Just heard Nvidia is allegedly about to start doing GPUs from 2 gens ago again to be able to put more into the AI-side of the business. Also AMD has announced coming price increases. Memory manufacturers expect this to go on to at least 2027, likely 2028 before hope of relief is to be expected.
I guess I’ll start leaning even more heavily into games that don’t require a lot of RAM or GPU.
My partner’s system has a GTX 970 GPU and is using 470xx drivers temporarily. Installing later drivers 570xx/575xx/580xx is not possible at the moment because her system needs libxnvctrl
before buying a new hardware, you could give the recommended fix a try.
on my laptop with Psacal 1060 GPU the nvidia-driver-assistant gave the same “not supported” output, while I knew that I was on the 580xx driver and everything was working fine until the last december update.
I then learned by reading in the forum that the manjaro team has worked on a fork of the assistant to fit it into Manjaro, or to feed it with more device IDs to proper identify and suggest the correct output.
anyway, I made a timeshift snapshot, gave it try, updated nvidia-driver-assistent via pacman and then there was the suggestion for the 575xx. so if you are on the 580xx until now, chances are high that the updated driver assistant will also suggest 575xx for you.
I followed then the steps indicated in the various NVidia Posts, basically removing the old driver and associated utility files for all kernels on board (3 LTS) and forced the install of the 575xx version for all kernels.
since I used pacman -Syu during the process, this resulted in the complete 2026-1-4 update to be pulled and installed, and all dependencies where resolved.
Melissa 
NVIDIA 
I hope…
Melissa 