Dear Experts.
I am contributing to the research network BOINC which offers background tasks for scientific computations using the
installed Graphic Processing Unit GeForce GTX 1050 for Einstein@home and Milkyway@home..
They propose me to install the newest GeoForce Driver for their software to re-establish use of the GPU.
My driver version is 23.21.13.9135 released on 23.03.2018.
Microsoft Windows 7 tells me that is the newest driver available.
Do you have know how to download a newer one for Windows 7 ?
Is it still possible to use the old version to contribute to BOINC ?
Thanks for help
yS
Dr.Joachim Elz-Fianda

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Intel 4-proc-CPU, Windows 7 Pro

Never download drivers via Windows Update, always get them from the maker of the hardware, in your case Nvidia.

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/159085/en-us

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I'm always nervous when I hear vague terms like 'they' have advised 'the latest' driver. Without knowing the level of technical knowledge 'they' have, and the reason they are suggesting 'the latest' driver, I usually prefer to suggest a driver by version number, and to pick one which is known to be good.

Jord has linked Version: 445.75, Release Date: 2020.3.23 - this driver is known to have caused problems at SETI, and NVidia have admitted that they 'forgot' to include a previous bug fix in this release.

For the moment, I'm preferring Version: 442.74, Release Date: 2020.3.19 unless the adviser specifically mentions the 445 driver range.

https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/158753/en-us (or your local German NVidia site)

I would never get the latest driver.
Occasionally latest drivers get pulled, or replaced a few days later, due to bugs.
Nvidia is in the custom of releasing a new driver every month.
Newer drivers usually make little to no difference, as most of these newer drivers have game optimizations, and new code that will support newer hardware.
Like, eg: I ran older driver software on an RTX 2070 Super. The drivers didn't recognize the card, but I could run it just fine.
With the next version (their first supported version of the Super GPUs, the name of the card appeared correctly.
Though it worked just the same on the older drivers.

The thing with drivers is, in the beginning, when a new line of GPUs requiring a new line of drivers is released, they come with bugs.
Usually a few months to a year in, most bugs are ironed out.
Especially for OpenCL. Little changes there.
Aside from hardware compatibility, they do add a lot of settings for newer games. Settings that will make your game run smoother, better.
I'd call them patches. But they don't affect folding or crunching data via OpenCL.

Another thing, Windows drivers usually have certified drivers.
When Nvidia releases their drivers that are super stable, they get certified. That process takes quite some time.
By the time Windows has certified them, 6 months have passed, and Nvidia has already way newer drivers ready!
One of the reasons I never download drivers from Windows Update.

Another thing, for some reason,I prefer downloading my RTX/GTX drivers from geforce.com/drivers, instead of straight from Nvidia.
These drivers come with less crap, are identical to the Nvidia drivers, but you won't get the full experience (meaning no 'Nvidia experience' or 'Geforce Now' or 'Geforce Experience' or something.... ).
That 'Geforce experience-thing, only shows ads for games, and has a few tweaks normal users never need. Might be my personal experience though, I mostly run Linux. Not Windows.