How to install a driver that asks for an older version of Windows?

Question

Windows

There is a wonderful laptop manufactured in 2009, with an equally wonderful Nvidia NVS Quadro 160m video card. The nvidia website has drivers for windows versions up to 10. The whole problem is that this driver, so kindly suggested by nvidia for performance, is not ice, I often catch friezes, overheating. On the site of DELL themselves there is a version of the driver 17X.XX, specially signed for this laptop, but only for Vista and 7 supplied with the laptop. the unpacker checks the OS version. QUESTION:
Is there any way to install the "evil" driver, and if not, is there any alternative?
PS: I installed Linux, I play around periodically, there is hellish tearing everywhere, except for huge and voracious DE. Accordingly, there is no video memory at all, so I'm sitting on Windows.

Answer 1

It's possible, but it doesn't make sense. In 99% of cases, the manufacturer's website has the same driver, but not yet fresh. Less commonly, a driver comes with some kind of superduper utility for overclocking or vice versa deforcing, but ... it is usually crooked and oblique and works for top models. Why did you decide that the old driver would be better?
And so - set winrar or 7zip on the archive (they even often open exe's), pull out the driver and put it manually through the manager. Swearing about incompatibility ignore. In rare cases, the system becomes a corpse, but "Last Known Good Configuration" will help (or whatever in 10).
PS
Don't bullshit. It would be much better to change the thermoplastic, for 7 years there was a bit of fluff left from it. Hence the overheating.

Answer 2

You can install and use the driver using the Windows Compatibility Mode feature, see the instructions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akY4vUjAC6I