Did you really need to force us into a Nvidia driver update?
Come on, what could possibly require 2042 at this stage to need a driver update first?
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Haha, what? Can you cite another game refusing to even start with an error message and asking for a new driver? Especially when the game's been out for year and a half?
@ItzanBattlefield 1, Doom Eternal, Red Dead Redemption 2 to name just a couple. It's not so rare... 😉
- @Anaghya I've played all of those and I usually update my driver once or twice a year if they actually feature a performance increase or a driver for a game I'm playing and I've never had a game arbitrarily refuse to start because of my driver being out of date. Also here we're talking about a game that came out a year and a half ago, not a brand new game requiring a driver that has the game profile in it.
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@AnaghyaI've played all of those and I usually update my driver once or twice a year if they actually feature a performance increase or a driver for a game I'm playing and I've never had a game arbitrarily refuse to start because of my driver being out of date. Also here we're talking about a game that came out a year and a half ago, not a brand new game requiring a driver that has the game profile in it.The driver was out for 3 weeks so this game build more than likely used that driver and there is something in there that was not in the driver you had installed. They can't prevent the game from not launching if you are using old dependencies. Could they have put something in the patch notes, sure but the only complaint right now that EA and DICE need to see is the lack of a server browser.
@Itzan I actually remember at least two cases the game refused to start after an update with a similar message even I am keeping drivers fairly up to date. I don't remember which (but one of them was RDR2 mentioned I think).
Well, either way, just update your drivers, what's the problem? You would very likely have them updated sooner or later anyway (as you mention you make the updates once or twice a year).- @Itzan If you google/youtube the issue for your GPU there are ways to get around the driver check and start Battlefield with your current driver. I agree that a refusal to start is unnecessary if your hardware meets the requirements.
I have an 2080Ti running DX12. My problem is that any driver dated from Dec 2022 to present would crash the game when initially loading the screen where you choose your spawn. I had to work my way back from the latest drivers all the way to 528.02 trying each version. 528.x was the only version to run the game in stable.
So, that was the fix for me until forcing me to use the latest driver. So, I installed 531.18 and of course, the game crashes with DX errors, however now, I have no option since I'm force to use the latest drivers, game-over, literally.
I see a lot of comments flippantly stating what is the issue, just install latest drivers, done...That's no help, just because it works for you doesn't mean it will for other players.
That said, I believe I have solved my issue and can run the latest driver. What I did was to delete the files in the documents > Battlefield 2142 > Cache folder. What I suspect happened is that the manifest file was not updating, the time stamp was earlier than the latest cache files, so what could have been happening is that the base file or some other process was loading the latest cache files (dated today), while the manifest was referring to cache files from 2/28.
The game runs fine now, (fingers crossed for the future), but I wanted to put this out there if helpful to other players who can't run the latest drivers rather than stating non-helpful flippant responses.
