Did you really need to force us into a Nvidia driver update?

Exactly! And I know, that driver 512.95 is working just fine. Playing as we speak.

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@AOD_CapStar362 wrote:

@EA_Leeuwi literally downgraded my NVidia driver even further - i pushed it back to the October 2022 release, and the game works just fine. I have no idea what the OP is even talking about, the game DOES NOT FORCE you to update the drivers.

I'm going to keep pushing it back further and further until the game or EA app says - nope, wont work.

DM Me if you would like to see a screenshot of the October Driver release and the game running.

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@AOD_CapStar362, thanks for this. I also never got this message. Sadly I have no idea what caused the message to pop-up for OP.

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@EA_Leeuw wrote:
@Itzan, I am sorry, but I am really not sure what the issue is here. You don't think it is okay that the game is requesting you to update your drivers, if you have outdated drivers?

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@EA_LeeuwNo, it's not OK. No game does that! And 512.95 is working fine, there's nothing wrong with them, just because they are from May 2022. And it's not 'requesting', it's forcing me to do so. When I don't comply, I can't play at all. Because of issues a lot of my games have with newer drivers on my 3080, I won't updgrade, unless I will get issues with a lot of my other games I play actively.

@EA_Leeuwfurther diving into it, it actually does, but its not forcing the LATEST driver, its forcing 528.02 at the minimum, but i know now why.

there are 3 major manifest/library compiled language changes from 527.56 to 528.02

Battlefield just happens to rely on those Manifest/Library changes. all these older games @KiRiASU is speaking of, do not.

So KiRiASU and @MackTKau im sorry, but there is no way around this. You can either find a suitable second best driver for Destiny2 and your 3080, or you can pick and choose which games to stop playing.

The factual stand point is, BF is relying on these newer Driver manifest libraries - it CANNOT reliably work with the older ones. And it would cause an even BIGGER crap storm of support requests for EA And DICE to handle so the simple choice is - Mandate a Minimum Driver Revision. and Contrary to your statement "No Other game does this"

I can actually name NUMEROUS titles that ABSOLUTELY mandate this. Especially back in the 20 Series GPU releases when RTX Came about, as driver packages prior to RTX did not even support RTX, and cause massive amounts of problems with game titles from then and on going.

So yes, this IS a thing within the gaming industry that Mandatory Minimum Revision numbers are required.


@KiRiASU- now hold on - now you say you are playing BF with 512.95? So now you are lying about the fact BF Stopped you from playing unless you updated, but now you say you are playing?

Now I am going to call * to ALL of your claims.

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@AOD_CapStar362 wrote:
@KiRiASUso you have been lying this entire time - if you are currently playing BF2042 with 512.95 you have made up all these claims that it stops you.

so again, im gonna call BS to all of your claims now.

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@AOD_CapStar362You really don't seem to understand. I didn't say I'm playing BF 2042 on driver 512.95 because the game suddenly lets me play with this version. I said, someone found a workaround for BF 5. And this workaround is working with BF 2042, too. Because EA did the same thing with BF 5 back then... And I knew EA/Dice won't help anyone here, so I needed to find a solution by myself. To make my 90 € purchase working again, you know. Business as usual with these devs nowadays, I'm afraid.