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

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@Itzan wrote:
@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or a driver for a game I'm playing and I've never had a game arbitrarily refuse to start because of my driver being out of date.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.

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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.

@Adamonic Considering people have been asking for a server browser from day one and considering it took them 4 months to add a scoreboard to the game I've given up on them actually adding a server browser at this point.

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@Itzan wrote:

Requesting to update is one thing, but outright refusing to start is another. It's understandable that using older drivers would lead to degraded performance if the new driver brings something new to the driver profile for the game. But considering i was on 522.30 and the game asked me to upgrade to 525.XX which was released a week later and brought no changes to the driver outside a few game profiles then yeah, I feel that's a bit annoying.

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This is quite normal for games & other certain software, that they won't launch if you have outdated drivers or your driver is corrupted.

It doesn't seem to be an issue for many, since this is the only thread so far. But we will monitor it.

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@Itzan wrote:

@Adamonic Considering people have been asking for a server browser from day one and considering it took them 4 months to add a scoreboard to the game I've given up on them actually adding a server browser at this point.

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Well, they are done adding Specialists, there is only one more new map coming, so if the same dev team continues to work on the game thru S5, there is a chance that something like that gets added to the dev queue.

Up to this point, there was no time to add something like that because of the seasonal deployment work and patches. Once that slows down there just might be a chance at seeing one added because right now it is the worst gaming experience ever, which is hard to fathom. I have wasted 20+ minutes (almost daily) joining and quitting the MM queue either because I am waiting for players in Assassin Squad or because the map loading was Hourglass. That is just ridiculous that we have to go thru that process in 2023. My ALT+F4 keys are the most used keys on my keyboard.

@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).

Just update and play? Whats the problem?

@MackTKauand exactly how old was your previous driver that BF2042 could not work properly?

I didn't have to update - and im on the 02/08/23 528.49 driver.

my friend is still using the 12/08/22 - 527.56 Release and 2042 launches just fine.

So either your driver was that far outdated, it needed an update or you are making a mountain out of a ant hill.

I don't use the very latest drivers because they are never best for previous generation cards (3080). 

By the way, in 28 years of gaming on Windows machines I can count only 1 game that refused to start due to older drivers...so no, this is NOT normal, typical or usual in any way to force a driver update for cards and drivers that are already reasonably updated.

If the game does not start I will be deleting the game, and I will NOT be back. I have simulation software of priority that runs best on certain drivers which makes changing drivers right now an option I cannot even consider for just a game like this.

***Update: sure enough, Steam updated game and it refuses to start because some f*ked up millennial thinks he has the right to force me to use a driver that will hurt my performance with more important software on my system...so now Dice is actually stopping me from playing the game by doing this.

It was bad enough to have to suffer through all year with this title and all the mistakes that were made and having to wait endlessly just to end up with THIS now. WAY too much to ask, seriously...another decades long fan you've utterly and completely lost in your seemingly never-ending ability to make THE most stupid decisions in gaming history.

Forcing a patch that refuses to run on 527.32 drivers, lol...buh bye...this franchise and it's management has turned just too stupid for me at this point.