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TearlessWall597
8 years ago

Can I use older Nvidia Drivers / Bypass BF V's minimum driver requirement?

I have a 960M, a typically older GPU that meets minimum spec. On low, I can run BF V at 50-60 FPS, but that's only with the old drivers. The new drivers do me really badly, and put me on 15 FPS on ot...
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Carbonic
Hero+
8 years ago

I have not tried this personally but it's a known workaround for Frostbite Nvidia driver checks.

  • Go to: C:\windows\system32\
  • Find nvapi64.dll and rename it to something like backupnvapi64.dll.

That should disable the check as far as I'm aware but it's a bit of a workaround.

I would rather focus on why the new drivers are not working for you.

I would try a complete uninstall of Nvidia drivers and software, then use DDU in safe mode to clean the rest, lastly download and install the latest drivers and try again.

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Athan971's avatar
Athan971
7 years ago

I tried but it says i need a system autorisation to rename the file,can you help?

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