Re: Battlefield V Driver Issue

@JadzyInPlay, You did not properly read his issue.

He said his desktop with RX580 works fine. His issues are with the notebook with Quadro graphics. I'm now having the same issue with the recent update for BFV; the game now requires driver 416.94, but nvidia's latest release for quadro is 416.78.

@Regular_Ragnor, Wow, you're right about that. I'm sorry  I did not fully understand the difference between Quadro graphics. I couldn't quite understand the difference at the time, but I realized the result of some research. Thanks! 

I have the same issue- I was playing fine all last week on BFV.

just did mandatory update and now it keeps insisting  that I update   GeForce 416.94

Ge force experience says my driver is up to date, this is BS

I have the same issue running Quadro Notebook 416.78 is the latest available from Nvidia.

There must be a way of launching the game without this check?!?

Hi all,

There is a workaround: 

In c:\windows\system32 there is a file named "nvapi64.dll".

Rename the file into something else (add 1 character for example), launch bfv, tab out and name the file back to what it originally was.

If the name changed, battlefield will launch, but framerates will be 1/10th of what they should be. Restoring the file name while the game runs fixes that.

It's cumbersome and unacceptable, but it's a way for you all to play until it is fixed.

Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work.

After changing the name of the DLL I get a message that my video card doesn´t support DirectX 11 and the game doesn't launch. I have a Quadro M1200 video card.

I found a similar solution that temporarily fixes the problem:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BattlefieldV/comments/9zl4ly/battlefield_v_workaround_for_please_update_your/

I had to create and call BFVRUN.BAT that only includes the path to the BFV.EXE and change the following (in red) to make it work on my system (some issue with scheduled tasks):

@echo off
chdir /d C:\Windows\System32
ren nvapi64.dll nvapi64.Old
echo Renamed nvapi64.dll to nvapi64.old

😕chtasks /create /tn "RunBattlefieldAsNormaluser" /tr "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield V\bfv.exe" /sc ONCE /st 00:00 /sd 01/01/1900 /it /f > nul 2>nul
😕chtasks /run /tn "RunBattlefieldAsNormaluser" > nul
😕chtasks /delete /tn "RunBattlefieldAsNormaluser" /f > nul
:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield V\bfv.exe"
call c:\bfvrun.bat
echo Launched bfv.exe

echo Waiting for bfv.exe to load d3d12.dll (after nvapi64.dll)
:loop
timeout 1 > nul
echo | set /p dummyVar=.
tasklist /fi "imagename eq bfv.exe" /fo list /m | findstr d3d12.dll
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto loop

:Old
chdir /d C:\Windows\System32
ren nvapi64.Old nvapi64.dll
echo Renamed nvapi64.old to nvapi64.dll
timeout 1 > nul

(Do you have a 2080? I tl;dr through the comments... DX12 is best OFF for 2080 cards atm - it is a known on-going problem)

If you have windows conflicts (scheduled tasks?)  a Windows reset would be recommended - then a clean install of the Nvidia driver.

I get that the batch file is a halfway fix - but it is like having a surgeon put a plaster on a paper cut!?

Technically the reddit OP is very clever but overkill.

Let me know your thoughts - Best of Luck!

Doing a Windows reset becuse EA changes some basic pre-check is not acceptable qnd honestly this should just be fixed.

I am running DX11 on a Quadro M1200.