NFS Rivals - ATI driver requirements

Similar to the previous person, my iMAC is a late 2009 version with a ATI Radeon HD 4850. Tried uploading all the Bootcamp updates, including the Version 5 ones which are not compatable with this machine just to get to the drivers section to install directly into the Windows 7 environment - did not work. None of the 'amd.com' approaches work either as the Catalyst system that AMD uses does not appear capable of overriding the existing driver, which in my case is 11.1 (it wants 13.4). Really would prefer that it did not nanny me like this, and gave me the option to open it anyway with my existing driver version number - is this possible? Other programs that came out this year work fine - eg tomb raider - so not impressed that this program via a version number won't load at all.

Go to the AMD website and download the latest beta drivers for Windows (you must install beta drivers and not the stable release - don't worry they work just fine).

AMD Mobility Catalyst 13.11 Beta9.5 for Windows for mobility drivers and 

AMD Catalyst™ 13.11 Beta9.5 for Windows® for regular drivers

Run th exe file and follow the onscreen instructions to complete installation.

The game will then launch. But this will not solve all the problems already reported with the game (no wheel support, poor FPS performance, dropped frames, extreme lag during online game play, etc...)

My recommendation is return the game for a refund, EA has missed the ball big time on this game.

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Thanks for your comments jjrcng. However, this is something already tried and it did not work. After all the bootcamp ones didn't work - tried all the versions of catalyst including the betas mentioned, and although it claims to install correctly, and even going to devices manager and trying to install manually as well by not using the catalyst system, it comes back with "your version is up to date" or some such text. Yet the game keeps saying that I only have version 11.1 and that unless I upgrade to 13.4 or higher for the radeon drivers it will not progress to load. Thus, the computer is telling me I am current, but this 3rd party software seems to think it knows more about my computer than the operating system itself. This is the main reason I need a bypass that overrides this block telling me what is good for me and simply load itself.

The installer creates an AMD folder on your C drive. Inside that folder there should be a setup.exe file. Try running that as an Admin. I had a similar issue and had to force the install by running the driver installer outside of the Catylist software. I know it works because I had the same issue and was able to install the beta drivers and test the game before I returned it for a refund (after all the effort to get it to run it turned out the game is total garbage!)

Thanks again jjrcng, but it really doesn't work. Perhaps I have an older 27 inch imac to yourself, or a different graphics card. The computer is a 27" iMAC with 2.66 quad core i5 processor and ATI HD 4850 graphic card late 2009 model version. Even doing all the things you have stated, and using admin priviliges on the PC side for each of the setup.exe options, which is using windows 7 ultimate on the bootcamped partition, it constantly fails to instal any driver later than a 2011 one, labelled as 11.1. It will install audio drivers and a whole bunch of paraphenelia, but the section on display driver always comes up as "failed" after trying to install it using catalyst (or manually for that matter). I even purposely re-installed an older driver and made it look again for the latest version, but it still would not go beyond the 11.1 version when scanning for the most modern driver over the internet and the hard drive. I think ii'll have to treat this one as a day of my life lost in fruitlessly attempting to update drivers that this computer refuses to accept.

I would like to see an answer to this from AE also. The game is forcing you to load graphics drivers that are old as it seems AMD driver releases go backwards so the newest drivers (3.12) released 12/18/13 will not work with this game since its looking for (3.14). The ATI software doesn't allow you to roll back drivers easily either so If you have updated your drivers can't run the game at all.

EA please respond as people would like to play but can't without your support.

Much appreciated.

I you want an official repose from EA you'll have to contact a game advisor directly. Unfortunately EA does not monitor or respond directly to this forum as it is for community based solutions.

Get a hold of them here,

https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/contact?product=Need%20for%20Speed%20Rivals&category=Download/Installation%20Issues&platform=PC&question=video%20drivers

But I think they will just tell you to contact AMD as EA neither produces nor supports video cards.

I understand but they are the ones that put the limitation msgbox in the game I would assume.

Thanks for the info.

Ended up uninstalling the display driver - which is a rather drastic action as it let to a black screen on the computer, which required a maual reboot in safemode - at which time the computer seemed to self load the 10.4 driver version. Oddly, the 13.9 mobility driver could install over the 10.4 driver version - but not the 11.1 driver version that was there before, and . Thus, I no longer get the driver out of date message. Instead I now get the direct X error - so still cannot play the game.