PVZ Garden Warfare 2 Won't Launch – AMD Driver Version 0.0 Error (RX 9070 XT)
Hello,
I'm experiencing a startup issue with Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 on my Windows 11 gaming PC.
Every time I launch the game through the EA App, I receive the following error:
"Please update your AMD Radeon driver. Detected AMD Radeon driver version 0.0. The required driver version is 13.251 or later."
After clicking OK, the game immediately closes and returns me to the EA App.
My PC specifications:
- GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC
- GPU driver: AMD Software Adrenalin 26.10.1
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D
- RAM: 32GB DDR5-6000
- Operating system: Windows 11
- Game installed through EA App / Xbox Game Pass EA Play
Troubleshooting already attempted:
- Verified AMD graphics drivers are up to date
- Confirmed the GPU and driver are correctly detected in Device Manager and DxDiag
- Repaired Garden Warfare 2 through the EA App
- Cleared the EA App cache
- Tested Windows compatibility settings
- Set the game to use the high-performance GPU
- Temporarily disabled the secondary graphics adapter, restarted, and tested the game; then re-enabled it
- Repaired EA Javelin Anticheat successfully
None of these steps resolved the issue.
Windows Reliability Monitor also recorded an earlier EA Javelin Anticheat crash involving anticheat.gameservice.exe, with exception code c0000374. I don't know whether this is related to the driver detection error.
Other games, including Battlefield 6 and WARDOGS, run normally on this PC.
Has anyone encountered this error with newer AMD Radeon GPUs, particularly the RX 9000 series? Is there a confirmed workaround or a known compatibility issue?
Thank you for any assistance.
