From NVIDIA: On checking I found that the game requires an updated driver version and the last driver for your card is version 425.31.
Hence you do not meet the requirement to play the game.
The video card you are using was built on a architecture that does not allow the drivers to be updated further than version 425.31.
Thank you for your understanding.
So it sounds like we are SOL unless EA patches the game to allow the older cards to work, and I doubt they will.
If it wasn't for the anticheat I would just hexedit the driver check to an earlier number and see if it runs.
I wonder what kind of legal issue this lie/error could cause for ea. Publishing min specs that are not valid causing plenty of people to waste time and money. Maybe even to push hardware sales for their corporate interest. How many people are debating a console purchase now.
Any chance that someone from EA will actually respond to this thread? Especially since, it's clearly on them for misrepresentation of the spec requirements for their own product. I don't expect new drivers to be released as support ended over a year ago for these particular GPUs, so that places the onus on EA to fix the issue and make things right. As I've said before, I have virtually no faith that this will actually happen though.
@LVL99-Earwax exactly, I understand that there is always the possibility of having driver compatibility issues but to outright check the driver version is definitely new. And as I said before, the fact that EA has not replied or mentioned anything tells me that they know they're wrong and it's completely on them
AMD is having the same issues. I'm using an Radeon RX 580 8G which is supposed to work, getting the same error to update the driver. Very frustrating.
@Carbonic I have the proper 20.9.2 driver from AMD. I have uninstalled drivers in safe mode and reinstalled drivers for my RX 580. Still getting the same error. Last i checked RX 580 is plenty to run this game. Also, looks like EA threw all the posts together into one so it's all a jumbled mess.
TRY THIS SIMPLE TIP TO SOLVE THIS SMALL ISSUE! Just rename a simple file on C:! Please, read carefully.
Hello!
I'm also experiencing this "BIG" issue and I'm just using Nvidia Geforce 880M (so, on a laptop), and driver is "Meant to be played" with Windows and "Game Ready"... and it is, actually.
So, I read a very simple solution on another very famous gaming platform. You can try it out until they fix the problem, but at your own risk if you're not advanced or expert user. If so, proceed VERY carefully.
To play this game, you probably just need to rename a .dll file located in C:/Windows/System32/nvapi64.dll... (rename this nvapi64.dll file into anything else, like "papa"). This is actually an Nvidia library file that you just "shadowed" that way to the rest of the Nvidia processes running... Then close all the windows. Enjoy your new game.
Note: Once the game is launched, cinematics will be running already, like always, and you'll probably have like FPS issues. So you may need to set video options to "full screen" mode (or lower), as soon as possible, if you want cinematics to run almost perfectly afterwards.
Which means this game probably runs with minimum requirements but definitely needs some more fixes to fulfill all promises.
PS: Don't forget to rename that file with initial name (nvapi64) when you play another game! Have fun!
PS2: This solution can of course lead the whole Nvidia system to possibly be unstable at some (late) point of the game (just game crash to desktop due to Nvidia systems crash). But I played all my games without further problem.
@Tukarjabi wrote:@Carbonic I have the proper 20.9.2 driver from AMD. I have uninstalled drivers in safe mode and reinstalled drivers for my RX 580. Still getting the same error. Last i checked RX 580 is plenty to run this game. Also, looks like EA threw all the posts together into one so it's all a jumbled mess.
Did you get it to work yet.not sure if it helps but I have a igpu and had to go into device manager and uninstall it for it to run
