@EA_Atic Same issue as others. Attached are screenshots of error, driver version and hardware.
@EA_Atic, is anyone going to acknowledge this issue? At least get some sort of feedback from EA?
EA_Atic is one of the people making sure making issues are being sent to the studio to be investigated and hopefully fixed. If he does not respond that quickly on here then have no fear, that doesn't mean it's not being looked into.
For AMD users like @TDKOM19 you might want to try the 20.9.2 driver with Squadron support: https://www.amd.com/en/support/
As for @drgrover2 - your 770m card is slower than the minimum requirements for the game, a GTX660. What's worse is that unlike the GTX660 these mobile Nvidia chips no longer receive driver updates which will make them have issues with running newly released games. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-will-end-critical-updates-for-Kepler-laptops-on-April-2020.413755.0.html - I'm sorry to say but you might be out of luck. There is probably a way to fake the driver version by editing the registry but I have no guides I know work on that one.
As a possible workaround for the rest of you, the issue might be outdated driver entries in the registry or similar, to try and fix this a clean uninstall of all graphics drivers using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) a few times in safe mode followed by rebooting to normal Windows and installing the latest driver might fix the issue:
https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
@Carbonic I guess my frustration is that the game has the same requirements as Battlefront 2, and I can run that fine. Not at the highest settings, but it runs well enough to play. They didn't even give us the chance to try it here. Appreciate the feedback though. I may just refund through steam and wait a year or two when I upgrade to a desktop. Darn Covid put a hold on my upgrading haha.
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@Carbonic I guess my frustration is that the game has the same requirements as Battlefront 2, and I can run that fine. Not at the highest settings, but it runs well enough to play. They didn't even give us the chance to try it here. Appreciate the feedback though. I may just refund through steam and wait a year or two when I upgrade to a desktop. Darn Covid put a hold on my upgrading haha.
The difference is that when Battlefront 2 was released your graphics card was still receiving driver updates.
How can we know that a GTX770M is actually lower than a GTX660? There's abviously a big * somewhere... almost scandalous.
No more support from Nvidia after 5 years? Another scandale. They probably think that laptops are made to be quickly replaced which is an ecological non-sense.
More & more people are buying more powerful gaming laptops that are quite expensive. We just stepped right into a new gaming laptops era! And see this poor consideration pionneers and first buyers get, like always. Old buyers soon need to be replaced, like everything...
So when you buy a computer, you believe you buy something more powerful than a lower desktop version, but you're actually buying something that just fakes to be and already plays with numbers from inside its pack... lol Scandalous!
They published GTX660 as minimum requirements, and my teenaged son (if I had) should detect that my GTX880M laptop won't actually be powerful enough before pressing the "Buy" button??? Are you kidding me?
People are logical. Industry is not.
I'm sure that you can feel, deep in your heart & mind, that there's a dynamic here that is absolutely not good for anyone.
WORKAROUND/SOLUTION HERE (for advanced or expert PC users, workaround made with Nvidia). Please, READ ALL THE STEPS before proceeding.
1 - Search the Nvidia library file on C:/Windows/System32/nvapi64.dll.
2 - Rename this 'nvapi64.dll' file into anything else at your convenience. And keep this new name in mind.
3 - Launch your game, set it in full screen mode asap, & play !
4 - When you quit this game, remember to rename the Nvidia library file back into its initial name (nvapi64), or some system might stay unstable for too long.
5 - Please, for the good of other players in your situation, don't forget to mark this post as a solution to your problem, if it worked for you. Just click on the 'XP' button below! 😉
Have fun!
Note : AMD users should probably find the matching AMD library file in their OS, and follow same steps.
DICE TeamHey everyone,
We've investigated your reports. In most cases, based on examples provided to us here, the cards listed by you are indeed below the minimum requirements. Specifically for mobile GPU's, they may not be as powerful as their desktop versions. For now, that means those cards will not be able to play Star Wars: Squadrons.
However, we've seen some cases where you've stated you are playing with the listed minimum required graphics card (GTX 660, or RX580), due to no driver updates being available. If you play on a minimum listed card could you please upload a > dxdiag <? We'd like to investigate those examples further.
First off thank you for the reply. I know many of us are not happy with this, but also understand to some degree.
That being said, it is completely unacceptable and misleading to represent the minimum requirements for this game in the way it has been done. At minimum, there should have been some differentiation between desktop VS mobile between different generations of GPUs.
On the note of performance, I personally am using an older but still reliable gtx 870m. While you stated that these older mobile GPUs are not supported due to being "below minimum requirements", it is truly a sad excuse. At minimum my mobile GPU is equivalent to the lowest acceptable desktop GPU, if not slightly better. In some cases that may be the case but clearly not always. Also, why is it the I can still play brand new AAA titles, albeit not necessarily at high settings but they still perform fine nonetheless, including FS2020 which I have absolutely no problems running which takes more resources than even Squadrons does. So this reasoning seems to be completely not true. And the best part is that I've been able to use a workaround to play Squadrons, and I have yet to have any issues regarding game play minus the very occasional stutter which have even plagued users on much better hardware. Native support, however, would be nice, including not including the driver check on launch, which is a very uncommon to begin with.
Any feedback or further reasoning would be appreciated.
