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.
@Straatford87 please tell the devs of your games to stop checking for driver versions on startup! It's bad practice!
There have been so many problems with your games because of this driver version check before, not only for Hardware that doesn't have newer drivers available, but also when the video card manufacturer decided to change the driver versioning scheme, for example (it happened to both Nvidia and AMD drivers before over the years, I wouldn't be surprised if that happened again some time). Sometimes if people have multiple different GPUs in their system (Optimus laptops, for example, desktops that have multiple different card models - like an integrated GPU and a dedicated one, for example, people with older cards dedicated as PhysX cards, and more), the games will also refuse to launch because of the lowest common denominator.
Just let users play the game with any driver version instead (maybe give a warning that there may be issues when not on the latest driver, but let them launch and play "at their own risk" nonetheless), or at least add a flag to all such games such as -nodrivercheck to be able to bypass it if needed.
This 1000 times. At least add a launch flag to prevent the check
