This would be no problem at all if everyone who currently has a Gtx860m driver could actually play the game with the newer drivers that the game now requires. EA, is there any way to allow for the use of the 355.98 driver for Star Wars battlefront? The beta was playable with this driver.I'm not sure if I need to refund because Nvidia has done nothing about this in the past month.-----------------------------------------------------------------EA. You are excluding a huge crowd of people with an gtx860m by requiring the updated drivers that simply crash when someone goes to play any game on their computer. It's interesting to see your game failing your PC crowd because you literally do not allow them to play your game. Many owners of this card played the beta happily because none of the newer driver requirements were implemented. Now, no one who played the beta with a gtx860m can actually play your game. http://swbstats.com/ - check out this link for how disproportionate your PC population is. Perhaps your PC population would rise if you allowed a huge population of gamers with computers like the Lenovo Y50-70 to actually play your game just like they played the beta.

860mfixed said:ATTENTION ALL 860M USERS WHO WANT TO PLAY BATTLEFRONT THERE IS A FIXSimply download a 355 driverI am running the old drivers (355.98 from 2015.9.22) on my Lenovo 50-70 with the GTX860m, and they work if one do this in C:\Windows\System32:Rename the file "nvapi64.dll" to something like "0nvapi64.dll". This will bypass this problem.---------------------Straight from the Geforce fourms. Many causes of this working are popping up. I personally am going to wait a couple of days in case anyone comes up with any information about any adversive impacts from doing the above.USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

I did a little digging around on my PC and I think you can find your driver information here in this location: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Installer2\DriversI'm not sure what to edit at that point. I got this information from a super old forum here: http://superuser.com/questions/64900/how-can-i-find-remotely-the-nvidia-graphics-drivers-version-on-windows-xp-client (and then took some modern liberties with it, since we aren't on XP)A more recent forum has a pretty good walk-through here, which sources a different location in the registry: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/display-driver-stopped-responding-and-has/30570f98-7fe9-4b72-9d0b-e929ee8173c6?auth=1

"Quick update. We were able to reproduce the issue and trying to find a root cause."From a customer Service Rep not too long ago.https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/894437/geforce-drivers/please-fix-drivers-for-860m-/9/

I have SLI GTX 780 Nvidia cards in a multi-monitor setup. Driver version is 358.91. I get massive flickering issues.

EA. You are excluding a huge crowd of people with an gtx860m by requiring the updated drivers that simply crash when someone goes to play any game on their computer. It's interesting to see your game failing your PC crowd because you literally do not allow them to play your game. Many owners of this card played the beta happily because none of the newer driver requirements were implemented. Now, no one who played the beta with a gtx860m can actually play your game. http://swbstats.com/ - check out this link for how disproportionate your PC population is. Perhaps your PC population would rise if you allowed a huge population of gamers with computers like the Lenovo Y50-70 to actually play your game just like they played the beta.

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Anonymous
10 years ago
Me too!
Anonymous
10 years ago
"And if anyone has the same problem I simply changed a value in regedit to fake having a higher driver version - It's only used for checking which version you have, doesn't influence the performance in any way.

For my ATI card it was under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class and then I searched for Catalyst_Version and changed the value from 13.9 to 15.7 and then it ran the game. That should be enough info for someone to google a solution for their own card."

Does this mean anything to anyone? Can we bypass the driver block?
Anonymous
10 years ago
I did a little digging around on my PC and I think you can find your driver information here in this location: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Installer2\Drivers

I'm not sure what to edit at that point. I got this information from a super old forum here: http://superuser.com/questions/64900/how-can-i-find-remotely-the-nvidia-graphics-drivers-version-on-windows-xp-client (and then took some modern liberties with it, since we aren't on XP)

A more recent forum has a pretty good walk-through here, which sources a different location in the registry: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/display-driver-stopped-responding-and-has/30570f98-7fe9-4b72-9d0b-e929ee8173c6?auth=1
Anonymous
10 years ago
This occurs from sloppy handling, both locally and at the source level. It easily avoided by using the CLEAN install procedures. For those players reluctant to prowl inside the Registry (can be catastrophic if you screw up), you have to totally uninstall the current drivers, then use CCleaner or similar software to do the Registry cleanup, after which, the reinstalled drivers will be fine!
LightS33k3r
10 years ago
in most cases you would be right, but that last 3 nvidia drivers for the 860m just plain do not work.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Thank you for the step closer to a possible solution!
Anonymous
10 years ago
"Quick update. We were able to reproduce the issue and trying to find a root cause."
From a customer Service Rep not too long ago.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/894437/geforce-drivers/please-fix-drivers-for-860m-/9/
Anonymous
10 years ago
Promising news. Keep the community up to date, right?
xenris
10 years ago
I have SLI GTX 780 Nvidia cards in a multi-monitor setup. Driver version is 358.91. I get massive flickering issues.
Anonymous
10 years ago
I'm experiencing the exact same issue as Xenris11!
I'm experiencing terrible flickering in Battlefront all the way from the main menus into the game, it's completely unplayable. Windowed/Borderless window work fine, as well as playing on a single monitor with SLI disabled. I can do surround in borderless windowed mode, so this is definitely an SLI issue.

I'm playing on a 7680x1440 NVIDIA Surround setup, the flicker occurs in both Surround and Single Screen SLI.

I am running SLI 680 4GB cards on Windows 7 64-bit.

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