Star Wars Battlefront Driver Error

Howdy!

That completely sucks that it's still giving you such headaches.  I guess what I need to know are specifics.  What I mean is -- does the game not load, does it explode in the middle of playing either crashing Origin or blue-screening the PC? 

I ask because it was doing the whole "blue-screening in the middle of the first two games I entered into" thing and I was about ready to just set the whole thing on fire and demand a refund.  I made a couple of tweaks to the NVIDIA driver on a whim and it fixed the problem, completely.  Now, the only thing that's disappointing about the game is how bad I am. 🙂

It looks like the NVIDIA driver is going to be a chump and make me type rather than copy and paste the settings.  However, the only settings that I changed were

Triple-buffering = off

Vertical sync = Use the 3D application setting

your mileage may vary, here, but I also tweaked, and these worked the best with my current rig:

Texture filtering - Anisotropic texture optimization = off

...

Texture filtering - Quality = quality

Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization = on

I've also seen reference to changing:

Ambient occlusion = off

Anisotropic-filtering = application-controlled

Antialiasing - FXAA = off

...

Antialiasing mode = application-controlled

Antialiasing setting = application-controlled

Antialiasing transparency = off

I would have to dig into my settings for the game to know exactly what I did there.  I do know that I have the

VSync enabled

Anisotropic Filtering set to zero

If the game is crashing out *before* gameplay, then I'm not sure how much help I'd be.  I also monkeyed around with the quality settings, but, again, it depends how far you're getting in the game prior to it going down in flames.  I hope this helps.  I understand the frustration -- my son's rig worked perfectly, while mine would explode...and we have roughly the same system setup (same video cards, different motherboards).

Peace,

Phil

A laptop with an nVIDIA Optimus is hardly a "gaming PC" by definition.  Even a desktop with only a GTX n50 GPU doesn't meet that definition, even with about 20% better performance. 

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-660-vs-GeForce-GT-650M

Man, I don't know if the coffee just hadn't kicked in or what, but I totally missed the *M* at the end of the card.  Yeah, I've not heard of many, outside of a couple friends' high-end laptops being able to handle the game, and one was because he did this:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984716/laptop-computers/how-to-transform-your-laptop-into-a-gaming-powerhouse-with-an-external-graphics-card.html

The downside is that it's just that much more money being piled towards playing the game.

@Toastomatica 

Ever since nVIDIA stopped providing a proper front end with the Geforce Optimus design, those abortions have been failing in all of EA's games. 

IMO, it's nVIDIA's fault.  You chose a far too weak upgrade, instead of one that meets the requirements, so that if / when it actually goes to work, it will be unsatisfactory.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/555317/where-is-the-quot-use-high-performance-gpu-quot-option-/

Glad you got it sorted!  Have fun and perhaps see you, in game!

(and, yeah, NVidia's handling of drivers is very...dodgy, sometimes.)