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Anonymous

9 years ago

Solved

Star Wars Battlefront Driver Error

I know there are other posts concerning similar problems but I cannot find the solution. EA SWB wouldn't play on my son's PC so I just bought an HP Gaming PC, Intel I7 core, Nvidia GTX 950M graphics...

Anonymous
9 years ago
Hi Guys. It's working. To clarify, I could load the game (4 discs) but as soon as I tried to run the game I got that error saying that my driver version was bla bla bla and I needed a minimum driver version bla bla. My simple mistake was to trust Nvidia Experience to find me the latest/best driver (I#m not used to messing around with these type of things so the idea of Experience looking after things for me seemed great). By doing a manual search on the Nvidia site for Game Ready drivers it came up with a much later version (27 jan 2016) for my configuration (GTX 950M) and bingo. It's certainly not the laptop (HP Pavilion Gaming 15-AK003NF) which is now playing the game a treat. Thanks to all for your kind interest.

Anonymous

9 years ago

@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-/

Anonymous

9 years ago

Hi Guys. It's working. To clarify, I could load the game (4 discs) but as soon as I tried to run the game I got that error saying that my driver version was bla bla bla and I needed a minimum driver version bla bla. My simple mistake was to trust Nvidia Experience to find me the latest/best driver (I#m not used to messing around with these type of things so the idea of Experience looking after things for me seemed great). By doing a manual search on the Nvidia site for Game Ready drivers it came up with a much later version (27 jan 2016) for my configuration (GTX 950M) and bingo. It's certainly not the laptop (HP Pavilion Gaming 15-AK003NF) which is now playing the game a treat. Thanks to all for your kind interest.

kon16ov
9 years ago
Glad you got it sorted! Have fun and perhaps see you, in game!
(and, yeah, NVidia's handling of drivers is very...dodgy, sometimes.)