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# HELP ME!! I CAN'T RUN THE GAME ANYMORE!!

Bouchra
✭1 posts
June 16, 2016 6:32PM
Hi,
I bought this game and when I dowloaded I also downloaded the drivers from amd.com.. Now when I try to run the game it gives me an error and says that I have to update my drivers. I am currently running 15.20.1062 and I need to update to 16.20.1025... I tried to download the latest drivers. the 16.6.1.. It says everytime that the download is succesfully completed. Then when I try to run te game it still says the same!!
I paid almost 60 euro's for the game. And now I even can't play it..
Has anyone a solution on how i can play the game.. Or can help me. Because I ain't that good with computers!!
I am very desperate and I wan't to cry my eyes out!!

## Comments

- ninemil
  218 posts ✭
  June 16, 2016 7:05PM
  AMD have ceased support for your graphics card. You can't download the latest drivers, because they don't provide them for your model anymore.
  AMD support forum. When you're done complaining to them, there are workarounds in the other threads here, (that may or may not continue to work as patches continue.)
- TheFezHat
  2 posts ✭
  June 17, 2016 12:31AM edited June 2016
  Edit: Installing 16.6.1 fixed it. This naming convention makes no sense.
- zeraoo98
  130 posts ✭
  June 17, 2016 12:48AM edited June 2016
  If you don't match the minimal requirements there is no reason for complaining that it does not work. I paid almost 200 euros and would not complain if i had a potato PC that throws errors left and right.
- KSA
  6 posts ✭
  June 17, 2016 5:28AM
  Easy solution (you will need at least AMD Driver version 15.12):
  Go to game's instalation folder.
  Open Patch Folder.
  Delete or Move (out of the Patch folder) the file initfs_Win32.
  Profit.
- zeraoo98
  130 posts ✭
  June 17, 2016 7:55PM
  Even easier. Don't buy AMD
- NightRunner
  21 posts ✭
  June 17, 2016 10:39PM
  Are you one of these...;?
  https://consumerist.com/2006/02/06/did-nvidia-hire-online-actors-to-promote-their-products/
  Not that you would admit it if you were...
- zeraoo98
  130 posts ✭
  June 18, 2016 3:35AM edited June 2016

  > NightRunner wrote: »
  > Are you one of these...;?
  > https://consumerist.com/2006/02/06/did-nvidia-hire-online-actors-to-promote-their-products/
  > Not that you would admit it if you were...

  I got 74 posts on this forum in many topics. Various people are thanking me for the help they got with different problems. And i also happen to dislike AMD. Of course I'm paid, I mean that's obvious, nothing to hide there.
  PS. Your article is 10 years old, I was 8 then. Couldn't you find something older?
- metalrocks
  192 posts ✭
  June 18, 2016 12:43PM

  > zeraoo98 wrote: »
  > Even easier. Don't buy AMD

  lol. i have been with AMD for over 13 years and never had any issues with them. with nvidia.... now there i had issues like clipping, glitches, flickering with nearly every game. and yes, i had the latest and correct drivers for it.
  but for the OP case, it does sound like his card is too old. better get a new one. at least AMD cards arent as expensive as nvidia.
- zeraoo98
  130 posts ✭
  June 18, 2016 1:27PM

  > metalrocks wrote: »

  > > zeraoo98 wrote: »
  > > Even easier. Don't buy AMD

  > lol. i have been with AMD for over 13 years and never had any issues with them. with nvidia.... now there i had issues like clipping, glitches, flickering with nearly every game. and yes, i had the latest and correct drivers for it.
  > but for the OP case, it does sound like his card is too old. better get a new one. at least AMD cards arent as expensive as nvidia.

  I have no idea how you manage to have purely artificial nature of bugs/glitches. Broken card is all i can say. Happens due to manufacturer like ASUS/EVGA/MSI/GYGABYTE etc, not Nvidia.
  Ops card is as old as AMD thinks it might be. Equal Nvidias cars is still supported with latest drivers. Thus cost. Even tho with latest 1080/1070 cost/performance is hardly an argument, not to mention this fact:

  > zeraoo98 wrote: »
  > ...
  > Nvidia got their current gen GTX 950 at the top of a value/performance chart. (Counting out Radeon 6000 for obvious reason) here.
  > ...

- NightRunner
  21 posts ✭
  June 18, 2016 7:27PM

  > metalrocks wrote: »

  > > zeraoo98 wrote: »
  > > Even easier. Don't buy AMD

  > lol. i have been with AMD for over 13 years and never had any issues with them. with nvidia.... now there i had issues like clipping, glitches, flickering with nearly every game. and yes, i had the latest and correct drivers for it.
  > but for the OP case, it does sound like his card is too old. better get a new one. at least AMD cards arent as expensive as nvidia.

  Agreed... I had the same experience with nVidia in the past, but AMD works fine for me...
  In any case, people will likely be able to at least get an RX 470 for ~%150 ish dollars soon, which gives performance similar to a GTX 970...
  I'm not worried that my game no longer runs properly right now. I ordered the game on Xbox One as well, and I've been waiting for the node shrink from 28nm to 14nm to upgrade... So when the RX 480 is released, I know I'm getting the 8GB version... And I'll switch from the Xbox One to the PC again.
  It's too bad though... This game doesn't need the bad publicity... The review scores were already underwhelming, and this game must sell as much as possible for us to get another one...
- ici_chacal
  6 posts ✭
  June 18, 2016 7:40PM
  I bought the game yesterday and can't start it. After opening I have white screen and the game freezes. Mu spec is i5, GTX970, 16GB Ram, SSD. I have latest nvidia drivers. What is going on ? Where I can escalate it ?
- zeraoo98
  130 posts ✭
  June 18, 2016 7:46PM

  > ici_chacal wrote: »
  > I bought the game yesterday and can't start it. After opening I have white screen and the game freezes. Mu spec is i5, GTX970, 16GB Ram, SSD. I have latest nvidia drivers. What is going on ? Where I can escalate it ?

  Tried reinstalling?
- NightRunner
  21 posts ✭
  June 18, 2016 7:58PM
  @zeraoo98 so much for the oh so great nVidia drivers... Right...?
  @ici_chacal it might be that the game defaults to the highest settings or something similar, making your GPU memory overflow, freezing the game.
  Go to;
  Documents\Mirror's Edge Catalyst\Settings
  Search for the file named "PROF_SAVE_profile"
  Right click, open with Notepad...
  Press CTRL + F to search
  Type "render"
  For any "render" that you find, if it has a "6" in front, change it to a "1".
  Example;
  If you find "6GstRender.LightingQuality", change it to "1GstRender.LightingQuality"
  Only change settings that have a single number in front.
  Do not change anything else!
  If the game starts up fine afterwards, as soon as you get the chance, change the video settings to your liking, make sure Memory restriction is enabled. Do not set anything to hyper.
- ici_chacal
  6 posts ✭
  June 18, 2016 8:50PM
  ok.. I managed to open the game lowering the system spec. but how it can be for brand new PC with latest i5, GTX970 and fast memory RAM.
  BTW. there is another issue, the game freezes for one second every 10 s, this is frustrating... any solition for this. It look like the game try to do something in the background every 10s.
- NightRunner
  21 posts ✭
  June 18, 2016 9:02PM
  Hm... I'm not sure. You'll have to check your CPU load and GPU load, see if there are any spikes in it.
- ici_chacal
  6 posts ✭
  June 18, 2016 9:20PM
  ok ... that was Origin issue... game try to upload stats every 10s but there was no connection with EA service... when I go offline in orgin it stops freezeing.
  Thanks with solving my first issue !
- NightRunner
  21 posts ✭
  June 19, 2016 12:15AM
  Glad I could help. Have fun playing the game
- metalrocks
  192 posts ✭
  June 19, 2016 12:59AM
  @zeraoo98 lol, no, the card was not even 6 months old when i got it. one game that was included with the card, was really bad with the mentioned problems. even my friends found it hilarious that an included game did not work at all with the card. so i could not claim the card is broken when some games were fine.
  other games were still ok but had some issues i never had with AMD. once i had enough of these issues, i got my self an AMD and all of my problems disappeared.
  i believe that nvida is good but if i can get nearly the same performance for half the price, i go for AMD. thats one of the reasons why i get them all the time.
  @NightRunner good to see im not the only one who had these issues. shame though you have issues with the game.
  i have a radeon r9 290x and the game runs butter smooth on max settings. but it also has 4gb ram. the new card sound sweet too. but, as long my card can support everything with max settings, i will not change.
- zeraoo98
  130 posts ✭
  June 19, 2016 4:30AM

  > NightRunner wrote: »
  > Glad I could help. Have fun playing the game

- zeraoo98
  130 posts ✭
  June 19, 2016 4:33AM

  > metalrocks wrote: »
  > @zeraoo98 lol, no, the card was not even 6 months old when i got it. one game that was included with the card, was really bad with the mentioned problems. even my friends found it hilarious that an included game did not work at all with the card. so i could not claim the card is broken when some games were fine.
  > other games were still ok but had some issues i never had with AMD. once i had enough of these issues, i got my self an AMD and all of my problems disappeared.
  > i believe that nvida is good but if i can get nearly the same performance for half the price, i go for AMD. thats one of the reasons why i get them all the time.
  > @NightRunner good to see im not the only one who had these issues. shame though you have issues with the game.
  > i have a radeon r9 290x and the game runs butter smooth on max settings. but it also has 4gb ram. the new card sound sweet too. but, as long my card can support everything with max settings, i will not change.

  You can get broken card even if you are able to use it for 6 month. My first nvidia card was sure broken as ****. I say it's the manufacturers fault tho, not the blueprint producer (not nvidia). So i went ahead and changed my gpu at the seller, and everything was fine after. Lesson learned: ASUS makes not-so-good-quality testing of their GPUs.
- metalrocks
  192 posts ✭
  June 19, 2016 7:47AM

  > zeraoo98 wrote: »
  > You can get broken card even if you are able to use it for 6 month. My first nvidia card was sure broken as ****. I say it's the manufacturers fault tho, not the blueprint producer (not nvidia). So i went ahead and changed my gpu at the seller, and everything was fine after. Lesson learned: ASUS makes not-so-good-quality testing of their GPUs.

  it wasnt broken. as i said, some games worked fine. this one included game on the other hand was terrible. and it wasnt an ASUS card. it was sephire.
  my current GPU (not nvidia) is from ASUS and no problems for over a year now.
- ZukoNara
  1 posts ✭
  June 19, 2016 5:28PM

  > KSA wrote: »
  > Easy solution (you will need at least AMD Driver version 15.12):
  > Go to game's instalation folder.
  > Open Patch Folder.
  > Delete or Move (out of the Patch folder) the file initfs_Win32.
  > Profit.

  bro I love u, it really worked, I cant belibe it's working again
- koalaexe
  4 posts ✭
  June 22, 2016 4:26PM

  > KSA wrote: »
  > Easy solution (you will need at least AMD Driver version 15.12):
  > Go to game's instalation folder.
  > Open Patch Folder.
  > Delete or Move (out of the Patch folder) the file initfs_Win32.
  > Profit.

  wow i personally contacted EA on this issue and they told me to do a whole bunch of stuff that never worked YET THIS DID! thanks dude. your a saint

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