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# "Bumped minimum driver version of NVIDIA and AMD required drivers"

M1A1
✭0 posts
June 14, 2016 10:54PM edited June 2016
June 14th Patch
Why? Aside from the problem that people with older cards that no longer have driver support can use the game any more (and probably can't refund it either), I'm having a problem with the latest Nvidia driver and SLI/G-Sync, so I rolled back to the previous driver (368.22).
Why the **** was this needed? It ran absolutely fine on my GTX980 on 368.22, and had no difference in performance compared to 368.39. Sure, 368.39 has an updated SLI profile, but that SLI profile doesn't actually work since it only uses half of each card, and in fact harms performance.
So now I have to once again """"upgrade"""" to 368.39, and have to mess around with this damned SLI problem. I mean, you aren't going to refund Mirror's Edge, are you? So, thanks for a completely unnecessary change in this update that you had absolutely no reason to include.
Ok, so there might be a workaround, but as for unforeseen consequences - I don't know.
Go to where Mirror's Edge Catalyst is installed, go to the Patch folder and move the initfs_Win32 file to another folder (as a backup). The game should now load as normal.
I tried editing the file to change the required driver number, but the game didn't load after that, so getting rid of the file out of the Patch folder is the only way to do it.

## Comments

- Dalannar
  3 posts ✭
  June 14, 2016 11:40PM
  You are a lifesaver, thank you very much for your tip. I have managed to get the game to run again, and just as I expected no problems by not having the latest drivers (at least so far). I'm still waiting to see if there are any unexpected problems that might arise from this, if I come across anything I will leave a comment.
- AlSo
  1 posts ✭
  June 15, 2016 12:08AM edited June 2016
  Yeah, this is nonsense. I have a Radeon R9 200, latest drivers and all. Game ran just fine yesterday and now I've been locked out because of some arbitrary and completely unnecessary requirement. Thanks for the tip though, I'll try moving that file.
  Edit: this just in, I managed to somehow fix it by uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling. Where the logic in that is, I have no idea. Thanks EA.
- OdanUrr
  34 posts ✭
  June 15, 2016 2:01AM
  If you want to know why:

  > Because the new drivers contain critical fixes for the game. You have to understand that games and drivers are very closely tied together. Graphics for AAA games of this type are on the edge - each one is fairly unique and do things that no one has quite done that way before. This means old driver versions can crash because of the game, or the game can crash because of old drivers.
  > If we didn't up the required driver version, people wouldn't upgrade their drivers properly, and then there would be all kinds of complaints about how terrible the game is.

  Source
- KSA
  6 posts ✭
  June 16, 2016 8:11AM
  Still, you shouldn't force new drivers...
  Users should be recommended to, not forced to, ever.
  Specially when we have NVidia and their broken drivers ****...
- Eeveel25
  3 posts ✭
  June 17, 2016 5:08PM
  "Go to where Mirror's Edge Catalyst is installed, go to the Patch folder and move the initfs_Win32 file to another folder (as a backup). The game should now load as normal. "
  I've tried this and the first time the game loaded just fine. The second time I tried to play the game didn't start, it just kept loading and loading and nothing happened.
- Eeveel25
  3 posts ✭
  June 20, 2016 6:08PM
  Oh well EA finally came up with a solution. By following these instructions the game runs well again.
  For people still having problems please check it out.
  https://help.ea.com/en/article/troubleshoot-mirrors-edge-catalyst-issues/
- Sketchy
  1 posts ✭
  June 23, 2016 5:49PM

  > OdanUrr wrote: »
  > If you want to know why:

  > > Because the new drivers contain critical fixes for the game. You have to understand that games and drivers are very closely tied together. Graphics for AAA games of this type are on the edge - each one is fairly unique and do things that no one has quite done that way before. This means old driver versions can crash because of the game, or the game can crash because of old drivers.
  > > If we didn't up the required driver version, people wouldn't upgrade their drivers properly, and then there would be all kinds of complaints about how terrible the game is.

  > Source

  So i get

  > KSA wrote: »
  > Still, you shouldn't force new drivers...
  > Users should be recommended to, not forced to, ever.
  > Specially when we have NVidia and their broken drivers ****...

  Exactly! Give a warning that there may be issues, but this is a PC game, there are going to be setups that keep being just fine and others that don't with almost any update.

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