Nvidia Check? Really?

[EnVenta]

Game refuses to launch without 'performing' a gratuitous Nvidia driver check and reporting that the installed driver is 'out of date.' Really?

Is there a setting to bypass this invasive and insulting procedure? And, since we're on the topic, why??

[Szorrin]

There are people with very, and I mean VERY, outdated drivers, who may possibly benefit from this, I guess?

[Crimsomrider]

You can click on the cogwheel in the Launcher's bottom left and disable it.

[Ivan von Krunkle]

The latest driver has some fixes for stuttering and other performance issues in the game. Can confirm it helped in some areas. Maybe just update your GPU drivers and that "bypasses" it.

[Jolly Devil]

You don’t keep your drivers up to date?

[kitsune87]

Originally posted by Jolly Devil:

You don’t keep your drivers up to date?

on the one hand I get that someone might have a driver a couple months out of date, but I updated my drivers last week, getting that pop up again seems a bit silly.

[Mr D Grim]

Originally posted by Jolly Devil:

You don’t keep your drivers up to date?

I'd argue "if it ain't broke don't fix it" driver updates don't always mean better performance. and can make the performance of other applications actually worse. as game ready drivers are mainly focused on said games that came out during those days.
In fact in another thread over drivers here there are numerous people who actually saw a decline in performance due to the latest drivers one even who had issues with a different game due to it.. forcing them to roll back.

[EnVenta]

Different strokes for different folks.

Who knows what stable version of graphics driver anyone has settled upon after much trial and error, failure after failure, to finally arrive on a piece of a solidity upon which they rely. Only to have this overpriced game tell them they can't play unless they gobble up the latest crap from Nvidia?

[Mr D Grim]

Originally posted by kitsune87:

Originally posted by Jolly Devil:

You don’t keep your drivers up to date?

on the one hand I get that someone might have a driver a couple months out of date, but I updated my drivers last week, getting that pop up again seems a bit silly.

Turn it of in the larian launcher settings.

[Morgian]

I wonder where the insult is? The why is obvious: just look at the whiners who complain all the time in every game that the graphics are "broken"; this should remind them that they could get the current driver which will alleviate many problems.

[Justin]

"invasive and insulting procedure" literally takes 1 second on launch, you could just disable it in the launcher.

[Cirrus]

Originally posted by tigris:

Game refuses to launch without 'performing' a gratuitous Nvidia driver check and reporting that the installed driver is 'out of date.' Really?

Is there a setting to bypass this invasive and insulting procedure? And, since we're on the topic, why??

You want game to stop communicating with graphics driver?

Good luck getting games work without this ”invasive” communication….

[Mr D Grim]

Originally posted by Morgian:

I wonder where the insult is? The why is obvious: just look at the whiners who complain all the time in every game that the graphics are "broken"; this should remind them that they could get the current driver which will alleviate many problems.

Except it's not for that reason. the whole reason every developer says update your graphics drivers. is because that's the baseline THEY use for problem solving.
Which is completely understandable don't get me wrong. it would be hell to try and figure out an issue if they not only have to keep in mind plethora of hardware configurations but also different driver versions on top of that? would be impossible.

[Mr D Grim]

Originally posted by Cirrus:

Originally posted by tigris:

Game refuses to launch without 'performing' a gratuitous Nvidia driver check and reporting that the installed driver is 'out of date.' Really?

Is there a setting to bypass this invasive and insulting procedure? And, since we're on the topic, why??

You want game to stop communicating with graphics driver?

Good luck getting games work without this ”invasive” communication….

that's... not how those things work.. in the slightest....

[EnVenta]

Drivers are both software and hardware. It is literally the in-between. Software you can test 6 ways to Sunday, but hardware is a bit of a wildcard. My very expensive 4xxx only runs on a specific driver.

It's quite insulting that this game refuses to play without 'upgrading' to some unknown 3rd party version of hardware-to-software bridge that they have absolutely zero way of estimating.

[kitsune87]

Originally posted by Mr D Grim:

Originally posted by kitsune87:

on the one hand I get that someone might have a driver a couple months out of date, but I updated my drivers last week, getting that pop up again seems a bit silly.

Turn it of in the larian launcher settings.

I know I can I was just saying there's a difference between "You're running version 2 of this driver and version 3 is available" and "Hey we noticed you're running version 3.99999917 and we think you might want to try version 3.99999918" you know