STOP with the damn forcing me to update my graphics drivers before letting me play the bloody game

[Raziel23x]

This is stupid that i cant play the game the second there is a graphics drivers update and the game will not let me play unless i install it right then and there......

There are some updates that i like to wait and see if it breaks anything on other machines that are like my own before i install as som updates break and they say to wait until a patch is released before installing and this makes you install a update even if it is a bad update that needs to be patched before any game can be play able as some patches have broken other games i have played and i had to wait until the graphic drivers came out with a patch that allowed me to be able to play the game again this is just stupid and uncalled for

[Raziel23x]

IT also tells me it crashes and i have to reset all my graphic settings and restart the game

[CoinSpin]

That is very weird. I have never had even a message about updating graphics drivers, let alone been forced to do so. That would be very annoying indeed!

Just out of curiosity... What is your operating system and GPU?

[Raziel23x]

Windows 10 and a Geforce 980 TI

[C54M2]

It must be your 980 TI

I have geforce GTX 1080 never had message telling me or forcing me to update ?

I am using GeForce Experience that updates auto.


https://www.geforce.co.uk/geforce-experience/download

hope it helps you.

[Raziel23x]

I use that as well

[ravien_ff]

Never had this issue.

[kaashy]

1. Avorion doesn't check if your graphics driver is fully up-to-date.
2. Avorion doesn't force you to update your graphics driver in order to play.
3. It only tells you it might be a good idea after it crashed during a GPU driver call, which should never ever be able to crash a program.
4. It tells you that updating your graphics driver might be a good idea if a very, very old version of OpenGL is being detected.

Have you checked that your Nvidia GPU is actually selected for rendering the game in your Nvidia control panel?

[Raziel23x]

Then explain this https://imgur.com/a/lQmeShY

Every time geforce expirence has a driver update and i try to launch the game without updating this message pops up

[Raziel23x]

I have the settings set to the default settings in my and my GPU is selected as default as the onboard is disabled in bios

[CoinSpin]

I've had a version of that same error in the past, on an AMD GPU, back before they cleaned themselves up and got some decent driver programs under control.

The problem is not the game, it is your graphics drivers. They either have a bad OpenGL installation, or are stuck and not updating the OpenGL drivers when you are updating the overall Nvidia driver. Sadly, you aren't alone - Nvidia's drivers seem to not be the stellar example they used to be of late.

To fix that problem on my system, I did a clean wipe of the AMD drivers and reinstalled the latest version, then everything was fine. I'm assuming that might fix the Nvidia drivers as well. Hoping so, at least.

*Edit* I forgot to mention, others who have reported issues with OpenGL and Nvidia drivers have indicated that updating their chipset drivers fixed the issue in some instances. You may want to update your motherboard drivers, if you haven't done that recently.

[Raziel23x]

okay i have a asus z170-a and the bios Z170-A-ASUS-3802.zip when i unzip it the file is a Z170-A-ASUS-3802.CAP file and i am not sure what a cap file is and when i google how to install it tells me to use a USB or use Winflash but none tells me where to get Winflash

[C54M2]

https://asus-winflash.en.lo4d.com/

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/ASUS-WinFlash.shtml

[Raziel23x]

that app does not work on my desktop tells me only supported on ASUS notebook as I had this custom built PC through https://www.pugetsystems.com/ a few years ago

[C54M2]

have a look at this site used this site before for software just scan all software first .

http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortdate/bios_cmos.html

[Fox]

Not sure how you folks got from an OpenGL-Issue to BIOS?

Anyways, clicking on Steam/Help/System Information will allow you to check which GPU Steam is detecting (independant from Windows/BIOS/GeForce Exp.-Settings).

Apart from this i had long time trouble with "NVIDIA GeForce Expierience" System Panel, wouldnt let me update drivers for months, getting rid of it and updating drivers fom time to time myself worked alot better!