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On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:06:12 -0400, Xocyll <Xoc...@gmx.com> wrote:

> Tecknomage <tecknode@NOSPAM.invalid> looked up from reading the entrails
> of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
> 
> >
> >My Desktop rig is WinXP SP3 with a nVidia GeForce 7900GS 512mb.
> >
> >Every time I start Far Cry 2 a dialog says my drivers are out of date,
> >BUT they are NOT out of date.
> >
> >According to nVidia I DO HAVE the latest WinXP drivers.
> >
> >There may be updated drivers for Win7 or Win8, but NOT for WinXP.
> >
> >Is there a way I can stop the Video Driver Check?
> 
> Does the game still run?

Yes, with no problems.


> It's probably just a date based check comparing the date on the drivers
> to the current date and insisting that you must have a driver within x
> months old even if no such driver exists.
> 
> I had the same thing with another game with my old card.  The game
> always whined that my drivers were out of date, but the drivers I had
> were the last ones that actually applied to my older card.  
> (Everything after that was adding new cards and optimizations for game I
> didn't play so there was absolutely no point in newer drivers - they
> would do nothing for that card at all.)
> 
> I don't have the game so I can't check, but does it launch directly or
> does it have a launcher?
> If it's a launcher, and that's what's doing all the checks, try starting
> the program directly (some programs will NOT let you do this, some
> will.)
> 

I an NOT using the launcher.




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