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Article #720605Re: Far Cry 2 - Disable Video Driver Check at Start-Up?
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 03:23
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 03:23
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:26:44 -0700, Tecknomage <tecknode@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote: > >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Every time I start Far Cry 2 a dialog says my drivers are out of date, 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BUT they are NOT out of date.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? Where does the dialog come from? An NVidia app? Windows itself? Far Cry2? I run FarCry2 on Windows 8.1 with the latest and greatest GeForce drivers all the time. The biggest problem I see is that you are on WinXP, and if it is connected to the Internet there is a guy in Russia using your machine as a pedoporn server right now, which will soon turn up in searches from officials near you who have similarly easy access to your machine. That may or may not be related to the actual dialog you're seeing, but it's something that should wake you up in the middle of the night screaming. In the day of the modern Internet, you do NOT want to run an operating system for months after the vendor has dropped support for it. Seriously. Run as fast as you can from XP. The warnings have been all over, right in front of everyone's fucking faces. For years.
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