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No Man's SkyGame does not start, "Driver Compatibility Warning"(9 posts)(9 posts)
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Posted August 17, 2019
The new Beyond update refuses to start with a "Driver Compatibility Warning". I am using Nvidia GTX 391.35 drivers, and I have to, because I have a GTX 1080ti SLI setup. Later drivers break my hardware (with 30-50% performance penalty).

This seems to be an artificial limitation. 4XX.XX drivers literally do not provide any new functionality for GTX 1080 series cards at all. No Man's Sky should just work fine with 391.35, that's not even an old driver (It's from December last year).

If I upgrade, which I have tried, The Witcher 3 for example crawls at 35 FPS in 4K with medium settings, whereas I have well above 60 FPS stable with ultra with the old drivers. Other games fare similarly, more or less.

So I reeally cannot upgrade my video drivers, No Man's Sky is not the only game I play.

Is there any setting I can use to stop No Man's Sky from refusing to start just because my drivers are not the latest? Thanks for any info you can provide.
Posted August 17, 2019
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dewries: The new Beyond update refuses to start with a "Driver Compatibility Warning". I am using Nvidia GTX 391.35 drivers, and I have to, because I have a GTX 1080ti SLI setup. Later drivers break my hardware (with 30-50% performance penalty).

This seems to be an artificial limitation. 4XX.XX drivers literally do not provide any new functionality for GTX 1080 series cards at all. No Man's Sky should just work fine with 391.35, that's not even an old driver (It's from December last year).

If I upgrade, which I have tried, The Witcher 3 for example crawls at 35 FPS in 4K with medium settings, whereas I have well above 60 FPS stable with ultra with the old drivers. Other games fare similarly, more or less.

So I reeally cannot upgrade my video drivers, No Man's Sky is not the only game I play.

Is there any setting I can use to stop No Man's Sky from refusing to start just because my drivers are not the latest? Thanks for any info you can provide.
When the Vulkan beta came out there was a minimum version required. I do not have the statement or warning anymore but think that it was something like 425.31 and that the game might not (or possibly would not) work if the driver was not updated.

I had not updated the driver for a long time but in April I downloaded 425.31 solely for the Vulkan version of NMS.

Don't know if someone has a work around for older Vulkan or not.

Good Luck
Post edited August 17, 2019 by ChewyWeAreNotHome
Posted August 17, 2019
I run NMS via lutris using the proton 4.11 protocol. It seems to bypass the driver error.
Posted August 17, 2019
NVidia driver 425.31 is a good driver. It is not perfect, but it lacks many of the problems present in current drivers. As far as I know, Beyond update of NMS requieres Vulkan 1.0, and nVidia driver 425.31 includes Vulkan 1.1.
Posted August 20, 2019
Thanks for the replies - I can't switch to linux with my main PC just yet, but I can try 425.31 maybe it is OK with my setup (The Witcher 3 seems to be a good test for that).
Posted August 20, 2019
The problem got resolved. There was an update today for No Man's Sky (51972) and the game now starts with old drivers, albeit with poor performance. Then I gave a try to the latest 431.60 Nvidia driver (the one I had problems with was the 431.36) and all my problems disappeared. I have now good performance in all games incl. NMS. I guess it was a bug in 431.36.
Posted August 21, 2019
I get this exact warning, then after clicking through, the game crashes. Thing is, I'm running Win8.1 and the drivers for my AMD RX 480 haven't been upodated by AMD since April 2017 for Win 8.1. Is migrating to Win 10 my only option to play this game? Because I won't just for this, but that really sucks.

I fully updated No Man's Sky just now and it doesn't help.
Post edited August 21, 2019 by marionette
Posted August 21, 2019
There`s just been another patch, try that.
Posted August 23, 2019
Is there no "BYPASS" for this?
No way to "force" it to just run?

Since the game won't start at all since the Update (for many people), there should be a way to force it past that 'warning' - especially for those of us going through older drivers, to see which one finally works again...

Thanks
Post edited October 05, 2019 by Tesityr
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