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How Do You Make This Pop-Up Go Away? by ACDragon
It's a pop-up that appears in Windows 7 whenever I start a game where the recommended video driver is newer than the one I'm using. The game works fine with the older driver, but Windows won't stop harassing me about it and won't let the game start up until after I manually tell it it's okay to start it up.
Seriously, I don't need this shit. I didn't get this game so MicroShitheads can tell me to update my stable nVidia drivers to a version that is often inferior to the version I'm already using. They say the game won't work right, but the game DOES work right, so it makes sense that they should stop harassing me to update. But nope, not unless there's some "unofficial" windows hack that will make that stupid message go away. It's like the whole thing with Windows asking if you want Aero shut off when you start some fullscreen games that aren't even particularly demanding and when you say "No, and don't ask me again" Windows promptly forgets your answer and asks again a few minutes later. "No, and don't ask me again" means "No, and don't ask me again." It does NOT mean "no, but go ahead and ask me again in five minutes," it means "No, and don't ask me again."
EDIT: And DON'T GO TELLING ME TO UPDATE MY VIDEO CARD DRIVER!!!!!!!! I've already made it clear that I want to find a way to make it stop WITHOUT having to update, because nVidia doesn't make good drivers very often and more often than not their "updated" drivers are pieces of shit that ruin your hardware. So please, don't be an ass and try to go the "update your drivers" route on me.
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Thanks for the comment.
I did find out, finally, what the problem was, and it was the game's own executable being an ass. It throws up what looks like an official Windows error prompt, but it isn't one, it's actually brought about by the game itself. Did some reading and found references to an update to, I think it was BF1 or something like that, which made the prompts start appearing for users of that game. The only way to fix it is to edit the executable itself, which is of course something that a lot of people aren't willing to do.
This would be especially bad if I had actually bought the game in question (it's Mass Effect: Andromeda, and I pirated it precisely because of the nasty reviews it's gotten. This is why I pirate games, because I want to know whether the product is worth my money or not before I decide to make the plunge). Because the game would normally require Origin to run, any changes to the executable would be "corrected" by EA the moment Origin discovered them. So playing the pirated copy that doesn't require Origin means I can make the change with relative impunity. Now all I have to do is figure out exactly what change I'll need to make.
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And obviously since the game is throwing this bullshit up, I won't be buying the game ever unless they fix it, even if I think it's worth the money. I refuse to pay full price for a video game only to be harassed in this manner because I have the gall to use a driver that actually works and won't brick my card.
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If you get Geforce Exp then it blocks out the windows prompts and only tells you when there is an actual update...You may not have a card that is particularity ready for Geforce Exp but it will still work because you have Nvidia...I still have a GT 640, no X or Titan, and G'exp just works on optimizing the game exp and getting the right updates weather stable or beta...