• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

ATi + CPU Physx = you can not play your games

SBD

SBD

SBD

Associate
Joined
24 Oct 2007
Posts
772
Location
Leicester/Norwich
I brought a 5850 around Christmas upgrading from a 8800GTS which died. When I try to play any games such as Global Agenda or Bulletstorm (which I just brought) it me the following error:

"Using hardware accelerated PhysX has been requested, but the drivers were out of date.

Please download the lastest driver from (random nvidia link which is broken)

FATAL ERROR - EXITING"

Ok so I need to update some PhysX Drivers so it uses the CPU and not the GPU since I am running an ATi card right?

So I run the physX update from both game discs and the most up to date version which gives me the following error:

"The currently installed version of the drivers is newer than what you are trying to install, aborting the installation."

This is odd since I don't even have it installed! But it would have been installed from what I was using the 8800GTS but I cleaned off all the drivers using Driver Sweeper and CCleaner both used in normal windows 7 and safe mode.

I do not want to reformat my PC, I have over 1TB of data that will take an age to put back onto my PC :mad:

Please can some help me before I start to abuse my PC with a hammer!

Cheers ;)
 
Maybe driver sweeper has got rid of core files that are needed on the os to install pysx. If so, then a new install I'm afraid. First try the newest physx from Nvidias driver page though.
I don't use driversweeper myself as the only time I used it, I couldn't install my gpu driver after sweeping and the only way to fix it was a new install.
 
Well I have only used driver sweeper because I was unable to install the phsyX before using it so I thought that if everything NVIDA was off my PC then I could reinstall it.

Another odd thing, if I search the C drive for NVIDIA it comes up with some files and a folder called "NVIDIA Corporation" but I can not gain access to it windows tells me that the location is unavailable.
 
Just buy a new HDD or SSD and do a fresh install on that, that way you won't lose your files. It really sounds like driver sweeper removed something it shouldn't have.
 
Ok well I have tried to install PhysX_9.10.0513_SystemSoftware and it just wont install. I must be able to add some dll's or something since I dont even have an nvidia card so the physX has to run on the CPU.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom