The only thing I've done in the intervening time between the last time I launched the game and now was uninstall the game and re-install it in a different location, I installed Norton anti-virus that came with my laptop, and I've updated to the latest video card driver. I am now getting this error message whenever I try to launch the game saying that: 'Installed video device does not support DirectX 11 features.' I've previously run this game on my laptop about a month or so ago, which has a GTX 970m graphics card installed on it, and I never had any issues with the game and it ran wonderfully for me.

In the meantime, PeterS has offered to help try to get refunds or exchange credits for deeply disgruntled GTX 970 owners, though he cautions that the offer basically means he’ll talk to your graphics card manufacturer on your behalf if they’re giving you a rough time about a return related to memory allocation concerns.I've recently encountered an issue when trying to launch Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.

We’re looking at sticking as much of that stuff as possible into the 0.5GB space to leave the rest available.”Įssentially, Nvidia’s trying to shove all the background crap into the secondary 512MB segment in order to leave as much free space for actual games in the main 3.5GB space. Card memory is not just used for the frame buffer, plenty of driver stuff gets loaded into it as well. “Actually I’m not sure as that’s not a simple issue with just one cause. PeterS provided more detail in a follow-up comment: We’re working on a driver update that will tune what’s allocated where in memory to further improve performance.” The GTX970 is an amazing card and I genuinely believe it’s the best card for the money that you can buy. “It sucks because we’re really proud of this thing. Writing in the GeForce forums, an Nvidia employee and moderator going by “PeterS” said the following (emphasis mine): But an Nvidia representative says the company is working to minimize the issue regardless. The vast majority of users are unlikely ever to bump into the issue, as it should be a problem limited largely to situations where you’re gaming at extremely high resolutions and/or with anti-aliasing settings cranked.

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