Tread_Head57 Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 I've been away from playing SB for about 5 months. 2 weeks ago I upgraded to Windows 10. Today I purchased a 1 month licence to hold me over until 4.0 comes out. Installed the licence as normal and went to start SB, but now I get an error message saying "Could not find any compatible Direct3D devices. Your graphics card most likely does not support the minimum functionality required by this program." I've never had this issue before and only change to my computer since last time I played is Windows 10. I've already re-installed SB, installed latest driver for graphics card, directX is already latest update, tried running in compatibility/admin mode. DCS still plays just fine, so I know it's not my graphics card. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosmarus Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Uninstall your GPU drivers and then through device control panel delete your GPU, boot your computer after each step. After that your computer will detect your GPU again so you can't really break anything here. Most likely updating to Windows 10 borked your driver software and has caused some kind of problem in detecting your GPU. I had to do this myself after I went to Windows 10, some driver versions are bad at handling OS updates. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tread_Head57 Posted June 3, 2016 Author Share Posted June 3, 2016 How do I uninstall GPU drivers and where do I find them online to re-install? The thing that keeps confusing me is that DCS still works fine and only SB is affected. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted June 4, 2016 Members Share Posted June 4, 2016 Different programs utilize the graphics card differently. One program may still work while another program's function calls create a hiccup in the driver. Ever wondered why current NVidia drivers are 250 MByte large? Because they contain individual patches for thousands of different games. The core driver would require much, much, much less memory. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tread_Head57 Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 Ssnake, reverting back to 8.0 fixed it. Email sent regarding licence reactivation issue. Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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