PhysX drivers installation error

Kefrith · **Posted:** Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:35 pm

Ok, I've got MO:ULagain installed, so now I'm trying to install the AGEIA PhysX drivers that came with it. The problem is, when I accept the license agreement for the drivers, I get this error:

Help please?

tjgarland · **Joined:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:01 pm **Posts:** 13

I'm having exactly the same problem. I have WINDOWS 7 64 bit and don't know what to do. Anyone have any ideas?

Elkestra · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:20 pm

You should probably go to the NVidia website (www.nvidia.com), and download the latest PhysX drivers from there.

Direct link:

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/physx_sy ... re_uk.html

(or 'Download Drivers' from the menu bar, and then choose the PhysX drivers from 'Other Drivers' on the left.)

D'Lanor · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:30 pm

There is a fix for this error: Run the installer in quiet mode.

Go to Start - Run... (you may have to customize the Start menu to show the Run option)
Browse to the PhysX installer and open it
Add /quiet after the resulting command line, for example:
"C:\your download location\PhysX_9.09.1112_SystemSoftware.exe" /quiet
Press OK

Drakmyth · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:10 pm

I'm guessing, on Vista/Win7, this problem can also be worked around by selecting "Run As Administrator" from the context menu on the setup file.

D'Lanor · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:24 pm

Drakmyth wrote:

I'm guessing, on Vista/Win7, this problem can also be worked around by selecting "Run As Administrator" from the context menu on the setup file.

True, but you would not even get as far as the fatal error without running it as admin.

A program started with the Run command in Win 7 btw is always executed with administrative privileges.

tjgarland · **Joined:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:01 pm **Posts:** 13

I had searched for solutions earlier and tried the /quiet option with no success. I also went to the NVIDIA website and downloaded the latest version - also with little success. Not sure what else to do. Would love to give MO:UL a go but can't get started unless i get this worked out...

D'Lanor · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:44 pm

/quiet mode is the fix for this error which is given on the nVidia forums. It should work.

Did you get the license agreement? If that still shows you failed to start in quiet mode.

dotty · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:26 pm

For this to work for me, I had to use the /quiet mode on the physX installer shortcut, rather than the installer icon itself. (with windows vista).

tjgarland · **Joined:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:01 pm **Posts:** 13

Tried it again with /quiet this morning and everything went well and MO:UL now works.... don't know why i couldn't get it to work before.... Thanks.

Massygo · **Posted:** Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:02 pm

tjgarland wrote:

Tried it again with /quiet this morning and everything went well and MO:UL now works.... don't know why i couldn't get it to work before.... Thanks.

It works but,... be carefull.
I renewd the PhisX driver like explained here, ran it on my Radeon X1650pro which has ATI-drivers.
After playing MOUL a week the game did slow down the system & the video-card did got fright yesterday.
What happend was... PhisX (nvidia) went into conflict with the ATI-support via the MOUL game.
Luckelly i do have a backup on the hardware.

carlushka · **Joined:** Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:00 am **Posts:** 13

D'Lanor, I tried the quiet mode fix you suggested, but after I click run, all I see is the briefest flash of loading bar and then nothing. I checked it out in Task Manager and noticed that 2 instances of the Nvidia driver helper (nvvsvc.exe) were running. I made sure that I hadn't clicked it twice somehow by restarting my computer and trying again. I got the same extra process and it seemed like I was not able to run the installer. I checked the programs list, though, and there it was. However, it was just a few MB short of what it should have been (I had installed the regular way before and uninstalled, so I knew how big it should be.) So it looks like I stopped the installation prematurely, but how on Earth (Tomahna, D'ni, whatever) would I know when it is done installing? What exactly does quiet mode accomplish that the regular install does not?

I suppose I should mention that I'm running Win 7, 32 bit, with a Nvidia Geforce G 105m video card and the most recent drivers. The reason I even tried this fix in the first place is that I don't get the PhysX install prompt when I start URU at all. Instead, it goes straight to "Starting URU, Please wait..." which it naturally never does. No one else has been able to come up with what my error is (mostly because I get no error message or stack dump), but since it misses that critical PhysX step, I figured that's what it must be. Any thoughts on what I might still be doing wrong?

D'Lanor · **Posted:** Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:52 pm

The quiet mode is a specific workaround for the "Installation ended prematurely because of an error" problem. If you are not seeing that error this workaround won't make a difference.

If PhysX is not installed Uru will attempt to run the PhysX installer. Since that is not what is happening I doubt that your problem has anything to do with PhysX..

Anyway, you can easily determine if PhysX is installed. Go to the Control Panel and if it is installed you should see the PhysX icon there.

Olo_Eopia · **Joined:** Wed May 26, 2010 6:59 am **Posts:** 1

I have tried everything under the sun to get this thing to work but the furthest i have gotten is the little loading icon when the game starts to load and then it stops and pops up a really annoying "Severe error" message. Tried the /quite and it didn't work. Also tried the direct link and that didn't work...any suggestions on how to end my frustrations? Let me know any help would be greatly appreciated.

Rusty_Russell · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 7:28 pm

Quote:

/quite

Did you type /qui te or /qu i et?

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