Latest Nvidia graphics driver breaks old Forza Horizon and Motorsport games

Updating your graphics card driver is usually a good thing, as these updates deliver optimizations for new games, bug fixes, new features, support for the latest hardware, and more. However, they also have a dark side, as a more recent driver could not play well with older games. That is exactly what is happening with Nvidia's 580 drivers and old Forza games.

Gamers on Nvidia forums started complaining about gaming issues with Nvidia's latest drivers. According to various reports, Forza games, particularly old titles, such as Forza Motorsport 6 Apex, Motorsport 7, and Forza Horizon 3, cannot properly detect graphics cards on Nvidia's 580 drivers. Affected games return error AP204 "GPU not compatible," but rolling back to driver 576.88 fixes the problem.

Nvidia replied pretty quickly to these reports, with an Nvidia staff member saying the following:

"I am able to reproduce this. I'll see if there is anything we can do but likely not as I don't think these games will ever get additional patches and may be checking for specific things that are out of control."

All the mentioned Forza games are indeed quite old, and they have long been delisted from the Microsoft Store. As such, chances of Microsoft updating them to fix compatibility issues with the latest drivers are quite slim. Forza Motorsport 6 Apex is nearly a decade-old game, just like Forza Horizon 3. Meanwhile, Forza Motorsport 7 recently turned 8 years old.

Despite their age, old Forza games have quite a big fanbase, and those who own the games can still download and play them, as long as they stay away from Nvidia's latest driver. One could only hope that Nvidia will manage to fix the issue, but for now, the only way it's meant to be played is to roll back to driver 576.88.

Source: Nvidia via VideoCardz

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Posted Thursday 6 November 2025 at 3:04 am AEST (my time).

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