Bug Description

When I try to boot up the game, I get the error "Sodium Renderer - Unsupported Driver" with the details "The game failed to start because the currently installed NVIDIA Graphics Driver is not compatible. Installed Version: 31.0.15.2897 Required Version: 536.23 (or newer) You must update your graphics card driver in order to continue.

I don't know where it's pulling this version number from, but according to my Nvidia GeForce Experience app I have version 560.61 of my driver, which is a higher number than the required version so it should be fine.

I have a decent amount of tech knowledge but I'm new to Windows so I really don't know what went wrong and why it pulled the wrong version number here.

Reproduction Steps

Mods:
-sodium-fabric-0.5.11+mc1.21.jar
-fabric-api-0.102.0+1.21.jar

Fabric Version:
-0.15.11-1.12

Computer Specs:
Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H 2.60 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.6 GB usable)
Device ID F4090D7C-EBC3-4535-9F50-F293A6B10640
Product ID 00342-21194-36735-AAOEM
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch Pen and touch support with 10 touch points

Windows Version:
Edition Windows 11 Home
Version 23H2
Installed on ‎7/‎4/‎2024
OS build 22631.3880
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1020.0

Log File

No log file seems to be recorded probably because it blocked it from booting up the game to begin with

Crash Report

I don't have a crash reports folder in my .minecraft folder for some reason so no crash report

There is a bug in Sodium currently where the version number it gives in the message is not "useful", but it is (technically) correct. The Windows driver version 31.0.15.2897 corresponds to NVIDIA driver version 528.97.

Most likely, the GeForce Experience application is wrong, or you have other (older) drivers also installed. You should download the latest driver manually from NVIDIA's website and perform a clean installation to resolve the problem.

But without a log file (.minecraft/logs/latest.log), we can't help you further.