FarCry buggy as hell

zerodamage · May 7, 2004, 11:04 PM

I purchased FarCry today and haven't been able to play for more than a few minutes at a time without it crashing to the desktop. It seems to stutter for a moment and then crash.
The problem initially is when I was using beta drivers (being a beta tester) and weren't sure if that was the problem so I tried Omega's 4.4 B's. To be honest, the game looked worse with the Omega drivers, and played slower and still crashed. Next I tried the official Cat 4.4's, same problem.

I read the guide in this forum (tweak guide) and it said something about Overclocking can cause problems, so I put everything back to stock, cpu, fsb, vid card, everything. Still crashes to desktop without an error. This is a brand new fresh install also.

Now if anyone had this problem and came across a solution, please tell me here. If I do not get this working by Noon Time, 12pm -5 GMT Saturday, May 8th, The game is going back. The game looks great so far and I really want to play it but can NOT deal with the horrible bugginess. Thanks.

roadrunner72 · May 7, 2004, 11:23 PM

have you down loaded the update yet ?http://www.ubi.com/US/Downloads/Info.htm?dlId=133

zerodamage · May 8, 2004, 09:24 AM

well I was hoping for some answers by now. I guess this game is going back in an hour and a half.

And yes, i have the latest 1.1 patch.

No_Style · May 8, 2004, 09:29 AM

The game is still buggy as hell. Throughout my FarCry experience I've encountered more bugs than I could count with my two hands. Bugs I've encountered mainly comprised of characters getting stuck, and other ones involving battles with the humans and the trigen (Spelling?).. During one battle, I witnessed in some sort of underground temple of some sort, I wanted to wait for the Trigen and Human scientists to finish each other off because I was down on ammo and health. I waited and waited then.. I heard nothing.. everything suddenly stopped, I walked into the room and everybody was suspended in their position. They were still alive, but just standing there. I just walked through and continued the mission.

However, I did enjoy the game though

I know this didn't help, but when I read the title of the post, I thought you meant bugs like this.

Mazuko · May 8, 2004, 09:52 AM

I've only had the game crash on me once and that was because of the ever loved alt-tab.

I did notice a few of the "stuck characters" issue, but to be honest it only happened about 3 times the entire game.

My biggest problem with the game, as with all ubi games, is their CD protection thing.

Apparantly UBI games do not like CDRW drives etc. etc. and after updating my firmware and all that fun stuff I still could not get the game to run, until I found a no cd patch.

I have to use no cd patches on every single ubi game I own, it sucks hard core, but their CD protection is just a pompous piece of trash that prevents legit gamers from playing the games they forked out $40 USD for. Go UBI!

As far as your bugs, is the only problem crashing?

***Zardon*** · May 8, 2004, 09:56 AM

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Originally posted by zerodamage
I purchased FarCry today and haven't been able to play for more than a few minutes at a time without it crashing to the desktop. It seems to stutter for a moment and then crash.
The problem initially is when I was using beta drivers (being a beta tester) and weren't sure if that was the problem so I tried Omega's 4.4 B's. To be honest, the game looked worse with the Omega drivers, and played slower and still crashed. Next I tried the official Cat 4.4's, same problem.

I read the guide in this forum (tweak guide) and it said something about Overclocking can cause problems, so I put everything back to stock, cpu, fsb, vid card, everything. Still crashes to desktop without an error. This is a brand new fresh install also.

Now if anyone had this problem and came across a solution, please tell me here. If I do not get this working by Noon Time, 12pm -5 GMT Saturday, May 8th, The game is going back. The game looks great so far and I really want to play it but can NOT deal with the horrible bugginess. Thanks.

if you are overclocking your system lower EVERYTHING to default and run, this game is well known to crash alot of overclocked systems, its pushing everything to the max.

**Asmoday** · May 8, 2004, 10:01 AM

I agree it had its fare share of bugs...but it never crahed to the desktop for me....

Danhill · May 8, 2004, 10:02 AM

I have run this game many times without a single crash (yet), I do run OC (but I don't know if you guys call my overcklock as overcklock - maybe a infant overclock??) I run from 2,4 - 2,6 with the mem oc to 434 mhz.

Try to reintall the game and also the drivers for the graphics card and see if that helps.

Danhill · May 8, 2004, 10:03 AM

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Originally posted by Cartman
I agree it had its fare share of bugs...but it never crahed to the desktop for me....

Maybe we have a crash free Swedish version??

>GSXR<mrbusa · May 8, 2004, 10:10 AM

hello,here is my issue with farcry.i purchased the game so me and my wife could lan together,my secondary system would not play the game.p4 2ghz,768ddr266,gfx5600u,intel845mobo.my gaming system plays perfect.all the probs ive heard about this game involves a system that is arround 2ghz,i dont know if this is a wide spread issue or just by chance.hope you figure it out,later

***Zardon*** · May 8, 2004, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cartman
I agree it had its fare share of bugs...but it never crahed to the desktop for me....

It does for me, if I overclock to a certain level even if nothing else does.

**Asmoday** · May 8, 2004, 10:17 AM

hmm....yeah, i didn't play it with the overclock i am at now...i only had my sys at a 450mhz overclock at the time....maybe i should try to play it with my current oc and see what happends...

***Zardon*** · May 8, 2004, 10:19 AM

well it was one hell of a test for my system when I got it, I was sitting at 4ghz stable until I played farcry even with prime passing tests fine. Farcry would crash to the desktop or even hardlock at 4ghz. im not sure if its a problem with the game on my specific setup, but ive heard alot of people complaining about the game crashing with high overclocks. im sure not everyone is affected but the game is rock solid for the people ive spoken to at default speeds, something worth looking into for Zero.

gibbon565 · May 8, 2004, 10:24 AM

I got it working fine with the latest omega 4.4 drivers but I started to get some probs with other games I played and I had to revert to the older 3.10's and since then I've given up on farcry.

dipstick · May 8, 2004, 10:26 AM

Surprisingly I haven't noticed any issues with the game, I'm impressed actually. Sorry to hear of your troubles, try relaxing your memory timings and maybe give the ram some more voltage(+.1). You can also give DriverCleaner a spin

Necrosis · May 8, 2004, 10:53 AM

I haven't had any issues either with it as far as crashing. However, I have had my share of bugs for share...looke the free floating people for one thing.

Pyrot · May 8, 2004, 10:53 AM

It crashed only when I had my Ram voltage @ 2,8v with my A7N8X-E Deluxe. With the Uber Bios from Demolous I can run them @ 2,9 without any crash. I finished the game with 4,1 omega drivers. Didn`t try 4.4 yet.

No_Style · May 8, 2004, 12:40 PM

But it's not as heavy of an overclock only a 2.4B to a 3.25 GHz.

As for the CD Protection~.. I've heard some stories about it. I got the DVD Version though.

dpagan · May 8, 2004, 01:05 PM

cry tek made a good game but to be honest everything ubi soft touches they turn into sub par crap, this game needed more time i feel as this game was rushed, if instead activision would have been involve this game would have been less faulty this game is going to need more patches than my first pair of jeans

zerodamage · May 8, 2004, 01:10 PM

Seems as though installing SP2 for XP fixed it. Now playing with my normal OC and it is working like normal. Quite strange though really.

Dyre Straits · May 9, 2004, 11:45 PM

I've had Far Cry about a week now and have had a ball with it!

Zero, I am running my XP Home with SP2 and my system is overclocked like it has been for months now. I'm also using Omega's latest 4.4b drivers.

In the past week, I've played for hours on end at a sitting and have only had two times I can recall where there was a problem. In those instances, the computer just froze. Otherwise, it's been one very nice game to play.

Now....if I can only take out that helicopter that comes at me after setting the explosive on the freighter in the bay.......where you're told to 'get to the front of the ship'......

mainman · May 9, 2004, 11:58 PM

I have had Far Cry for about 2 days now and the only problem i had with it was solved by lowering my vid card OC, besides that i have had no problem what so ever, and im runing the game with an overclocked cpu and vid card.

Dyre Straits · May 11, 2004, 03:31 PM

I finally got past that chopper attack on the sinking ship and have reached the point where I have to cover Val while she sets the bomb and then get out of the building.

What a ride!!!

pr0digal jenius · May 11, 2004, 03:43 PM

im stuck on the damned carrier...the dudees way up on the ceiling always get me...grrr...anyways...glad to hear you fixed it..i.and i just wanna commend ubisoft for makign a game that can bog even my system down to single digit frame rates (oh yes...at 16x12 with all the AA/AF and textures maxed i hit the big 8 FPS...yea buddy!)...but it runs smooth as glass at 16x12 highest settings w/ no AA/AF