FC2 Crashing

[DJ Thunder Face]

Farcry 2 has been crashing like crazy for me. After the crash, Windows says something along the lines of (NVidia driver had a fatal crash, but recovered.")

I've tried completely uninstalling the NVidia drivers and installing the latest driver(Booting into safe mode to do it.), but the problem persists.

Core2Quad Q6600 2.6Ghz
Gigabyte EP45-UD3R
6GB DDR2 Ram
9800GTX+ with 257.21 64-bit Driver
Windows 7 64-bit

[YingYangYong]

off the bat

1) Do you have problems with any other games?

2) have you verified the FC2 game cache?

3) Is this the first time you played FC2 or was it working fine in the past?

4) Try installing an older driver because sometime the newest drivers have bugs.

[ZeroPike]

I've run into the same issue, sort of. Far Cry2 crashes to desktop randomly it seems. But I have an ATi card and my windows doesn't give me an error. Also its not reporting the crash to my Windows Reliability chart ether.

Multiple playthroughs with no problems. And cache verified. No problems like this with other games currently.

i5-750 @2.66
8GB of Ram
Win 7-64Bit
Asus Motherboard
ATi-5670 @1GB ram

[arizonachris]

I don't know about the latest ATI drivers, but, Nvidia messed up their latest driver release. I had to go back to the 196.21 drivers. The new drivers killed the temp sense for the fan speed and is killing cards right and left because the fan doesn't increase speed with the card temp. Nice one, Nvidia.

You should try and roll back to an earlier driver and see if that helps. It looks like you have already done all the other fixes (verify, defrag, etc)

As a last resort, copy your "steamapps" folder to another place on the hard drive. Uninstall then reinstall Steam, then copy that folder back over. Saves you from downloading all those games again. Hope this helps.

[YingYangYong]

WOW if thats true (and I dont doubt you) then nVidia are about to be mass sued.

[arizonachris]

Nvidia has borked the 196.75 drivers, and now the 257.21 drivers. Both with the same fan control issue. Yeah, that was a big jump in version numbers so you know they have been working at it. And, the EVGA Precision Tool doesn't work with the new drivers, ever.

A friend told me a long time ago, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" So, if you install new drivers just for the sake of having the "latest and greatest" be prepared for issues.

[Replicators]

Well i use rivatuner to boost my video card fan to 100% at all times, my first card is water cooled, but the second is on air. It takes awhile for farcry 2 to crash on my machine, but it eventually does. Every other game runs fine, so i will just wait for nvidia to fix their ♥♥♥♥ i guess.

[HarrySnoopy]

I've run into the same issue, sort of. Far Cry2 crashes to desktop randomly it seems. But I have an ATi card and my windows doesn't give me an error. Also its not reporting the crash to my Windows Reliability chart ether.

Multiple playthroughs with no problems. And cache verified. No problems like this with other games currently.

i5-750 @2.66
8GB of Ram
Win 7-64Bit
Asus Motherboard
ATi-5670 @1GB ram

I am having exactly the same problem as yours. With ATi card HD5850,AMD PIIx4 955, and Win7(x64), the game crashes for every 2-3 hrs. It is a bit annoying but it is still okay because there is still plenty of time for me to finish one mission each time.

No idea how it crashes because it comes all of a sudden and no error msg is prompted.

[ZeroPike]

I am having exactly the same problem as yours. With ATi card HD5850,AMD PIIx4 955, and Win7(x64), the game crashes for every 2-3 hrs. It is a bit annoying but it is still okay because there is still plenty of time for me to finish one mission each time.

No idea how it crashes because it comes all of a sudden and no error msg is prompted.

Well I figured out a solution to stopping Far Cry 2 from crashing at least on mine. I switched the DirectX from 10 to 9 and its running flawlessly. Played for a couple hours with not a single crash. Did multiple missions, drove around multiple area's. Seems fine. Might fix your problem too.

[cerealkeller]

Once again, we shouldn't be satisfied to simply disable DX10 to run this game. We should be able to run this game with max settings without any issues. It ran fine my first time through, now it crashes like mad and I tried older drivers and any other solution you could possibly imagine. If anyone has any insight into a possible solution then please post it here, it would be greatly appreciated.

[DJ Thunder Face]

off the bat

1) Do you have problems with any other games?

2) have you verified the FC2 game cache?

3) Is this the first time you played FC2 or was it working fine in the past?

4) Try installing an older driver because sometime the newest drivers have bugs.

Sorry for taking a ridiculously long time to get back to this thread. I got distracted and came back to the game just a few days ago.

1. The problem doesn't exist in any other game.
2. I've verified the cache as well as tried reinstalling.
3. It's always been this way.
4. I've had this problem no matter which driver version I've tried. (Including 196.21)

[Hardwood]

Well I figured out a solution to stopping Far Cry 2 from crashing at least on mine. I switched the DirectX from 10 to 9 and its running flawlessly. Played for a couple hours with not a single crash.

Well that's odd, I have to use DX10 because DX9 randomly crashes to Desktop on my 5870.

[AEon]

Well seems I am not the only one with this Far Cry 2 crashing issue.

For me it happens extremely regularly, and it is a time based issue. The crash with occur at the earliest after 60 minutes and take up to 80 minutes (rarely that long). I also have an ATi card and it crashes to the Desktop without any warning or error, either.

My setup:
Win7Pro (64bit)
Intel i7 920
ATi HD 5850
Catalyst v10.8
6 GB Ram
Far Cry v1.03 (patched, retail version, non-Steam)


Yes, I am running the game on DX10 (on purpose) as well. And yes, I did have this problem before, under DiRT 2. There were several solutions back then, switching to DX9 was one of them... alas I do not full recally... one of the GFX settings was the issue, something like turning off motion blur or so. Again not an option, IMO.

In any case, they should actually fix the issue, not force us to go to DX9 or some tuned down settings. Well... I played something like 40 hours now... and I will simply bare the crashes, did so for DiRT 2 as well, since I am certainly not "breaking" my drivers etc. that run perfectly for everything else.

Tip... you have Quicksave on F5... make extensive use of it, after every diamond case, finished mission, etc. Luckily Far Cry 2 starts and loads quite quickly.

[Hokum]

Well I've had continuous hard crashing issues with Far Cry 2 for about a year with Windows XP and a 9800 GTX. After playing for varying periods, the screen eventually starts to destabilize (looks like really bad screen tearing and it typically happens when there's a lot of fire onscreen which I assume places extra stress on the card) and then eventually my whole PC reboots itself. I have close to a hundred games and FC2 is the only one that does this. Only if I roll back to drivers from April '09 (can't remember the # right now) is the game stable, but then I don't enjoy as good frame rates either.

On a different but related note, my 9800 card did recently die (either that or its RAM issues)... but I was running the slightly newer 197 drivers (they claim to have fixed the fan issues on the readme for those drivers but who knows). I've just ordered a GTX 460 (been meaning to upgrade anyway) so we'll say whether FC2 is stable with the new card. On my new laptop with Windows 7 and a GTS360M, FC2 seems fully stable so far, thank god.

[AEon]

Well... since I am looking into the "Additional Content" codes I turned the graphics settings to DX9... no more crashing issues.

[Gamer4Life]

Get a console so you won't have these issues.

[AEon]

And embrace all the crap consoles come with, like lack of proper controller... no way to properly take screenshots, and no Quicksave. <sarcasm off>

[ZeroPike]

Get a console? for an fps game? you gotta be crazy. And look at the game were talking about? Its Far Cry! its not worth a $200+ console purchase by any stretch of the imagination.

[Gamer4Life]

what "crap" do consoles come with, AEon? One can take a screenshot with a console, the only thing is, you'd need a tv card to do it;that is the only drawback. As far as controllers, check out the link I have posted below. That is what I use to play Farcry 2 on ps3.
http://www.splitfish.com/

[Replicators]

what "crap" do consoles come with, AEon? One can take a screenshot with a console, the only thing is, you'd need a tv card to do it;that is the only drawback. As far as controllers, check out the link I have posted below. That is what I use to play Farcry 2 on ps3.
http://www.splitfish.com/

Here is one, loss in graphical quality? I will not be playing fps games on a more inferior platform! Lack of any custom content unless officially made and "Sold", and i can list plenty of other drawbacks going to console would cost!

[Gamer4Life]

So tell me, what's so bad about console gaming? I game on both(pc and console), and haven't come across any problems yet.

[HogFire]

I've got two machines, one with NVIDiA graphics and another with ATI. Both machines have over 5 gigs ddr3_1600 and amd 955 and 970 processors. The crashing problem is related to the graphics cards getting too hot. Apparantly the graphics wth DX10 are really hard on the graphics cards and really heat up, over 90C. Seems they crash at 90+ degrees or so, both brands. It takes an hour or two to heat up and I can extend that by cranking up the chassis fans. Maybe those new VaporX cards are the way to go. They really need much better cooling.

[Replicators]

So tell me, what's so bad about console gaming? I game on both(pc and console), and haven't come across any problems yet.

Not that it's bad, but games are usually dumbed down so that the general population can use them. FPS games with controller "Alway's" have some sort of a aim assistance on them (I have a xbox 360), and mouse and keyboard is all manual in aiming. Hardware on consoles are outdated which affects the limitations of what games can be at this time. Addons/Custom Content on consoles are only what is officially made and "Sold" while on pc there are tons more custom content that are "FREE"!

The drawback on playing games on pc, is a brain is required to use them.