Hi guys,
To put this simply, Far Cry 2 wont get past the loading screen. Ive read a couple of threads on the UBI forums and this guys has EXACTLY the same problem as me!
I swear I'll give you ca$h if you help fix this bs.
Here is the guys post:
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I just wanted to share my experience in case any body else had the same thing. I know there's at least one other person on the net that is describing the same problem.
Basically, in a nutshell, Far Cry 2 destroyed my PC by corrupting the entire C: drive.
Here is my rig:
MSI P6N Diamond with on-board X-Fi
Intel Core2 Duo e8400 @3.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
2x GeForce 9600 GT
2x 500 GB Seagate Baracuda
Windows XP SP3 & all other updates
*** ALL drivers updated to newest available prior to install.
I installed the game, entered my serial # and it activated no problem. I double clicked the Far Cry 2 icon on my desktop and the splash screen loaded and after a few seconds of loading, the main game menu came up.
I set some options and changed the controls to my preferred settings and clicked to start a new game.
The loading level screen appeared and different graphics & text cycled on the screen while the loading took place. It stalled on the 3rd graphic, and the loading wheel just kept spinning. I thought that the loading had stalled, but when I placed my ear to the side of the case I could hear that my hard drive was quite active.
I waited, and waited, and waited, and waited. All in all, I think I waited about 7-10 minutes. I tried to Alt-Tab back to windows, I tried CTRL-ESC, I tried Win-Break, I tried CTRL-ALT-DEL, I tried everything I could think of to get back to Windows so I could kill the game using Task Manager.
Eventually, I realized that the game had completely locked my system up, though I could still hear my hard drive rattling as it read/wrote.
Because I really didn't want to power-down the computer with the power-supply switch, I waited another 5 minutes just to make sure.
Well, after 15 minutes total, nothing. The loading wheel kept spinning and my hard drive kept rattling. Sighing, I cut power to the PC by switching the PSU switch off.
I powered back up and booted the computer. Windows started to load and then CHKDSK came up telling me there were errors on the disk. I let it fix the errors, which took (I KID YOU NOT) over 10 minutes because there were THOUSANDS of corrupt files.
I managed to boot back into Windows and tried to launch Far Cry 2 again. This time, the game wouldn't even try to load as many of the game's files were shown as corrupted during the CHKDSK. I uninstalled, did a registry clean, and reinstalled.
After rebooting my computer cleanly, I tried again to load the game. This time, it got past the splash screen and got to the first black loading screen. I never made it to the game menu, because now the loading was stuck on THAT screen. After a few minutes I realized that the game wasn't loading and I pulled the plug again.
THIS time when booting, the CHKDSK popped up and found ANOTHER several THOUSAND corrupt files. It fixed them all and guess what, now Windows wouldn't boot at all. Missing C:/Windows/System32/Config/System.
In trying to fix that issue, I discovered that basically, Far Cry 2 had corrupted just about every Windows file on the hard drive. Booting was impossible. Each time I fixed whatever problem was preventing a boot, another corrupt/missing file problem was there to take its place.
I couldn't even get into Safe Mode.
I had to wipe & reinstall completely.
Now, I know some people are going to say there's something faulty on my PC, but that's not the case at all. I played Bioshock, Crysis, Fallout 3, all with no problems at all. After reinstalling, my PC works perfectly and other games play just fine.
And even if there WAS something wrong with my PC (which there isn't), why should a game DESTROY the hard drive rather than just failing gracefully?!?
This game obviously was not well tested and was rushed out the door. Shame on you, Ubisoft.
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pls help!
To put this simply, Far Cry 2 wont get past the loading screen. Ive read a couple of threads on the UBI forums and this guys has EXACTLY the same problem as me!
I swear I'll give you ca$h if you help fix this bs.
Here is the guys post:
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I just wanted to share my experience in case any body else had the same thing. I know there's at least one other person on the net that is describing the same problem.
Basically, in a nutshell, Far Cry 2 destroyed my PC by corrupting the entire C: drive.
Here is my rig:
MSI P6N Diamond with on-board X-Fi
Intel Core2 Duo e8400 @3.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
2x GeForce 9600 GT
2x 500 GB Seagate Baracuda
Windows XP SP3 & all other updates
*** ALL drivers updated to newest available prior to install.
I installed the game, entered my serial # and it activated no problem. I double clicked the Far Cry 2 icon on my desktop and the splash screen loaded and after a few seconds of loading, the main game menu came up.
I set some options and changed the controls to my preferred settings and clicked to start a new game.
The loading level screen appeared and different graphics & text cycled on the screen while the loading took place. It stalled on the 3rd graphic, and the loading wheel just kept spinning. I thought that the loading had stalled, but when I placed my ear to the side of the case I could hear that my hard drive was quite active.
I waited, and waited, and waited, and waited. All in all, I think I waited about 7-10 minutes. I tried to Alt-Tab back to windows, I tried CTRL-ESC, I tried Win-Break, I tried CTRL-ALT-DEL, I tried everything I could think of to get back to Windows so I could kill the game using Task Manager.
Eventually, I realized that the game had completely locked my system up, though I could still hear my hard drive rattling as it read/wrote.
Because I really didn't want to power-down the computer with the power-supply switch, I waited another 5 minutes just to make sure.
Well, after 15 minutes total, nothing. The loading wheel kept spinning and my hard drive kept rattling. Sighing, I cut power to the PC by switching the PSU switch off.
I powered back up and booted the computer. Windows started to load and then CHKDSK came up telling me there were errors on the disk. I let it fix the errors, which took (I KID YOU NOT) over 10 minutes because there were THOUSANDS of corrupt files.
I managed to boot back into Windows and tried to launch Far Cry 2 again. This time, the game wouldn't even try to load as many of the game's files were shown as corrupted during the CHKDSK. I uninstalled, did a registry clean, and reinstalled.
After rebooting my computer cleanly, I tried again to load the game. This time, it got past the splash screen and got to the first black loading screen. I never made it to the game menu, because now the loading was stuck on THAT screen. After a few minutes I realized that the game wasn't loading and I pulled the plug again.
THIS time when booting, the CHKDSK popped up and found ANOTHER several THOUSAND corrupt files. It fixed them all and guess what, now Windows wouldn't boot at all. Missing C:/Windows/System32/Config/System.
In trying to fix that issue, I discovered that basically, Far Cry 2 had corrupted just about every Windows file on the hard drive. Booting was impossible. Each time I fixed whatever problem was preventing a boot, another corrupt/missing file problem was there to take its place.
I couldn't even get into Safe Mode.
I had to wipe & reinstall completely.
Now, I know some people are going to say there's something faulty on my PC, but that's not the case at all. I played Bioshock, Crysis, Fallout 3, all with no problems at all. After reinstalling, my PC works perfectly and other games play just fine.
And even if there WAS something wrong with my PC (which there isn't), why should a game DESTROY the hard drive rather than just failing gracefully?!?
This game obviously was not well tested and was rushed out the door. Shame on you, Ubisoft.
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pls help!
