Game won't run

[Bl4ckSt4r]

I've installed the Demo I received in the latest PCGamer, but when I try to run the game, the cursor turns into the hourglass, then back to a cursor. I've checked the program manager and process manager, but it isn't running in the background either

I've got all the system specs recommendd by PCGamer and even installed the new DirectX. Im running on a 2.02ghz P4 with 480Mb of DDRAM. Tons of open HD room. XP home.

[Bl4ckSt4r]

I've installed the Demo I received in the latest PCGamer, but when I try to run the game, the cursor turns into the hourglass, then back to a cursor. I've checked the program manager and process manager, but it isn't running in the background either

I've got all the system specs recommendd by PCGamer and even installed the new DirectX. Im running on a 2.02ghz P4 with 480Mb of DDRAM. Tons of open HD room. XP home.

[Jetenginedr]

What video card and sound are you running?

[Bl4ckSt4r]

Im using the standard sound and video cards that came with the computer and that are supposed to be somewhat universal.

upon review:
video: Sis 650_651_M650_740 (at least thats what it tells me)
sound:SiS 7012 Wave card.

Both came standard on my machine
(sorry, dont know much about all that stuff)

[I_Am_Tron]

as far as i can tell you have both onboard video and sound, which for gaming=horrible. that should be your problem, if it's possible try upgrading at least your videocard.

What these buttons do?

[Bl4ckSt4r]

I find that solution to be unlikely. I run HALO at maximum quality without a problem, aswell as MW4, GTA (3 and Vice) and many other higher-end games.

[lotrtrotk]

well those games aren't really a very good comparison, since they've all been out for about a year or more. And seeing as how this game has a lot more (visually) to handle, it would make PERFECT sense that you'd need to buy a new video card to run it properly.

[Jetenginedr]

Honestly he is right.If you want to game with any sort of quality you need to upgrade your video.

You will have to find out if your motherboard has an AGP slot on it. If you open the side of your tower you will find white plastic slots called PCI slots. The top slot if your lucky will probably be brown and smaller than the PCI slots. That is an AGP slot and you can add in a video card so it doesn't run off the motherboard.

forgive me if you know this already..from what you have posted you may not.

As you figure your system out more you can throw it in your signature for others to see to help.

I run:
ASUS A7A266 MOBO
1.6gig Athlon CPU
1 gig Crucial PC2100 RAM
PNY GeForce 4 TI4600
SB Live X-Gamer soundcard
1 40gig/ 1 20gig hardrives

(getting old)

[sonny7]

Yeah i have the same problem too, my P4 1.7GhzM laptop isnt for games, but i can run GTA vice city good. I think it is the crapy VGA we got. Hopefully there might be a patch/fix to help us.

[darthfauxt]

I have the same problem but I can play everything else. I have a sony vaio laptop 16.1" Mobile radeon 7500 with latest omega drivers. also 512 ddr and such. How can i get this game to play I have dwnloaded and tried several times and I have the pcgamer disk and tried several times.AGH.

[Bl4ckSt4r]

No offense guys, but its not hardware. The game just doesn't run. It tries to initialize, but then stops.

and i have no intention of opening up my PC and fiddling around with it quite yet, thank you. I find the entire hardware idea somewhat un-dignifying. I know what will and what wont run on my PC, and I make sure I only install that which I know will.

[TheMcNasty]

Check the log.txt, it should tell you something like this:

System: Error: VideoCard Name_of_your_card is not supported by FarCry engine
System Shutdown

For some reason, the developers felt the need to just not try to run the engine on some cards (for compatibility issues not because they aren't good enough). Even if your card would run the game just fine with the drivers it has, you'll never get to find out. This especially goes for laptops. Thanks Crytek, I hate you (unless you take that stupid check out and let us worry about compatibility).

[phecky]

I hate to tell you but this is one of those games that is video card dependant. Just like most other "cutting edge" applications, if you ain't got the processing power you ain't gonna run this game, at least at high enough frame rates to make it playable. Besides, integrated video has always been weak.

[WMPTurtle]

I'm having pretty much the same problem. The game starts to load but it just goes into a big white blank screen. I can hear music, like it's in the menu, but I can't see anything. I've uninstalled, re-installed, re-downloaded (holy megabytes Batman), but it won't work. I used to be able to play on my radeon, but I have a 5900XT right now.

BTW, what difference does it make if his video card is outdated? (if it even is). The game won't start. "GO out and buy teh new video cardzors!!" doesn't help.

[Kelski]

I'm getting the same issue, double click on far cry icon to start and just get the hour glass. Then after about 30 sec computer just freezes up and I have to manually restart the system.

Win XP home SP1
Asus P4S800 Motherboard
P4 2.8ghz 800fsb
1 gig pc3200 ram
Geforce FX5700 256MB 53.03 driver
2 80gig WD ata 100 drives running at Raid 0
Direct X 9.0b


btw, it runs fine on my other system
Intel VC820 mb
P3 1.0 ghz 133fsb
512mb PC800 RDRAM
G4 MX440 53.03 driver
generic 30gig drive

[This message was edited by Kelski on Sun March 14 2004 at 10:43 AM.]

[Bl4ckSt4r]

Unfortunately ive been in Cuba for the past week and have only gotten home just now (its 3:35 am EST). I checked the log.txt (as The Mcnasty said) and, unfortunately, i get the exact message about the video card.

im assuming i can either get a new video card, or just not bother with the demo right?

(i'll be getting a new card eventually...)

[yellowbrickSOAD]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TheMcNasty:
Check the log.txt, it should tell you something like this:

System: Error: VideoCard Name_of_your_card is not supported by FarCry engine
System Shutdown

For some reason, the developers felt the need to just not try to run the engine on some cards (for compatibility issues not because they aren't good enough). Even if your card would run the game just fine with the drivers it has, you'll never get to find out. This especially goes for laptops. Thanks Crytek, I hate you (unless you take that stupid check out and let us worry about compatibility).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Just been reading a cool interview last night with People Can Fly / Dreamcatcher / NVIDIA about Painkiller. Their programmers somehow worked overnight to provide a rendering system for the entire GeForce MX series. Apparently it was a miracle they came up with this, as they otherwise were calmly planning NOT to support MX cards at all, which would potentially wipe out a significant proportion of the gaming market, but this is a fact of life when it comes to the latest generation games. If DC / PCF were prepared to not support MX cards, let alone "integrated" video cards such as SiS etc, it sends out a strong message to consumers - if you want to do gaming, you must have a gaming video card. I feel the MX range is not meant for gaming at all, and quite frankly it's holding the industry back, having to backpedal to accomodate the needs of the "non-gaming" pc's. Imagine what such cool games like Far Cry / Painkiller could accomplish if they relinquished such albatrosses as support for integrated videocards and MX 'budget' cards. It's definitely holding the progress of technology back. But one has to step back and appreciate the time the game programmers devote around-the-clock to provide rendering systems for these cards.

[ttyp0]

From log.txt:

System: Error: VideoCard ATI (Radeon Mobility 7500) is not supported by FarCry engine
System Shutdown

Obviously, this game was not made for laptops as it's next to impossible to upgrade a laptop video card. Got 1.7GHz P4 with 1GB RAM and 40GB HD... and then it all just hangs on your video card not having enough memory eventhough it would pack enough punch to run the game otherwise. Blah, sucks. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/51.gif

[Jack__.]

look at the ******* reccomended system requierments and get those before you wast furum space, jesus christ, you had to go to the far cry homepage to get hear, did you ever think of looking?, jesus!

[Bl4ckSt4r]

Copy paste the link: (do not click on it)

http://www.geocities.com/deepangel_22/ahem.PNG

unless im mistaken, this means im good to go. Correct me of im wrong.

[bloodjelly]

I'm having the same problem with the 7500 Radeon Mobility. Why can't we lower-end card users at least try to see if the game works with our card? I'd prefer garbled images to nothing and a crappy error log.

[poppachocks1]

Thanks Jack__.

This type of post is getting old. Why won't this **** game play on my brand new $349.00 (after mail-in rebate)E-machine? I can play Blah-blah with no problems. I screwed up and can't return this POS system, so I'm going to complain loudly.

For you people that think that Crytek is going to release a patch to suddenly make this game run on hardware that was previously unsupported..... KEEP WAITING. Obviously, people that have lower end systems didn't do their homework before they purchased the game. I've read a dozen or more reviews of this game. One thing is consistent in all these reviews "You need a powerful system to run this game at a reasonable level"

Thanks for the post Yellowbrick. I agree with you. Probably won't happen though. It does take money to stay on the bleeding edge. If you want to play the latest games, be prepared to do some upgrading every 12 - 18 months or so. ( more often if you bought low/mid range stuff to begin with)

For people that are unwilling or unable to upgrade (I understand there are things like mortgages/rent food, etc.)there are always consoles.

[bloodjelly]

Well it's just that similar games DO run well on my laptop, which isn't a $349.00 after mail-in rebate E-machine thank god. It's a pretty nice Vaio, getting a little long in the tooth but still a P4 1.7 ghz with 768 MB RAM and yes, a not-so-great video card. But as far as 3D games go it does very well, thank you, and I believe it could handle FC. I just played it last night on my R/M computer and he's using my old GForce 2 with a P4 1.3 - that's not really any better than my 7500, and I bought it way before this laptop. So sorry to press the issue but there are people who have systems that can play this game that are getting shut out, and answers like "Trust us, we know better" or "Just upgrade" don't help.

[This message was edited by bloodjelly on Fri April 30 2004 at 11:05 AM.]

[poppachocks1]

What "similar" games are you running? Are you saying there are other games out there that are as demanding on a system as Far Cry? If so, please tell me what they are.

[bloodjelly]

With FC set to its lowest settings, I'd say Unreal Tournament 2003 set to high settings is a decent comparison. If not, why don't the developers just let us find out on our own?

[poppachocks1]

This is a riot. Well, I'll let others point out the obvious problems with that ridiculous statement.

[bloodjelly]

ok

[jshandorf1972]

Far Cry video card support has nothing to do with "crappy cards" and "good cards". It is all about supporing a chipset. Different kinds of cards have different chipsets. Crytex went with supporting the standard GeForce chipset and the ATI chipset. If you have something different the game won't work.

Now wether you agree with that decision is totally different. Personally I feel that should have tried to make the game as backward compatible as possible, and if not atleast specfically state on the box what hardware the game will and will not run on.

[bloodjelly]

Ah, thank you. What a relief hearing an honest thoughtful answer. Too bad about the game, though, I wanted to play that sh*t http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/16x16_smiley-sad.gif

[poppachocks1]

Sorry if you thought I wasn't being thoughtful Blood. I believe that Far Cry is the beginning of the new order of games. Some people will end up getting left out in the cold if they are unwilling or unable to upgrade. I'm sure we'll see the same kind of issues when Stalker, Doom3 and HL2 finally make an appearance. It's just the nature of PC games. Don't think the hardware manufacturers ain't lovin it!

[Absolutehype1]

Ok guys i am having the same problem with my game not running, i admit its not the best of systems but it fits minimum specification and everything in my sytem is compatible. I have an AMD Athlon XP 2200+, Nvidia GForce MX 440, 512 mb DDR RAM, DVD Drive, CD Writer, 4.1 Channel Soundcard everything and the game tries to load. But as it seems the video is loading it stops. Doesnt crash just nothing happens =\ Ne ideas? http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[Absolutehype1]

Ok guys i am having the same problem with my game not running, i admit its not the best of systems but it fits minimum specification and everything in my sytem is compatible. I have an AMD Athlon XP 2200+, Nvidia GForce MX 440, 512 mb DDR RAM, DVD Drive, CD Writer, 4.1 Channel Soundcard everything and the game tries to load. But as it seems the video is loading it stops. Doesnt crash just nothing happens =\ Ne ideas? http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[bloodjelly]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by poppachocks1:
Don't think the hardware manufacturers ain't lovin it!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

seriously...what a racket