I'm experiencing this very same issue. I initially started out with the Nvidia 184.20 beta drivers but those were rolled back to the latest 178.24 release drivers.

My Audigy 2 ZS has the latest drivers installed from Creative. There aren't any sound glitches or choppy music.

I get to the Loading screen and the spin bar just keeps going. I haven't even had a chance to play the game yet. Different video drivers were used, sound drivers, sound hardware acceleration levels, and in-game display choices.

AMD 64-bit 4000+ CPU
Nvidia 8800 GTX Video Card
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Sound Card
Windows XP, DirectX 9.0c, Service Pack 3
4GB RAM

I have the same problem. But i can get into the game with this workaround:

1) Start far cry in windowed mode (make a shortcut to farcry2.exe and add -RenderProfile_Fullscreen 0).

2) When the game start loading open Windows proces mangement (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and set the process farcry2.exe to low priority.

3) Now jou can work in windows until the game is fully loaded.

4) Press ALT+ENTER to get into full screen mode when the game is loaded.

The strange thing is that i also use a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS with latest driver. Could it be related to this? Has anyone tried to disable the Soundcard completely or using the older driver on the creative website?

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Originally posted by boji:
I'm experiencing this very same issue. I initially started out with the Nvidia 184.20 beta drivers but those were rolled back to the latest 178.24 release drivers.

My Audigy 2 ZS has the latest drivers installed from Creative. There aren't any sound glitches or choppy music.

I get to the Loading screen and the spin bar just keeps going. I haven't even had a chance to play the game yet. Different video drivers were used, sound drivers, sound hardware acceleration levels, and in-game display choices.

AMD 64-bit 4000+ CPU
Nvidia 8800 GTX Video Card
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Sound Card
Windows XP, DirectX 9.0c, Service Pack 3
4GB RAM

mmz my system is almost the same as yours mate:

AMD 64-bit 4000+ CPU
Nvidia 7800 GTX Video Card
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Sound Card
Windows XP, DirectX 9.0c, Service Pack 3
1GB RAM DDR

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Originally posted by Bartleunen:
I have the same problem. But i can get into the game with this workaround:

1) Start far cry in windowed mode (make a shortcut to farcry2.exe and add -RenderProfile_Fullscreen 0).

2) When the game start loading open Windows proces mangement (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and set the process farcry2.exe to low priority.

3) Now jou can work in windows until the game is fully loaded.

4) Press ALT+ENTER to get into full screen mode when the game is loaded.

The strange thing is that i also use a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS with latest driver. Could it be related to this? Has anyone tried to disable the Soundcard completely or using the older driver on the creative website?

How do you mean?

start far cry 2, then in the main menu alt enter to windows.

set priority to low on far cry 2,


or when i'm loading a level in far cry 2 my pc is kinda stuck on the loading screen, haven't tried the alt enter though.


Iv' always set priority of fc2 to high...


i'll try this low thing!

Bartleunen,


when i'm in the main screen and when i've set priority to low then i can work in windows.


but from the moment when i load the game i even can't work in windows due to my mouse isn't showing up...

how long does it takes to load anyway sigh...


I've waiting here for about 20 min and still nothing...


i'm sick and tired of seeying that when the jackhal... containers full off aks and rpgs etc...

**FIX**

Ok i have found the problem. It is my sound card (Soundblaster audigy 2 ZS). When i completely disable creative SB audigy 2 ZS (WDM) the game loads without problems within 20 sec!

I have disabled my soundcard in the devicemanger, i think this is the english word for it. On my pc it is called "Apparaatbeheer" (dutch)

Let me know if this works for you also.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Bartleunen,

Yesterday before i got to bed i thought of that to.


so now i disabled my audigy 2zs, installed the sound drivers of the chipset on my motherboard and bam far cry 2 loads under 1 min!!!!


Thanks bart!

This is a bug but you can fix this your self, What i am about to say will sound crazy but the fix is crazy.. here goes o.o:

step 1. run notepad or word pad, (any lightweight application is fine) put the game in windowed mode at the menu. ( alt + enter) DO NOT ENTER WINDOWED MODE WHILE LOADING, your DXAPI WILL LOCK UP.

step 2. let the game load as normal until you see it beginning to drop frames at the load screen ( the little circular arrow becomes slow)

step 3. Alt tab to note pad to make it the active application. ( you will notice after doing this that the arrow on the load screen is no longer choppy and is now rotating smoothly, soon the music will stop playing ( stay on notepad, soon after the music stops the game screen will flash black and then you'll be in game! have fun ^^

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Originally posted by Bartleunen:
**FIX**

Ok i have found the problem. It is my sound card (Soundblaster audigy 2 ZS). When i completely disable creative SB audigy 2 ZS (WDM) the game loads without problems within 20 sec!

I have disabled my soundcard in the devicemanger, i think this is the english word for it. On my pc it is called "Apparaatbeheer" (dutch)

Let me know if this works for you also.

Thanks Bartleunen! This worked for me as well.

I hope they get this figured out soon. I don't want to have to keep enable/disable -ing my Creative sound card.

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Originally posted by RevHortonHeat:

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Originally posted by Bartleunen:
**FIX**

Ok i have found the problem. It is my sound card (Soundblaster audigy 2 ZS). When i completely disable creative SB audigy 2 ZS (WDM) the game loads without problems within 20 sec!

I have disabled my soundcard in the devicemanger, i think this is the english word for it. On my pc it is called "Apparaatbeheer" (dutch)

Let me know if this works for you also.

Thanks Bartleunen! This worked for me as well.

I hope they get this figured out soon. I don't want to have to keep enable/disable -ing my Creative sound card.

Do you also have a audigy 2 card? Then try the older driver on there website! There website has a new and a older driver on it.

I had the same problem too.

I have Soundblaster X-Fi. I disabled it and now I can play.

But I have a new problem. Now I can't hear anything. What should I do to get voices working.

I am also having this same problem, and I also have an x-FI card. I've tried contacting tech support, but so far they've just given me the form response, "update drivers, run scandisk, etc".

sigh, same issue here, really don't wanna disable my audigy card. This is stupid, a popular card like this should not be causing problems. 4 hours wasted, not happy at all

same problem here!!!

I've an AMD 3200+ 2GB ram ATI Radeon 2900pro and the sound blaster audigy 2 ZS ......

Can someone help us??????

A other strange thing that i can conclude is that all specs posted contain a AMD (Athlon 64) processor. Could it be ralated to a Audigy 2 with an amd processor? Does anyone have this problem with an INTEL processor?

i have onboard realtek no audigy and intel cpu and 8800 ultra.

i too get the cd icon going forever before the process dies.i have yet to see the menu every other game i have ever had has worked flawless and i know my pc inside and out!

If you haven't even got as far as the menu screen, I think you have a different issue to the other people in this thread. We all get through to the menu, attempt to start the game, and then after displaying three introductory screens, get no further.

Little bit of advise why not try ringing up ubi support?? you can get there number from contact us link at bottom of page.

try : http://www.ubireg.com/uk/

Its got all infomation on latest patches and Frequently asked questions answered check it out might be something there that can help you with your issue.