You weren't suspended for "double posting", you were suspended for spamming the same post repeatedly across the forum, it was the one that started with this line:

"So you guys are going to see me post this very one in as much as topics I can"

All those posts are still plainly visible to all mods and managers in the trashcan, so don't pretend you weren't just pointlessly spamming, the bunch of identical posts in the trashcan proves otherwise.

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Originally posted by BTOG46:
All those posts are still plainly visible to all mods and managers in the trashcan, so don't pretend you weren't just pointlessly spamming, the bunch of identical posts in the trashcan proves otherwise.

I am very happy to hear that they are plainly visible. Print them and mail them it MIGHT help the cause?! Actually, the posts weren't the "same post repeatedly". Simular but not the same. More importantly; I am NOT "pretending".

All these issues that most gamers are experiencing with this game are typing in desperation. They want this game to work. I want this game to work for people.

You have the time to respond to my post but no time to help? For gods sakes, you're a Mod. Mods aren't just people who babysit people. They also help. Unless this place is different then the website I work for. Let me ask you something; do you own this game? Are you experiencing problems with it? If you do, please share your experiences.

If it's working right, tell us what you're doing and how.

What does matter is (as I stated) we are the consumer that pays $50.00 for a game. We all deserve answers. Here or any where else. But of course, I can't expect you to know the answers to all or some of the problems that this game has. Your a Admin for a gaming website that supports "cheats" for games. INCLUDING farcry-2
CHEATS. None are listed but definately supports cheating.

I am a mod/lead news editor for www.overclockersclub.com since 2004 and trust me BTO, We have a lot of knowledgable people that work over there that will help in any way possible.

At least 8 of those posts were not "similar", but absolutely identical cut and pastes.

If you'd read the DRM thread, you'd know I have the game, I posted a photograph of the DRM notice on my copy.

If members act like babies, I babysit.

I so far have had zero problems with my game, apart from taking several attempts to initially activate it the first time I ran it.

As for what I'm doing "right", I have no idea, other than to say my computer is running XP SP3 and fully updated, and nothing else installed apart from games, Nero 7, Adobe Acrobat, and Cyberlink Home Cinema.
The computer itself is a modest little thing, just a Pentium D with 2gb of ram and a 512mb 7800GS, but it runs everything I want to run, with my most important requirement, stability

I can't comment on the online play, as I rarely play online these days, mainly due to an erratic connection, as I no longer play from work.

As for the newly relaunched Maximum Gamers site, that cheat section is a bone of contention between myself and the site owner, as I don't feel we should publish cheats for games there, unless they're ones released by the makers of the game in question, and only for single player.

Finally though, I'd like to say that if your other posts had been on as mature a level as this one I'm answering, none would have been moved to the trashcan, and you wouldn't have been suspended.

btw, sorry for not unsuspending you as soon as your week was up, I forgot, and it wasn't till I went through my checklist that I noticed I'd forgotten..

A person buys a brand new car and it doesn't work. Is the person being immature by bitching about the car? I say no. People pay a lot of money for a brand new car and they expect it to work. If it doesn't work and no one can figure out why it doesn't work then it is to be expected that there will be many angry customers.

I am among many people here (as you know) that are having MAJOR issues with this game. You cannot expect mature responses in all threads/forums about whatever product it is. As a mod myself, I see it on a daily basis as well. The only difference is; I have the balls to state my true feelings about this game here or to UBI themselves and not worry about the reprocussions.

You can warn, suspend or even ban but the fact remains; The game doesn't work for many people out there. We have a right to get ****ed off. ****, you'd be ****ed off too if it didn't work for you!?

Let's not forget if the manufacturer won't answer the telephone, can't speak english well, tries to troubleshoot over the telephone and is completely confused as to why it doesn't work either.

I have nothing to apologize for. I'm still angry that I had to give my $50.00 game away. It's really sad. When I shop for a game I don't need to look at the requirements. My rig will run anything that you throw at it.

EVGA 790i Ultra SLi (132-CK-NF79-A1)
INTEL Core2 Duo E8400 3Ghz
Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme
2GB (2 x 1GB) OCZ Reaper HPC DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) (OCZ3RPR13332GK)
X2 EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR 9800GTX in SLi
X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro
PC Power & Cooling S75QB EPS12V 750W PSU
Tt kandalf case (Modded)

Let me say one last thing to give UBI some credit; They do make some good games. I'd be a lyer to say that I don't have UBI games in my library. Games include, Splinter cell series, Rainbow shield series and many others. They all work.

Anyways....let's get this thread back on topic and I do owe the author an apology for robbing his thread. I'm sorry.

I purchased the game the day it came out. Loved the first one had to have the second. I could not play it for 3 months because my graphics card wasn't good enough. I waited for a good ATI card to go on sale and then i doped a bone on it. When my card came in the mail I immediately installed it. Of course it had problems and didn't work. I was so disappointed that I had to mail it back and could not play Far Cry 2. After a week, and what seemed like a very long week end, I got my card, installed it, tossed in the game. Played for a little than BLAMMY! THATS RIGHT I SAID IT "BLAMMY".
P. Oed at ATI got all the drivers updated. Tried it again. About an hour passes (replayed every thing I just did) then cowF'nBlammy again. Game shut off. GPU was 48 c.

Searched forums and here I am. Now I have to buy a dif. game. Any suggestions.

UBI! FIX THE PROBLEM you you agh! never mind.

Wow this is getting nasty! Back to the topic at hand, I'll just toss my hat in and contribute my own experience on this topic.
My friend and I both play with 4870x2, both using Vista Ultimate 64, and have both had the same problem since day one of this game's launch.
Imho Hquest495 hit the nail right on the hammer

"This is a common problem. Ubisoft has yet to fix or even acknowledge it.

There's a memory leak somewhere in the DX10 rendering engine, and it crashes once it reaches 60% RAM usage (no matter how much RAM you have).It's fixed if you switch to DX9, but your framerate will drop quite drastically in DX9 as it's not as optimized as DX10 is."

Just offering my 2 cents, but it seems like something we'll be hoping that they patch, and until they do if you can't stomach the ctd's then you have no choice but to play in dx9.

Same problem here.
I have tried Catalyst 8.11, 8.12, 8.12 hotfix, 9.1. I tried Far Cry 2 patch 1.01 and 1.02.
Nothing helps after about an hour the game crashes to the desktop.
I was monitoring my system resources and saw that when Far Cry 2 crashed my total ram usage was 2.9GB because my system uses about 1GB normally I remembered that I had the same prob with Supreme Commander a year ago. This problem was fixed when the executable was given the ability to use more then 2GB of RAM (I have Vista x64 with 8GB) the crashes were over. The forum post with a link to the needed program and some explanations can be found at: http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=2382
First I checked if the Farcry2.exe had the headerflag 'Application can handle large addresses' set and it didn't so I used the tools from above mentioned post and now the headerflag is set. I fired up Farcry 2 and could play for over 2 hours without a CTD!
I didn't play longer because of limited time but it already seemed better. After I quit the game I checked in processmonitors history and now my system was using 3.6GB and it was steadily growing from 3.2 to 3.6 for as my history went. So it seems there is a memory leak indeed but now this wille probably only give a problem after many hours cause there is plenty of RAM available.
If you have a 32bit windows this in combination with PAE and the /3GB flag will probably give you also more time but I do recommend a 64bit windows with 4GB ram.
Ubi will however still need to fix the memory leak but I hope some of you can enjoy the game longer with this hack.

Moderator, is Ubisoft aware of this issue yet? I did not pay $50 for a paper weight. I tried contacting tech support and they were no help.

No, and you WONT get any help from a criminal entity like UBI. Just REMEMBER and never FORGET this the next time these crackwhore developers put out a game. They have proven over the last few months that like drugdealers, once they have your cash, you can die and they still will laugh. As Im sure they are now. Again, NEVER hand your money over to the worst game development team in history!

I paid $100 Australian for the game just before xmas, installed it, played it, finished it with no problems, updated it and fiddled around with the video settings and then started having problems with it. In DX9 the leaves on trees and bushes were chunky, and it crashed when i played it in DX10. I got the sh!ts with it big time so i uninstalled the game and the updates as well and then put the game away. After about 1 week i got bored with the other game i was playing, so i installed the game again and tried to play it but couldn't because the bloody thing would not let me reactivate the game. After calling the TECHNICAL SUPPORT HOTLINE for $2.49 per minute inc GST and being kept on hold for over 10 minutes, i hung up and contacted my local computer shop who told me to bring it in and they would look at it for me. After 2 days they phoned me and told me it was all fixed, which cost me $45, i get it home and the game works again in DX9 as long as i turn the AA off. So all up this game has cost me close to $200 to play, including petrol costs, and i can't even get the high end graphics on it that my 4850 is capable of. My PC has 4 Gb of RAM, 1 Gb GPU memory and is running Vista Ultimate 64-bit. NOT HAPPY WITH UBISOFT. Maybe i should stick with SOASE as i have not had any problems with that game and whats more is the fact that i DON'T NEED TO INSERT GAME DISK EVERY TIME I PLAY IT !

I can play for at least four hours now without crashes now I modified the executable with the 'Application can handle large addresses' header.
So the hack works and I can finally enjoy this game.

Well I had this crashing problem too when I played FC2 on my XP64 settings. After some more hassle with XP64 I decided to switch back to XP32 and since then FC2 runs supersmoothly! The game never crashes again (I once played for about 8 hours without *any* glitch) and at the highest settings without any problem at all.

I see a lot of problems with Vista64 and XP64, so maybe an idea for users to switch to XP/Vista32 if possible.
Can it be that FC2 and 64-bits Windows do not match well?

Well you are lucky because for me since I upgade my video card from a 7800 GTX to a 9800 GX2 the game freeze after 2 minutes I try to lower the display specs but nada

What is the status with this issue? I live in Montreal, I will personally visit the Ubisoft headquarters and make a big stink if I don't hear anything from the devs/moderators soon.

as far as I know there is still no fix for this issue. I have 2 computer builds and it's the same story on both. I have Vista32 on one PC and Vista64 on another. The 32bit has a 4870, 512mb card, and the other has a 4870x2 (I've also interchanged the cards to experiement.) Both setups run super smooth from start to crash. My x2 setup hits 60+ fps most the game, and without warning I'm staring at the desktop after an hourish of playing.
If I switch to DirectX 9... no crashes ever on either setup... It has to be DX 10 related and it doesn't seem like anyone at UBI has anything to say.
Incidentally, I recently got GTA4, and it seems to crash at 1 hours too.... DX10/Microsoft issue and not UBI?? You tell me...

It's most definitely a DX10 memory leak.

I've confirmed with at least 4 people that it occurs the moment your PC hits 60% total ram usage in Vista (either 32 or 64). If you know how to work the Systems Resource Monitor, you can check yourself.

Of course, not everyone is experiencing this problem, but as more people have bought the game over the months since release, there are significantly more people now suffering from this issue as well.

WildZeppelin, I just installed Vista32 (Vista64 previously) and am still having this problem. What's interesting is that the game crashes in both DirectX10 and 9! This is on clean install. System specs:

E8600 @ 3.3GHz (no OC)
4 gigs 1066 DDR2
Radeon HD4870X2
Realtek HD Audio onboard sound
P5Q-Pro mobo

Like you, the game runs very smoothly up until the game crashes, all settings are on highest and fps never dips below 60. I am really starting to think that it is an Ati issue, more specifically with the 48xx series... I have the same problem with GTA4 as well, however that problem is a lot more widespread (pretty much everyone is crashing with GTA4).

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Originally posted by Claws_The_One:
WildZeppelin, I just installed Vista32 (Vista64 previously) and am still having this problem. What's interesting is that the game crashes in both DirectX10 and 9! This is on clean install. System specs:

E8600 @ 3.3GHz (no OC)
4 gigs 1066 DDR2
Radeon HD4870X2
Realtek HD Audio onboard sound
P5Q-Pro mobo

Like you, the game runs very smoothly up until the game crashes, all settings are on highest and fps never dips below 60. I am really starting to think that it is an Ati issue, more specifically with the 48xx series... I have the same problem with GTA4 as well, however that problem is a lot more widespread (pretty much everyone is crashing with GTA4).

If it crashes on DX9, then you're not experiencing the common crash the rest of us are.

Hate to be the guy that tells you something you'd probably guess and check on your own, but try taking a look at your card's temperature during gameplay.

I really wouldn't be surprised if you found a way to fix your current crash issue, but still end up having the DX10 memory leak crash.

OK guys I know the problem here... its vista plain and simple. People are complaining of the same thing with other games. All the games I play including Crisis, Sword of the Stars and Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning CTD after about a hour or more with no error message. Im using Vista Ultimate x64. Well I was going to contact Microsoft to see if they know a solution but it costs $59.00 plus applicable taxes per support request during business hours. Thats email, phone or online chat. A 5-pack Phone Support Contract is available for $1289.00 US. That is just crazy so no help there. Good luck guys.

Im using
WIndows Vista Ultimate x64
AMD Phenom 2 940 3ghz
2x 4870x2 in crossfire x
4gb ddr2 1066 mhz Corsair Dominater
300 gb vilocirapter 10,000 rpm

Are the developers aware of this issue yet?