Far Cry 2 freezes at loading screens

[Grumpy]

For playing a game designed for XP/Vista you must put it in Win98 compatibility mode. Ubisoft is priceless.

LOL, yes I tried many things to fix the slow loading on my sons machine, and I mean many things, then as a last resort (and I honestly didnt expect it to work) I changed the compatability setting and like magic the game now loads a hell of a lot faster.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Also try lowering the sound acceleration (Windows XP: Control Panel, Sounds and Audio Devices, Volume tab, Speaker settings frame, Advanced, Performance tab, Hardware acceleration) and/or disabling EAX support and/or up-/downgrading your EAX driver.

[newone111]

If you're using the 3GB Ram-Switch for WindowsXP/32bit - deactivate it!
I've got rid of freezes and bluescreens by removing the / 3B/ USERVA=2990 value from the boot.ini.
Btw...Not using any kind of crack for the game.

[lucas785]

Thx to Grumpy i solved the prob guys! For all that have this problem turn compatibility mode to windows 98/me farcry 2.exe and start the game from this file.
If you have some sound problem during game (sound stuttering like half life 2) go in sounds device manager in the control pannel and low the hardware accelleration bar to minimum (in the advanced option)

Now work great!

p.s. apply the latest patch to game

THX to Grumpy !!!!

[chopsy]

hey, i have the same problem as lucas!

as ive read it looks like the solution is to change the compatibility, but how would i go about dong that?

any help would be appreiciated.

[Grumpy]

@chopsy

as ive read it looks like the solution is to change the compatibility, but how would i go about dong that?

Right Click the desktop shortcut for Farcry 2, Choose Properties from the menu.
Once the Properties screen opens, choose the Compatability tab.
Tick the Box for the compatability Mode and choose 'Windows 98/Windows Me'.
Then click Apply and Ok.

All done.

[mtt_asch]

ok, well i did every thing except disable my audigy, which nothing worked until i disabled it, now it loads in 15 seconds give or take, BUT NO SOUND!!!
I cannot play it like this or i will go nuts (yes i created an acount in less then a min to post this).

P.S. Thank you for atleast fixing the load thing, i thought i was gonna have to return it!

P.S.S. I have an Creative audigy SB2 WDM

[Luciel]

As weird as it may sound, it is the certain sound cards (not only audigy i´m afraid), funny how that works, sound affects video.

Aniway, creative (audigy, live, pro, xfi) have lunched a new driver for their cards to fix this issue, so i would suggest for creative sound card owners to download it.

No idea about the rest, sorry.