Crash to desktop

[Ferny]

Hi, this afternoon I installed a minty fresh 9800Pro followed by the Cat 4.7
drivers. I go on and play battlefield1942 just fine, no errors. I then
install and play FarCry (beautiful by the way) with no probs. Now...I try
and go back to BF1942. The game loads up just fine, but when I move the
in-game mouse cursor over a button, I go straight to desktop. This happens
in the main menu or after a map has loaded if I use x-fire. To me it seems
there is an issue with whatever FarCry did to my system, but I just don't
know where to start looking to come up with a fix for this. Please help!

 

[WTH]

Hi, this afternoon I installed a minty fresh 9800Pro followed by the
Cat 4.7 drivers. I go on and play battlefield1942 just fine, no
errors. I then install and play FarCry (beautiful by the way) with no
probs. Now...I try and go back to BF1942. The game loads up just
fine, but when I move the in-game mouse cursor over a button, I go
straight to desktop. This happens in the main menu or after a map
has loaded if I use x-fire. To me it seems there is an issue with
whatever FarCry did to my system, but I just don't know where to
start looking to come up with a fix for this. Please help!

Did you change DirectX versions when you installed Far Cry?

WTH

 

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Did you change DirectX versions when you installed Far Cry?

I'm having CTD's as well. I have the latest NVIDIA drivers, DX etc. etc. I
cant reinstall as I don't have the original file. I think that may fix the
problem because I've read that it could be caused by a corrupt rfa...

Any recommendations on DL's?

Thnx

 

[Kill Bill]

Hi, this afternoon I installed a minty fresh 9800Pro followed by the Cat 4.7
drivers. I go on and play battlefield1942 just fine, no errors. I then
install and play FarCry (beautiful by the way) with no probs. Now...I try
and go back to BF1942. The game loads up just fine, but when I move the
in-game mouse cursor over a button, I go straight to desktop. This happens
in the main menu or after a map has loaded if I use x-fire. To me it seems
there is an issue with whatever FarCry did to my system, but I just don't
know where to start looking to come up with a fix for this. Please help!

The Farcry 1.2 patch has been causing crashes to desktop. Only in farcry
though...
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/32761

 

[Ferny]

Did you change DirectX versions when you installed Far Cry?

Nope, already had DX9.0b installed.

 

[Z28]

I'm glad I read this. I patched Far Cry to the 1.2 version and have a few
crashes now and then. I thought it was some tweaking and overclocking I was
doing. The original version never crashed on me.

I was using FC to test real world overclocking on my system, it's been
driving me nuts and now I find there may be a problem with the patch. That's
enough to make me want to pull the two or three hairs out I have left on my
head. Was wondering why HotCPU and Prime95 wasn't failing but Far Cry
would crash!

 

[Jan Kannemacher]

The game loads up just fine, but when I move the
in-game mouse cursor over a button, I go straight to desktop.

Did you set the DirectX sound accelaration too low? This can cause the
problem you have, been there myself. Run DXdiag and have a look on the
sound tab.




JK'04 aka Elkrider

 

[Koin-Koin]

Hi, this afternoon I installed a minty fresh 9800Pro followed by the Cat
4.7

drivers. I go on and play battlefield1942 just fine, no errors. I then
install and play FarCry (beautiful by the way) with no probs. Now...I try
and go back to BF1942. The game loads up just fine, but when I move the
in-game mouse cursor over a button, I go straight to desktop. This happens
in the main menu or after a map has loaded if I use x-fire. To me it seems
there is an issue with whatever FarCry did to my system, but I just don't
know where to start looking to come up with a fix for this. Please help!

UBI Soft officially remove the 1.2 patch and is asking CryTek to fix it
The french announce : http://www.farcry-thegame.com/fr/home.php
and the UK one : http://www.farcry-thegame.com/uk/home.php

 

[Ferny]

Did you set the DirectX sound accelaration too low? This can cause the
problem you have, been there myself. Run DXdiag and have a look on the
sound tab.

I just checked on dxdiag...my sound is on full acceleration. Earlier I
uninstalled DC, DCR, EOD, and BF1942. I did a clean install of BF1942,
patched it to 1.6, then a full install of DC.7. Load the game just fine to
crash to desktop. Again. Later on I'll try uninstalling FarCry and seeing
how that affects BF1942. Thanks for staying on topic, Jan.

 

[Jan Kannemacher]

I just checked on dxdiag...my sound is on full acceleration.

Damn, that would have been a quick solution.

Later on I'll try uninstalling FarCry and seeing
how that affects BF1942.

I remember a tiny problem I had with Windows 2000. After installing the
Service Pack 1, a few games didn't run anymore, regardless of what I
did. They remained that way, up to the SP4. Haven't tried since I
changed to XP...

Let's just hope you get it working again. Maybe a little driver
fiddling?




JK'04 aka Elkrider

 

[Ferny]

Damn, that would have been a quick solution.


I remember a tiny problem I had with Windows 2000. After installing the
Service Pack 1, a few games didn't run anymore, regardless of what I
did. They remained that way, up to the SP4. Haven't tried since I
changed to XP...

Let's just hope you get it working again.

Actually, I have. I simply uninstalled FarCry, restarted my system and now
BF and its mods run like butter. I think there are issues with BF1942 and
FarCry sharing my hard drive, maybe they just don't like each other...at any
rate, I'll try reinstalling FarCry and patching it up then seeing how BF
does. Thanks for your help!

 

[Jan Kannemacher]

Actually, I have. I simply uninstalled FarCry, restarted my system and now
BF and its mods run like butter.

Odd. Did you have the FC patch 1.2 installed? It was "recalled" due do
causing problems by some errors in it.

I think there are issues with BF1942 and
FarCry sharing my hard drive, maybe they just don't like each other

I have them both on the same disk without any trouble so far, but I
didn't install FC 1.2 yet.

Thanks for your help!

Didn't help you much. ;^)




JK'04 aka Elkrider