4.1 & Far Cry Demo - Crashes

[morpheus9394]

Prior to the 4.1 coming out I was using 3.10 on my AMD system with my 9800pro and had no problems running the Far Cry demo, though it was a little slow on max details but that was due to my PC not being up to the task.
I have since upgraded to a p4 2.8ghz with 1ghz corsair ram etc etc, and I decided to go straight to the 4.1 drivers.
All my games work fine, Call of Duty, Need for Speed Underground etc, as does all my benchmarking software, 3dmark 2001/3, Aquamark3 but Far Cry now does not run.
You can boot get into the main menu ok, but when you try to start the game, it loads and it will either lock the PC or you get sound but no display.

Has anyone has had similar problems? I am trying to figure out with it is my PC being unstable (as I am overclocking the video card and pushing the ram quite hard) or whether it is just the game (which I suspect to be the case)
I run 3dmark 2003 in looping mode for 8hrs with no crashes so my PC seems ok.

 

[morpheus9394]

I actually found the answer to my own question.

Apparently the game has problems when enabling AA using the 4.1.
"right click desktop and click properties
click settings, and advanced
click the 3d tab
check the box called "use custom settings"
click custom
change anti-aliasing and anistrophic filtering to off
click apply/ok thru all of the windows
open farcry
browse thru the options (either in "video" or "video/advanced" until u find the option for "AA" or "anti-aliasing"... change it to none
click save changes
exit farcry
open farcry again
and start a new game...
if it didn;t work, go back to the options, and check if its still set to none."

Hopefully it will be fixed in the full game.

 

[RAutrey]

I ran into the same thing. I rolled back to the 3.10s and it's better although I have heard that 3.9s are optimum for Far Cry. Are you having any issues with missing textures on the rocks on the beach? That's the only problem I seem to have now.

 

[jwill]

Originally posted by RAutrey
Are you having any issues with missing textures on the rocks on the beach? That's the only problem I seem to have now.

i noticed the same thing. running the 4.1 cats. aa and af off.

 

[fallguy]

UBi has said to use the 3.9's for it, as that was what it was tested with.