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    Patch 1.8.0 black screen and crash!!!!

    Dear Ubisoft.
    I recently got the 8th update for farcry4. Before that i faced a problem because of which i could not play the game at all. Now after a 1gb worth of update,guess what i see.....either a black screen or the whole game crashes within an accurate time of 30 seconds after loading.. i am running a quad core intel i5 @3.2ghz CPU with 10gb of ram and a AMD hd6670 DDR5 1gb GPU so i think that the game should run ok. Please look into this matter as i am started to think whether buying this game was a mistake!!!
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    Problem!!!

    I have the same problem . A month has passed ... reinstall 4 times but to no avail.
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    Originally Posted by Vikramthapatel Go to original post
    Dear Ubisoft.
    I recently got the 8th update for farcry4. Before that i faced a problem because of which i could not play the game at all. Now after a 1gb worth of update,guess what i see.....either a black screen or the whole game crashes within an accurate time of 30 seconds after loading.. i am running a quad core intel i5 @3.2ghz CPU with 10gb of ram and a AMD hd6670 DDR5 1gb GPU so i think that the game should run ok. Please look into this matter as i am started to think whether buying this game was a mistake!!!

    your issue would be your HD6670

    tho it is higher in version number then the minimum supported AMD GPU an HD5850
    its actually slower and may not be supported at all by the game

    http://pclinks.xtreemhost.com/video.htm

    your 6670 only has a memory bandwidth of 64 gig per second and only 480 pixel and vertex shading units


    the 5850 has @ 128 gig a second Memory Bandwidth as well as 1440 vertex and pixel shaders and is twice as fast of a GPU

    so you may need to upgrade your video card to play Far Cry 4 as your current GPU would actually fall below the minimum system requirements the game needs

    i have an AMD 5770 in my one system and NO it could not run Far Cry 4 correctly and that card is actually more powerful then your 6670...

    MY 5770 has 1 gig of DDR5 and a memory bandwidth of 76 gig a second as well as 800 pixel and vertex shaders (nearly double what your HD6670 has)


    to fix it i installed an R 9 270X which runs the game fine with medium textures @ 1920 x 1080

    Far Cry 4 Minimum Requirements
    MINIMUM
    OS: Windows® 7 (SP1) / Windows® 8 / Windows® 8.1 / (64-bit only)
    Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel® Core™ i5-750 or 3.2 GHz AMD Phenom™ II X4 955
    Memory: 4 GB RAM
    Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1 GB VRAM)
    DirectX: Version 11
    Network: Broadband Internet connection
    Hard Drive: 30 GB available space
    Sound Card: DirectX-compatible
    Additional Notes: Windows-compatible keyboard, mouse, optional controller.


    RECOMMENDED:
    OS: Windows® 7 (SP1) / Windows® 8 / Windows® 8.1 / (64-bit only)
    Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel® Core™ i5-2400S or 4.0 GHz AMD FX-8350 or better
    Memory: 8 GB RAM
    Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon R9 290X or better (2 GB VRAM)
    DirectX: Version 11
    Network: Broadband Internet connection
    Hard Drive: 30 GB available space
    Sound Card: DirectX-compatible
    Additional Notes: Supported video cards at the time of release: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or better, GeForce GTX 700 series; AMD Radeon HD5850 or better, Radeon R9 series.


    Note: Laptop versions of these cards may work but are NOT officially supported.

    also Black screens can come from a number of different issues such as running MSI afterburner or riva tuner or even some Antivirus and or firewall software as well as possibly a corrupt install of the game
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    Same issue here except not as soon as yours. I get a call to rescue two hostages (last game I saved that sticks) do the rescue mission then take out two outposts and the game goes black screen but sound continues. Reboot and continue offline and I'm back at the village getting a call to rescue two hostages This game is vers 1.8 downloaded from Steam..A couple times it gave me the Far Cry 4 Pc has stopped message yet continued to play for a couple minutes..Never got this far before because of the playing with a game pad issue. That issue went away way when I upgraded to Win 8.1.......Now this POS is still a big disappointment.. I wanted so bad to finish this game before GTA5 PC release next month.
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  5. #5
    I had the game since its release and even had completed it twice with the same GPU. It was running fantastic till the 1.6.0 patch no problem.
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