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  1. #1

    Why wont Far Cry Play and what does UPlay have to do with Single Player ??

    I just bought the game tonight at Wal-Mart , i get it home to install it , i install all 3 disks , i click the FC4 Icon , and it opens up UPlay , i dont want to play online , i bought the game to play Single Player Only , so i go to the X86 folder and find Far Cry 4 Application , so i send that icon to my desktop , i click it and it opens up UPlay , what the crap is this junk ?? , all i want to do is play the game , no online , no shopping , i just want to play the game , WHY WONT IT PLAY ???? , so i come here to the forums to ask why my new game wont even start , and i have to create a UPlay account ??? , i only want the game to play Single Player , not all this other crap

    Win 7 Pro 64 bit
    GeForce GTX 750TI
    8 gb Ram
    Intel Quad Core Q6600 2.4gHz

    This same crap is going on with COD Ultimate Warfare , all this Steam crap , and Uplay crap , but no game ??? , did i just waste $100+ on 2 useless games that dont play ??

    HELP ASAP !!!!!!!
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    WID992007's Avatar Senior Member
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    the game requires u play

    you must be online to make a u play account use your e mail address write it down as well as your password let it update your game

    next select u play and set it to open in offline mode only

    also if you installed on the DVD's make sure you verify your install

    and have no other software running in the background like evga precision or msi after burner

    Background Applications
    You may also encounter problems due to applications running in the background on your computer system. When playing Ubisoft games, please be sure to close all running background applications before starting your game. You can find the steps for this listed below.

    - Open your start menu and look for Run (Win XP), Start search (Win Vista), or Search programs and files (Win 7)
    - Delete anything on the Open line that you'll find there, and type in the word MSCONFIG and press the Enter key to bring up the system configuration utility
    - Look down the list of startup items (not the tab labeled Startup), and choose Selective Startup (if it is not already selected) (If you don't see this, make sure you've clicked on General, near the top of the window)
    - Once you've chosen Selective Startup, uncheck 'Load Startup Items'
    - Once you're done here, click Apply & OK, and let it reboot your computer
    - Once restarted, make sure that any application that affects your local network is disabled

    Try running the game again. If the game loads and seems to be working, the problem is most likely related to one or more programs you have scheduled to load with Windows. You can then revert the settings back the way they were, and in a trial and error fashion, disable some programs using the startup tab (in the msconfig utility) to try to find the culprit.

    *Keep in mind that this is a temporary solution and any changes can be reverted by returning to the MSCONFIG utility and re-selecting 'Normal Startup"

    to verify your game files look here

    https://support.ubi.com/en-US/FAQ/60...0000000ee85CAA
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    OK i got it to play after i did the UPlay thing , thank you for the reply ............. (BUT), honestly , i am not even close to liking this game , i HATE the Movie/Interactive things that auto go every time you get to a certain point in the game , you can't escape , you can't bypass it , your just stuck there for 5 minutes wasting time while this interactive movie plays , i am sorry but i have Far Cry 1 , and aside from graphics , Far Cry 1 is 1,000 times better game to play , this interactive crap sucks and whomever thought this is fun for a First Person Shooter is a idiot , i am not impressed and feel i just wasted my money on a game that has NOTHING to do with the original Far Cry which is the ONLY reason i bought it , , the keyboard mapping is a joke , you should be able to use the LEFT MOUSE , for ANY weapon , so if you have only a knife , you should be able to stab or whatever with the Left Mouse/Fire Weapon , to map another key to try to remember is STUPID

    This game needs to be completely redone and go back to the ORIGINAL story , and original controls , the ONLY things that should have been changed was the graphics , if it does not get better soon (i am back up to the Tower) , then i am going to uninstall it and get my money back , i did not want a Role Playing Game , i wanted to shoot stuff just like the original game , which as i stated is the ONLY reason i got it , was to play Single Player first person SHOOTING , not sit thru a movie without the ability to escape , and go thru some story that has NOTHING to do with Far Cry 1 , why am i not Jack Carver , and who is this guy , who has nothing to do with the Original game , or even the Far Cry Movie that played on TV a while back ??

    I am not impressed at all , if this is progress , then it must be progressing backwards , its just dumb , i cant think of another explanation to call it , but dumb , and so far a waste of the last hour of my life , i am not 16 (56) , and i have been playing First Person Shooters since early 2000's , and this is by far the worst game i have played as far as fun and what i consider quality game play (FC 1 is GREAT , this does not even hold a candle to FC1) , is there a Retro-Update to put the game back to the original Far Cry concept ?? . because this one sucks , the interactive movie/story that happens several times in the game , needs to go....seriously , i am thinking tomorrow if i don't get any promising answers , i am going to uninstall this poor excuse for a FPS , i guess if i was 12 it would be fun , but its boring as crap , and honestly , i am not impressed with what the game has become , the graphics are great , the game itself sucks , is Far Cry 2 or 3 better and more like the original game for Single player only ???, i would rather go install them if they are like the old game , and get my money back on this one

    Any hopeful info would be appreciated

    PS , i know this is not your fault , and i appreciate your help in trying to resolve my issue (which it did , thank you) , but the game itself , is just bad so far , and worth about $9.00 not $59.00
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    Originally Posted by TheJimDirt Go to original post
    then i am going to uninstall it and get my money back
    Originally Posted by TheJimDirt Go to original post
    is Far Cry 2 or 3 better and more like the original game for Single player only ???, i would rather go install them if they are like the old game , and get my money back on this one

    Good luck with that , you already created uplay account and registered game to it , once you do that there is no turn back .
    Also Far Cry 3 is the same like Far Cry 4 but with better graphic , or like some people call it Far Cry 3.5
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    Udontplay

    Hi,

    Im glad its not just me that thinks UPlay is the biggest joke out there. OMG the download speeds are killing me. To be honest, I bought FC 4 in a shop, but it has taken so god damn long to download and install on UPLay (2 days now) so I just decided to download the game from pirate bay (Jup I said it!!!) and it took me 3 hours to download and Im playing it right now.

    Sorry UPlay but you guys are working against gamers and all we want to do is play the game we paid money for - that's it.

    Nowadays its much easier to play a pirate game than original.

    UPLAY I sincerely hope your building burns down.
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    Originally Posted by KmarkoPL Go to original post
    Good luck with that , you already created uplay account and registered game to it , once you do that there is no turn back .
    Also Far Cry 3 is the same like Far Cry 4 but with better graphic , or like some people call it Far Cry 3.5
    Well that sucks , thanks for the info

    How about FC2 is it more like FC1 ?? , if so i will get that , and i agree with the other poster , UPlay honestly is crap ware that i should not need to play , all the games prior did not need it , so why now ?? , to me its just a huge hassle for something that should have been simple , i would rather have it Save Game to my Hard Drive then have UPlay , i bought the game on disk , so it to me is just unnecessary to have the UPlay thing , and a pain in my butt , because you have to go thru it every time to play Single Player , which is just dumb , and annoying

    Is there any way to stop or skip those annoying interactive movie things from playing throughout the game ?? , because once it starts playing you can not pause , escape to the the menu , or do anything but wait it out , in FC1 you could just skip it , this is one feature that ruins the game for me , besides the storyline not having anything to do with the Original Far Cry (at least so far in what little of the game i have played) , but to be this disappointed this early in the game play says more than anything else , which is a major let down , FC1 was fun to play , this is just ...... not.... , maybe i will get the new Crysis game , hopefully its better than FC4
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    KmarkoPL's Avatar Banned
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    Far Cry 1 was on Cry Engine and Far Cry 2 it have the same but older DIUNA engine than FC3 and FC4
    Far Cry 2 is nothing like Far Cry 1 , It all depend on your taste, suggest to check on youtube some walktrough
    Also , you giving out about Uplay , now most of the PC games , must be activated in any kind DRM client similar like Uplay ,you have also Steam and Origin
    If you don't knew about that ,then you must have been living under rock for the past 10 years,
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    I would "think" Far Cry 2,3,4 would be Far Cry , in other words Jack Carver killing the created animals , and the people that guard it , and the morphed soldiers created by Krieger , you know , following the story

    My tastes would be Call of Duty 1- newest , Crysis Warhead , or similar , what i used to play was Novalogic games like Land Warrior , Task Force Dagger ,Black Hawk Down , etc , i was top 10 in the world in most kills and head shots and med saves , playing online , so i am not new to gaming , just new to this way of installing and opening the game , to me its just something to take up hard drive space unnecessarily and using system resources for no reason

    As far as what i currently have installed , would be COD1 ,COD2, COD United Offensive ,COD4 , Crysis Warhead , Far Cry 1 , now Far Cry 4 and COD Advanced Warfare , so that is the type of games i like , shooting , action , not a Role Playing game , which is what Far Cry 4 seems to have morphed into , hokey missions that have a stupid interactive video that you can not escape from or by-pass , COD MW i like , its fun , though it has downsides compared to COD1-4 , like not being able to lean left/right , which to me is dumb , it would be realistically more accurate like the prior versions were , in other words , the game was not broke , so they broke it and ruined it (Far Cry) , now its like World of Warcraft but in a First Person View , which is stupid for a First Person Shooter game , which is why i dont play Grand Theft Auto or Need For Speed , because they are more like what Far Cry has become

    And under a rock , no , i just have not played online since about 05 , only single player games , and my PC was , up until recently (like the last week) , XP and a Athlon 3000+ Socket A , so as far as PC goes , i have not had the latest tech so i only played the games my PC would support , even now , i am far from current PC specs , (Quad Core , 8gb ram , 2 gb video ,Win 7 64 bit) , so not really under a rock , but the last new games i got was COD4 and Crysis Warhead , which was until yesterday , the newest games my PC would support, neither of which needed anything to play "Single Player" , which because of where i live (away from any cable or DSL) i can only have Dish , which limits your bandwidth and if you go over , you have no internet till the end of the month , so not wasting what i have with a unneeded thing taking away bandwidth for no logical reason is important to me, so i pretty much quit online gaming and just played my older games , till now (yesterday) , so i have been aware of the current games , just not the process to play them , since i did not have a PC to run them , i never really researched what was required to play them

    Follow ??

    Either way , Steam and UPlay suck as far as player friendly game install , and running the games in single player mode where Steam or UPlay , would not be needed since they never were before ............. , especially since it did not say anything about you have to install them in order to play Single Player , or to play them at all , which to me is crap , what if i did not have internet at all ? , i could not even play single player , that is just a stupid way to design a game , as are the interactive videos that you can't by-pass

    Anyway , enough of my ranting .... , so it looks like i would be better off getting one of the Crysis games , i wish i had not wasted good money on Far Cry 4 , i am still playing it , and honestly , it has not gotten any better , and there is no way to control how dark the game is so when i go in a building/hut , or am next to a hillside , i can hardly see , if at all , another thing they took away , but added junk to replace it , was the ability to adjust the brightness within the game , again , poor programming and decisions as to what the game should be , so far on a scale of 1-10 , i give it a 9 on graphics and a 2 on game play user friendliness ....ok now....enough of my ranting....
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