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    The many, many problems with my game

    I'm having a ton of problems with Far Cry 4 which is making it completely unplayable.

    • First of all, I'm getting about 6 frames per second.
    • When I move my camera the movement is very slow and sluggish making it impossible to aim.
    • In cut scenes the lip syncing is about a second off.
    • I have these weird shaded boxes all over my screen.
    • Sound does not match actions, when I fire my gun the sound comes a little later.
    • Controls are sluggish, when I press a button it takes a small amount of time to work.
    • Hits aren't being detected. I could shoot 50 bullets into an enemy and 5 will be detected.
    • Intense brightness that you get from walking outside into sunlight lasts about 7 seconds.
    • The little popups that come when you get loot take ages. If I refill my ammo for all my weapons it could take a minute to show all of them.


    Needless to say it's impossible to play. Funny thing is these problems have only happened lately (except for the black boxes). I stopped playing for about a month and when I went back all of these things were there. Any idea what the problem could be?
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    WID992007's Avatar Senior Member
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    Specs of your PC ?

    also if your getting the black boxes and its a laptop .. nothing you can do .. you need to disable the onboard vid chip if you have an Intel CPU
    and use your secondary vid chip if you have one (like an Nvidia GPU )

    some laptops do not allow that at all ..why some alienware models DO ....and you just simply press fn + f7 to enable the Nvidia GPU

    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.
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    I have the requirements on the lower end. Thing is this game was working perfectly for me a couple of weeks ago, it says I've got 34% of it completed. Today was the first time I've seen any of this stuff.

    Could there have been something I did maybe? Some kind of update or download or like a virus or anything? I validated the game on steam and rolled back the driver update on my graphics card (to the version it had when it was working fine). Is there anything that could have decreased my computer's ability or broken the game?
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    xMiiSTY's Avatar Community Manager
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    Try these steps.

    - Verify your Uplay game files for Far Cry 4: https://support.ubi.com/en-US/FAQ/60...0000000ee85CAA
    - Be sure that all of your drivers are up-to-date.
    - If you have the game installed on a SSD, try installing it on your HD.

    If these steps do not help, please post your PC specs so we are able to look into it further. Thanks.
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    More than likely, one of the newer patches that installed automatically once you started the game is the culprit.

    Verifying the uplay game files is not a bad idea

    There are newer versions of Video Drivers, at least I know Nvidia has so it also would not be a bad idea to do so. Might as well go ahead and update your audio drive as well, no harm in doing so.

    My personal opinion and suggestion (and this is only if you want to play the Campaign and NOT Multiplayer)? If after doing all of that the game persist in playing like that.... save your games (very important), uninstall the game completely, restart PC, run Ccleaner to get rid of any remnants of the game in the registry, install the game again, DO NOT let it update, go Off-Line, download the patches on your own up to 1.4 or 1.5 (the rest do nothing for the Campaign or you because you barely meet the minimum), then run the game again, paste your Save Games to the newest save games the game just made and I am sure you will be at the 34% level you were before working fine or as good as you were doing it a month or so ago.
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    Originally Posted by xMiiSTY Go to original post
    - If you have the game installed on a SSD, try installing it on your HD.
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    I seriously hope you are kidding ?
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    Originally Posted by Sebidee45 Go to original post
    I have the requirements on the lower end. Thing is this game was working perfectly for me a couple of weeks ago, it says I've got 34% of it completed. Today was the first time I've seen any of this stuff.

    Could there have been something I did maybe? Some kind of update or download or like a virus or anything? I validated the game on steam and rolled back the driver update on my graphics card (to the version it had when it was working fine). Is there anything that could have decreased my computer's ability or broken the game?
    Nobody has suggested checking your Drivers are up to date so I will. When you mention "shaded black boxes" I used to have a problem in FC2 called "artifacting" which gave me this weird effect like disco lights - I was using a Radeon GPU at the time and I am pretty sure it was Driver related.
    http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answer...full-load.html
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    GiveMeTactical's Avatar Banned
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    I did mentioned it on my first post but he has either kicked the game to the curve or it has fix the issue by now
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