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    Far Cry 4 now locking up when shooting bad guys

    Ever since upgrading to the newest NVidia drivers, my Far Cry 4 game has been plagued with lockups, specifically when shooting/killing bad guys. I can run around, drive and fire the gun for hours, but as soon as I engage any of Pagan Min's men, it locks up and the sound loops. Anyone having this issue, and what, other than reverting back to older drivers, can fix it? Already tried reinstalling game.
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    UbiDuchess's Avatar Ubisoft Support Staff NCSA
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    Hey there, have you tried verifying your game files?
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    Yep; in fact I tried verifying the files, reinstalling the game, rolling back my video drivers, doing a clean video driver update, even lowering the graphics setting; nothing is working. It still locks up, but only when I kill one of Pagan Min's men, everything else runs fine.
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    OK, I backed up my local saved games, shut off cloud synch and started a new game, and I don't have the problem, which means the saved game is corrupted. is there any way to revert to a previous save?
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    Well, a year later, I started a new game and got all the way up to the Amata mission where I have to save the temple from canons, and it started happening again, this time it's only when I kill the last guy in the camp. I've verified the files again, nothing seems to work. Am I really the only one with this problem?
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    My game was running great up until about 2 days ago when uplay forced me to login, which means there must have been an update cause I have mine set to autologin.

    The past two days its been running like crap, locks up when i do certain tasks in the game, like opening chests, opening doors, when discovered locations titles popup it freezes for a good 10 seconds. I dont have any issues when killing enemies though, its basically everything except that for me..

    The newest nvidia driver package installs some new crap called Vulkan runtime libraries, so i thought this might be the issue. After uninstalling this weird package, uplay said it was redownloading directx files from ubi.. not sure what thats about. but the game didnt run any better withthe Vulkan thing removed. I also rolled back drivers and the lag/lockup issue persists in game.

    I also verified files on uplay, uninstalled and reinstalled uplay, and get the same issues. Right now I am redownloading the game and trying a new install and see what happens.
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    I uninstalled my nvidia drivers using DDU, then reinstalled the newest package from nvidia. I left the Vulkan files in palce in this time. Game was still acting up. So I uninstalled Farcry4 thru the uplay installer and selected the options for deleting all saved data as well. After reinstalling and starting a new game My game seems to be running smooth has butter now with all settings on ultra at 1080p. Not sure if reisntalling fixed it or starting a new game. Could be corupted save file or maybe the file was too large? Not sure but so far my game is working again.
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