BACKROUND APPLICATIONS may also cause the game to not launch properly and you may need Exit out of them, or reconfigure them to work properly with Far Cry 4 known apps that can cause this are
A. EVGA PRECISION
B. MSI AFTERBURNER
C. Riva Tuner Statistics Server
D. DXtory
E. Motionin Joy
F. Anti Virus or Firewall software (AVG , Comodo, Bullguard etc.. <-- check settings)
G. MSI true Color
H. Evolve gameing client
I. AMD Raptr \ AMD Gaming Evolved
J. TeamViewer
K. Overwolf
see this thred to possibly fix issues with afterburner causing black screen
http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...rcry-4-Crash!?
Please see this Page where it mentions Backround Applications and how you can try to see if one is possibly causing your issue with the game NOT starting or hanging
https://support.ubi.com/en-US/FAQ/9/...0000000eio0CAA
And if your running windows 10 make sure you launch both Steam and Uplay as Run As ADMINISTRATOR
this game was shipped well before windows 10 did ...and yes you may need to take that extra step to run the game
this games engine was created years before windows 10 shipped and that change may needed to allow the game to write any save files and or configuration files , windows 10 may handle file security \ permissions in a different way, then previous operating systems did.
also if you have an Nvidia GPU you may need to DISABLE Geforce experience shadow play
i do not know if they totally fixed that problem yet that began in Jan 2016 Drivers and Geforce Experience Shadow play
i stayed clear of the newer drivers ever since the bugs i had with 361,75
it was detecting my ASUS Srtix GTX 960 as a removable USB device , and many reported the shadow play bug was causing several games to fail to launch
Nvidia admitted the shadow play bug was a problem in the driver set in both 361,75 as well as 361,91
and said it would not be fixed until the next Major driver branch
see these posts on the Nvidia forums
https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...99823/#4799823
https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...15747/#4815747
the 361,75 drivers also and all drivers past that point keep installing Nvidia backend on my windows 10 install even if i choose not to install Gefroce Experience or any other Nvidia software ....plus it installed Nvidia optimus software on my desktop system .. ??
optimus is only used on laptop systems to switch between an onboard intel HD video chip to an Nvidia GPU .. my quad core CPU does not have ANY intel HD vid chip on it ..so that was another bug in that driver set i guess ??
the next driver they released was 362,00 but that even said in the release notes .. there were no fixed issiues in the drivers for Windows 7 , 8 or 10
plus many people have reported alot of problems with the current Nvidia driver version 364.51
see
https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...10-16-updated/
and 364.47 was so bad they had to pull the driver set as it was damaging peoples systems
so i'll wait to see what Driver ASUS posts for my card ..right now they only have the 359.06 drivers posted .. and its kinda weird since they waited till febuary 2016 to even post that driver
Nvidia released that driver version in December 2015 .. but the Nvidia driver package is a smaller version then the one on the ASUS website..which is also very odd...
Geforce experience is still a beta program and the few times i tried it ..it did set my games up wrong anyway ..so i never install it ..dunno why they keep pushing that with every driver version ..i always do a custom install and Never install that or any of the Nvidia 3 d vision software
to use the 3d vision you need a supported 3d monitor as well and the Nvidia 3d vision glasses and Kit.
i own none of that ... so i never install it
i choose custom install and only install
the video driver and control panel
HDMI audio - in case i want to watch a movie on my 40 inch HDTV online
and Nvidia physX
the rest i uncheck .. then choose perform a clean install
and i always use DDU in safe mode to wipe my previous drivers ..before i install or try a new one
i still only have Nvidia driver version 359.06 installed for my Strix card ..it works perfect for all my games so .. why update to Nvidia's newest busted drivers ?