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    Black screen then game crashes at startup!

    I recently bought Far Cry 4. When I tried to start up the game, It ends up at black-screen then after a few seconds, windows will display a message that it has stopped working.. Any solution to get rid of this? I tried googling any solutions but I couldn't find any.
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    Game will not even load

    Originally Posted by fadeDota Go to original post
    I recently bought Far Cry 4. When I tried to start up the game, It ends up at black-screen then after a few seconds, windows will display a message that it has stopped working.. Any solution to get rid of this? I tried googling any solutions but I couldn't find any.
    I am having the Exact Same issue. Is there a Safe mode switch or something to at least get it started?
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    do you meet the far cry 4 system requirements

    dual core CPU's are not supported ..yes the game requires a quad core CPU

    you also need a decent video card Intel HD video chips are not supported

    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 <---*note* both are Quad core CPU's
    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.


    as to video cards


    GT series video cards as well as Intel video chipsets and some AMD chips do not provide enough memory bandwidth or low pixel and vertex shader counts that will not allow the game to load properly , Direct X 10 video cards do not even support Direct X 11 shader model 5.0


    many Nvidia GT series cards as well as some low end AMD products and all Intel chipsets use slower older DDR3 memory (intel ones use your shared System memory)


    not dedicated GDDR5 video memory, this cuts down on the amount of memory bandwidth the game has to load and draw the textures , end result will = black screen


    this is why it says in the minimum system requirements Note: Laptop versions of these cards may work but are NOT officially supported.


    10. 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, ect < --- check your settings
    G. MSI True Color
    H. Evolve gameing client
    I. AMD Raptr \ AMD Gaming Evolved
    J. TeamVeiwer
    K. Overwolf
    L. Nvidia Geforce Experience Shadow Play


    see this thred to possibly fix problems with afterburner causeing black screen
    http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...rcry-4-Crash!?


    Please ALSO see this Page where it mentions Backround Applications in section 4 and how you can try to see if one you have running is possibly causeing your issiue with the game NOT starting or hanging on launch


    https://support.ubi.com/en-US/faqs/0...Issues-PC-FC4/
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