🛈 Announcement
Greetings! Far Cry forums are now archived and accessible in read-only mode, please go to the new platform to discuss the game.
  1. #1

    Far Cry 4 Black Screen on Startup

    Hello, I have a laptop with spec

    CPU: Intel Core i5-4200U 1.6 GHz Boost to 2.6 GHz
    GPU: AMD Radeon HD 8750M (Latest driver)
    RAM: 12 GB

    I got a black screen on startup. The weird thing is i used to play Far Cry 4 on my laptop last year with no error or black screen, uninstalled it due to insufficient memory but now i want to play it again. I've googled solution almost everything, nothing working, downloaded Extreme Injector but the software not opening at all. Do you guys have any other solution to this problem?
    Share this post

  2. #2
    WID992007's Avatar Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Posts
    2,280
    if it ran before check your back round application software


    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


    L. Nvidia Geforce Experience Shadow Play as of Driver 361.75 in Jan 2016


    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.


    if you have a problem... try this


    right click on the games .exe file


    select properties


    select the compatability tab


    check the box that says run as Administrator


    set it to run in a windows 7 compatabilty mode


    you can also run the windows 10 compatablilty trouble shooter from that same window


    also another user has posted that he had a problem with the latest AMD driver .. so i'd try uninstall your current driver and try an older one , in case its an AMD driver issue again

    see http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...crashes-FC3-4?


    if ya need to find older AMD drivers look here http://www.guru3d.com/files-categori...sta-win-7.html
    ..they seem to have em all
    Share this post