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    This game has absolutely horrible nvidia driver support!

    Seriously, I have an nvidia 670 oc edition. The game causes my nvidia drivers to fail and recover all of the ****ing time. Of course when the drivers recover the game crashes. No matter what settings I use, no matter if I use DX9 or DX11, the game just crashes. My drivers are of the latest update, I even tried the beta drivers. Changed absolutely nothing. I assure you there is nothing wrong with my card, it's not even oc'd. This is the only game that does this. Why the hell was there no driver release with this game? It's not even playable.
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    I am using 320.00 beta with GTX670 Gigabyte Windforce OC - and I also OC it further to 1215/6048, and it works fine and the driver never "fails and recovers"..

    I'm not sure it isn't something up with your card or system. If it was the drivers at fault, it would happen on my system too. I actually had one lock-up in about 10 or 12 hours of playing.. but once in a while that happens. I actually clocked my ram back to 6030 and it has been fine since. I know FC3 and FC3 BD run my card/system harder than any other game, including Crysis3, and I have to use a lower clock speed with both for it to be completely stable compared to any other game.

    It could be anything from RAM incompatibility that only shows up with certain games to your CPU needing .01 more volts, or any number of things. I'm not sure why you automatically blame Nvidia drivers. I'd contact support and maybe they can help.

    https://support.ubi.com/en-US/
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    I immediately blame them because that's the prompt I receive. Display drivers have failed and recovered and no. It has nothing to do with the card being pushed hard. Even if I run this in DX9, getting an average of 120 fps and 70% load, it still crashes. I didn't say my card was oc'd. I said I had an msi 670 oc edition. My cpu is a i7 3820, 16gbs of ddr3 ram clocked at 1866, ram timings are perfect, etc etc. I actually played through this whole game through a torrent. The torrent itself crashed a ton when using DX11 but ran with no crashes in dx9. How ever, now that I bought the game legally the legal version crashes all the damn time. So clearly this is not a problem on my end. Ubisoft needs to do a lot of polishing. The game has problems. It's not stable in the least. Especially since crashes seem to happen at very specific moments in the single player missions. Rarely elsewhere, although they do happen while free roaming. For instance, during the single player mission where you hang glide through that canyon. Right after that part, with all the containers. That's a trouble spot for the game.
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    are your drivers crashing only in this game, have you tested other games recently? There is a nasty bit of malware called iehighutil that can cause the exact problems you are having, i had it on my system a few weeks ago, my drivers kept crashing when i was playing games.
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    Originally Posted by Jarekarabdragon Go to original post
    I immediately blame them because that's the prompt I receive. Display drivers have failed and recovered and no. It has nothing to do with the card being pushed hard. Even if I run this in DX9, getting an average of 120 fps and 70% load, it still crashes. I didn't say my card was oc'd. I said I had an msi 670 oc edition. My cpu is a i7 3820, 16gbs of ddr3 ram clocked at 1866, ram timings are perfect, etc etc. I actually played through this whole game through a torrent. The torrent itself crashed a ton when using DX11 but ran with no crashes in dx9. How ever, now that I bought the game legally the legal version crashes all the damn time. So clearly this is not a problem on my end. Ubisoft needs to do a lot of polishing. The game has problems. It's not stable in the least. Especially since crashes seem to happen at very specific moments in the single player missions. Rarely elsewhere, although they do happen while free roaming. For instance, during the single player mission where you hang glide through that canyon. Right after that part, with all the containers. That's a trouble spot for the game.


    Hmmm.. the game didn't crash on me at that point.

    I'm not saying the game is completely stable, I think it is a bit unstable right now.. I mean my system is very very stable, and it did lock up on me once.. But, I don't think it has anything to do with Nvidia "driver support".. but it could I guess.

    I can tell you what makes most PCs unstable if everything else is working properly though, having RAM that is not on the list provided by the motherboard manufacturer. I mean the exact same sticks that were tested by the manufacturer and guaranteed to work by them

    Example- on my mobo, Asus M5A99FX
    http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A...0/#support_QVL

    And after looking at that list and searching what was available, I bought this kit.

    G.SKILL F3-14900CL9Q-16GBXL
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231456


    If you built your own rig, maybe you did check out that list from your mobo manufacturer, maybe not.
    I know I have learned the hard way over the years to just buy the kits the list says to buy or else.
    You may get lucky choosing your own kit, but usually it is unstable.

    Something to check into anyways if you haven't..


    Also I am sure Nvidia will have a new driver out any day that is optimized for FC3 BD, that will add speed.. and posibly stability if there is a problem on there end.

    You could also contact Ubi support.. they may be able to spot something you overlooked or didn;t know about. It takes a while, but can't hurt to try.


    PS- I know you said your gfx card isn't OC'd, but an "OC" version.. which means it is OC'd by the manufacturer. You could still TEST it by clocking it lower..

    actually played through this whole game through a torrent. The torrent itself crashed a ton when using DX11 but ran with no crashes in dx9. How ever, now that I bought the game legally the legal version crashes all the damn time. So clearly this is not a problem on my end.
    Well I don't see how that makes you thing it clearly isn't a problem on your end. If it crashed on DX11 "a ton", why would you automatically think it isn't a problem on your system? I do not see the connection there. I wopuld think the opposite, that if it is "crashing a ton", then maybe your system is a bit unstable somehow or another.



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    https://www.google.com/search?q=iehi...hrome&ie=UTF-8


    That looks nasty..
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    If you built your own rig, maybe you did check out that list from your mobo manufacturer, maybe not.
    I know I have learned the hard way over the years to just buy the kits the list says to buy or else.
    You may get lucky choosing your own kit, but usually it is unstable.
    I have patriot viper ram which is compatible with my msi 2011 mobo. I checked this before ordering every thing last fall and have been running this rig since with no issues.

    PS- I know you said your gfx card isn't OC'd, but an "OC" version.. which means it is OC'd by the manufacturer. You could still TEST it by clocking it lower..
    I'm aware of this and that is what I meant. I've done this and it resulted in the same issue which is interesting since FC3 itself never crashed on me on this same build while using DX11.

    I wopuld think the opposite, that if it is "crashing a ton", then maybe your system is a bit unstable somehow or another.
    I run a gaming channel, play an absolute ton of games on this rig with no crashes in any other game (Including maxing out crysis 3 without a hitch), I edit and render a ton of videos related and not related to gaming. I did a ton of fine tuning to get my pc to run this smoothly. I've done stress testing on my cpu, ram, and gpu without a problem. Considering how many videos I render and that rendering videos is a bit more intensive on your rig than gaming that's what leads me to believe it's a driver issue. I've pretty much eliminated hardware being an issue. The fairly consistent placement of crashes in this game leads me to believe it's a software problem, not a hardware one. Almost as if the game fails to load part of the world at times and just gives up resulting in FC3 BD has stopped responding.
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    Hmm, that is interesting.. I guess I would contact support at this point if I were you.

    They may actually be able to help believe it or not.. be prepared to send them your dxdiag and msinfo.nfo and they might see something in there that is conflicting with the game or find something you didn't think of-- that kind of thing.

    I really don't think it is an Nvidia driver problem though, because if it was, it seems like a lot more people, including me, would be experiencing the exact same problem. Who knows though.. AMD and Intel systems are kind of different is some ways in regard to how they render 3D games, so you never know.
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    I've already done that, just waiting for a response though. I think it's important to mention that when the game crashes both of my lcds turn black for a second or so, when they come back "far cry 3 blood dragon has stopped working" Which is why I'm believing it's a gpu driver issue. Why else would my second screen that's displaying nothing but gadgets and messengers go black as well and why would it only do that for this one specific game? It's extra puzzling that I never had the original FC3 crash on me yet the expansion using the same engine does crash on me. Doesn't really make much sense.
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    Far Cry 3 crashes all the time

    Originally Posted by Jarekarabdragon Go to original post
    I've already done that, just waiting for a response though. I think it's important to mention that when the game crashes both of my lcds turn black for a second or so, when they come back "far cry 3 blood dragon has stopped working" Which is why I'm believing it's a gpu driver issue. Why else would my second screen that's displaying nothing but gadgets and messengers go black as well and why would it only do that for this one specific game? It's extra puzzling that I never had the original FC3 crash on me yet the expansion using the same engine does crash on me. Doesn't really make much sense.
    The game got a problem,during the campaing ,it crashes all the time.It will be good to launch a fix.Anyone else got this problem?
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    I have the same problem. Crashes within 1-4 minutes in campaign with gtx 680 and intel 3570k.
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