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    Far Cry 3 won't start!

    Hi, I bought all far cry games on steam, have played the first two. I am having trouble with the 3rd I can't get the game to launch. The uplay thing opens but when I click on play, another uplay window opens, with the play button greyed out.


    When I try to start it from steam I just get the message "failed to start, app already running"


    I have tried the following


    1. Launching the game from desktop icon, from steam as well as directly from uplay - it all leads to uplay opening and no game starting as above.


    2. Uninstalled and Reinstalled far cry 3 twice.


    3. Uninstalled and Reinstalled uplay from the ubisoft website.


    4. Verified cache integrity, followed steams instructions regarding the "failure to start, app already running"


    Restarted endless times.


    Weirdly, one time the game did start, I can't remember which of the above I had done, but when I quit, I had the same problem restarting. Despite all my uninstalling and reinstalling, the game seems to always open up uplay and then nothing happens.


    Help!
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    flybyme's Avatar Senior Member
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    You could try this. Go into your Steam folder on your HD and delete the Appcache folder. A new one will be created next time you start up Steam/FC3. Don't know whether it will work.
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