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  1. #1

    Far Cry 3 not loading

    G'day,

    Just bought the game yesterday (retail) and have spent a solid 4+ hours trying to get it to work.
    In uplay, if I press "play" the button goes grey, the cursor has that loading circle and then.. nothing. The button resets as though nothing had happened.
    If I click on the d3d11.exe in the games folder, the game initiates (kinda) to the point where it's adding the saved game to the cloud then I get a message telling me the game probably isn't installed correctly.

    I've tried installing/re-installing about 4 times.
    Patched manually from retail to 1.05.
    Changed permissions/compatibility on the .exe's.

    I read that if the main game isn't installed in the default location (mine's in E that it might cause some problems with patching.

    Getting quite frustrated with the whole thing, any help is greatly appreciated.

    Cheers,

    -Aidan.
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    The same thing is happening to me. However, Far Cry 3 was working fine until I downloaded and installed Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon. Now I can run Blood Dragon just fine but Far Cry 3 no longer launches and does exactly what you described. I have installed it on my G partition so that might be a problem as you eluded to. Hope we can get this problem fixed.
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