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 Ethat it might cause some problems with patching.
Getting quite frustrated with the whole thing, any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
-Aidan.
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.