try other drivers ... runs perfect on my ASUS Strix GTX 960 with ASUS driver version 359.06 (no geforce exp installed just the drivers and PhysX and HDMI audio )
my system specs
Thermaletake V9 Black Edition case the one with the 2 giant fans one on the side one on top
+2 120s one intake one exhast +1 80 mm fan blowing on ram chips from the front
550 watt raid maxx power supply
Asus P5 B plain not anything just default P5B old as dirt main board (latest bios 2104 )
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.6GHZ with a tuniq tower 120 cooler
8 Gig of Kingston DDR 2 800 4 - 2 gig sticks timeing is 6-6-6-18
Asus STRIX GTX 960 2 gig card (nvidia driver 347.52 for win 7 ..using current Nvidia win 10 Driver 359.06)
Soundblaster live 24 bit sound card i scrapped out of someones old Dell they were chucking
(onboard reatek sound on motherboard =disabled )
OS = Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit on SSD Drives\ one for OS \ one for games
Logitech G400s gameing mouse (wired)
Logitech K330 wireless keyboard
Logitech Dual Action Gamepad (similar to the current Logitech F310)
Acer 1080 p 24 inch wide screen monitor max refresh 75 Hz
secondary that i use to play on SEKI 40 inch HDTV via Hdmi out from the back of my Asus card
my in Game settings are Custom
resolution 1920 X 1080
vsync - on
Quality settings
motion blur off - not a fan of it ..
Textures - Ultra
Shadows - High
Post FX -Ultra
Geometry - Very High
Vegetation- Ultra
Environment - High
Water - Ultra
Ambient Occlusion setting is SSBC
Antialising settings is SMAA
God rays - off- not a fan of how it looks (can make the game unstable)
Fur - on
Trees relief -on
in Advanced settings
Triple buffering - off
Vsync mode - Normal
in Nvidia control panel, i made these changes
Anisotropic Filtering = 16 X
Max Pre Rendered Frames = 1
Set Power Management Mode = Adaptive
game looks fine to me and plays stutter free on my system with zero crashes and i'm mostly over 60 FPS with some dips to the Mid 50's
also i installed Razer Cortex it does seem to help with this game
http://www.razerzone.com/cortex
things you can try also are check your backround applications
FarCry 4 hates several
Nvidia shadow play caused a huge bug starting in 2016 ..dunno if Nvidia corrected that problem yet ...
Nvidia admitted the shadow play bug was a problem in the driver set in both 361,75 as well as 361,91
and said it would not be fixed until the next Major driver branch
see these posts on the Nvidia forums
https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...99823/#4799823
https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...15747/#4815747
if you have an AMD GPU they also have had some driver problems with FarCry 4 and their drivers ..shut off the AMD gaming evolved applications if you installed it
other people also had problems with high overclocked cards ..try reduceing your clock speed of your GPU ??
dunno mines factory overclocked and runs the game fine
BACKROUND APPLICATIONS may also cause the game to not launch properly or crash 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
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 you have Windows 10
go to your far cry 4 .exe and try setting it to run in a win 7 compatibility mode helps for some ..or do what i do and launch both Steam and Uplay as Run as Administrator
and verify your game files
wish ya luck solving your crash .. it's worked perfect here .... just like it has since the day it shipped in 2014 on all 3 of my systems
try also shutting off the uplay or any other in game overlays .. yes on some systems even the game hates UPLAY :LOL![]()