Originally Posted by serendipitycat Go to original post
I'm sorry to be so uninformed, but where do you download these patches?

I have installed the game, I get a black screen when starting it from Steam. No mentions in Steam of any patches. I don't know what to do, and would appreciate any help.
go to your steam Common folder in program files, and in the Far Cry 4 folder there should be a sub-folder called "Support" then "Readme" and "English" it has the Readme.txt file with the latest installed patch notes at the top, see what version it is.