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    WTF?!? FC4 literally shutdown my PC...... **SPOILERS**

    Ok, events that happened in the last 10 minutes. I did the "final" Golden Path mission, I chose not to shoot Pagan at the dinner table (not sure if this happens regardless of what you choose to do). I walked outside with Pagan and entered the little shrine and put my mothers ashes next to my sisters. I went outside, Pagan flew off in his helicopter and then the cursor tuned red, so I decided to take him out. I used the ariel missle launcher after lock on and a few seconds later, I got "FIN". Not sure if this is supposed to happen or not (I'm guessing yes, for future installments.)

    Then I appear at my home (parents house) and decide to use the pipe that I got from the Yogi and Reggie missions, the screen loads then, it freezes. *sigh* I figured "whatever" **** happens, I'll just reload and pickup where I left off. No, I see Windows starting to close everything.....wtf? My computer shuts down, not reboots, but shuts down completely, off, dead silence. So I start back up and I see something weird. On my task bar there is an icon for the "Xbox" controller, weird. I use a mouse and keyboard exclusively with FPS games, then after boot up is finished, I see a small window popup that's titled

    "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" The message states " Runtime error! Program: C..." "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way." "Please contact the application's support team for more information."

    My wireless Xbox controller isn't even turned on, let alone in use. Why did these events happen? I'm really confused and honestly kind of freaked out. I have had reboots happen from software before but never a literal shutdown. In some way I would think that a BSOD would be better (for some reason).

    Any knowledge of this matter would be appreciated.

    p.s. No, there were not any Windows updates forcing me to restart.

    p.p.s I also chose not to kill Amita, does the same thing happen with choosing either side, just with that different person? Also, If you can kill Pagan at the dinner table, what happens? Does it just roll credits right then and there?

    Long read, but thank you for your time
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    Originally Posted by lespaul678 Go to original post

    Then I appear at my home (parents house) and decide to use the pipe that I got from the Yogi and Reggie missions, the screen loads then, it freezes. *sigh* I figured "whatever" **** happens, I'll just reload and pickup where I left off. No, I see Windows starting to close everything.....wtf? My computer shuts down, not reboots, but shuts down completely, off, dead silence. So I start back up and I see something weird. On my task bar there is an icon for the "Xbox" controller, weird. I use a mouse and keyboard exclusively with FPS games, then after boot up is finished, I see a small window popup that's titled

    "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" The message states " Runtime error! Program: C..." "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way." "Please contact the application's support team for more information."

    I'm running a HD 6870 with the second latest AMD drivers- and there's a similar issue, not quite as bad though. Once I go and use the pipe, I also get the loading screen and can, for a second, see some cutscene begin, but then the game simply crashes the graphics driver and, obviously, also crashes itself.

    Must be somewhat related. The game never crashed the driver before that event (now can't do anything- whatever I do, once I load up the game, it crashes at that cutscene since it saved...)
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    Originally Posted by lespaul678 Go to original post
    Ok, events that happened in the last 10 minutes. I did the "final" Golden Path mission, I chose not to shoot Pagan at the dinner table (not sure if this happens regardless of what you choose to do). I walked outside with Pagan and entered the little shrine and put my mothers ashes next to my sisters. I went outside, Pagan flew off in his helicopter and then the cursor tuned red, so I decided to take him out. I used the ariel missle launcher after lock on and a few seconds later, I got "FIN". Not sure if this is supposed to happen or not (I'm guessing yes, for future installments.)

    Then I appear at my home (parents house) and decide to use the pipe that I got from the Yogi and Reggie missions, the screen loads then, it freezes. *sigh* I figured "whatever" **** happens, I'll just reload and pickup where I left off. No, I see Windows starting to close everything.....wtf? My computer shuts down, not reboots, but shuts down completely, off, dead silence. So I start back up and I see something weird. On my task bar there is an icon for the "Xbox" controller, weird. I use a mouse and keyboard exclusively with FPS games, then after boot up is finished, I see a small window popup that's titled

    "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" The message states " Runtime error! Program: C..." "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way." "Please contact the application's support team for more information."

    My wireless Xbox controller isn't even turned on, let alone in use. Why did these events happen? I'm really confused and honestly kind of freaked out. I have had reboots happen from software before but never a literal shutdown. In some way I would think that a BSOD would be better (for some reason).

    Any knowledge of this matter would be appreciated.

    p.s. No, there were not any Windows updates forcing me to restart.

    p.p.s I also chose not to kill Amita, does the same thing happen with choosing either side, just with that different person? Also, If you can kill Pagan at the dinner table, what happens? Does it just roll credits right then and there?

    Long read, but thank you for your time

    the correct sequence is you kill or let Pagan go, (no difference) and the Campaign is OVER, you get the "Fin" (end) showing up and the credits roll. You can choose to hit ESC and bypass the credits and you wake up at the Ghale family home. From there you can continue running around Kyrat, see Yogi and Reggie, find Sabal, and Amita, even if you killed Amita shes still alive. And i've never tried smoking the pipe (you can also find the same kind of pipe at a side mision to kill the 2 Captains with a shotgun in the room with the women.) The cursor has never turned red for me, FYI.
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    Aside from bugs or bad coding in general, patch 1.5's memory leak can easily crash your PC in less than a 3 hr session if you have the average 8GB RAM, because it keeps amassing RAM usage as you play.

    Ubi can't code a game right to save their lives.
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