Far Cry Forum

Installs fine with no errors, but when you launch it say Far Cry has encountered an error and needs to close....

I am installing into it's own bottle, not through Steam. Not sure if that's the issue.

I'm hesitant to install into my existing Steam bottle that is running well. :)

I guess no one checks this forum anymore... oh well. :(

Oh yes...we do read....just of late, 8.0 testing has taken priority...

I have the 5 CD set of this title....will check a little later

...and....I got it working too....not exactly a straightforward event, but
absolutely possible. When I find some time, I'll up some screenshots and
a couple of tips&tricks about it...

I purchased from direct 2 drive... would I still need the patch?

Jimi Bowman wrote:

I purchased from direct 2 drive... would I still need the patch?

No idea sorry, I don't have a Mac -- it wouldn't hurt to try however ;D

Actually....the =linux= outlay of what you're seeing goes something like this...

<we>

start farcry.exe (you'll see the title/splash screen)

<then it>

spawns CgfDump.exe and parses the data it finds onto a starting FarCryConfigurator.exe

<we crash and burn and be happy about it>

The FarCryConfigurator.exe does work/run if started standalone, but some amount of debugging
I did suggested that CfgDump.exe was getting all hung-up about the state of opengl which
(at a guess) it gets presented with from the proprietary nvidia linux driver layer.

I am going to imagine, the inner workings of the direct2drive version maybe very similar.
I'll show you a linux path here ;

~/.cxgames/farcry/drive_c/Program Files/Ubisoft/Crytek/Far Cry/Bin32

If the .exe files I mention above reside in the above path, then I'll even go as far as having
a =guess= the exact same noodles are at play here.

Edit: And, if at all possible, install it into it's own winXP profiled bottle

I got it to run by using the no CD patch , but it will not allow you to do any settings in the system setup.... It will allow you to change them, they just won't take.

Not that I'm exactly sure just which settings you're talking about here,
I do know that (linux path again) ;

~/.cxgames/farcry/drive_c/Program Files/Ubisoft/Crytek/Far Cry/Bin32/system.cfg

is the configurator's setup file. There is also ;

~/.cxgames/farcry/drive_c/Program Files/Ubisoft/Crytek/Far Cry/system.cfg

...not that I've had to play with any settings as such. Be equally aware,
due to the fact patches won't work, 'other issues' might be at play that
are as yet 'undiscovered'...

Sorry, I should have been more clear. :)

The graphic settings.... It always loads up in non wide screen with fairly low resolution regardless of what I change it to....

Seems to play fine though.

Jimi Bowman wrote:

Sorry, I should have been more clear. :)

The graphic settings.... It always loads up in non wide screen with
fairly low resolution regardless of what I change it to....

Seems to play fine though.

Have you installed directx9 (modern) yet?

Oh and btw, after doing that you need use winecfg to set d3d9 to 'builtin' (I know it sounds
silly, but it goes nutso using the native d3d9.dll )

I'll post my tips&tricks today sometime...

Edit: oh, and I use windowed mode (emulate a virtual desktop) set to 640x480 (however unlikely
that sounds), to avoid smashing my twinview setup...but game should support wide/full screen..
..(at least, the options here let me go all the way to my native 1680x1050)

Thank you for all your help, it is much appreciated!!

No prob....the story keeps going, the tips&tricks are nearly done...

..{ahem}...'by accident' I just started it, without realizing I'd
turned 'emulate a virtual desktop' OFF for an entirely different
reason, and of course it starts up fullscreen @ 1025x768 on my
1680x1050 display. The nvidia's drivers' reaction to all this,
is to turn OFF the GPU bridge to the 2nd device...but, ok, fine,
you asked about screenmodw like this...once in options with things
set to 1680x1050 it looked (and ran) very well -- big fat warning,
don't fuzt with the anti-aliasing settings ; here they locked my
Xserver up pretty hard...had to crtl=alt=backspace out of the mess..

The game runs for me on Crossover Games 8 on Mac OS X 10.6.1. It runs full screen at 1680x1050 but if I change the graphics to anything other than "low" it stops after the long level loading bar is drawn and I have to force quit. It looks pretty ugly on "low" so any tips to improve the visuals a little would be appreciated.

M Wilson wrote:

The game runs for me on Crossover Games 8 on Mac OS X 10.6.1. It
runs full screen at 1680x1050 but if I change the graphics to
anything other than "low" it stops after the long level loading bar
is drawn and I have to force quit. It looks pretty ugly on "low" so
any tips to improve the visuals a little would be appreciated.

Did you install on it's own or through Steam?

I still cannot get to work.... very buggy.

Jimi Bowman wrote:

I still cannot get to work.... very buggy.

Tell me more about your system -- OS/platform, and what videocard/drivers
you are using?...

For me everything works. I installed off Steam and can run with everything on max and at native resolution. But after about 20-30 minutes that game pops up with some error (that never fully shows) and then it freezes.

Posted:

For me everything works. I installed off Steam and can run with everything on max and at native resolution. But after about 20-30 minutes that game pops up with some error (that never fully shows) and then it freezes.

Does it happen at any particular point or when you do any certain thing
in the game, or is it random? Or....is it truly -time- related, and if
so, do you get any longer session time (before the crash) if you turn
the graphics settings/detail down a bit? Also it occurs to me, to ask
exactly what machine you are using, because there have been a few cases
of this sort of behavior, that seem related to (typically laptops) getting
too hot after 'x' minutes of pushing the CPU/GPU hard...thing to try.

NOTE -- To everyone else that's posted here, due to a recent
policy change on this site, I have reworked the linux 5 CD tip&trick so
it conforms to the following guideline;

The Digital Rights Management (DRM) software in this program prevents
it from running in CrossOver. If you are in a legal jurisdiction which
allows removal of such software, you may have luck running this program.
Unfortunately, CodeWeavers, because they are subject to the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, will be unable to support you.

Put simply, the CD check/DRM in this program works in linux with COG-8.0
-- with disc based distributions of FarCry on the Mac, the above clause
may still currently apply.

I've tried replicating it at the same spots but can't. It does appear to be influenced by my graphical settings. I turned them down a bit and it took a while longer for the game to crash. I am on a Macbook Pro, late 2008 2.4 GHz. I've never had any other game crash under CxG from this error though.