Far Cry Tips

Believe it or not, Far Cry now works as of the OS 10.5.5. update. There are, however, a few caveats. First, for some reason, though it installed just fine (before 10.5.5, it would not install at all) I couldn't get the 1.4 patch to apply correctly. It kept failing with a runtime error. I got around this by running the patch with Parallels and manually selecting the install location in my Crossover bottle, rather than let it install to the default location. You could use Boot Camp to do the same thing, but you'll have to copy your Far Cry install to your Windows volume first, then manually select its location in the installer. With that bit of silliness done, the game was patched and installed. From there, the game ran perfectly with all settings set to high, and textures set to very high.

Edit by Don: Having the same trouble in linux vis the v1.4 patch, and of course I refuse outright to use
windoughs as a work-around. I haven't tried applying the patches one at a time yet, but I have submitted
a ticket/logfile about this in case some light from yonder LED torch glows....

Edit by Don: No luck trying to apply any patches at all - they all fail displaying the same misbehavior

Edit by Don: For now, see my forum posting here about how to apply the official patches using mainstream wine, and merging that into your existing FarCry bottle.