Far Cry demo lock-up with BFG 6800GT

[petem222]

I know this is old news, but since I've gotten the new 6800 GT vid card I wanted to stretch its legs a bit with some more demanding games...

I figured I'd give the Far Cry demos a shot- downloaded both, and got the exact same result with both:

Tried all different video settings- went as low as 'Medium' for everything, and still locked up immediately after the demo started running- I hear the sounds of the game, but it just freezes and all I see is a shot of the island and my pistol as I stand in the boat. I literally have to Ctrl-Alt-Del out of the program every time...

Is this what I should expect if I ever bought the game? I'm hoping it's just a conflict with the older demo and my drivers or something, but I wanted to ask around first....

 

[Fern]

If you don't have the newest nVidia drivers, you might try that step.

I found the full retail game runs much better than the demo. Any problem I had with demo went away when installed the full game. It ran much better and faster.

Fern

 

[petem222]

I do have the latest drivers, but a lot of responses I'm getting on various boards suggest the same as you, with relation to the retail version vs. the demo...

Thanks!

 

[Cheetah8799]

ya, retail fixed a lot of problems that the demo had. I know I had a few bugs with my 9800 Pro. Best suggestion other than the retail version would be to test a bunch of revisions of the drivers. Maybe an older versin had a fix in it for the demo.

 

[Pete]

Heh, the same thing happened to me with my Radeon 9100. My 9700P lets me play the demo, tho it rather regularly hard locks the PC (everything stops, including sound, and I have to hard reboot). Actually, it locked the first time, then I was able to play through the demo all the way thru. I then added the bonus Research map, and now it locks a minute or two into it. It may just be the drivers, either video or sound (IIRC, the readme recommended specific video drivers).

Given that you have the asme problem with a nV card, it's probably the game that's buggy. But I also experience occasional hard locks with the Halo demo, so my experience may point more toward some other system-wide problem, like the drivers or my PSU.

 

[Rage187]

the demo runs lke ass, and locks up.


have to have retail 1.02+