Far Cry 3 Updater: Failed to start game. Cannot find essential information in the registry.

[Gwynnbleidd]

Reinstalled about three times, verified cache, tried every fix, including the ones in this link: http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/739489-PC-Win7-8-vista-Solutions-gt-Far-Cry3-Has-Stopped-Responding.....filled out steam tickets....this is really weird because I have been playing this for 3 days with ZERO problems then all of sudden this afternoon after not playing turning off my PC and not playing for a few hours it stopped working altogether. PLEASE help.

[EternalCore]

Did you try Solution 6? And did you use CCleaner?
Also was the game running when you turned off your PC?

[Gwynnbleidd]

yes and no it wasn't

[EternalCore]

Postat inițial de LeatherNeck24:

yes and no it wasn't

Try this: Reinstall Uplay from solution 6.

[Gwynnbleidd]

I just did and I did the CCleaner. I just pressed play on Far Cry 3 and am waiting for the Auto Patcher again....

[Gwynnbleidd]

took forever but finally went into uplay then when i clicked play it just went to the splash screen and froze :(

[EternalCore]

Postat inițial de LeatherNeck24:

took forever but finally went into uplay then when i clicked play it just went to the splash screen and froze :(

Read Solution 4.

[Gwynnbleidd]

I have none of those programs and I have had the Steam Overlay disabled and still nothing

[EternalCore]

Postat inițial de LeatherNeck24:

I have none of those programs and I have had the Steam Overlay disabled and still nothing

Ok Try Solution 7 then :)

[Gwynnbleidd]

yeah i tried that too and it didnt work but im gunna reinstall FC3 and uplay again and clean my registry...lol i gotta thank you tho and i applaud you on your one man mission to help ppl with this issue all over the ubisoft forums and steam (;

[EternalCore]

Postat inițial de LeatherNeck24:

yeah i tried that too and it didnt work but im gunna reinstall FC3 and uplay again and clean my registry...lol i gotta thank you tho and i applaud you on your one man mission to help ppl with this issue all over the ubisoft forums and steam (;

I was going to suggest that next. :P Also try and delete the FC3 Game files from your steam then download it again from scratch to see if that works. :)

Oh and your Welcome! :)

[Gwynnbleidd]

yeah i just did a complete regedit clean and ccleaner so not a trace of uplay or far cry 3 remains so hopefully that'll do the trick

[Gwynnbleidd]

wellllll no luck still not working...i hope i can get a refund

[EternalCore]

Postat inițial de LeatherNeck24:

wellllll no luck still not working...i hope i can get a refund

What is your FULL System Specs? And are you Overclocking?

[Gwynnbleidd]

Windows 7 Ultimate
ATI Radeon HD 5750
Dual Core E5400 2.7 Ghz
PC Power and Cooling 610 Watt
Asus P5Q Pro Motherboard
4GB OCZ RAM
640GB Western Digital Hard Drive

and i was overclocking just a bit but i set everything back to default

[TopperHarley]

did u get that problem sorted? I have same error now