How I got finally Crysis to run on W7 64bit (& Crysis Warhead)

[knuddelholic]

Ok, here are some tips how I finally make Crysis run on my Windows 7 64 bit system on a 1920x1080 resolution after spending hours with different suggestion which didn’t worked by themselves.

In a nutshell those steps should upgrade your game with files to run on 64 systems and prevent after that the black screen which haunted most of us.

I try to make those instructions as clear as possible for those which are less used to such software fixes. (Crysis Warhead solution is in the second posting below !)
Please read the instructions through once first and don't try to start the game halfway through the steps.

Thanks to the players ‘Postal Dude’, ‘embak’ and ‘Spudsy’ for supplying links and important thoughts to the solution.

1. First go to C:\Users\-Administrator- or –your name-\Documents\My Games\Crysis and delete in that folder the complete Profiles folder with its content as those files are created every time you run the game and might mess with your following try to fix it. Thanks ‘Spudsy’ for the tip.

2. Next I got ‘Postal Dude’s’ (PD’s) BIN64 files which I put on a server together with the second file (9KB) needed in point 4. You can find the file (18MB) in this location: www.outfoxed.net/crysis-fix

3. Unzip the file and copy the Bin64 into the main folder of the Crysis game, renamed the existing Bin32 to Bin32.OLD and rename PD’s Bin64 to Bin32. Inside our new Bin32 folder I went to properties from ‘Crysis.exe’ and changed its compatibility mode to Vista & SP2. Do NOT do this with the ‘Crysis64.exe’ file, do it just with the ‘Crysis.exe’.

4. Now I went to a post from ‘embak’ at http://germancrysis.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1702 and got me the small zip file of 10KB ‘Crysis 1_ultrahighqualitycfg_1.3.1.zip ‘ and unzipped it. You can get it also from: www.outfoxed.net/crysis-fix

5. Under C:\Games\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Crysis\Game\Config I renamed the folder CVarGroups to CVarGroups.OLD and then copied ‘embaks’ CVarGroups folder into C:\Games\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Crysis\Game\Config

6. Last step: In C:\Games\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Crysis I renamed autoexec.cfg into autoexec.cfg.OLD and then copied ‘embek’s’ autoexec.cfg into C:\Games\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Crysis


Important This should be it. Do NOT try to start the game between step 2 to 6 or the game will create new profiles in C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\My Games\Crysis which will mess up again any start attempt.

Important I suggest to NEVER use the start button in Steam as it will very likely mess up the profiles and you have to redo the whole procedure. Always start the game via desktop icon.

I tried it several times and it works fine even you might face quite some delay before the EA splash screen comes up.
I suggest NOT messing around with the setup in the option menu as that might mess up again the profiles folder. But the game should now run at least and with pretty nice settings.
Worst case: If you play around with the settings and you have crashes again, just repeat the six steps and you're fine again.

Thanks again to the others which helped with suggestions and provided files. My goal was just to be able to run and enjoy the solo campaigns. For multiplayer you can find enough other posts which help with that issue.

I hope this helps at least some people.
P.S. for Steam: Creating posts in Steam forums with format is such a pain in the @$& .

[ブリッジス テウタ]

thanks for the quick answer. As by now the downloading is going faster. let's see where it goes but thanks for all :-)

[knuddelholic]

Glad the guide works.
After sinking hours into it back then to make the game work I thought I create that guide for everybody but also for myself when I want to install the game again in the future so I don't have to go through the mess again of that huge original thread where I found the parts of the solution.

[ブリッジス テウタ]

And it worked !

Something to mention maybe for any person coming here later on : At Step 3 it is said : "Inside our new Bin32 folder I went to properties from ‘Crysis.exe’ and changed its compatibility mode to Vista & SP2. Do NOT do this with the ‘Crysis64.exe’ file, do it just with the ‘Crysis.exe’."

If by right-clicking on Crysis.exe and going to "Properties" you don't find a Tab called "compatibility", don't panic and simply skip this small step, you won't lose anything of the final result. I had it happen to me and, eventually, the game ran as expected. I say thanks one more time to Knuddelholic for his guide. Now, nearly 3 years after having bought this game, i finally see what it is... For better and worst :-p

[Kevin Thomas²]

here just I made the third step and it worked and did not need to put the compatibility mode, Windows 8.1 and amd user

[knuddelholic]

Good the shortcut worked for you. But after much testing it is clear that the situation with this game is not as easy for most as the problem why it works or not are a bit more...complicated.
That's why I made this guide which you shortcut if you decide so. But if the shortcut does not work, going through all steps will most likely make it work in opposite to half baked suggestions.

[knuddelholic]

bump

[Trauma Disaster]

edit - I got it to work with this on win10.

Originally posted by FPS Crossfire:
I tried the 64 bit patch offered from dropbox, it did not work for me. I had a thread on a fix that made the game playable...

"I just fixed it! I tried the patch from http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71527378/Bin64.zip and contrary to popular feedback, it did not work for me. It crashed at launch, even in compatibility mode! I also tried a securom removal tool from https://support.securom.com/removaltool.html

If this fix does not work for you, try those attempts first.

You will need Crysis Warhead, If you cant launch Warhead this probably wont work for you either. I just copied the Bin64 folder from Warhead to the Crysis folder, and ran Crysis64.exe.

I couldn't start a new game directly, it shows the intro about how uber the suit is, and then it has a black screen for me. I had to hit the ~ key to open up the console and set the console cvar con_restricted to 0, and afterwards type "map island" to start the campaign.

It might be buggy, but its about time it works!

I am currently running Windows 10, Hope this helps."




Original - I add bin 64 to crysis, rename bin32 to old, change bin64 to bin 32. black screen crash from steam start. Send shortcut of cyrsis (secure rom 64) to desktop, black screen crash. try adm and sp2, still black screen.
new i5
original titan
16ram
new mb

Any idea what I should try? thanks

[lonewolf45622]

alright ma dudes, this vid worked for me. im not sure if it will work for other people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P05JeKQ_-SI

[Kevin Thomas²]

I uploaded the GOG version executables if anyone wants it {ПОСИЛАННЯ ВИЛУЧЕНО}http://www.mediafire.com/file/b9osviz2n1oltsy/Crysis_GOG_patch.zip it seems they get rid of the securom thing I need to take another check on it

[knuddelholic]

bump

[Sweetoh]

I think Steam must updated crysis for 64 bit, because I have Win 7 64 bit, and it would not run bevor I installed some mods. Few weeks ago I installed this game on a newer Harddrive and it just run without any problems under win 7 64 bit.

[ZLR]

it still doesnt work on w10 64-bit.. at least for me!

[LinuxPusher]

Knuddelholic, (hope I got that right)
Thank you very much this worked for me

[Bannor]

What worked for me (Win 7 x64) was, instead of renaming the game Bin32 folder and creating a new one, I copied the entire contents of the downloaded Bin64 folder to the game Bin32 folder, overwtting *everything*. I then successfully started and ran the game from the 'Play Game' button in Steam.
I've only just done this, but I was able to start the game, create a game profile, set all game graphics settings to max, and get to the beach in the first level. Now I'm gonna continue playing. Looks awesome!
Thanks for all the advice and uploaded files!

[Mc.SwAgSwAg]

OMG for real i was to dump to read and fixed crysis warhead with the crysis solution.
But it still works lol