game keeps crashing in the first mission

[polarbears77]

so, I’m running a Windows 10 machine, and this game boots flaw less, the first mission begins perfectly, you try and sneak out of the base. After the guy dies, I run through the jungle and at one point you crawl through a pass in the mountains and a guy drops down on you. Every time that cutscene happens, the game just crashes. No crash report, no way to save the game.
I have tried compatibility with windows 7, vista, and XP, no changes, files have been verified and I’ve tried a few fresh reinstalls, and the problem is always the same.

If it is relevant to the answer, System specs: win 10 latest version, GTX 1070, I7-4790K, 16 gigs of DDR3.

If anyone can help, thank you!

[Redback]

Compatibility should not be an issue, at least as far as for me it has been fine. I have run the game on XP, Win 7, win 8.1 and now on Win 10 without any problems or adjustments at all.

Do you start Uplay first (and let it complete any updates) before starting the game from Steam? I always have and in many cases this can help with a lot of problems that can be experienced.

[polarbears77]

yes, it doesn't seem to change anything.

[Redback]

OK fine, try turning off all unneccessary aps running in the background and in particular 'Cortana'. Also, make sure all drivers including video and audio etc. are up to date.

[-=SOF=-WID99]

also its a good idea to shut off tablet input services .. if enabled yes the game will crash

press windows Key + x

open task manager

open the services tab

click name in the upper right to put them in aphabetic order

look for tablet input service
right clik on it and select stop

then if you need touch screen services after you are done playing the game do the same thing except select start the service

i killed that when i did my initial win 10 install .. i already killed it by opening
action center
open all settings
open system
select tablet mode
move both sliders to the Left
under options there i see
when i sign in - use the appropriate mode for my hardware (or desktop mode)
when this device automatically switches to tablet mode
is set to always ask before switching

again my PC does not have any touch screen installed ,so i shut that all off months ago when i did my initial Windows 10 Pro installation

Microsoft was made aware of the issue ..but has not fixed it in WINDOWS 10 ..when you install Windows 10 you need to go over your settings when you set up your operating system

see :https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/games_windows_10/far-cry-3-crashes-on-windows-10-after-15-minutes/e2f593eb-321d-4acd-ba72-1d8a3bfd06eb

i had to shut a ton of things off ...in both windows 10 Home thats on my laptop as well as Win 10 Pro thats on my desktop ..when i first installed win 10 over a year ago .

[LeftPaw]

Same here, but I got past the crash by putting the farcry3DX11.exe into windows 7 compatibility mode as well as run as admin and booting straight from that

[-=SOF=-WID99]

oh yea i always launch both steam as well as Uplay as Run as Admin ..been doing that for years

[rmsaust]

seemed to resolve the crash issue when i ran as Direct X 9 instead of DX11.