FC3 Crashing

[Skatman]

Hi Guys, I realise that this topic has probably been done to death, but I'm after some advice as all the evidence that I have read states that my GPU is compatible, so it seems to me like a setting issue.

I started with everything on Ultra, 8x AA, 1080 res, and, whilst the FPS seemed a little low, it ran for about 30 mins, then shut down.

Changed everything down a bit and ensured that one of the settings (the one with loads of initials) is correct for my GPU. Still crashing.

Next I took my res down to 720, AA to 2x, but still it crashed.

Now, I've just changed the compatibility settings as is described in the pinned topic. Hopefully that'll work, before I do though does anyone have any more suggestions? I've raised it and ensured that none of the vents are obstructed to aid cooling as this was my first thought. I keep getting the same error messages in eventvwr;

error code 1000

Faulting application name: farcry3.exe, version: 0.1.0.1, time stamp: 0x51226a37
Faulting module name: MSVCR100.dll, version: 10.0.40219.325, time stamp: 0x4df2be1e
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00001f18
Faulting process id: 0x3af08
Faulting application start time: 0x01ce33be822b1d4b
Faulting application path: H:\Steam\steamapps\common\Far Cry 3\bin\farcry3.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\MSVCR100.dll
Report Id: 6c1e47a4-9fb8-11e2-9038-ac7289a37662


My Set-up is:

Asus N55SL Laptop

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz

RAM 8GB

7'200 RPM HDD

GeForce GT 635M 2GB DDR3


Thank you for any assitance that you can provide.

Rich

[Skatman]

Anyone? It's still crashing.

[welly321]

Wow ur fps must of been extremely low when you ran 1080p ultra with 8x AA. I have a i5 2500k and a overclocked 7950 and I have to run High and 2x AA 1080p to get consistant 60fps

[banzaigtv]

I had the game running on ultra settings 1080p with my GTX 660 SC. Set the game to run at a constant 45 fps using a fps limiter. Though the fps held mostly steady, the game crashed and I had to sign off Windows to force shutdown. Downgraded to very high settings with same frame rate lock and the game never crashed since, even after playing for several hours at one time. MSAA has been disabled on both setups.

To avoid crashes, disable MSAA and let the Post FX do the anti-aliasing work. Select the video quality preset one step lower than the optimal preset and you should be fine.

[Skatman]

Originally posted by welly321:

Wow ur fps must of been extremely low when you ran 1080p ultra with 8x AA. I have a i5 2500k and a overclocked 7950 and I have to run High and 2x AA 1080p to get consistant 60fps

Yeah it was a little low, not unplayable but I'd rather have the higher FPS and less res. Now the FPS on 720 with 2xAA and most things on high is around the 60FPS mark. Personally I think that anything more than that and you will barely notice it anyway. Yet it's still been crashing. Nothing of not on perfmon.exe when it's been running in background.

Originally posted by banzaigtv:

I had the game running on ultra settings 1080p with my GTX 660 SC. Set the game to run at a constant 45 fps using a fps limiter. Though the fps held mostly steady, the game crashed and I had to sign off Windows to force shutdown. Downgraded to very high settings with same frame rate lock and the game never crashed since, even after playing for several hours at one time. MSAA has been disabled on both setups.

To avoid crashes, disable MSAA and let the Post FX do the anti-aliasing work. Select the video quality preset one step lower than the optimal preset and you should be fine.

Cheers pal, I've done this now and it seems MUCH more stable. Played for a few hours on nights the other night and no crashes. It seems to happen when I'm trying to do to much in one go, like running, reloading, getting shot at and trying to heal my self all in one go. System seems to just go "BLURGH!" and then "I'm not playing any more you selfish individual". So I have to load it up again.

On another, slightly more embarrassing note, I knew my laptop had two seperate graphics cards, one an integrated Intel one which handles general desktop related stuff, the other the NVidia dedicated. For some reason my OS thought it was smart to try and run the game using the intel one. Which gives me no surprise whatsoever when it was failing. I think it's because I was launching from steam and as a result the OS must have thought It'd be ok with the intel one. Since then I've had a play with the NVidia settings and dictated that whenever Steam launches the OS uses the NVidia card. Hope that helps to anyone else with the same problem.

Cheers for the assistance guys!

[Skatman]

I thought all my issues with this had been sorted, unfortunately it crashed twice in the space of about 20 minutes yesterday. Once playing multiplayer, the other playing single.

I tried to disable the AA in game and leave the postFX to do the work but then the reticle disappeares. I did a bit of searching and found this is because I need to lauch it using the DX11 version - which I did, only to find that my key wouldn't work on UPlay.

Getting fed up with this now, my set-up can more than take it on the settings that I have, but for some reason it keeps crashing and because of the effing stupid DRM on games these days.