Far Cry 3 Deluxe - Autopatch System problem

[MoosE]

Ok, ive owned far cry 3 for a good 2 weeks now and haven't even made it to the main menu. Video drivers are up to date, punkbuster installed, firewall exceptions made, uplay installed and updated blah blah blah... Every time i try and play far cry 3 i get the "autopatch system has encountered a problem screen" and the game won't start. The problem seems to lie with the FC3Updatersteam.exe file. It has been updated three times on steam now but i still can't play.

I have also tried to play fc3 on uplay and it won't accept my cd key (maybe because its the deluxe edition cd key and only works for steam)

Any help or solutions with these problems would be greatly appreciated, ive tried everything (including reinstall, changing executable paths etc) but to no avail and am seriously considering trying to get steam to refund my game.

Thanks...
Sadface :(

[Choolies]

Have EXACT same problem - autopatch error and fails key activation even through ubisoft have verified the key is correct. Also reinstalled everything including graphics drives.

Thanks

[AHH!]

I have the same exact problem here.

Only difference is that my game was working almost flawlessly until, I'm guessing, the latest patch came along

[MoosE]

Mate you're playing FC3 now, how did u get it working?

[sailordoom]

I had the same problem. It took a week to get through the Ubisoft tech support jungle and actually talk to a real person... but he traced the problem in my case to a particular DLL error... which pointed to the fact that I was on Win XP SP2. I upgraded to Service Pack 3, and the game now runs perfectly. Hope this helps!

[EternalCore]

@ALL; Read here under Solutions 3 & 4: http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/739489-PC-Win7-8-vista-Solutions-gt-Far-Cry3-Has-Stopped-Responding

[ZoraBandit]

Eternal core, that link dont solve the problem... "Autopatchsystem crash" still continue also on my PC... I can't play my 50euro of videogame

[Maximus]

Hi all,

I had this problem for almost 2 weeks, until Ubisoft finally got back to me for the 3rd time. Matt B. from Ubisoft gave me the following advice, and it fixed it! I've played over 10 hours in the past few days.

Note: the top part, about running as admin, didn't apply to me, and I didn't need to do it (I'm on Windows XP SP3). The only thing I did was the 2nd part (steps 4-7), about making the shortcut, and editing it with the additional portion in quotes.

Here's the quote from Ubisoft:

1. Navigate to the FC3 folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Far Cry 3\bin\

2. Locate FarCry3.exe
a. Right Click and select properties
b. In the compatibility tab select the option to run as admin

3. Follow steps a & b for Farcry3_d3d11.exe
4. Create a shortcut on your desktop for whichever version you want to use.
5. Right click on the shortcut and select Properties.
6. Set the Target to:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Far Cry 3\bin\farcry3_d3d11.exe" "-uplay_steam_mode"

(Remember to include the quotation marks and change C to which ever drive the game is installed to.)

7. Apply changes and launch the game from the icon.

This should force the game to launch up in the Steam version of Uplay, without launching Steam or requesting the FC3UpdaterSteam.exe to launch.

From here, I was able to (1) input (copy-paste) my CD Key from Steam into Uplay (which I wasn't able to before), (2) play the game from Uplay (no Steam starting needed)!

[num3ers]

Thanks for the info Astinus...I will have to try this as all else has failed for me thus far. I did put in a request for a refund (not holding my breath) as I do not believe that anyone should have to go to so mush bs when paying $60 for a game.

[Darkwaver]

Hi guys, I gave Astinus' solution a trie, but the game crashes after showing me the ''Far Cry 3'' black startup screen. I tried a similar fix once too, wich was:

Copy the ''Farcry3_d3d11.exe'' (no short-cut), delete (remove) the ''FC3UpdaterSteam'' exe, and change the name of the copy'd exe to the name of the deleted exe.

This way Steam will launch Far Cry trough Uplay using an executable named ''FC3UpdaterSteam'. But you changed the name of the regular Far Cry launcher to the one Steam looks for. It should start up Uplay. But then the next problem occurs, as Uplay asks for your CD-key, wich wil probably be invalid.

I'm really getting impatient... Spent my hard-earned money on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game, and it doesn't even start! Anyone got any other fixes?

Originally posted by Astinus:

Hi all,

I had this problem for almost 2 weeks, until Ubisoft finally got back to me for the 3rd time. Matt B. from Ubisoft gave me the following advice, and it fixed it! I've played over 10 hours in the past few days.

Note: the top part, about running as admin, didn't apply to me, and I didn't need to do it (I'm on Windows XP SP3). The only thing I did was the 2nd part (steps 4-7), about making the shortcut, and editing it with the additional portion in quotes.

Here's the quote from Ubisoft:

1. Navigate to the FC3 folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Far Cry 3\bin\

2. Locate FarCry3.exe
a. Right Click and select properties
b. In the compatibility tab select the option to run as admin

3. Follow steps a & b for Farcry3_d3d11.exe
4. Create a shortcut on your desktop for whichever version you want to use.
5. Right click on the shortcut and select Properties.
6. Set the Target to:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Far Cry 3\bin\farcry3_d3d11.exe" "-uplay_steam_mode"

(Remember to include the quotation marks and change C to which ever drive the game is installed to.)

7. Apply changes and launch the game from the icon.

This should force the game to launch up in the Steam version of Uplay, without launching Steam or requesting the FC3UpdaterSteam.exe to launch.

From here, I was able to (1) input (copy-paste) my CD Key from Steam into Uplay (which I wasn't able to before), (2) play the game from Uplay (no Steam starting needed)!

[ZoraBandit]

Astinus, you're the best !!!

after 3 months of errors from desktop (not even a blanck screen... nothing) , and after days passed with ubisoft support....with your instructions...

I CAN NOW PLAY FARCRY3 !!!!

thanks !

[SimplyRedie]

Any news here? Tried all "solutions" and after solving updater fail i get Far Cry 3 stopped working.

[-=SOF=-WID99]

Originally posted by Jerry:

Any news here? Tried all "solutions" and after solving updater fail i get Far Cry 3 stopped working.

if you have an Nvidia GPU open geforce expereince and shut off shadow play