Himalaya Problems

[McNabbo]

Ok I thought I had seen the last of my Himalaya problems.

ALL Himalaya missions now cause my rig to freeze about half way through the mission, and I have to perform a hard reset. All othe rmissions and open-world explorations do not exhibit said problems. Problem is only applicable to the Himalayas.

Anyone else have similar issues?

[McNabbo]

Here's a link to a thread started on the Ubisoft tech forums:

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/964663-Himalaya-Mission-Freezing-Crashing-Issue?highlight=Himalaya

[McNabbo]

UPDATE:

It's the Nvidia 347.09 drivers that causes this. I only started to wonder about it after another game crashed on me.

If oyu have this problem, roll back to the previous driver, and oyu should be fine.

[Nite69]

I'm on 347.09 drivers and no issues with those missions, completed a couple of them so far

[McNabbo]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

I'm on 347.09 drivers and no issues with those missions, completed a couple of them so far

Well, it's the only thing I have changed, and the problem was quite regular. I could predict it with absolute precision. So I rolled back and BOOM, problem was gone.

What card are you using? I have GTX690.

[Nite69]

4GB GTX 770

the 690 is a dual GPU card isn't it? could be the SLI causing the freezing disable that and try it.

I see more players having problems with SLi and Crossfire then with single GPU's on this game.

[McNabbo]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

4GB GTX 770

Maybe that's why. Your card is a lot better than mine, and newer drivers sometimes have issues with older cards.

Whatever the case is, rolling back fixed my problem, and I posted about it to give others who may or may not have the problem a potential fix. If you have a better idea of what the problem was/is, please do share.

[Sasha1378]

I have the same problem but with the latest (347.51) driver... How far do I have to roll back to get the game working?

My computer specs are as follow:
CPU i7 4900MQ @2.8Ghz
32GB DDR3 RAM
2x GeForce GTX 880M
Game installed on SSD (main drive)

[McNabbo]

Originally posted by Sasha1378:

I have the same problem but with the latest (347.51) driver... How far do I have to roll back to get the game working?

My computer specs are as follow:
CPU i7 4900MQ @2.8Ghz
32GB DDR3 RAM
2x GeForce GTX 880M
Game installed on SSD (main drive)

I think it was a 344 driver. I can't remember which. If there's more than one, it's the earliest one then.

[Rags]

hey i have the same problem any fixes please ? the first himalaya mission was fine i was able to complete without any issues but this "kill or get killed" mission is just unplayble at exact in the middle of this mission i am getting crashed or even unfortunately program dead error. please any fixes ?
Thanks

[-=SOF=-WID99]

Originally posted by Rahul.N:

hey i have the same problem any fixes please ? the first himalaya mission was fine i was able to complete without any issues but this "kill or get killed" mission is just unplayble at exact in the middle of this mission i am getting crashed or even unfortunately program dead error. please any fixes ?
Thanks

verify your game files yet ?

To verify your files if you bought the game thru Steam ..\EXIT Steam ..right click your steam icon ..select run as Administrator

to launch Steam

then go to your Steam games library

right clik on far cry 4

select properties

select local files

select verify Integrity of game cache

it takes a few min to do but its faster the redownloading your entire game , if its only a few files that were corrupt or installed incorrectly .... this in many cases will fix your problems

[Rags]

i know i did verified it , didn't helped i think it's happening only when i am playing any himalaya missions , when i be in kyrat nope problems or crashes.

[Sasha1378]

I think that lowering the screen resolution for the mission was my solution... Not entirely sure, but worth a try ;)

[-=SOF=-WID99]

Originally posted by Rahul.N:

i know i did verified it , didn't helped i think it's happening only when i am playing any himalaya missions , when i be in kyrat nope problems or crashes.

what GPU and is it a laptop one ?

[Rags]

anyway my problem is just disappeared when i just turned off ambient occlusion. i got GTX 950 OC on my desktop

[-=SOF=-WID99]

yea lower your setting on a GTX 950 .. its not gonna run the game in Ultra most likely

here are the settings i used with an ASUS STRIX FACTORY OVERCLOCKED GTX 960 \
when i had that system

my in Game settings are Custom
resolution 1920 X 1080
vsync - on
Quality settings
motion blur off - not a fan of it ..
Textures - Ultra
Shadows - High <--- (Nvidia PCSS Soft Shadows will kill your FPS )
Post FX -Ultra
Geometry - Very High
Vegetation- Ultra
Environment - High
Water - Ultra
Ambient Occusion setting is SSBC
Antialising settings is SMAA
God rays - off- not a fan of how it looks (can make the game unstable..even on Titan X and GTX 980 Ti cards )
Fur - on
Trees relief -on
in Advanced settings
Triple buffering - off
Vsync mode - Normal

in Nvidia control panel, i made these changes
Anisotropic Filtering = 16 X
Max Pre Rendered Frames = 1 or 3
Set Power Management Mode = Adaptive

game looks fine to me and plays stutter free on my system with zero crashes

also i did install Razer Cortex game booster version 7.0 as it does seem to help with this game
http://www.filehorse.com/download-game-booster/old-versions/
*(note newer versions of cortex do not seen to work as well , at least for me so i stick with 7.0 )


remember your 950 is a blit weaker so just try lowering a ferw settings

but keep the Nvidia game works settings OFF you may have zero problems

nvidia goofed up those in the drivers yrs ago

see

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/799274/geforce-drivers/nvlddmkm-keep-crashing-in-far-cry-4/

**note that Nvidia never even responded to it.... on their OWN driver forums **