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CouilleRoyale has Far Cry 4

Mar 17, 2015 @ 2:43pm

FarCry 4 File system Failure: Abording exection. "Unknown file with Readfile()"

Well I just bought Farcry 4. My first experience with this game is this error.
I tryied everything I saw on the net, from reinstalling the game to disable AA, play windowed.
Please how can I fix this, I just bought a game that I can't play :(

Yes I do have my NVIDIA drivers up to date.

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Muppet among Puppets has Far Cry 4

Mar 17, 2015 @ 2:52pm

Do you have a 64bit windows?

CouilleRoyale has Far Cry 4

Mar 17, 2015 @ 2:53pm

Yes windows 8.1, 64 bits

Muppet among Puppets has Far Cry 4

Mar 17, 2015 @ 2:54pm

Do you know that the requirements are met?

Hi-Torque Mar 17, 2015 @ 3:04pm

Originally posted by XxRampagexX:
Well I just bought Farcry 4. My first experience with this game is this error.
I tryied everything I saw on the net, from reinstalling the game to disable AA, play windowed.
Please how can I fix this, I just bought a game that I can't play :(

Yes I do have my NVIDIA drivers up to date.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/298110/discussions/0/627456486417358966/

CouilleRoyale has Far Cry 4

Mar 19, 2015 @ 5:03pm

Nope they all don't work.

Originally posted by Hi-Torque:
Originally posted by XxRampagexX:
Well I just bought Farcry 4. My first experience with this game is this error.
I tryied everything I saw on the net, from reinstalling the game to disable AA, play windowed.
Please how can I fix this, I just bought a game that I can't play :(

Yes I do have my NVIDIA drivers up to date.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/298110/discussions/0/627456486417358966/

CouilleRoyale has Far Cry 4

Mar 19, 2015 @ 5:03pm

I do meet recommanded requirements, I'm using Windows 8.1 64 bits also.

Hi-Torque Mar 19, 2015 @ 5:09pm

Originally posted by XxRampagexX:
Nope they all don't work.

Originally posted by Hi-Torque:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/298110/discussions/0/627456486417358966/

You just summed up 15 seperate troubleshooting line items and 13 pages of discussion (with even more tips) with...Nope.

Sorry buddy, you can browse around or ask the FC4 Forums.

Last edited by Hi-Torque; Mar 19, 2015 @ 5:09pm

CouilleRoyale has Far Cry 4

Mar 19, 2015 @ 5:13pm

Originally posted by Hi-Torque:
Originally posted by XxRampagexX:
Nope they all don't work.

You just summed up 15 seperate troubleshooting line items and 13 pages of discussion (with even more tips) with...Nope.

Sorry buddy, you can browse around or ask the FC4 Forums.

Ok whatever I've done each of them, still not working :/

Muppet among Puppets has Far Cry 4

Mar 19, 2015 @ 10:31pm

Then contact support that you met all requirements, followed all troubleshoots,
but no luck

MV-Strangelove Jul 26, 2017 @ 11:25am

Sorry for necromancing, but I found a real solution for people who still playing this game. In my case, I was playing a game which I had bougth only for install in Uplay, out of Steam. In the middle of campaign (second area) I got a frozen, black screen when I was accesing to map. I tried to exit game, but was "stuck" and finally I saw the error message "System Faliure: Aborting Execution, Unknown file Readfile()"

This is not about graphic drivers, is about a problem reading files with the main executable Farcry4.exe, so I tried first to check game files through Uplay options. It was partially succesful because some files was corrupted/damaged, but was unable to repair -> The problem is about Hard Disk, not the game itself.

I went to Windows My Computer -> Local Disk -> Properties -> Tools -> Check Errors (mark two options, detect and repair automatically). In this point, I had to restart my computer to make it clean, and after 1 hour or more, test detected that some clusters was damaged, the same which was related to game patch files.

Finished the file checking, Windows starts automatically, so I only needed to reinstall the game (Uplay plattform) and the problem was solved. I hope it can be useful.

Last edited by MV-Strangelove; Jul 27, 2017 @ 2:52pm

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RecoveringAddict Dec 5, 2021 @ 12:03am

So idk if this will work for yall but i found a forum saying the error occurs due to one drive being turned off, i turned it on and it instantly worked. ♥♥♥♥ onedrive.

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UbiKarl [developer] Dec 5, 2021 @ 8:30am

Originally posted by RecoveringAddict:
So idk if this will work for yall but i found a forum saying the error occurs due to one drive being turned off, i turned it on and it instantly worked. ♥♥♥♥ onedrive.

Hey RecoveringAddict, thanks for your input there!

I can see that this is an older thread to which our team seemingly didn't come across, however I am glad to see players effort in helping each other out, so hopefully if there will be anyone experiencing similar problem, they will find your workaround useful :).

Should you ever happen to have any queries or require any assistance, feel free to drop us a message at any time!

- Ubisoft Support

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not.skelly Jun 26, 2023 @ 9:53am

still no actually working fix :/

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76561199207623170 Jun 29, 2023 @ 6:35am

Originally posted by Skelly001:
still no actually working fix :/

Hi there!

The game is no longer in active development, it is very unlikely for this to be fixed. Please try the workaround provided within this thread, if you're having problems.

Thanks!

- Ubisoft Support

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