I updated my 64-bit 8.1 to Windows 10, and far cry 3 was the one crashing in 10 mins, every time. All the drivers were up to date, and yet no good news. The game started, 10-15 minutes of gameplay, crash. I re-installed Windows 10 x64 from zero, and when it went to Far Cry 3, the problem stayed the same.
There is a solution!
If you are using an Nvidia non GT200 card, you may encounter issues with the BETA drivers while running Far Cry 2. Another option is to use the latest WHQL. AMD/ATi users: Edge Detect and Adaptive Anti Aliasing: The game will not render the increased IQ enough for you to notice, and the performance hit is something you will notice, in a bad way. I have 2 OS on my laptop, it's windows 8.1 and windows 10 technical preview. Both systems has installed last version of videocard drivers and last version of directx 11. I have Far Cry 3 game on my steam account. It work fine on windows 8.1 but dont work on windows 10.
Thanks to SamaelShih, it has been figured out that TabletInputService forces FarCry3.exe to crash, when enabled. To solve the crash problem:
1) Open Task Manager
2) Go to Services
3) Identify TabletInputService (Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service)
4) Stop the service
5) Launch FarCry3
Service could be re-enabled, when you're done.
Enjoy!
'Did I ever tell you the definition of the 'Insanity'?' - pretty much, what's been happening in this thread for the last 3 months.
Failed attempts：
I figured out couple things:
1) Everyone encountering same problem have Windows 10 64-bit. I have Far Cry 3 working smoothly on another PC, having Windows 10 32-bit, also updated from 8.1.
2) Problem is related to DirectX audio file, xaudio2_7.dll, possibly because of its incompatibility with a new OS.
3) Disabling Realtek Audio (or any other sound driver) will remove crash, but you play silent. Not a solution.
4) It is definitely Microsoft bug, since I tried re-installing Far Cry for hundreds of times, run in every single compatibility combination, even tried running couple pirated releases - no result.
5) Re-installing DirectX, Visual C++ and .NET Framework don't give any positive result.
PC Description: Lenovo Edge 15, Intel I7-5500U, Intel HD Graphics 5500, 8GB RAM, 64-bit Windows 10 Enterprise
Similar threads are going there, but no valid solution exist yet.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/games_windows_10/far-cry-3-has-stopped-working-on-windows-10/8c6cf0d6-1142-4658-b17a-dd630fe79f0f
https://www.reddit.com/r/farcry/comments/3fw6j1/cant_run_far_cry_3_on_windows_10/
Dear community, help on this question will be really appreciated.
Update 1:
Through Event Viewer, I figured out that the following modules appear to be failing one by one:
xaudio2_7.dll
d3d10.DLL
C:WindowsSYSTEM32MSVCR100.dll
igd12umd32.dll
d3d10.dll_unloaded
d3d10core.dll
d3d12.dll
Last two fail most of the time.
Update 2:
sfc /scannow showed corrupted opencl.dll file. I re-installed Intel HD Graphics, but it gave no result.
Update 3:
On Ubisoft forum, they offered to install the game on the system disk (C:), which was something, I have not tried yet.
Unfortunately, game crashes the same way. Recent two launches failed, referring to same module, XAudio2_7.dll_unloaded
Good thing is, once game is installed on C:, only xaudio2_7.dll fails.
A further suggestion of removing/renaming the xaudio2_7.dll file at system folder (syswow64, notsystem32) solves the crash, but totally removes the sound from a game.
Complete fail report:
Faulting application name: farcry3.exe, version: 0.1.0.1, time stamp: 0x51226a37
Faulting module name: XAudio2_7.dll_unloaded, version: 9.29.1962.0, time stamp: 0x4c0641e5
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0003a5e0
Faulting process id: 0xa10
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0fef7d665a842
Faulting application path: C:Program Files (x86)Far Cry 3binfarcry3.exe
Faulting module path: XAudio2_7.dll
Report Id: 61dfc555-bae3-44ca-bfd3-e32a0b0f4e65
Update 4:
Recent too launches showed that game crashes due to the failure of d3d10.dll and d3d10core.dll . Whether the cause is the hardware is still unknown, but I've found an opinion, that the problem could be caused by IntelHD Graphics Card itself.
The suggestion of lowering the sound quality to the lowest (16bit, 44100Hz) did not prevent the crash, unfortunately.
Complete fail report:
Faulting application name: farcry3.exe, version: 0.1.0.1, time stamp: 0x51226a37
Faulting module name: d3d10.DLL_unloaded, version: 10.0.10240.16384, time stamp: 0x559f3c01
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000ba5e0
Faulting process id: 0x2674
Faulting application start time: 0x01d1078b8afb867f
Faulting application path: C:Program Files (x86)Far Cry 3binfarcry3.exe
Faulting module path: d3d10.DLL
Report Id: 19e8bb01-71dd-4113-9f96-f8be35e66dcb
and:
Magic Mouse 2 Not Working
Faulting application name: farcry3.exe, version: 0.1.0.1, time stamp: 0x51226a37
Faulting module name: d3d10core.dll_unloaded, version: 10.0.10240.16384, time stamp: 0x559f3bc3
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000a5e0
Faulting process id: 0x20a0
Faulting application start time: 0x01d10789548cf142
Faulting application path: C:Program Files (x86)Far Cry 3binfarcry3.exe
Faulting module path: d3d10core.dll
Report Id: fcbe1f30-b603-4cc1-9040-099b371d91e2