Really annoying Far Cry 2 problem.

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Hi guys, i have a really annoying problem with Far Cry 2. It has decided to run itself in a window all of a sudden. When i first installed it all was well. This was fine for a week or so and then one day i started it up and it ran itself in a window. I have made no changes, either hardware or software. I can't find any option to undo this. It is really bugging me now and the window is really offputting. The spec is in my siggy with all the latest drivers and the OS is Vista home premium 64bit with all updates. Far Cry 2 is also up to date with both patches. Any solution shall be much appreciated.

DX10 by the way.
 
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user -> my documents -> my games -> far cry 2 -> and open the gamer profile. along the top line theres. Fullscreen="1" and Maximized="1"

They might be set as this since it was working before so put fullscreen to 0. open the game, close it and then put it back to 1.

It took some fiddling to get it working ok for me, but those are the settings you need to worry about.
 
I've just started it and it does look ok. I agree not quite there against Crysis but I hear the fire looks damn good. Can't wait to send something up in flames!!
 
user -> my documents -> my games -> far cry 2 -> and open the gamer profile. along the top line theres. Fullscreen="1" and Maximized="1"

They might be set as this since it was working before so put fullscreen to 0. open the game, close it and then put it back to 1.

It took some fiddling to get it working ok for me, but those are the settings you need to worry about.

Sorted. Cheer's for that. Let's hope i don't have to do it again in a couple of days. Got a new problem now though. Bloody thing does'nt save in fullscreen mode. I lost a whole afternoons gameplay despite hitting F5 every now and then. Especially just before it crashes to desktop due to the memory leak problem. Saves in windowed mode though. :confused:


how good is this game im getting it on tuesday :)

Complete the first mission, then do it another 100 times


Sums it up perfectly. It is rather boring. All the missions are the same more or less. Graphically it does look nice but is nothing special really. It has some bugs, the worst being the memory leak where it crashes to the desktop once memory usage reaches 60%. There's a lot of complaints about this on their forums. There is no way it should have been called Far Cry 2. It's nothing like the first one and can't touch it as far as gameplay is concerned.
 
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yeah i remember far cry been exactly like crysis, well wasnt far cry made by crytek? The jungles, water and sunlight were impressive. From what ive seen this looks more like a safari type jungle settings
 
pastymuncher thats a very strange problem! :( if it persists it might just be easier to try a fresh install. good luck!
 
If i get games doing this I either press alt + enter (as mentioned above) or just go to the game's display settings and choose full screen off, apply, full screen on.
 
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