FINALLY SOMEONE WITH A SIMILAR PROBLEM
okay here's the deal.
i installed Far Cry a few months back and played it with zero errors/problems - nothing, it worked just fine. Recently i re-installed my OS and all my programs/games. When i re-installed Far Cry everything seemed to be fine, but when i run the game it freezes at the exact same point every single time. It is right at the beginning of the game, first level, after you get the pistol and take the body armor, you exit through the door and **boom** i get this high pitched, horrible noise through my speakers, then the game completely locks up my machine, the only way out of it is to press the reset button on my desktop.
I did save my profiles and what not before i wiped my HDD, and when i play from those points, there is no problem at all, just at the beginning. So i uninstalled the game once again and this time accidently erased my profiles/saved games. So now i'm stuck with a wicked a*s game that i cannot play from the beggining. I have downloaded and installed patches, nothing.
The only difference in my desktop is the addition of a new sound card (i was running crappy onboard before), i added the Audigy 2 NX (external running on USB 2.0) about a month ago (prior to re-installed the OS).
I can play all my other games just fine, BF1942, Splinter Cell PT, Joint operations: typhoon rising, everything with no problems whatsoever, but i love FC and i can't play it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyways, i have downloaded the newest drivers for the Audigy and my Vid card with no success, any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are my specs.
Asus P4P-800 Deluxe Mainboard
P4 3.0 Ghz (HT), running at 3.6 Ghz
1 GB of Kingston PC3200 RAM (running dual channel) (2 X 512)
Asus Radeon 9600XT
Soundblaster Audigy 2 NX (external)
Asus CD-ROM
LG DVD+RW 8X Drive
Seagate Barricuda - Serial ATA - 80 GB HDD
Thermaltake Aquarius II liquid cooling system
That's about it. Thanks again ppl.
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