Alright, I just recently installed Windows Vista Ultimate RC 1, and for the
most part, 99% of programs that I have been installing have worked great so
far. The only 2 things that haven't worked so far is:

1. Messenger Mate for AIM
2. Driver installation for my HP 5150 printer

I tried playing FAR CRY, and it loads up fine but once it tries to load a
level, i just get a black screen and it freezes. I recently updated my video
card drivers to the latest NVIDIA Windows vista beta drivers. I have a
Geforce 5500 FX OC (256 MB).

My pc specs are as follows:

COMPAQ Presario with AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor with 1 GB of RAM and
plenty of hard drive space.

Do you think this has to do with the drivers? Because as far as I can tell,
Far Cry should work in Windows Vista...especially with the claims they make
about games working better.

Far Cry is not a DirectX 10 game, it uses DX9 (like XP). Try setting Far Cry
to use Compatibility Mode: XP (it's a tab in Properties) and give it another
shot. If necessary, uninstall it and reinstall using Comaptibility mode on
the setup.exe program.

None of my games have failed to work so far, but some have had low
framerates and long load times if I don't set comaptibility mode. I'm also
using ATI, though not a particularly powerful card. I wish you luck, but
YMMV. Vista and its video drivers are still pre-release software.


"Joseph Cavallaro Jr." Joseph Cavallaro
wrote in message ...
Alright, I just recently installed Windows Vista Ultimate RC 1, and for
the
most part, 99% of programs that I have been installing have worked great
so
far. The only 2 things that haven't worked so far is:

1. Messenger Mate for AIM
2. Driver installation for my HP 5150 printer

I tried playing FAR CRY, and it loads up fine but once it tries to load a
level, i just get a black screen and it freezes. I recently updated my
video
card drivers to the latest NVIDIA Windows vista beta drivers. I have a
Geforce 5500 FX OC (256 MB).

My pc specs are as follows:

COMPAQ Presario with AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor with 1 GB of RAM and
plenty of hard drive space.

Do you think this has to do with the drivers? Because as far as I can
tell,
Far Cry should work in Windows Vista...especially with the claims they
make
about games working better.

Far Cry works on my system. I asked in your previous post what version of Far
Cry you have. The reason is this: I had the same problem you have when I
installed it on Windows XP initially. This game was bundled with my video
card. I had a version 1.0 of the game. I think when I went to Ubisoft.com the
current patch was 1.12, which I installed and the game worked from that
point. I then later updated to the most current, at the time, 1.13 patch.

Let me reiterate, it works on my copy of Vista RC1 that I used to upgrade
over my existing installation of Windows XP. It may be possible, then, that
Vista automatically used compatibility mode when it upgraded my system, I
don't know and haven't checked.

"Joseph Cavallaro Jr." wrote:

Alright, I just recently installed Windows Vista Ultimate RC 1, and for the
most part, 99% of programs that I have been installing have worked great so
far. The only 2 things that haven't worked so far is:

1. Messenger Mate for AIM
2. Driver installation for my HP 5150 printer

I tried playing FAR CRY, and it loads up fine but once it tries to load a
level, i just get a black screen and it freezes. I recently updated my video
card drivers to the latest NVIDIA Windows vista beta drivers. I have a
Geforce 5500 FX OC (256 MB).

My pc specs are as follows:

COMPAQ Presario with AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor with 1 GB of RAM and
plenty of hard drive space.

Do you think this has to do with the drivers? Because as far as I can tell,
Far Cry should work in Windows Vista...especially with the claims they make
about games working better.

i had recently bought a new computer with vista and install Far Cry and
it runs but with one big problem everything is grey, there are no
textures or anything does anyone have any solutions?


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eagleheart666

The usual suggestion is to update the video drivers.
New computers often come with outdated drivers.

Beyond that, you did not list enough information about your new computer to
obtain perhaps more useful or specific comments.

"eagleheart666" wrote in message
...

i had recently bought a new computer with vista and install Far Cry and
it runs but with one big problem everything is grey, there are no
textures or anything does anyone have any solutions?


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eagleheart666

cbhacking;121648 Wrote:
Far Cry is not a DirectX 10 game, it uses DX9 (like XP). Try setting Far
Cry
to use Compatibility Mode: XP (it's a tab in Properties) and give it
another
shot. If necessary, uninstall it and reinstall using Comaptibility mode
on
the setup.exe program.

None of my games have failed to work so far, but some have had low
framerates and long load times if I don't set comaptibility mode. I'm
also
using ATI, though not a particularly powerful card. I wish you luck,
but
YMMV. Vista and its video drivers are still pre-release software.


"Joseph Cavallaro Jr." Joseph Cavallaro
wrote in message
...
Alright, I just recently installed Windows Vista Ultimate RC 1, and
for
the
most part, 99% of programs that I have been installing have worked
great
so
far. The only 2 things that haven't worked so far is:

1. Messenger Mate for AIM
2. Driver installation for my HP 5150 printer

I tried playing FAR CRY, and it loads up fine but once it tries to
load a
level, i just get a black screen and it freezes. I recently updated
my
video
card drivers to the latest NVIDIA Windows vista beta drivers. I have
a
Geforce 5500 FX OC (256 MB).

My pc specs are as follows:

COMPAQ Presario with AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor with 1 GB of RAM
and
plenty of hard drive space.

Do you think this has to do with the drivers? Because as far as I can
tell,
Far Cry should work in Windows Vista...especially with the claims
they
make
about games working better.


WRONG!!!

FC2 can run DX10 or DX9.....

though for a mid range rig i recommend running it DX9, high to very
high 0xAA, if your rig can take it..
this game is UBER intensive on components, i have to make sure the room
is cool before i start playing as it just cooks my RAM & causes
BSODs (even crysis never heated my machine up like this)

im currently running it on x64 vista with 0 issues, it runs like a
dream, so look to your H/W before you blame the OS.

SK


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