Works for me now with the new Player. Thanks for the update Metaboli.
Autopatcher still does not work but the game itself runs smoothly. Might be worth to try a new D/L for those of you who could not play it before due to the partial download issue.

Best regards

--TheVoid68

:( Hope this gets fixed soon. Just bought a new GFX card and wanted to try this game again. I couldn't get it to run very well on my old 9800GTX+ without dropping the screen resolution and turning most of the details off.

You'll even get the Fortune pack with it!

[quote="TheVoid68"]Failed to D/L properly on two XP machines as well so I do call it the day, and hope Metaboli will repack the game someday in the future. All prereqs has been installed, and also the .NET workaround has been tested on all three machines. Will try again whenever I get Windows 7 in/house or a gold version has been released.[/quote]

Metaboli are repacking the game, they just need the files etc from the publisher.. no ETA at present though i'm afraid.

Failed to D/L properly on two XP machines as well so I do call it the day, and hope Metaboli will repack the game someday in the future. All prereqs has been installed, and also the .NET workaround has been tested on all three machines. Will try again whenever I get Windows 7 in/house or a gold version has been released.

Is there any word yet on the repackaging of this game so it will work on Vista 64? Used to download fine on Metaboli when it was 32 bit, and I was really looking forward to playing again.

From A very hopeful gamer.

No problem the frustrating thing is I could provide the file needed for download but I dont want to get myself, let alone Metaboli in any trouble with Ubisoft by doing so.

The following file is what you will need to copy over if you can get it downloaded on any O/S. Farcry2\Data_Win32\worlds\worlds.dat
When its not downloading properly the file shows as Farcry2\Data_Win32\worlds\worlds.dat_ and is 0kb in size.

So if you have the failed one on Vista and get it working on XP, just copy the file from the XP install over the Vista install and it will work fine. Thats how I had it working on Vista64 recently.

Weird stuff anyhow especially since support only response is to install the prereqs which includes .NET 3.5SP1. I´ll have one more go and then I´ll call it the day, and wait for a future repack, or to retry on Windows 7 later this month.

Thanks for the followup anyhow wildride.

I´ll post if of my three current installs and downloads ends up working :-D.

Cheerio H

[quote="wildride"]Ok as promised heres the fix for XP (and possibly Vista) 32bit Operating systems, Vista64 I need to work out a solution.. [color=#FF0000]THIS WONT WORK FOR VISTA64!![/color]

Short Way (not tested):
Uninstall [u][b]ALL[/b][/u] .NET Framwork installations via add/remove programs. Start with 3.5 then 3.0 then 2.0. Attempt 1.1 (I wasnt able to) then 1.0
Next go to [url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=d7158dee-a83f-4e21-b05a-009d06457787&displayLang=en]Microsoft[/url] to get the .NET framework redist and install. Then download the game.

Long way (tested):
Download Farcry, this wont completely download the game but some of it. Personally I got 1.2gb worth in this initial download.
Activate game, and then quit, it should be downloading some more now.
That will get to 1.7gb before saying its done, game still wont work.
Remove all .NET Frameworks then resume downloading.. this will get you to 2.2gb.
Now get the [url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=d7158dee-a83f-4e21-b05a-009d06457787&displayLang=en].Net Framework[/url]
Now resume downloading the game and it should complete.
The game will now work fine.

This still doesnt fix the patching problem though.[/quote]

Posted it ages ago in the thread, long way is exactly as it occured on my XP partition. Shanes said they are repackaging the game and including the add-on, so hopefully for those of you wanting to play this the game will be getting that sooner rather than later.

Yes the game does work on Vista, Ive had it going on Vista64, in fact before MS released .Net 3.5 the game would download fine on vista64. Ever since then it doesnt work even on a new install of Vista64, which is a real oddity. I will admit the clean re-install was not a complete reformat so it may have still had the altered 3.0 installed (3.5 alters the installed versions of 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 but not 1.0)

I will be getting a new drive on the 20th and will be putting Vista64 on it, Ill test it on a completely clean drive.

Tried the .NET downgrade on my XP Home (all patches and whistles installed). FF last version, IE version 7.0. Downgraded to .NET 2.0, installed player, and so forth. Same result. Will try to downgrade to .NET 1.x.