Originally Posted by Conley

For those of you having problems:

1. General Problems/Crashes:

Solution 1: Install the 1.2 & 1.21 patches

Solution 2: Intall the latest version of DirectX, sound card drivers, and the latest non-beta graphics card drivers.

Solution 3: Make sure your system is sufficient (This goes without saying, but some people still try to run Crysis on a Pentium II or with 512KB of RAM (Yes, I mean KB))

Solution 4: Lower your overclocks. Crysis can be very picky, especially with graphics card overclocks.

Solution 5: Right click on the Crysis shortcut, and go to properties. Select the Compatibility tab and select Run as Administrator.

Solution 6: Go to the bin folder of the version you want to run (bin32 for 32-bit, bin64 for 64-bit: usually C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\ Crytek\Crysis\bin32 or bin64), and double click on Benchmark_GPU. Let it run through a time or two, and then close it out. The game should run without crashes now.


2. Trying to run 64-bit mode:

Solution 1: Did the game make the shortcut?:

If so, chances are it's 32-bit. Right click on the shortcut and go to properties. If in the target, it says bin32, change it to bin64.

Solution 2: Did you make the shortcut yourself?:

If so, you've probably linked to crysis64.exe in the bin64 folder. You HAVE to link to crysis.exe in the bin64 folder.

Solution 3 (for those who have downloaded the game, but you can try it nonetheless): Copy the lang.ini, paul.dll and unicows.dll from the Bin32 folder into the Bin64 folder.


3: Crysis hangs upon changing any settings:

Solution: Reinstall Crysis, and only update to 1.2. This is an issue with the 1.21 patch.


Just a small list so people don't have to go through what I did. I'll add more as I find them.

Originally Posted by Slightly skewed

What do you mean exactly by "hang"?

Originally Posted by Tohdman

When I had trouble booting Crysis with Windows 7 I just deleted the .cfg file in My Games and it booted up fine. Something to consider also.

Originally Posted by Conley

For those of you having problems:

1. General Problems/Crashes:

Solution 1: Install the 1.2 & 1.21 patches

Solution 2: Intall the latest version of DirectX, sound card drivers, and the latest non-beta graphics card drivers.

Solution 3: Make sure your system is sufficient (This goes without saying, but some people still try to run Crysis on a Pentium II or with 512KB of RAM (Yes, I mean KB))

Solution 4: Lower your overclocks. Crysis can be very picky, especially with graphics card overclocks.

Solution 5: Right click on the Crysis shortcut, and go to properties. Select the Compatibility tab and select Run as Administrator.

Solution 6: Go to the bin folder of the version you want to run (bin32 for 32-bit, bin64 for 64-bit: usually C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\ Crytek\Crysis\bin32 or bin64), and double click on Benchmark_GPU. Let it run through a time or two, and then close it out. The game should run without crashes now.


2. Trying to run 64-bit mode:

Solution 1: Did the game make the shortcut?:

If so, chances are it's 32-bit. Right click on the shortcut and go to properties. If in the target, it says bin32, change it to bin64.

Solution 2: Did you make the shortcut yourself?:

If so, you've probably linked to crysis64.exe in the bin64 folder. You HAVE to link to crysis.exe in the bin64 folder.

Solution 3 (for those who have downloaded the game, but you can try it nonetheless): Copy the lang.ini, paul.dll and unicows.dll from the Bin32 folder into the Bin64 folder.


3: Crysis hangs upon changing any settings:

Solution: Reinstall Crysis, and only update to 1.2. This is an issue with the 1.21 patch.



Just a small list so people don't have to go through what I did. I'll add more as I find them.

Originally Posted by navit

very helpful thanks +1

Originally Posted by Conley

(...) Solution 3 (For those who have downloaded the game): Copy the lang.ini, paul.dll and unicows.dll from the Bin32 folder into the Bin64 folder.