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Topic on Talk:Far Cry 2

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Hi, I had Far Cry 2 crashing for me right after displaying the splash screen. This happened with all the versions I could get my hands on (Steam, GOG, repacks with different mods integrated etc.). I've tried all the fixes listed here or on the first 2 pages in Google but with no luck. Even tested with two PCs (laptop and a desktop) with different GPUs (GeForce and Radeon).

Eventually I noticed FC2 works when located on another SSD disk. I have a WD SN850 and WD SN570 pairs in both laptop and desktop, but it worked with an Intel SSD. After testing different combinations I came to the following conclusion: 1) some SSD supports selecting a sector size when secure erasing, WD included 2) I had all my WD drives secure erased with 4kB sector size, instead of the default 512b 3) Intel drive doesn't offer an option to choose the sector size and it's 512 in all cases 4) FC2 fails to load when located on a drive secure erased (formatted) to use 4kB sectors. 5) FC2 works fine after secure erasing the same disk with 512b sectors.

Sector size can be checked in Windows with the following command: fsutil fsinfo sectorinfo c: then check the first line: LogicalBytesPerSector : 512 is fine LogicalBytesPerSector : 4096 is not

I got the consistent behavior switching disks between the PCs and even connecting the disk via USB-NVME adapter and the conclusion is the same - FC2 doesn't work with 4kB logical sectors.