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Key points
- Game should be installed in a non-Storage Space drive in Windows to avoid crashing.
- Saving progress is not possible until you have completed the first mission (about one hour of play time).
- The game is standalone, owning Far Cry 3 is not required.
- Most fixes and settings for Far Cry 3 should also work with Blood Dragon.
General information
- Ubisoft Forums
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- All versions require Ubisoft Connect DRM.
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
Use the -RenderProfile_MaxFPS X command line argument where X is the preferred max FPS[citation needed]
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Notes
- This is the best method to eliminate micro stuttering - especially with the DX11 executable.[citation needed]
- This method is better than adding the command in GamerProfile.xml because you won't have to set the properties to 'read only', so you can change this parameter without having to lock graphics settings or gameplay settings.
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- Custom/unlisted resolutions can be set manually in
GamerProfile.xml
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Edit GamerProfile.xml[citation needed]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
GamerProfile.xml with a text editor.
- Change
ResolutionX= and ResolutionY= to the desired values.
Notes
- Changing graphical settings in-game will reset
ResolutionX= and ResolutionY= to 800x600.
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- Game runs faster on 4 actual core affinity (about %28). (SMT/HT on-compared 6 core 12 thread affinity)
- For more info see set affinity and Multi-Threading on game performance
Disabling post-processing effects separately
- Depth of field, FXAA, and motion blur are all combined under the "Post FX" graphics setting.
Edit GamerProfile.xml[citation needed]
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- Go to the configuration file location.
- Open
GamerProfile.xml with a text editor.
- Search (Ctrl+F) for
</CustomQuality> and paste the following to a new line after it: <Post>
<quality GameDepthOfField="0" CinematicDepthOfField="0" MotionBlur="0" FXAALevel="0" id="x" />
</Post>
- Change the "0" to "1" for each effect as desired or leave it at "0" to keep the effect disabled.
- Change the x in
<id=x> within the newly added section to the same Post FX setting set in-game, for example <id=ultrahigh> . The possible settings are low, medium, high, veryhigh and ultrahigh.
- Save the file and make it read-only.
Notes
- Making the file read-only prevents the game from saving other settings changed in-game.
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Ambient occlusion
- Ambient occlusion can't be fully disabled through the in-game settings under DirectX 11, only switched between the different techniques available (SSAO, HBAO, HDAO).
Disable ambient occlusion[citation needed]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
GamerProfile.ini with a text editor.
- Locate
SSAOLevel="x" and change x to 0.
- Save the file and make it read only.
Notes
- Making the file read-only prevents the game from saving other settings changed in-game.
- Whenever graphical settings are changed in-game, SSAOLevel="0" is changed back to the default 1 (SSAO).
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Force HBAO+ (Nvidia only)[5][6]
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- Download and run Nvidia Profile Inspector.
- Select the Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon DLC profile.
- Change
Ambient Occlusion compatibility value to 0x00090000 .
- Change
Ambient Occlusion setting to High Quality .
- Change
Ambient Occlusion usage to Enabled .
- Press "Apply Changes" in the top-right corner.
Notes
- In-game AO needs to be disabled.
- Using HBAO+ instead of the in-game AO options gets rid of the dark halo effect that is present around objects and characters due to the low accuracy of the native implementations.
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Disable scan lines
- Removing the scan lines introduces other bugs such as low health not affecting HUD.
Edit DLL files yourself[7][8]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\bin .
- Open
FC3.dll and FC3_d3d11.dll with a hex editor such as HxD.
- Search for
COverlayTrack in both files and change their corresponding hex values to zeroes.
- Save your changes.
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Download modified library files[citation needed]
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- Download this package.
- Extract the content in the package to
<path-to-game>\bin .
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Disable Parallax Occlusion Mapping on Dirt Roads
Edit GamerProfile.xml[citation needed]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
GamerProfile.ini .
- After
</CustomQuality> but before </RenderProfile> add the following lines <Terrain> <quality id="high"> <Shaders> <shader name="Road" add="" remove="PARALLAX,PARALLAX_OCCLUSION" /> </Shaders> </quality> </Terrain>
- Save and set "read-only" in windows. If you wish to revert this change. Simply delete the two quotations after
Add= and copy paste "PARALLAX,PARALLAX_OCCLUSION" (Including quotations) in it's place. And then place two quotation marks after remove= where Parallax previously was[9]
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Improve Draw Distances
Grab Mod Tools[citation needed]
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- Download Mod Tools here
- Get the latest version and extract them to anywhere you'd like. Remember where.
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Extract "Common.dat"[citation needed]
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- Download the modded "defaultrenderconfig.xml"s here
- Extract it to anywhere you like. Remember where.
- Go to <path-to-game>
\data_win32
- Extract
common.dat by dragging it on to Gibbed.Dunia2.Unpack.exe
- Make a backup of
defaultrenderconfig.xml in <path-to-game>\data_win32\common\engine\settings
- Change the file name of the selected version from the download link above to just
defaultrenderconfig.xml and place it in the folder above.
- Rename the default
common.dat and common.fat to something else to preserve it after extracting and leave it where it is.
- Now take the extracted
common folder with the replaced defaultrenderconfig.xml and drag it on to Gibbed.Dunia2.Pack.exe . This will create a new common.dat and common.fat in the \data_win32 folder
- In your
GamerProfile.xml file in \My Games\Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon\ folder make sure in your <RenderProfile> section that you are NOT adding or modifying anything except <CustomQuality> or <Post> otherwise some stuff will not work.
- If you are interested in removing Parallax from roads, this mod includes this within it! If you wish to disable it. Follow the instructions above in that post to revert it but instead of doing it in your
GamerProfile.xml you can go to the <Terrain> section in defaultrenderconfig.xml that you are replacing instead.
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Input
In-game general control settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game gamepad layout settings.
Manually bind enter key to an action
Edit InputUserActionMap.xml[citation needed]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
InputUserActionMap.ini .
- Locate and replace, or append the following code:
<ActionMap name="common_use_remap">
<MassRename MergeKey="remap">
<Rename hexInput="0x646CA0E7:0xA79E3F0F" hexToInput="0x646CA0E7:0xEFDA7A5A" />
</MassRename>
</ActionMap>
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Manually bind mousewheel to weapon switching
Edit InputUserActionMap.xml[citation needed]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
InputUserActionMap.xml .
- Locate and replace, or append the following code:
<ActionMap name="common_weapons_remap">
<MassRename MergeKey="remap">
<Rename hexInput="0xAF35B6ED:0x4EAE8D2B" hexToInput="0x646CA0E7:0x97DDB3F8" />
<Rename hexInput="0xAF35B6ED:0x910B297C" hexToInput="0x646CA0E7:0x8A6AA39C" />
</MassRename>
</ActionMap>
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Toggle aiming down sights (ADS) for weapons
Edit GamerProfile.xml to add IronsightToggleMode[citation needed]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
GamerProfile.ini .
- Change the value of
IronsightToggleMode to 1 .
- Save your changes.
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Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Up to 5.1 output.[10] |
Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Dutch |
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French |
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German |
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Hungarian |
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Fan translation. Available to download. |
Italian |
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Polish |
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Fan translation. Available to download. Extract the package to <path-to-game>\data_win32 . |
Portuguese |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Origin, Ubisoft Store. |
Russian |
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Spanish |
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VR support
Issues unresolved
Cutscenes extremely laggy
- Many users are reporting in game cutscenes are very slow, often causing the audio to go out of sync.
Disable Anti Aliasing[citation needed]
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Set the post processing setting to "low"[citation needed]
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Download the latest Nvidia drivers[citation needed]
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- Installing the latest Nvidia drivers may correct this problem for Nvidia users.
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Issues fixed
Fails to save progress
- In the LOAD menu, all but the first autosave are displayed as "LOCKED". The first autosave is the one created during the first run, at the very start of the game.
Progress can't be saved until the tutorial mission is completed[citation needed]
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- The game does not allow you to save your progress until the entirety of the first mission has been completed.
- In order to save your progress, you need to play up to the point where you have freed the first garrison, just after you first encounter the blood dragons. This is approximately one hour of play time.
- After you have freed the garrison the save option will become usable in the menu.
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Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon service not available
This error message appears every time the player pauses the game, or changes settings[11]
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Negative mouse acceleration
- Negative mouse acceleration prevents fast mouse movements.
Negative mouse acceleration fix[citation needed]
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- Download the latest version of the Far Cry 3 Mod tools.
- Extract the files anywhere.
- Go into
<path-to-game>\data_win32 .
- Right click on
Common.fat and select Open with .
- Select browse, then go into the bin folder you just extracted and select
Gibbed.Dunia2.Unpack.EXE .
- Wait for it to extract
Common.fat , then open the newly created Common_Unpack\actionmaps .
- Open
Inputactionmapcommon.xml with a text editor.
- Find and replace all instances of
maxOutput="10" with maxOutput="100" .
- Save the file.
- Go back to Data_win32 folder.
- Now open another window and head over to the bin folder.
- Drag the common_Unpack folder and place it onto
Gibbed.Dunia2.Pack.EXE
- Delete or rename
Common.fat and Common.dat
- Rename
Common_Unpack.fat and Common_Unpack.dat to Common.fat and Common.dat respectively.
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Video artifacts
Video artifacting occurring in game.
Update your graphics card drivers[citation needed]
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No voice acting
No voice acting fix[citation needed]
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- Change your speaker settings from 5.1 to stereo.
- Right click the volume icon on your Windows taskbar (if it isn't visible just click on
show hidden icons to make it appear).
- Select
playback devices .
- Select the speakers you are currently using, (Should be the first one listed) then select
Configure .
- Select stereo as your audio channel, then finish the configuration setup.
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Game Crashes Randomly
Disable the Steam overlay[citation needed]
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- Right click the game icon on Steam and select properties.
- Uncheck the
Enable Steam Community In-Game box.
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Game crashes on Windows 10
- The game tends to crash after about 20 minutes of playing on Windows 10 devices.
Disable TabletInputService in Task Manager[citation needed]
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- Press Ctrl+⇧ Shift+Esc to open the Task Manager.
- Click on Services.
- Find
TabletInputService (Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service).
- Stop the service.
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Game crashes immediately after launch on Windows 10
- The game sometimes crashes after the first splash screen on Windows 10, regardless of whether you launch via Steam or Play.
Set compatibility mode of the exe to Windows 98 ME[citation needed]
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- Find the games .exe file → look in Program files X86 \ Steam \Steam apps \ common \ Far Cry 3 \ bin .
- Right click on the .exe file → select properties
- Select the compatibility tab
- Check the box that says "run this program compatability mode"
- Set it to Windows 98 ME (some users have better luck with Windows 7)
- You can also set the .exe to run as an Administrator right there (may not be necessary, but doesn't hurt)
- Issue should be resolved and you can play from Steam (which just launches Uplay anyway) or Uplay directly
- source: https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthread.php/1425838-FarCry3-doesn-quot-t-launch
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Game soft-locks on boot/opening loading screen (Nvidia GeForce Experience users only)
- The game does not load the main menu if the user has the Nvidia in-game overlay enabled
Disable Nvidia in-game overlay in Nvidia GeForce Experience[citation needed]
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- Open Nvidia GeForce Experience.
- Click on the "Gear" icon on the top right to access the Settings menu.
- Turn off Nvidia in-game overlay
- Run the game
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Crash when installed in a Windows 8 Storage Space
- The Game will refuse to run when installed on a drive which is managed by a Windows 8/8.1 Storage Space.
Installing the Game on a drive that is not a Storage Space will fix this issue[citation needed]
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Server connection workaround
- Initial unsuccessful server connection attempts on title screen still remain. Unsuccessful server connection attempts "PLEASE WAIT WHILE WE CONNECT TO FAR CRY 3 BLOOD DRAGON SERVERS" in menu are mitigated by this.
Edit DLL files yourself
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\bin .
- Open the two files
FC3.dll and FC3_d3d11.dll with a hex editor. HxD is a popular option for Windows-based operating systems.
- Search for the hex-values
FF 89 43 0C 85 C0 74 30 83 EC as well as 8B 53 0C 85 D2 74 30 33 C9 in both of the files.
- Replace the hexadecimal code
74 with EB at both of the locations in each of the two files.
- Save your changes.
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"This application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142)."
Run in Compatibility Mode for Windows 7[12]
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9.0c, 11 |
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Shader Model support |
3, 5 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
Physics |
Havok |
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Audio |
Dolby Digital, Speex |
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Interface |
Adobe Flash |
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Cutscenes |
Bink Video |
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
XP SP3 |
Vista SP2, 7 SP1, 8 |
Processor (CPU) |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.00 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66 GHz |
AMD Phenom II X2 550 3.10 GHz Intel Core i3-530 2.93 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
2 GB (XP) 4 GB (all others) |
8 GB (Vista onwards only) |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
AMD Radeon HD 2900 series Nvidia GeForce 8800 series 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support |
AMD Radeon HD 5770 Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible Shader model 5.0 support |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References