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Here’s a list of Crysis Demo errors and problems with their corresponding possible solutions. Feel free to digg or reddit this post if you find this useful.
- IF YOU EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS WITH THE CRYSIS DEMO THAT ARE NOT LISTED BELOW, FEEL FREE TO COMMENT, YOU DO NOT NEED TO REGISTER TO DROP A COMMENT -
Problem 1: Low FPS when running Crysis Demo in Directx 10 mode
Solution : download the November REDIST Directx 10 package off Microsoft. Their web update package doesn’t seem to update much and leaves alot of old stuff there. DL link : here (solution posted by – marauderxp )
Problem 2: Crysis hangs up / freezes when i try start in dirext10, and i have downloaded that file and latest betadrivers from nvidia
Solution : go into your Crysis folder \Bin32\ folder and launch Crysis from there. It’ll run in 32-Bit, that doesn’t freeze. The problem is caused by the new drivers + 64-Bit (Vista?) (solution posted by Reyde)
Problem 3: Crysis wont run on my Vista 64-bit machine with an Nvidia graphics card
Solution : Use the 32-bit Nvidia drivers.
Solution #2 : Do not use the latest Nvidia drivers.
Solution #3 : Download this small Vista 64 fix from microsoft. Link
Solution #4 : Play Crysis in Directx9 mode
Solution #5 (Added October 29) : Download the Nvidia drivers that were made specially for Crysis demo.
special Nvidia driver for Crysis demo for Vista 64 bit (169.01)
special Nvidia driver for Crysis demo for Windows XP 32 bit (169.01)
special Nvidia driver for Crysis demo for Windows XP 64 bit (169.01)
Note : some users got Crysis working on a Vista 64-bit with Nvidia 163.75 beta drivers.
Problem : Crysis shows up a Black Screen After the Frozen ship scene
Reason : End of the Crysis demo.
“if you got to the editor and time everything perfectly you get to see a little bit of what happens next I think you chase the Alien then after that it tells you that you can’t go any further or you will be killed stuff!” – Stickman
Problem 4: Crysis Sandbox Installation Error “Error 1303 : The installer has insufficient privileges to access this directory…”
Solution #1 : Run it with Administrator privileges
For Vista users :
In order to install and use the Crysis(R) Sandbox Editor on Windows
Vista(TM) it is necessary to disable User Account Control (UAC). To
disable UAC, follow these steps:1) Go to Start \ Control Panel \ User Accounts
2) Click the “Turn user account control on or off” option
3) Click continue on the UAC popup
4) Uncheck the box next to “Use user account control (UAC) to help
protect my computer”5) Click OK
posted by jert123
Problem 5: Sandbox Ctrl + G console error when creating terrain
Note : “It is a known bug, Cry-Alex addressed it on Crymod… not sure if there coming out with a fix” – xfinchx
Note #2 : “OK did a little digging around that website Crymod… found that if i save, exit and reopen the editor, ctrl + G works, but my ground still has no texture.” – Crab
Problem #6 : I have a very decent windows XP machine. I want to play Crysis on my windows XP machine with the direct x10 features enabled but the “very high” option is not enabled
Solution : This is a set of modified CVar files for the Crysis SP demo that lets you get multiple ‘DX10 exclusive’ features running under the DX9 ‘High’ mode. Download it here : Here
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i’m having the same problem as this guy i.e. sticky keyboard & mouse buttons. it’ll lag for 5-10 seconds at a time, where your guy will just keep going in a direction and only respond to mouse movement, but no buttons.
Hey man,
Nice stuff here. I’m on a vista 32 bit q6600 machine with a 8800 GTS 320mb video card and I got the newest drivers and the newest DX10 update you have posted here. I’m having a problem that happens at random times in the game, it says the driver has stopped responding(vista error) then the game closes down.
I haven’t seen any posts around any forums of people with my similar problem.
If you could help me out it would be greatly appreciated.
thanks, brian
I have no audio in the single player demo how do I fix this
Hi all I can’t even get the thing to INSTALL,let alone RUN it. I have a P4/3.6Ghz 2Gb ddr 7800gs and plenty of HD space. The install just stops straight after “configuring windows installer” I have XPpro with dx9
i can’t get it to rubn at all when i try to install it a black cmd promt comes up for a split second i finaly gort a screen shot so i could read it it says “memmory does not fit” what does that mean?
Strangest thing here, I have Vista x64 and at first I played the game with the latest WHQL drivers, SLI turned OFF and it ran, albeit slowly. After that I updated to the latest beta drivers (169.01), turned on SLI and now the game freezes at the ‘this demo is for promotional purposes only’ text.
The 32-bit version of the game starts up, then usually crashes during the sponsor cinematics (nvidia, intel, etc.)
Disappointed here
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I did run the demo about 30 min it worked fine but the next time i did start it it crashes when it is loaded to 100%.
Nice solutions, the new directx helped me up about 10fps. However I don’t see the “use 32bit exe instead of the 64bit as a real solution to the 64bit freeze… I wish I could run it in 64bit exe..
is anyone else having issues with ATI drivers? Im getting a lot of transparent objects and a dark almost blacked out sceen. I got x1900xt, fx-55, 2.5gbram, and the catalyst driver 7.10 i believe. Its the latest driver anyway. what should i do??
I’m running XP, AMD X2, 7600GT, 2GB mem, lates NV drivers and my problem is garbled video even at the lowest settings. Everything seems to be working gamewise but the display. Any ideas?
Hi guys,
I also have a problem. I have XP-32 bit, I have the latest XP updates and the latest driver for my 7600 GS (169.01). Sometimes. the game freezes which is very annoying. Also, sometimes after the intro (the nano-suit video) it shows black screen, I can go out to the desktop and close Crysis but still it shows the black screen.
But these are random. Is there a fix for this? I started the program in 32-bit so that can’t be problem. I read on forums but there isn’t any solution for this, and I haven’t heard about XP problems only Vista. Please help me.
Hi, it is good to found this nice place. Seems like no one has same issue with me. Well, It is running perfect with my Windows XP. But when run it with VISTA, it was strange, program goes well at the beginning, after enter the main menu, sounds start to lag, and if start the game the video(before game loading) will run at a extremly low fps, and I have to open the console mode and ‘quit’ it.
If start the game again at a short moment after the quit, even the very beginning logo shows has the low fps issue.
It looks like some kind of system resource cant release during the game.
My system is AMD 3800+, 8800GTS, 2G Memory.
Thanks
Whenever I play the demo all the terrain is messed up, any rocks or anything are all invisible, people are invisible too, so are my weapons and my guy. I’m running an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz E6550 with a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 mb, and 2x 1Gb DDr2 800 MHz. I have tried it with and without the 7.10 drivers and the only thing that 7.10 fixed was the intro videos (EA, Crytek, Intel, etc) don’t chug up anymore. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this problem?
I beat the demo, alt-f4′d out. Went to play again, Rendering issues. It has like a square in the top right with my HUD and the rest of the screen is unrender’d stuff.
The opening video when Prophet is up in yo’ grill. It’s just eyeballs. Same goes for Phyco and the other dude.
Any idea what this could be?
I keep getting this error when I try to launch the game. Probably more helpful to post the event log:
Activation context generation failed for “C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis SP Demo\Bin32\Crysis.exe”. Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture=”x86″,publicKeyToken=”1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b”,type=”win32″,version=”8.0.50727.762″ could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.
Running fully patched Vista Ultimate 32 with latest drivers. Is this a problem with my computer, or the game?
Help, when i start a new game in the demo, it loads fine, but when you fall in the water at the begining, my mouse and keyboard dont let me move. i cant look around or move at all!
Crysis Demo won’t launch after a successful install siting Unsupported Vid Card – Intels G965 Express Chip Set
Come’on EA!!!??? This is a brand new Dell. What’s up?
Anyone have any suggestions? Or is this just EA messing up with a demo launch again.
The game seems to be running fine on my system apart from the fact that all the models and textures are gone.
It’s almost a black screen but not quite, I can see dust/haze stuff and certain bits of certain models and all the people are just eyeballs…
I have no clue how to fix this…
3.2GHz Processor, 1GB RAM, 111GB HD, 7600GT. Even on lowest settings, I get the same problem.
vista64 with nvidia 7950gtx go.
Get past the parachute bit, into water, then out and right where it asks you to jump for the first time, thats it. Crash city. Even on 800/600 n everything low.
This £1600 lappy’s only 3 months old!
Tried everything except using 32 bit drivers. How can my 64 bit system install them? Tried vista and xp 32. Won’t install. Time for sleep..
I have the same problem as #14. Invisible characters and rocks I saw eyeballs (and only eyeballs) for about 2 seconds in the helicopter, but that’s it.
I can see are lights (flashlights, fire, flare etc), smoke/spray and eyeballs. If I look at the sky, I can sometimes see the silhouette of my weapon.
The screen is also duplicated, in the top left hand corner, with a bit more detail there, like a box.
Here’s a pic of me on the ground- look for the outlines of trees.
http://i20.tinypic.com/et5vs1.png
That’s another example:
http://i22.tinypic.com/1hpclk.jpg
This is the scene of the helicopter.
ok this is my problem i have 3.0 Intel Core 2 Duo E6850,Asus Striker Extreme nForce 680 motherboard,Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX memory,2x BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 768MB GDDR3 runnin in sli,Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional,2x Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB set in raid,Enermax Galaxy 1000W EGX1000EWL ATX2.2 psu and its running on vista 32bit everything is up to date i,ve tryed all suggestions thanks but there dont work.the problem is low fps lags like hell then freezes and then black sceens leaving no imput to my monitor it only runs with everthing set to low but still crashes. ive tryed running with single card but thers no difference my m8 has the same system as i but not sli and is running xp at 8xaa and eveything on full and it flys no props at all so it seems to me the problem lies with vista or dx10 or gfx drivers.
i am having the same issue like the first comment. most of the times the controls are stuck, sometimes rarely also the mouse.
why it should be ? and how can i fix that?
thanks
i’m using xp pro + sp2 32 bit
amd athlon xp 2800+, his radeon x1650 pro agp, 1,5 gb ddr400 ram
I have a 2600XT running Vista 32. 2600xt Drivers are 7.10 (The October 11 versions). Crysis randomly freezes in the first level. I updated DirectX 10 that you posted but it still freezes randomly.
My setup:
- Multiboot Vista Ultimate and Windows XP pro
- AMD Athlon 4200+
- EVGA 8800 320 GTS
- 2 GB RAM
I can only play 3-5 minutes before the demo crashes, and my PC bluescreens. On Vista I get a message that the displaydriver has stopped working (nvlddmkm.sys) followed by a bluescreen and a reboot, in XP the PC just crashes to bluescreen and reboots the computer. I have installed the special optimized Crysis driver for my card, updated DirectX and installed various Windows hotfixes. I have tried to lower the graphicks settings to medium. I have tried to start the game in both DX10 and DX9 mode. I have tried to clock DOWN my 8800 card to below the factory settings. All to no avail.
I had the exact same problem with World in Conflict, but I could “solve” it by playing in windowed mode. This does not solve the problem in Crysis. All other games are working flawlessly, including Team Fortress 2 which I am playing alot.
Googling nvlddmkm.sys reveals that alot of users have this problem with various graphic heavy games, but I can find no ultimate solution.
This is so frustrating, as the game really looks amazing. I just wish I could play more than a few minutes before it crashes
The editor worked fine but now when i try to start the editor it crashes after it is initiallizing views. it comes a typical windows error (where you can choose send or don’t send) and after the error anotherone comes (it is the same error). can some one help me please? the last thing i did in the editor was open a new window for time of day. I uninstalled the editor and the whole game and i deleted the crysis demo directory and installed everything again but it still doesnt work! please help me.
I have serious sound issues with this game… during the game the sound lags like hell. Even when I turn of ingame music and turn on foobar during the game the audio lags. It doesnt matter if I play at high resolution or low, nor does it matter what programs run aside Crysis.
My system:
Vista
AMD 64 3200+
2 gb ram
7600GT
Creative live 24bit
Gaming without sound… (n)
ive got a e6700 x1900xtx 7.10 drivers 2 gigs of ram 32 bit xp pro and im having the problem with all the stuff being transparent the only thing i can see is the dirt on the beach every thing else is see through i just see faint outlines.
well i have the same problem as the guy who can’t play it at all. i install it and near the end it says some crap about error and stuff then thtere is no game file for crysis and no shortcut…i was looking forward to this god dam demo!!!!!
I got new drivers for my ati x1650 256mb and a new driver for my realtek high def audio sound card (7.1) and it still wom`t download,plz tell me this problem i hope this problem won`t happen when the game comes out…i already preordered it. Should i download it again but from a different site…
How do i use the dx update thing?
I think theres a problem with ati catalyst driver 7.10 right now i get similar problems as 29, 25,21, 14, and 10. these problems will hopefully be fixed in the next ati patch. if someone has a solution please post
if anyone is having the same trouble as me just search crysis.exe in your search thingy and make sure your looking in every folder and you’ll find it, the second time you run it you’ll have to repair it.
Using Vista Ultimate 64 I Down loaded crysis SP DEMO installed asked if I want a desktop launch icon checked yes then it never left one I even went into files and no launch icon to be found??? Did anyone come across this same issue Please Help!
for those having problems running the demo on an nvidia graphics card with windows vista, i added a new solution to the problems and errors list. scroll up to problem #3’s 5th solution
It’s the links to DL the drivers specially made for Crysis is posted there (version 169.01).
Lopaz : Just click on the link at the problem #1’s solution (the anchor text is “here”. Just download and run it, it should work in any version of windows
question #34 search crysis.exe in all your files that’s what i did
keikun17:
when i try to run it, i get the error 0×80070005
and a message: no access.
Please HELP!
for transparency ishues turn the shaders to high, not shadows just shaders. you will take a huge fps hit beacuse of it but you should be able to see stuff. Crytech really needs to fix that shit, it happens to ati or nvidia cards.
Hey all, I was having major crashes with latest nVidia beta drivers. I turned post-processing (motion blur) down to ‘low’ and everything is working fine now. Give it a try, might help. 2×8800gtx, E6420, 4GB RAM, ASUS P5N32E-SLI Plus, XP Pro
When i play the game, the whole world is all grey and invisible, even the weapon is invisible….
I have the same problem as no.14 and 21…i can only see Eyeballs floating in the opening sequence, within the helicopter. i have a nVidia 7600 GT, and the new update, i have 1GB Ram and Windows XP. My friend has pretty much the same pc spec as me, and the crysis demo runs perfectly on his pc.
cheers
Pete
Anyone having any trouble with Dell DM061’s Intel video card G965 chipset famly? Game won’t launch siting unsupported video card. If true that would suck as the PC is 4 months new!
Running Vista 32bit Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.86GHz, 2GB RAM.
Anyone have a solution or can point to one, please?
Ahh, finally got the game to run super smooth by turning down the preprocessing and the shadows. SO I got to the point where there is a large boat up on stilts, and after a while of me trying to smash the stilts in order to knock the boat down (lol it didn’t work) all of a sudden there was a duplicate graphics of my arm and body, as if there were two of me standing in the same spot, with the ‘other guy’ slightly delayed reactions.
SO I ignored that and continued on where it tells you to find some grenades. For whatever reason I grabbed this huge box and tried to chuck it straight in the sky, and the game froze on me. Vista Business edition. core 2 duo 3 ghz w/ 8800GTS 640MB. Thats my story.
Bryan C: You won’t be able to run the game with that video card, because it just isn’t made for gaming.
Anyway, I’m experiencing “video driver stopped responding” -crash every time I hit the water in the beginning of the demo. Nvidia Geforce go 7700, Vista 32. Driver 169.04.
just at the end of installing the game i get
a message saying can’t install to games explorer
does anyone else have the same promblem
hey again, i got tranparancy issues resloved thanks to the s man, but now im having problems with the sound it keeps glithcing and cutting in and out. have audigy 2 card if anyone has any ideas please let me know. thanks a lot
I’ve installed Sandbox2 with the installer, went to the Bin32 folder and clicked Editor. Once i click it, nothing happens
I’m running on XP
Ok for those with the all transparent textures issue there was a solution that involved turning AA Transparency from “Multisampling” or “Supersampling” to “Off” in your driver control panel…
My problem is probably far more abstract and unheard of though >.<
I can play perfectly fine on low settings with a comp just barely below min specs. However, I will come out of the corridor-ish beginning area and into the beach area and after a few minutes it will completely freeze and the sound will continue for about 5 seconds then the sound either stops or goes in a ticking loop, after about 10 seconds the sound comes back to normal then 5 seconds later the whole game comes back, and after the first one they get more and more frequent until they stop for a little while then do the same kind of pattern of getting worse and worse until they stop again… I have tried all the obvious stuff before anyone tries to say “reinstall teh gaem omg lulz ez fix!” or “get new dryvors lolololo!!!1112!1!!”
INVISIBLE OBJECTS/NO TEXTURES
I had this problem too. Before i started a game i changed my resolution to 1680 x 1050 to suit my monitor better. everything was invisible except for a few shadows on objects. I changed my resolution to the versatile 1024×768 common resolution and played the game. within about 30 seconds all the textures rendered PERFECTLY, then i changed my resolution back to 1680×1050 and shes worked ever since.
having problems here to with crysis demo, after playing for about 15 minutes, the game would jerk around alot, then screen went black for 20 seconds, and was presented with the “windows as encounterd an error, it bought me back to windows only running in 16 colours, thing is i’ve had this with bioshock too, so im confused if its my system or buggy demos, i own a few pc games which run fine like doom 3 and fear, prey and res 4. anyone had the same
windows xp home
latest drivers 163.75
gforce 7950 gt 512
1 gig of crutal 800 mhz
amd x 2 4600
I’m having a small issue but a hugely annoying one. Everything runs fine but if i press TAB (Objectives) or C (Weapon mods) or anything that overlays a menu over my view it freezes for 3-5 seconds before returning to normal, seeing as these things dont pause the enemy i try and pull off a silencer and lag, then die.
http://bf2s.liquidat0r.com/viewtopic.php?pid=62872
This guy is having the same issue but still no result.
I have a 8500GT Super+1GB (yes, yes, I’ve heard it’s not a gamers card. But mine has a demon within) with a 2.8 Dual Core and 2GB of RAM. When I run Crysis on High, I get around 10 FPS. When I run it on Low, I get 25+, but something is terribly wrong. The whole game looks like mush. I’m being serious. Suddenly I can see through walls, then suddenly I can’t, suddenly the ground disappears, suddenly it’s back, and the water…the water looks like some distorted grey shader. If I set it all on Low with the Shader Quality on High, it’s fine. But the max FPS I get is 20; it often goes lower. I want to know how I can fix this, so I can have my Shader Quality on Medium/Low instead. It’s strange, because my brother has the exact same computer as me, just a different motherboard. You don’t think that could be the problem, do you?
Thanks anyhow.
Hi, i am having graphic issues with Crysis. i finished installing it and then went to play it for the first time and i can only see everything in the game when i am looking at the floor, if i look anywhere its flickering or just shows up black screen.
i have all drivers updated and directx as well as directx 10 for xp installed, is there anything that i can do to fix it thanks
any time in crysis demo i look up i gt a solid black line and it’s like that through the whole thing i have a
quad core 6600
1 gb ram
en8500gt
running xp
I dont have this game, but i saw about the error 1303.
I have the same error installing UT3.
Does anyone have a fix for xp, rather then vista?
I am have the same problem as #18: have an Intel G965 Express Chip Set and is unsupported only mine is a gateway (sorry, it was on sale. I’ll gladly trade anyone for an X-17 Alienware though
) Does anyone have a solution other than yelling at EA (Hello…, I hope I’m not the only one here who thinks that getting EA to sponcer the best game ever is the stupidest idea since… {I was going to put EA but decided not to, albeit not becoming enemies}. Isn’t there some kind of update for this problem? Cuz’ I’d rather not burn my graphix card; way to expencive (although burning things is very fun… VERY FUN.
It’s a wonder those crytechies havn’t heard of Valve (wish I had superscript right now). Would Crysis be hundreds of times more appealing if it was Valve in stead of EA. Plus there wouldn’t be any compitition against Half-Life 2 Eps. 2 (again I with I had superscript), although there really isn’t too much compitition…
the crysis demo was working for a while, but after i installed the editor, when i try to play, it just gives me a black screen and then stops. when it does this, you can see the blue bar at the bottom of the screen, and the crysis icon, for want of a better word, is only half there with no end on one side. there is no error message. i have removed the editor and reinstalled the game multiple times but it still didn’t work.
I got the demo on my XP, and i had no trouble installing it or downloading it. But when i try to start the game (by doubleclicking the icon) nothing happens!
@ people who say, there video card stopped responding and than came back.
the number one cause for this is over-heating.
Lower models can’t take high or very high, if they do, their pretty much OC’d and have bad cooling.
hey dudes……. i know this is a stupid question but can i run crysis on xp(32 bit) with grafics memory only 120
Hi i just got the demo because i saw some fun stuff you can do in crysis.
my probem is i get in and i lag really bad. i changed to low quality but still lag like crazy.
my screen flashs and shows the wirefram of everything to.
what do i do?
hi all..
i got problem while playing crysis warhead. it crash during the game. the screen goes black and monitor power blinking (as standby mode). i use ATI RADEN 2600XT with AMD Black Edition 64X2 dual with Windows XP SP3.
any comment will be very helpful for me. thanks in advance.
I have a Problem my Game Frozen at 82% loads Sp demo Maps and Crash the Game How Fix it i have nvidia 9500gt and 2go Ram