Far Cry® 3

Far Cry® 3

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Windows 11 / 10 Crash Fix
By Prateek HyperBeast
100% Working Far Cry 3 Windows 11 Crash Fix, The Guide Contains Simple and Easiest Steps to Fix the Issue without Any Complicated Steps
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Why Does Far Cry 3 Crashes in Windows 11 ?
This game uses maximum of 2GB ram to load game files, but recent operating system needs more ram to load and optimize files so it ends up crashing game when it couldn't load files.

Note: This guide is to fix crash which happens every 10-15 mins in the middle of gameplay, This guide is not meant to fix game not launching with black screen or crash

Fix
Force the game to use more upto 4GB ram instead of 2GB ram, this method is called Large Address Aware (LAA).

Warning
Use LAA method only if you have 8GB or more Ram

Steps
Note: Keep backup of farcry3_d3d11.exe and farcry3.exe file before making LAA changes just in case

1. Download LAA software from here[www.techpowerup.com], or you can use any other LAA software of your choice

2. Run the software downloaded from above link

3. Select farcry3_d3d11.exe which is located in steam folder, steamapps -> common -> Far Cry 3 -> bin -> farcry3_d3d11.exe in LAA first dropdown

4. After selecting the farcry3_d3d11.exe, you will see a check box to enable more than 2GB ram limit, enable this one

5. Click on Save

6. Above one is for DirectX 11, If you are playing in DirectX 9 then Select farcry3.exe instead of farcry3_d3d11.exe in above step 3

Done, the game won't crash anymore

Far Cry3 DX11 vs DX9
Why use DirectX11 instead of DirectX9 ?

- The game water and vegetation looks better and vibrant in DX11
- We get motion blur when driving vehicle or running in DX11

Thank You
Hope this guide helps you, if you have any suggestions or any other method to fix crash then feel free to comment on this guide, which will help others.

If you are able to fix the issue by using this guide then please feel free to rate and vote

Happy Gaming



89 Comments
Chance 22 Jul @ 3:48am 
did not fix it for me, but thanks for trying
Mannypl 10 Jul @ 4:04am 
Many many thanks for your solution. It fixed the problem for me. I have an i7-14700KF with 32GB ram and can run the game totally maxed out. Thank you again.
Samco02 8 Jul @ 1:19am 
THank you bro. Best tutorial i could find:steamthumbsup:
ZLATAREVIZE1-CZ 5 Jul @ 9:21pm 
Thank you so much, I love you. IT WORKS! :ghsmile:
NOOSE 1 Jul @ 9:22pm 
@wilbertxz32
Yeah, I'm just now having the same problem. I crashed recently on DX11 and now it just instantly crashes on startup. Reinstall, remaking LAA changes, nothing helped.
pawelicz 25 Jun @ 10:16am 
Many thanks Prateek! Runs charmingly.
《仒》ExxTreMe 《仒》 24 Jun @ 8:53am 
THANK YOU u are the best everything works now!!! Heres an award!
wilbertxz32 29 May @ 9:35am 
This worked for me for most of the game, unfortunately however just as i was doing the last quests, the game crashed, and will not open again. And i have absolutely no idea why. No error messages, no crash reports, just instant crash and the game will not load up to the main menu anymore.
L!ge 29 May @ 9:01am 
You're the best. Thank you! :Doomsday:
JohnEdwardMS 28 May @ 10:47am 
WORKs