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Farcry 4 crashes on title screen (Windows 10)

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doitsujin/dxvk#3944 · opened 2024-04-08 by r3dnasa · updated 2026-02-08 · 14 comments · github
Rr3dnasa 2024-04-08 github

On windows 10 farcry 4 crashes upon trying to load the main menu. What makes this odd is when using the apitrace dlls provided from the bug report page the game loads just fine so I'm not sure whats wrong with it exactly

(launch options used: -fullscreen -skipintro)

Software information

Far Cry 4

System information

  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2080 TI
  • Driver: 552.12
  • DXVK version: 2.3.1
  • OS: Windows 10 22H2 (OS Build 19045.5170)

Apitrace file(s)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-fwtZVTqv74AkXL2U580zyLHL7KeDEUp/view?usp=drive_link

Log files

FarCry4_d3d11.log
FarCry4_dxgi.log

Ddoitsujin maintainer 2024-04-08 github

Something spam-creates a huge number of Vulkan devices and at some point this just fails. Don't know why this would happen (any third-party / nvidia stuff active that might interact with Vulkan and DXGI?), but this seems firmly outside of our control.

Rr3dnasa 2024-04-08 github

aw thats unfortunate. and to answer your question: nothing as far as i know. thanks for the quick response

Rr3dnasa 2024-04-08 github

not sure if this is relevant but i know farcry 4 uses nvidia gameworks so maybe that might be causing the issue?

Ddoitsujin maintainer 2024-04-08 github

Shouldn't be, Gameworks features either just work™ if they are built on top of plain old D3D11, or require nvapi to work in which case you just won't be able to enable them on Windows with DXVK.

Rr3dnasa 2024-04-08 github

oh okay, thank you

BBlisto91 2025-05-23 github

@r3dnasa Is this still an issue to this day?

Rr3dnasa 2025-05-25 github

yup as of today still crashes on boot (used dxvk 2.6.1 on win 10, 2080 ti, driver 576.52, latest patch of the game) @Blisto91

Aablolba 2025-08-05 github

The game is working

DXVK 2.7 RTX 4070 577.00 Windows 11 23h2

Aablolba 2025-08-07 github

FarCry4_d3d11.log
FarCry4_dxgi.log

The game is not working

DXVK 2.7 RTX 4070 580.88 Windows 11 23h2

BBlisto91 2025-11-29 github

Try with latest master. A build can be downloaded here https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/actions/runs/19747559372

Rr3dnasa 2025-11-29 github

unfortunately still crashes, this time the game doesn't even reach the main menu and in task manager the game takes up to 50 gb of ram so idk what its deal is.

Sstanlu1013 2026-02-07 github

Same issue, FarCry 4 carash with DXVK, game consume a lot of memory and then close.

GPU: RTX 5080

Ddoitsujin maintainer 2026-02-07 github

Then don't use it. Can't do much here when things work fine on Proton, and it's probably just something with Ubisoft overlays or other external bullshit that we have no control over anyway.

Sstanlu1013 2026-02-08 github

Then don't use it. Can't do much here when things work fine on Proton, and it's probably just something with Ubisoft overlays or other external bullshit that we have no control over anyway.

Thank you, just got it worked.
I disable Ubisoft overlay/Afterburner and try again, it's worked.

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