Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon

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Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon
FC3BloodDragon.jpg
Developers
Publishers
Engines
Release dates
Windows
May 1, 2013
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Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon at Steam Charts
Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon at SteamDB
 Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon at Wikipedia
Far Cry
Far Cry 2004
Far Cry 2 2008
Far Cry 3 2012
Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon 2013
Far Cry 4 2014

Key points

Information Most fixes and settings for Far Cry 3 should also work with Blood Dragon.
Disadvantage Many users are reporting that the in game cutscenes are broken.

General information

More information Official game site
More information Ubisoft Forums
More information Far Cry Wiki
More information Steam Community Discussions
More information Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
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Information All versions require Uplay.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <Uplay-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\205
Information Saves might be alternately stored in %PROGRAMDATA%\Orbit\205

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Impossible
Uplay Native
GameSave Manager Native

Video settings[edit]

In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Native WSGF WS Gold.svg Load screens are pillarboxed.
Multi-monitor Native WSGF MM Silver.svg
Field of view (FOV) Native Between 55° and 110°; use Flawless Widescreen for higher settings.
Windowed Native Set with "window mode" in-game.
Borderless fullscreen windowed Native Set with "window mode" in-game.
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Hackable Force in the graphics card control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA) Native Changeable MSAA from 0 to 8x, Post FX handles FXAA.
Because the way MSAA is implemented it may leave some aliasing when used with SSAO.[1]
Vertical sync (Vsync) Native
High frame rate Native

Widescreen resolution[edit]

Information Custom/unlisted resolutions can be set manually in GamerProfile.xml.

Fix Edit GamerProfile.xml

  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
  2. Open GamerProfile.xml in text editor (notepad for example).
  3. Locate ResolutionX="x" and change x to custom resolution.
  4. Locate ResolutionY="x" and change x to custom resolution.
Information Whenever you change graphical settings in-game ResolutionX and ResolutionY will be reset to 800*600.

Disable ambient occlusion[edit]

Disadvantage Ambient occlusion can't be disabled completely through the in-game settings when playing in DirectX 11, only switched to various techniques available (SSAO, HBAO, HDAO).

Fix Edit GamerProfile.xml

  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
  2. Open GamerProfile.xml in text editor (notepad for example).
  3. Locate SSAOLevel="x" and change x to 0.
Information Whenever you change graphical settings in-game SSAOLevel="0" is changed back to the default 1 (SSAO).

Disable Scanlines[edit]

Fix Edit FC3.dll

  1. Go into <path-to-game>\bin
  2. Open FC3.dll in hex editor (HxD for example).
  3. Search for COverlayTrack and change its corresponding hex values to zeroes. Save and enjoy.

Input settings[edit]

In-game general control settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game gamepad layout settings.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Native Positive acceleration can be switched off, see section below if you are experiencing negative mouse acceleration.
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Native
Controller
Controller support Native
Full controller support Native
Controller remapping Impossible Can only switch between pre-set layouts.
Controller Y-axis inversion Native

Manually bind enter key to an action[edit]

Fix Edit InputUserActionMap.xml

  1. Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\My Games\Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
  2. Open InputUserActionMap.xml in text editor (notepad for example).
  3. 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>

Manually bind mousewheel to weapon switching[edit]

Fix Edit InputUserActionMap.xml

  1. Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\My Games\Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
  2. Open InputUserActionMap.xml in text editor (notepad for example).
  3. 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>

Toggle aiming down sights (ADS) for weapons[edit]

Fix Edit GamerProfile.xml to add IronsightToggleMode

  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
  2. Open GamerProfile.xml in text editor (notepad for example).
  3. Locate IronsightToggleMode="0" and change it to IronsightToggleMode="1"

Audio settings[edit]

In-game audio settings.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Impossible
Surround sound Native Up to 5.1 output.[2]
Subtitles Native
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Native

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Native
Dutch Native Impossible Unknown
French Native Native Unknown
German Native Native Unknown
Italian Native Native Unknown
Portuguese Native Impossible Unknown
Russian Native Native Unknown
Spanish Native Native Unknown

Issues unresolved[edit]

Cutscenes extremely laggy[edit]

Disadvantage Many users are reporting in game cutscenes are very slow, often causing the audio to go out of sync.

Fix Disable Anti Aliasing

Fix Set the post processing setting to "low".

Fix Download the latest Nvidia drivers

Installing the latest Nvidia drivers may correct this problem for Nvidia users.

Fails to save progress[edit]

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.

Issues fixed[edit]

Negative mouse acceleration[edit]

Disadvantage Negative mouse acceleration prevents fast mouse movements.

Fix Negative mouse acceleration fix

  1. Download the latest version of the Far Cry 3 Mod tools.
  2. Extract the files anywhere.
  3. Go into <path-to-game>\data_win32.
  4. Right click on Common.fat and select Open with.
  5. Select browse, then go into the bin folder you just extracted and select Gibbed.Dunia2.Unpack.EXE.
  6. Wait for it to extract Common.fat, then open up the newly created Common_Unpack\actionmaps.
  7. Open Inputactionmapcommon.xml with a text editor.
  8. Find and replace all instances of maxOutput="10" with maxOutput="100".
  9. Save the file.
  10. Go back to Data_win32 folder.
  11. Now open another window and head over to the bin folder.
  12. Drag the common_Unpack folder and place it onto Gibbed.Dunia2.Pack.EXE
  13. Delete Common.fat and Common.dat
  14. Rename Common_Unpack.fat and Common_Unpack.dat to Common.fat and Common.dat respectively.

Video artifacts[edit]

Video artifacting occurring in game.

Fix Update your graphics card drivers.

No voice acting[edit]

Fix No voice acting fix

  • Change your speaker settings from 5.1 to stereo.
  1. right click the volume icon on your Windows taskbar. (if it isn't visible just click on show hidden icons to make it appear.)
  2. Select playback devices
  3. Select the speakers you are currently using, (Should be the first one listed) then select Configure.
  4. Select stereo as your audio channel, then finish the configuration setup.

Game Crashes Randomly[edit]

Fix Disable the Steam overlay

  1. Right click the game icon on steam and select properties.
  2. Uncheck the Enable Steam Community In-Game box.

Crash when installed in a Windows 8 Storage Space[edit]

The Game will refuse to run when installed on a drive which is managed by a Windows 8/8.1 Storage Space.

Fix Installing the Game on a drive that is not a Storage Space will fix this issue.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9, 11
Shader Model support 3, 5
64-bit executable Impossible

Middleware[edit]

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Audio Dolby Digital, Speex
Interface Flash
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3 Vista SP2, 7 SP1, 8, 8.1
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 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
3 GB
Video card (GPU) 512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible 		1 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible

References

  1. ↑ Far Cry 3 : Screenshot Comparison, most noticeable antialiasing is in the books at the corner.
  2. ↑ PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up