Crysis 2 Wont Start Up : Crysis

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:52 am

Hey it worked for me 2... I even have a ticket for it...Can't wait for them to get back to me after I was hung up on...

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:15 am

Just make sure your anitvirus program isn't going haywire. When I was installing Crysis 2 from steam, my virus program thought the crysis Bin 32 file (Or something like that) was a virus. Be sure to ignore it. To be on the safe side, place Crysis 2 in your exemptions for your virus program.

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:31 am

I have the same issue, game doesnt launch from the EA Download Manager.
It seems to start, but it doesnt, no error nothing.

Any fixes ?

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:38 am

I managed to boot the game by replacing the crysis 2.exe with another crysis 2.exe that i got from a friend.
And from there I manage to boot it manually from the bin32 folder.

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:14 pm

replacing the .exe file does work. I was having the same problem. Just use the .exe file from the disc. Delete the one that it installs and you should be good to go.

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:00 pm

I tried replacing the exe from the disc to the bin32 folder and it still will not work. Any other suggestions?

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:12 am

Same problem here. No idea what to do at this point.

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:51 pm

What should I do if I downloaded from steam? I have no CD....

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:35 am

The problem has to do with the patch, I too am running a 64bit system and before I patched the game it was working perfectly fine. Like mentioned before replace the .exe in your HD with the .exe on the DVD. This absolutely absurd.

specs
core i7 950 4ghz
ati 5870
6ghz ram

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:43 am

I hope they have a patch when I get up tomorrow. I dont have a DVD. I downloaded from steam so all I have is whatever BS they send me. Beta runs great. Good game and I wish I could play it now. So much for a head start.....

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:33 am

im running 64-bit and i cant even get the product registration key to go through keeps coming back saying "error(1000) Connection failed. Please check your internet connection"

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:44 am

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» Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:35 am

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» Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:45 am

i SWEAR THE SECOND I POST MY ISSUE ON A TOPIC PAGE, EVERYONE STOPS POSTING WTF SOMEONE HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEE

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:32 am

So nothing yet? Really svcks that this many people cant play and nobody comes on the forum to help...

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:36 am

http://www.gamesas.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10864

Follow that post I fixed my game and was able to patch correctly main by disabling my Antivirus (AVG) before starting the patch process.

Okay I figured it out. I did the above mention trick of changing the crysislauncher.app file back to say version 1.0.0.0 but I also DISABLED AVG RESIDENT SHIELD before I ran the game again and it patched correctly. Now I have the correct version of the game and I can see servers to play. Was not a EA problem at all more a AVG problem...

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:14 am

Just started getting this. It was working fine this morning. I even made the bin32 folder an exception for AVG. Seriously, what kind of crap is this?

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:06 am

I'm not running AVG and still cannot run this game. It's been a day now and still no word on an actual fix for Windows 64 bit users.

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:10 pm

Same problem, re-copying the game files from the DVD fixed it for me, but here's something fun I noticed while doing the fix... crysis2.exe got deleted. I didn't replace anything when I copied the files, so after my last program shutdown it deleted itself. Awesome job Crytek!

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:46 am

Okay... now that I have the game running again I can't get the patch to download again. Any suggestions?

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:31 am

+10000 to Redfox834

Now if he could find out how to make my multiplayer to work. No server problem.

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:25 am

Yes same problem. Just get that little blue ring like it wants to....then it disappears. We de-installed and re-installed several times. It doesn't work. Also cleared out all temp files and cleaned everything up. NOTHING. May go out and get the XBOX version just so I could play something.

» Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:47 am

I can't get the game to launch either. DVD version. I had noticed that the Crysis2.exe file had deleted itself overnight, too. I had replaced that with the .exe from the DVD, but now it refuses to launch. Oh well.

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:15 pm

Guys, i experienced this problem. Apparently i fixed it by unistalling your AVG and updating your windows or vista. Now my thing is freezng after i shut off my pc!

» Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:47 pm

Do you realize that replacing the executable from the DVD sets it back to version 1.0?

That would explain why you can't find any multiplayer servers because the servers want to see the 1.1 version.

Go to the game install folder to the bin32 folder, right-click the "Crysis2.exe" file there, click Properties->Details to check the version.

These are some of the file changes that the 1.1 patch should have made (your folder name will likely be different):

Code:

old filedate < new filedate
02/24/2011 06:29:02 > 02/08/2011 05:17:14 L:\Games\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis 2\bin32\activation.exe
02/24/2011 06:28:48 > 02/08/2011 04:42:12 L:\Games\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis 2\bin32\activation.x86.dll
02/18/2011 07:43:52 < 03/18/2011 03:56:24 L:\Games\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis 2\bin32\activation.xml
02/24/2011 06:29:06 < 03/18/2011 04:07:32 L:\Games\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis 2\bin32\Crysis2.exe
02/28/2011 09:42:54 < 03/23/2011 03:43:38 L:\Games\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis 2\bin32\Crysis2Launcher.ini

Note that the patch installed apparently older "activation" files, that's probably just an artifact but it might be true. In any case it's certainly not an important detail.

Starting Crysis2 from a shortcut to the "Crysis2.exe" executable will (I think) prevent patching of the files to the 1.1 versions. I think you MUST start the game with the launcher "Crysis2Launcher.exe" in order for the patch to be downloaded and applied.

So, it's fine to run the game with a shortcut to "Crysis2.exe" but then you will never get any updates. Hint, sometimes that might be a good thing.

None of this helps if a patched "Crysis2.exe" does not run on your system.

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