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    Freaking Crysis 2...

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by ryan_calif, Nov 25, 2011.

  1. ryan_calif

    ryan_calif Notebook Consultant

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    Has anyone had issues running Crysis 2 lately? It was running fine on my machine a couple weeks ago, and now I'm stuck in the activation wizard loop again.

    I had this problem when I first installed the game back in May, but it went away, and now it's back. Does anyone have a solution at hand? :)
     
  2. ryan_calif

    ryan_calif Notebook Consultant

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    Fixed.

    For anyone with a GTX 460M (and possibly other NVIDIA users with Optimus), you need to add "activation.exe" from the Crysis 2 bin directory to the whitelist in the NVIDIA control panel.

    It worked after that. :)
     
  3. SlickDude80

    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

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    geeez...i remember in the old days when it was easy to play a game. Install, play...now its patches, Steam, more patches, activations. sigh.
     
  4. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    I also spent half an hour trying everything until I selected run with high performance graphics... ridiculous