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I bought Just Cause 2 via Steam and installed on Windows 7. My video card isn't great, but I could run the 3 test scenes at 30fps at 1280. When I played the game, it ended the first cut scene, I jumped out of the plane, it said loading, and it hung there forever. I restarted the game and the same thing happened.

I read that some other people have the same problem, too. Some suggested deleting the app files, which probably just resets the video setting. That didn't help. Suggestions?

Update: I checked the minimum requirements, and I believe my PC meets them all. I have an ATI Radeon HD 3650 card, and when I lower the resolution it does just fine (30fps) on the benchmarks.

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    Hi Jon, welcome to Gaming, it's an honor to have you here. I hope you find a solution for your problem!
    – juan
    Dec 28, 2010 at 12:24
  • Not really of much use BUT, this is a great reason to check out OnLive's cloud gaming solution. I am by no means a hardcore gamer but I am very happy with it and they have Just Cause 2.
    – Foovanadil
    Dec 28, 2010 at 16:49

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Well, let's see:

The minimum system requirements for Just Cause 2 are:

  • Windows Vista or better
  • Dual Core CPU with SSE3
  • 2 GB memory
  • 10 GB disk space
  • DX10 compatible graphics card with 256 MB of memory
  • DirectX compatible sound card

The specs for your ATI Radeon 3650 video card:

  • DirectX 10.1 support
  • I'll assume your card has 256 MB of video memory, but you should check

Did you update your video drivers to the latest version?

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

That'd be the first thing I tried. Beyond that, your video card might be too "minimum" for the game to run -- the 3650 HD is very low end, it was a budget video card in January 2008, and I would not say it has aged like a fine wine in the last 3 years.. you might consider an upgrade to the 5xxx or 6xxx series.

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    I've got the latest drivers. The weird thing is that it runs the benchmark scenes at 30fps no problem, and I've seen other forum posts from people with good video cards. I mostly just wanted to get this listed on gaming.stackexchange.com since looking through the random gaming forums for solutions made me want to suckerpunch a nun.
    – Jon Galloway
    Dec 31, 2010 at 0:06
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I found the answer on the Steam forums

I verified the files, which caused some to be re-downloaded. After that, the game played just fine.

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Change your resolution and then try again! Worked for me

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