Just Cause 2 - Never get past loading screen

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Change your resolution and then try again! Worked for me