Far Cry fatal error 1603 - Solution

Got a copy of FarCry after playing Crysis only to get fatal error 1603 while installing. Many sites talked about installing a cleanup utility, cleaning temp files, etc. None of these steps helped but I finally managed to get it to install. How read on if you are a victim of this error.

Solution for Far Cry Fatal Error 1603

1. Install ORCA from here or the Windows Installer SDK available from Microsoft.
2. Copy all the files from the DVD to a folder on your computer.
3. Open Far Cry.msi in Orca by right clicking the msi file and choosing Edit with Orca option.
4. Click on one of the table values to the left.
5. Go to Edit > Find and search for “This installation cannot be run by directly launching the MSI package. You must run setup.exe“
6. Click on the row which contains this value and press the delete button on the keyboard.
7. Go to File > Save
8. Go to the folder you copied Far Cry to and run setup.exe
9. Do not install the Directx that comes along with the installation while installing
10. Enjoy your game !

Hope this helped all you guys out there who paid 40$ only to know that the game wouldn’t install !!

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Comments

It is a great game. Thanks for the tip and tutorial but I have played this game in the past already. I can say that it was one of the hardest games I have ever played…

Comment by Day Humor Games on March 29, 2008 @ 3:29 am

And how exactly did you figure that one out Alfred??

Warm geeky regards,

Karl “TheAdmiN” Gee

Comment by AskTheAdmin | Karl Gechlik on April 30, 2008 @ 12:02 am

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