Far Cry 2 freezes at loading screens

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I'm not saying I found the solution but this worked for me as I too had the same problem with it hanging on the loading screen. I went into the Nvidia Control Panel then clicked on Change flat panel scaling in the left hand column to display the options in it and changed the setting

2.When using a resolution lower than my display's native resolution...

0 Use Nvidia scaling
0 Use Nvidia scaling with fixed-aspect ratio
0 Use my display's built-in scaling
0 Do not scale

Default I think is "Use my display's built-in scaling"

So I changed it to "Use Nvidia Scaling"

Don't know why but it loads up with no problems anymore. Give it a try and let us know how you went. I have an Audigy 2 card as well and have not updated any drivers for it or lowered the settings for it and it sounds great. I don't think it is a sound card issue. Mine works fine.