Far Cry

[Darthy]

Game is kid stuff, but I'm using it as a bench mark
to see what will run it. So far every single card I've
tried has failed to run Far Cry in "Medium" mode
... that is, with all 8 settings at "medium". I've tried

Looks okay in MED mode... but I play as Super HIGH or HIGH on my 9800
and 5900 cards.

ATI 9600XT, ATI RADEON 9200, Nvidia 5600,
generic Intel, Matrox G550 ( heh! ), and I've gotten
"device failure / reboot" on every single one. Will
anything out there actually run Far Cry in "High" mode?

Er... on your list, you have once decent MID-RANGE card (9600xt), 2
very low end cards in which one is only DX8 and the other can't handle
DX9. And the Matrox isn't much of a card as all for gaming.

All of those cards were in P4s with at least 500 meg
ram. In looking at the game, I rate it as "sucky kid

P4 what? P4 1.4Ghz? UNless its a P4 2.4Ghz or faster... they tend
to be slow.

stuff arcade shooter". I mean they left out things like
if you fire into the water, there is no splash from the
bullet. Gee .. come on! MOHAA beats the absolute
crap out of that game for just being a good game.
CoD is equally good with super graphics. So, I'm
wondering if Far Cry is just so poorly written that is
the reason it is failing ?? I read that it fails on ALL
the ATI cards. It fails on the Nvidia 5600 too.

Far Cry is an amazing engine. I've seen MOH. I have COD, UT2004,
Far Cry (of course) and some others...

COD is basicly a Quake3 engine game... its NOTHING compared to FarCry.
The maps are not as large, not as detailed.... COD isn't up there
with UT2003. The plants, the items in the world, etc... COD really
shows its age. COD is a GREAT game in its own right.... but it was
an out-dated engine to begin with.

I play FarCry in 1280x1024x32 with details on HIGH or SuperHigh. Its
easily smoother than HALO in 1024x768 - but everyone know HALO is a
crap engine... with almost no detail.

Play FarCry with a higher end video card and CPU - then get back to
us. Even on a TI4200 - FarCry looks quite good - but no ATI9800.

 

[Bob Smalls]

Looks okay in MED mode... but I play as Super HIGH or HIGH on my 9800
and 5900 cards.


Er... on your list, you have once decent MID-RANGE card (9600xt), 2
very low end cards in which one is only DX8 and the other can't handle
DX9. And the Matrox isn't much of a card as all for gaming.


P4 what? P4 1.4Ghz? UNless its a P4 2.4Ghz or faster... they tend
to be slow.


Far Cry is an amazing engine. I've seen MOH. I have COD, UT2004,
Far Cry (of course) and some others...

COD is basicly a Quake3 engine game... its NOTHING compared to FarCry.
The maps are not as large, not as detailed.... COD isn't up there
with UT2003. The plants, the items in the world, etc... COD really
shows its age. COD is a GREAT game in its own right.... but it was
an out-dated engine to begin with.

I play FarCry in 1280x1024x32 with details on HIGH or SuperHigh. Its
easily smoother than HALO in 1024x768 - but everyone know HALO is a
crap engine... with almost no detail.

Play FarCry with a higher end video card and CPU - then get back to
us. Even on a TI4200 - FarCry looks quite good - but no ATI9800.


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Gotta love these armchair experts

 

[Bill L]

Gotta love these armchair experts

Yea but Bob's right though, the guy complaining about the performance of FC
has only listed one half-decent video card (9600XT). Running an AMD 1.4GHz
@ 2.2 GHz, 9700 (128MB, non-pro) and 1 GHz of RAM here and the gun runs
pretty smooth with most settings on High or very high ... then you get the
bullet splashes in water (hell it looks so good you can almost feel the sun
;o). One complaint - very little in the way of weather effects (e.g. no
moving clouds, rain etc.).

BillL

 

[Wblane]

Bill, how did you manage to get an AMD 1.4Ghz to 2.2 Ghz? The world wants to
know and so do I!

Yea but Bob's right though, the guy complaining about the performance of FC
has only listed one half-decent video card (9600XT). Running an AMD 1.4GHz
@ 2.2 GHz, 9700 (128MB, non-pro) and 1 GHz of RAM here and the gun runs
pretty smooth with m

-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

 

[Bill L]

Hi

The most important part of it was just plain luck in buying a 1700+ (1.47
GHz) TB 'B' core which just happens to OC really well. An additional factor
is the Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro (or any of the nforce2 Ultra boards) I'm using
which allows the memory to be run at 400 MHz (DDR) and also lets me keep the
PCI and AGP locked at 33/66 MHz. Run 200 x 11 and *viola* one hell of an
overclock.

BTW I'm not using any exotic cooling just a Cooler Master Aero7 and a couple
of case fans so temp's can get a bit high, particularly in the summer (i.e.
62 oC under load).

I guess it would've been nice to say I'd worked some kind of miracle but in
the end it's just luck and having the right kit.

HTH

BillL