mrplaid2001
04-03-2004, 04:54 PM
Hey there,
I started playing Far Cry on 1024x768 with most of the graphics options turned up on High (including Environment, Lighting, and Shadows) and Water Reflections and Textures turned to Medium. Sometimes the game would run fine (both of the demos ran great most of the time, too) and sometimes the game would bog down to slideshow-style fps. Most irritatingly, if the game would be running fine and I died, the game would drop to from a nice 60-ish frames per second to 10-20 frames.
Anyway, I just noticed that if I switch the resolution up (yes, UP) to 1280x768 the frame rate went back to normal. If I die it still stutters, but then I bring the resolution back to 1024x768 and it works fine. So as long as I keep switching resolutions I get a smooth frame rate. :P All of the graphical options I listed above are still set at High, too (and the game looks great!).
Anyone have any idea what the hell could be going on with that? I'd like to know if that helps out anyone else's problems. I'd also like to know if what I'm doing is possibly frying my video card. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif Here's what I'm running:
Windows XP Pro
Athlon 1.7 Ghz
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4800
on a 80 GB partition (with nothing else)
512 MB of memory
I started playing Far Cry on 1024x768 with most of the graphics options turned up on High (including Environment, Lighting, and Shadows) and Water Reflections and Textures turned to Medium. Sometimes the game would run fine (both of the demos ran great most of the time, too) and sometimes the game would bog down to slideshow-style fps. Most irritatingly, if the game would be running fine and I died, the game would drop to from a nice 60-ish frames per second to 10-20 frames.
Anyway, I just noticed that if I switch the resolution up (yes, UP) to 1280x768 the frame rate went back to normal. If I die it still stutters, but then I bring the resolution back to 1024x768 and it works fine. So as long as I keep switching resolutions I get a smooth frame rate. :P All of the graphical options I listed above are still set at High, too (and the game looks great!).
Anyone have any idea what the hell could be going on with that? I'd like to know if that helps out anyone else's problems. I'd also like to know if what I'm doing is possibly frying my video card. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif Here's what I'm running:
Windows XP Pro
Athlon 1.7 Ghz
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4800
on a 80 GB partition (with nothing else)
512 MB of memory