POST your Working and Non working farcry setup details here !!

[haujobbz]

I thought i would post this due to how many seem to be suffering with performance issues with farcry.


To give a good idea how to analyse technical difficulties between different systems specs, i thought it would be a good to post your P.c setup details for farcry here working or non working reliably for you.


Include processor.ram size and manafacturer,motherboard setup and manafacturer,bios setup etc,Operating system,video card and manafacturer,Harddisk,xp tweaks etc.



Hope this helps those with problems with Farcry.


Anyway here,s my setup:

Amd 2000mhz cpu,512ddr(pc2100)crucial ram,western digital 80 gig 8 meg buffer harddrive,powercolour radeon 9800se video card,Latest Msi amd nforce 2 motherboard,Win xp pro sp1 with no tweaks,400w antec psu,coolermaster 7200 rpm copper cpu fan.

This system isnt used for the net, Xp pro wasnt a fresh install and had previously had a gforce 4400ti video card inside it, and this system is running at 1024X768 with all settings maxed and it runs without graphical errors,crashes,etc. Framerates are mostly smooth between 30-60 fps and i do get occasional stutter only now and then when a lot is going on and not to forget i havent installed the farcry patch.


Correct me if i havent been specific enough http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif


Thanks LISA

[This message was edited by Jetenginedr on Wed May 05 2004 at 07:55 PM.]

[haujobbz]

I thought i would post this due to how many seem to be suffering with performance issues with farcry.


To give a good idea how to analyse technical difficulties between different systems specs, i thought it would be a good to post your P.c setup details for farcry here working or non working reliably for you.


Include processor.ram size and manafacturer,motherboard setup and manafacturer,bios setup etc,Operating system,video card and manafacturer,Harddisk,xp tweaks etc.



Hope this helps those with problems with Farcry.


Anyway here,s my setup:

Amd 2000mhz cpu,512ddr(pc2100)crucial ram,western digital 80 gig 8 meg buffer harddrive,powercolour radeon 9800se video card,Latest Msi amd nforce 2 motherboard,Win xp pro sp1 with no tweaks,400w antec psu,coolermaster 7200 rpm copper cpu fan.

This system isnt used for the net, Xp pro wasnt a fresh install and had previously had a gforce 4400ti video card inside it, and this system is running at 1024X768 with all settings maxed and it runs without graphical errors,crashes,etc. Framerates are mostly smooth between 30-60 fps and i do get occasional stutter only now and then when a lot is going on and not to forget i havent installed the farcry patch.


Correct me if i havent been specific enough http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif


Thanks LISA

[This message was edited by Jetenginedr on Wed May 05 2004 at 07:55 PM.]

[Jetenginedr]

ASUS A7A 266 mobo
AMD Athlon 1.53ghz cpu
1gig PC2100 Crucial memory
PNY GF4 TI4600 128 video card
SB Live X-Gamer sound card
1 40gig 7200rpm WD HD
1 20gig 7200rpm WD HD
WinXP Pro

Runs at Medium settings perfectly..good fps
Runs at high settings good

Heroes are born when bullets fly, when the earth explodes, when cannons roar, WHEN TRUMPETS FADE

[haujobbz]

Hi

1.The purpose with the results was just to help those out with technical difficulties and to analyse wether it is a system fault rather than a software flaw.

I dont post here much but i do browse this forum a lot and notice a lot of unneccesary similar posts which in a way are wasting server bandwidth and not helping due to so many posts scatterd everywhere.

2.The info was just to benefit the community at the end of the day.


I just think its unfair to blame farcry for certain problems when it could be just down to hardware setups and drivers.

[This message was edited by Jetenginedr on Wed May 05 2004 at 07:54 PM.]

[Jetenginedr]

Members: Please post only information asked.This post has been stickied to help gather info only..not to discuss what is better,rant,rave,complain,ask for help, or to win a free tropical vacation. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Thank you

Heroes are born when bullets fly, when the earth explodes, when cannons roar, WHEN TRUMPETS FADE

[haujobbz]

Thanks jet engine


I Presume with a name title like that you work with in the avionics industry.

Lisa

[jedi3079]

MOBO: Shuttle An35 Ultra
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1.8 oc @ 1.92 ghz
GFX: PowerColor RADEON 9800 Non Pro softmoded to Pro @ 378mhz/338mhz
RAM: 512 MB (1 pc2700, 1 pc3500, i kno i kno i need to replace that pc2700 ram lol)
OS: Microsoft Windows XP sp 1
HD: 40 gig
HD2: 8 gig
Aquamark score:
http://arc.aquamark3.com/arc/arc_view.php?run=1016532422


Ok my problem is , i cant run this game on any setting without it studdering and pausing. altho i get high frame rates even with settings on very high ( 34 at least 70 at most, ) it still studders and pauses. My friend says its doin that becuase i need more ram, is that true? Also i cant install patch 1.1 it says that i already have it installed and i need to remove it, but when i try to remove it it doesn remove lol (yes ive alreayd tryed reinstallin the game several times). Sorry if i complained to much.

[This message was edited by jedi3079 on Wed May 05 2004 at 09:24 PM.]

[eJooT]

Most info on sig.. Fsb @151 Voltage = 1.650 no crashes and highest temp is 58 deg... http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/784.gif
Dual channel Ddr, HT is enabled. Hrmm Hyper threading makes Farcry run about 4 fps faster for me in benchmarks AND it makes my cpu run cooler so Ht is the way to go in Farcry i think (For p4 procs neways!)...Lets see....Though it is possible to run at Super max settings (Yes with water @ ultra high) it makes the game crawl to a 25-40 fps usually in Multiplayer...(For me anyways..) 4.4 Cats gave me great boosts in Fps and so did turning on fastwrites and Agp write. I also found that far cry HATES it when ure desktop is at a different resolution than it. Try to make them the same! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif ...Uhhh ...Motherboard bios newest (8sq800 Gigabyte)..Stock cooler on Cpu...350WPsu Enermax. High stability overall in Farcry http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

_____________________________________________
P4 3.06 on a Gigabyte 8sq800 @ 3.42 1.650 V
1024 ddr 400 Kingston Value Ram
40 Gig Maxotr 7500rpm
Ati Radeon 9800 pro @ 430/380 w/ Giant ii modded.

3dmark 03 = 6500+
Far Cry Benchemall Default demo = 52+ Fps @ 1024/768

[Kaoss25]

win xp
p4 2.4 ghz
512 mb ddr ram
gforce fx 5200 128 mb
19 in sony flat panel
and all that other stuff

I am sorry but I do blame far cry and ubi soft for the poor performance I am experiencing. I cannot stand when I read the system requirements on the box and I smile feeling pretty content knowing "hey I'm fine!"

Then I get home spend about an hour getting all the drivers and patches and waiting for the entire game to install only to find that just like that disaster MAFIA there are more video options than I have ever seen!! And no matter what you do with those options your still either gonna have slow framerate, constant crashes, or if you put everything at low quality your now wishing that you were playing PS2.

I have a theory as to why this is!

You see these bloated companies put such low specs and fill you with all this hype so that unless you have a $4000 dollar gaming rig your not going to get all the awesome stuff they hype. And if you can afford $4000 then you don't have time to spend 4 hours a night playing video games!!

Then they leave all those options for you to figure out in order to have the excuse "Hey its not the game pal its your setup"

I swear this games engine is running on the outdated and frankly sickening engine of battlefeild 1942.

Maybe you guys could take a look at unreal4. Even though thats not really my type of game whats funny is that ut4 gives you like 5 video options and that game looks like heaven. WHY IS THAT LISA???

Take notes please.

UBI soft is getting soft if you ask me. pandora tomorrow was said to be completely different from the first and when I bought it for my XBOX I found that they just basically took the first game and added new maps and the lame half split jump to it (which there is like 2 places in the entire game 2 do that?) Its still linear as ever! None of the hype was true at all. The game was good but so was the original from years past. But alas I ran out and bought your pt and you got your money right?

Ubi is headed downhill and I sold all my stock.

lets hope that halflife and valve will not only make a great HL2 but that they can p0ick up where these others let us down.

Play counter strike on Valves steam network and then compare the smooth and exciting gameplay to far cry, ghost recon, and the gross rainbow six 3 and then come talk to me.

And just think counter strike is on the grandma of game engines. LMAO

[Kaoss25]

-Try again-

[This message was edited by Jetenginedr on Fri May 07 2004 at 02:26 PM.]

[Boots67]

MOBO: Abit IC7 Max3, 800 fsb
Intel P4, 2.8c w/512k L2 Cache
Ati Radeon 9800 pro, 256 mb
Samsung 955DF 19" Monitor
OCZ 256mb x 2, PC4000, DDR 500 EL Gold Dual Channel Kit, Cas 2.5
Western Digital, 120 Gb S-ATA, w/8mb Cache (partioned 30gb, 45gb, 45gb)
Enermax 420 Watt ATX power supply
Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum
Well cooled Kingwin Kt-424 case

Windows XP, SP1
Very clean system, with all unnecessary background services disabled, or on manual.
Not overclocked as I haven't found it necessary for my needs.


I am just completing the game (last mission I think) and it has been a pleasure.

I play at 1024 x 768 with most settings on high, and average 65 fps, 100 if I set to medium.

Auto detect set most to very high, but I did not enjoy the gameplay at those settings, as I did experience stutters, and less than 40 fps, with little real improvement on visuals.

The one setting I found gave a good fps boost was to lower shadows to medium.

This was the first program that gave this system (built for the release of Half-Life 2) a real workout.

[Gaendaal]

Resisting the trend to rant like a gibbon on crack... http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

Off the top of my head (I'm not a spec junkie)

Mantronic mobo (no idea what kind)
Athlon 2600+ XP processor (no o'clocking)
Chaintec GeForceFX 5600
WinXP Home
512MB RAM
120GB HDD
Farcry @ v1.1
Dodgy ol' 5.1 sound card w/ Altec Lansing 2x satellites and 50W subwoofer.

Performance: FarCry runs well with all setting except lighting and shadows at Medium (L&S on low, or else I get the indoors slow down). Playable (30>50fps) with everything apart from L&S on High > Very High (I can notice very little difference between h and VH).

I've had a few, not persistent, lock ups but I'm thinking that's probably due to the RAM. FarCry seems to like 1Gb.

Still, the sound FX sound EXCELLENT through my sub-woofer... http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Ooh, forgot to mention. I find that turning AA and AF down in-game and setting it to 2X in the card settings helps me substantially...

[This message was edited by Gaendaal on Fri May 07 2004 at 01:15 AM.]

[mr.amphibian]

this is teh lower spec pc i have, farcry runs jus perty as long as i dont go too over my head with setings, mostly textures, special effects, particle count and water on medium, with ervything else on low, but on some more demanding indooe levels I turn special effects and water down to low and it works fine:

amd 1.3 ghz
512 mb ram (dunno what speed)
ati 9200se 128mb
win xP home
40 gb hard drive

be wary of vpu recovers and turn down settings if they recurrently happen. my system runs tis jus fine with the odd vpu recover.

_____________________________
if it looks like i am free it is becuse i am running

max... dearest of all my friends!

[Ru.]

[smug on]

Sorry to all who are having problems, but...

My rig works fine at high settings, 1280x1024, with my setup:

XP2800 @ 2237MHz (179MHz fsb, 1.7V)
FX5950 @ 500MHz core, 1GHz ram (60.72 drivers)
1Gb generic PC3200 RAM @ 358MHz
SB Audigy player (not overclocked!)
MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR (performance BIOS settings)
XaserIII Case (blue)
Enermax 361 PSU (soon to be Antec 550W)

I spent time getting it stable; it runs Prime95 for over 12 hours @ 55C no worries and gets 6,424 in 3D mark and 48,606 in Aquamark.

[smug off] http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/88.gif

[MitisLumen]

AMD Athlon XP 2.5 Barton
2x256 Mb (Kingston)
Gforce FX 5600 Ultra Creative (reference drivers 56.72)
Epox EP8RDAE mainboard
SBLive!1024
HDD Seagate 80GB(system) and 60 GB 7200 both
TEAC CDR W552E
DVD LG GDT8162B
Win XP Pro SP1 (updated about two weeks ago)

fresh install, I've had some problems with farcry when I used "repair" function of WinXP installator when I've changed my board&cpu&ram.

Game runs all well except performance, on all medium can't play it at all, on all low and water,light medium runs pretty good.

in spite of my battle in other threads I still will say that FarEnginE could be better optimized, but for all that comes as FarCry - it's a great game.

[TRFMaty]

MSI MEGA PC MINI PC
Intel Pentium 4 Celeron 2.4ghz Socket 468
Connect 3D ATi Radeon 9600 256mb With Vantec Iceberq 4 Coole - WIl soon be upgraded to a Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer
16x DVD-ROM (unsure on manufacturer)
MSI MEGA PC MOTHERBOARD (Mini pc unique board)
512MB DDR400 RAM (again unsure on manufacturer)
80GB HD
WinXP SP1
11mbps Wireless Network over a 768kbps Internet

The only problems I get:
If I set water past Medium Detail it goes purple
And Another setting I need to change makes screen go pruple when I get shot - happened recently, but Ill change the settings back
APart from that Med/High detail with a good FPS

Upgrades I plan to get within 3months:
+512mb DDR400 RAM
Install the VGA Silncer I got (requires some serious modding - blow holes an alike on my MINI PC
Aluminum RAM cooling

Ill keep ya posted

[ZenMatrix]

Thats how i prepare my system a couple of moths ago ready for Farcry before it's out & it run good,heres like to share:

1.Add a 512MB ram to 256MB to become total 768MB.(This is crucial as many of them here say Farcry like more Ram & is true.)

2.Change my age old,out dated,crab video card (not Geforce not Ati,is just crab)to Ati 9600pro & update the driver.

3.Recovery my Window os to make a clean start.(For those who refuse to start clean just clean up any unnecessary files like temperary internet files,uninstall any software that not in use long ago & clear ur recycle bin for those who havn't clear it since COD, Bf1942 or worse... half-life. Seach for spyware & adsware using Spybot Seach & Destroy &/or Adaware.

4.Disable all backgroung application like RamXp,MS live update & tons of other,careful for ur Anti virus live update;better turn on once u r not playing the game for Updated purpose ofcouse & also careful for those inexperience tweaker (tweak XP or tweak whatever)-it might just screw up ur setting....like me.(Having back ground application running while playing the game will surfer framerate loss ,slide show or some unexpected behavior.)

Finally to stay in the thread here's it goes;

Win Xp home,sp1-(not relly tweaking but just disable MSN,Massenger,Micro$oft live update or anything i dont use.)
Acer, mobo (no clue of what type of mobo,or it is just acer?)
P4 2.4
256MB DDR 133 + 512MB DDR 133
Ati 9600 pro 128mb using 3.9 driver(read from this forum 3.9 is most compatible with Farcry,dont know is true,just follow the words.For those Geforce guy ,also in this forum said updating the driver clear all Geforce issue.)
HDD 80 GB
No OverClocking at all for anything.

Setting:1024 x 768
Set all to medium except enviroment to high(in order to see fishes & cuckoo birds).
Result:
Runing as smooooooooth as silk.Framerate never below 30

Setting:1024 x 768
Set all high ;acceptable in most area but not in very heavy area.

Hope this help!

[epaga]

AMD Duron 1.3 GHz
Geforce 4 Ti4200 w/ 64MB RAM
Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II (4.1) with newest drivers
512 SD-RAM
K7AMA board with ALi chipset
80 Gig HD with Ultra DMA 5, 7200RPM, 8MB Cache
Win XP
Patch 1.1

On 1024x768 with everything but "particles", "special effects", and "lighting" set to medium (those three on low), I get a steady and more or less playable 8-14 fps. On more graphics intense levels (like next-to-last with all that lava everywhere) I had to turn things down to 800x600 with all on low, then it was barely playable.
Multiplayer is horrible even on lowest settings - roughly 4-8 fps with really bad lag.
epaga
P.S. Oh, and the cut scenes and intros stutter - every few seconds the sound goes out for a half a second. Videos are fine in the Bink Video Player. See my thread on this board for more info.

[cmer4ik]

haujobbz!
Good one post BUT people DO NOT FORGET to include the drivers version for your video cards!

We at www.farcry.ru (http://www.farcry.ru) also try to locate the "evil"=) that cause some powerful PC to be slow at FarCry and some weak PC sometimes run FC real smooth. So please ALL add also drivers versions!

My PC runs FarCry real smooth at high settings:
CPU: Athlon XP 2500+
MB: Nforce2
RAM: 2*256=512mb (PC 2700)
VIDEO: 128MB Geforce4ti800
Sys: Win XP SP1
Game: 1.1
Video: Forceware 60.72

Game runs with no graphics glitches and such
The only problem was my sound that disapeared sometimes (nforce2) but after installing latest nforce2 sound drivers (4.32) it gone=)

[Dr.Tripper]

I hope someone has a use out if my specs.
FarCry runs in very high settings just perfect. Especially after i changed the USB port for my Gamepad.

In the background i have all sort of stuff running:
Norton antivirus+Norton internet security etc etc. In total 32 processes. Messenger service IS turned off. In total of 212 MB of mem is used by basic operations.


CPU:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4A, 2000 MHz (5 x 400)
CPU Aanduiding Northwood, A80532
CPU Stepping B0
Origineel kloksnelheid 2000 Mhz
L1 Trace Cache 12K Instructions
L1 Data-cache 8 KB
L2 Cache 512 KB (On-Die, ATC, Full-Speed)

Motherboardname MSI MS-6513 (Medion OEM) (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DIMM, Audio)
Moederbord Chipset Intel Brookdale i845D
System memory 512 MB (DDR SDRAM)

Fysiek memory:
Totaal 511 MB
Used 164 MB
Free 346 MB
Percentage 32 %

Virtual memory:
Totaal 1249 MB
Used 204 MB
Free 1045 MB
Percentage 16 %

Virtueel Memory:
Totaal 1761 MB
Gebruikt 369 MB
Vrij 1391 MB
Percentage 21 %

Video kaart RADEON 9700 PRO (Omega 2.5.36b) (128 MB)
3D-Versneller ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (R300)
Grafische Processor Properety:
Video kaart ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (R300) (ATI Radeon 9700)
GPU Codename R300
PCI-apparaat 1002 / 4E44
Transistoren 107 miljoen
Procestechnologie 0.15u
Bus Type AGP
Geheugengrootte 128 MB
GPU Kloksnelheid 324 Mhz
RAMDAC kloksnelheid 400 Mhz
Pixel Pipelines 8
TMU Per Pipeline 1
Vertex Shaders 4 (v2.0)
Pixel Shaders 1 (v2.0)
DirectX hardware ondersteuning DirectX v9.0
Pixel Fillrate 2592 MPixel/s
Texel Fillrate 2592 MTexel/s

Geheugenbus-Eigenschappen:
Bus Type DDR
Bus Breedte 256 bit
Werkelijke kloksnelheid 310 Mhz (DDR)
Effectieve kloksnelheid 620 Mhz
Bandbreedte 19840 MB/s



Monitor Medion MD1998LJ (206763642)

Sound C-Media CMI8738 Audio Chip

Hard Disk ST380020A (80 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)

USB-apparaat Nostromo n52 HID SpeedPad 2.0 Mouse Wheel

Http://members.rogers.com/deadbynoon/images/tripper.jpg
Looking for your Brains? Check my trashbin. It's probably there.

[Asterixi]

xp2600 <> gf4 ti4200 <> 512 ddr 333 <> epox 8rda+

http://www.shotbase.net/showimage.php?id=21236

[bmfnkmc]

Far Cry v1.1

Windows 98SE
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ @ 2.2Ghz (not oc)
1Gb (1 x Crucial512 Mb, 1 x Elixir 512Mb) DDR400
VIA KT600 AGP8x Mobo (v11)
MSI Geforce4 Ti4200 128Mb RAM (56.64 Forceware)
Onboard Sound (VIA '97)
40Gb Fujitsu HD

All options on highest possible (except - water:very high, AA:2xHardware, Filtering:2x)
FPS: 10 - 30.....Average: 17-ish

A bit dissapointing; are '98SE and the Ti4200 bottlenecks?

[DerRickster]

Ok Here are my specs....enjoy!!!!

Commodore 64
Home Computer
Operating System- Basic
CPU- 6510 (0.985 MHz (PAL) / 1.023 MHz (NTSC) )
COPROCESSOR- VIC II (Video), SID (Sound)
MEMORY RAM- 64 KB / ROM 20 KB
GRAPHIC MODES- 320 x 200
SOUND- 3 voices / 9 octaves, 4 waveforms (sound output through TV)
I/O PORTS- RGB (composite, chroma/luma and sound in/out), 2 x Joystick plugs, Cardridge slot, Tape interfarce (300 bps), Serial, User Port, TV RF output
BUILT IN MEDIA- Cassette unit. Provision for 170 KB 5.25'' floppy disc unit (1541)
POWER SUPPLY- External power supply unit


Far Cry runs beautifully on the highest settings!!!! Can't complain.

http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/53.gif (I bet some of you might wonder what a Commodore 64 is)

[This message was edited by DerRickster on Sun May 09 2004 at 08:24 AM.]

[mukestar]

c64, isn`t that one of them new fangled PET replacements.

Anyhow Working setup

p4 2800MHz
Intel D875PBZ mobo
2 x 512MB PC3200 RAM
2 X Raid 0 SATA 400GB HD
Radeon 9800XT (R350)
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Windows XP 5.1.2600 SP1
Catalyst 6.14.10.6430
Works like a charm at 1024x768 with everything set at high.

Only problems is with punkbuster kicking of multiplayer now and again (nothing to do with my system i admit) and a small bug when for no reason whatsoever the s_SoundEnable = "1" line in the config file resets to 0 sometimes.

[EJES]

AMD ATHLON 64 3000+ @2.0GHz
1024MB DDR RAM MEMORY
ATI RADEON 9200 ALL IN WONDER AGP-256MB MEMORY-Catalyst Drivers-6.14.0010.6387
MSI K8 MOTHERBOARD
WESTERN DIGITAL 200GB 7200 RPM HARD DRIVE
WINDOWS XP-HOME EDITION


I get problems with the graphics flickering and disapearing,or turning to a light blue colour although this problem has already been established.

I also notice slight lag in the cut scenes,no other problems noticed as yet.
The actual game runs smooth on very high settings although I've not tried textures on high yet.

--------------------------------
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
1024mb DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9200-256mb
MSI K8 mo/bo
Windows XP

[Darren_Hodgson]

My setup runs perfectly and smoothly with everything set on Very High (Water on Ultra High) except Particles which is set at High. FSAA is set to None and AF is left at 1 ingame and I've set 2xQ FSAA and 2xAF in the nVIDIA Display properties. This way it circumvents the crash that you get when you use the game's inbuilt FSAA/AF when taking screen grabs with F12. I've never had one crash since...

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Athlon XP 3000+ (400MHz FSB @ 2.167GHz)
1,024MB PC2700 DDR 333MHz RAM
Xpert Visions 128MB GeForce FX 5900XT graphics (@ 425/725)
Realtek AC650 sound device (A3.58 drivers)
MSI-6777 (nForce2) mainboard (use GART 3.77 to enable sideband addressing in Windows)
120GB hard drive
2x DVD-RW
16x DVD-ROM
Pagefile fixed at 1,534MB

Windows XP Service Pack 1
ForceWare v60.80
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[sandspider_1979]

asus mobo with ht
Intel pentium 4 3.0ghz
1.5 gig ram
2x 160gb hard drives (western didgital)
radeon 9600 128 mb
win xp pro
1mb broadband connection 512 upstream

Even though my machine is quite high spec i still have a hell of a lot of problems running farcry first off it was cutting off after 10 minutes i solved that and now after 15 minutes of fun it does nothing but jump and go in slow motion it really sucks and im not the only one many of my friends have the same dam problem and i am sick of all these companies making these dam games that dont work HELL I PAYED ENOUGH FOR IT ID LIKE TO PLAY IT TOO. The single player is perfect but i buy most of my games for online play and this jumping slow mo thing happens on every server not matter what settings i use. Oh well ill go back to good old RTCW and halo till someone finds a solution

[uotrumpet]

Pentium 4 2.8 ghz Northwoods HT
512mb Kingston Ram
160gb Maxtor Hardrive
Abit IS7 board
Nvidia 5600ultra 256mb
1gb Lan
WinXP

When Im am in a inclosed space or a lot of noise is going on then the FPS drop considerably.

[paul184]

my working speck(it didnt work at first,only thing i changed was downloading a package of the main codecs!)AMD athlon 3000 leadtekk7ncr18d mobo,512ddr pc3200,radeon9800pro,nec1300a dvdrw drive,windows xp.1 radeon driver version,6.14.10.6404.comp.manuf.Carrera.When my copy started working,ithought,"there is a god,truly breathtaking scenery/water.works best on mainly medium sets.which is a bit disappointing actually!

[Deadly Avenger]

My setup . . .

CPU Dell Dual 2GHz Xeon
RAM 1GB
GFX Card nVidia Quadro4 900XGL (x4 AGP/128mb)

. . . and I'm running Far Cry v1.1 in . . .

Screen Mode 800x600x32
Detail Settings Everything 'Very High'
Antialiasing Low

. . . and it seems fine, but I've only started playing, not been in the thick of it yet!

Cheers
Matt

[Sirius_Oz]

My system, recently upgraded to about as far as the mobo will permit:

Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-8IEXP rev 1.2
CPU: Intel P4 2.8 Ghz 533 MHz fsb
DDRAM 2 X 512 (Samsung,Kingmax) = 1 Gbyte
Video: Albatron Gigi Nvidia fx5900xt 128 mB
HD: WD 80 Gbyte UDMA, attached to Promise RAID controller in UDMA 133 mode.
Sound: CL Audigy original.
Case: Antec P160 (using included 12cm fan but no extra cooling).
Display: Samsung Syncmaster 700b CRT (1998 model! Best monitor screen I have ever looked at including many "pro" brands like Eizo, Sony, etc.)
Periphs: Microsoft "Office" keyboard, Intellimouse Optical (wired to PS/2 port), original MS Sidewinder 3Dpro and Spacetec SpaceOrb (neither used in FarCry; I use mouse/kb control).

No components are overclocked.

OS: triple-boot WinXP Pro sp1 / Win2K sp4 / Win98se !!! The latter for "legacy" stuff.

I run FC (FarCry) in WinXP only. Currently I have Nvidia forceware 61.10 (61.11?) drivers which have resolved my earlier weird texture and shadow artifacts in FC. I use DirectX 9.0b.

FC settings and tweaks:

Running everything on High, trilinear filtering, antialiasing level 2. 1152 X 864 screen resolution. Full EAX2 hardware sound support turned on.

Notes: Raising DDRAM from from 512 Kb to 1024 Kb made more impact than raising CPU speed from 1.8 Ghz to 2.8 Ghz; level loading dramatically improved. Raising screen resolution to the maximum supported by my monitor has minimal effect on frame rates.

I have not run benchmarks, but framerate is acceptable with no mouse lag UNTIL I get to the "Swamp" level where Jack and Val attack the merc camp at night. At this point I get terrible (unplayable) mouse lag and bad framerates. The presence of Val appears to be what causes the slowdown.

The worst problem (UbiSoft take note) is the cut scenes with Val and Jack; there is a huge (multi-second) sound lag.

Apart from the above gripes, I get stable performance with no crashes to desktop.

Hope this helps someone.

BBL.

[jak9114]

I have two machines:

Windows XP Home
P4 3.2 HT
Intel 875 mobo
2048 mb ram crucial pc 3200
ATI Radeon 128mb 9800 pro catalyst 4.3
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Samsung 120 gb SATA HDD
Lite-on 16x DVD-ROM

Everything is at stock speeds, bios settings are also set to their defaults, no tweaks of any type.
The game runs very smooth, with some minor slow downs, at 1156x768 and all vid settings at very high, water at ultra high.

Dell 8200
Windows XP Home
P4 2.26
512 mb ram, rambus
ATI Radeon 128 mb 9800 pro Catalyst 3.7
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Maxtor 120 gb ultra ATA HDD
Lite-on 16x DVD-ROM

The game runs great at 1156x768 with all vid settings at medium, except water at very high. I did notice when I first loaded the game, there was a lag the first time I fired my weapon. After that it was fine.

[SolidCitizen]

P4 2.4C @ 2.88GHz
GeForce FX5900 128MB @ 451/851 (60.72)
2 x 512MB PC3200 RAM (Samsung and Kingston)
ASUS P4P800 mobo
WD Serial ATA 120GB HD
Integrated Audio
Windows 2000 SP4

The 1.1 patch was an improvement, but Far Cry runs pretty poorly on my system given its specs, especially compared to every ATI 9800 Pro-equipped system I've seen. Two guys I work with have similar setups but with 9800 Pro's...they run all Very High settings like its no big deal. It seems like the nVidia support is broken with regards to lighting and textures. I must run textures no higher than Medium, otherwise I get an unplayable 20fps or less in any active scene. With Medium textures and High everything else, the game is smooth (30-60fps), except for scenes with lots of shadows (portions of the first island on the Boat level crawl at 15fps) or strong lighting close to surfaces (the lit huts near the end Steam level located to the right of the foreman factory...very strange slow down there). In addition to performance issues, I get frequent crashes, with fatal dialogs saying duplicate lighting element or something of that sort.

I hope you're listening Ubisoft, and especially nVidia. I paid $400 for this dang vid card last Sept. I don't live far from nVidia's HQ. If these problems don't go away, I am buying an ATI and dropping off a flaming-**** covered FX5900 at nVidia's door.

[RealTaz]

Game Crashes after a few minutes to black screen and locks up Windows XP. Could be going into VPU recover... but I have that off. Does same thing whether it's on or off.

For me... it only happens if I set textures set above medium. I can set everything else to very high. For another guy, it only happens if he has particle count set above low. So it's not an easy bug to find.

System Specs:

ASUS A7N266-C nForce 1
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
1GB Kingston HyperX DDR400 (matched pair)
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Windoze Xp Pro SP1
DircectX 9.0b
Catalyst 4.3's
Last nForce Drivers ASUS put out for the motherboard. Reference nForce Drivers that include nForce 2 ****, causes major instabilities in XP.

And I don't overclock.

Same crash happened in Demo with same settings. I've tried every Catalyst driver from 3.7's - 4.3's. Same crash.

I've played the whole game with Textures set at Medium. I recently installed an Adobe product which installed DX 9 again (no choice). Now the game crashes even with Texture settings on Medium.

Last thing I want to do is wipe the machine. DX Diag still says that I'm using DX 9.0b. I'll prolly try installing DX 9.0b again from MS Update (If it will let me), Since the Adobe product seems to have fuxx0red something worse with DX.

But even if I get it working again at Textures at Medium.... I still want to run it with Textures at Very High.

So that means either a Far Cry Patch, an ATi driver, or DX9.0c is hopefully gonna fix it. And if those don't fix it... I'll have little choice but to try newer nForce Reference Drivers.

Regards,

Taz

[RealTaz]

Update: I reinstalled DX9.0b off the Far Cry CD.

I can now run the game again with medium textures @ 1024x768.

If I run at medium textures @ 1280x1024... crash.
If I run the game with textures set above medium in any resolution... crash.

I ensured Fast Writes were off. Like I said in another forum... it happens whether Fast Writes are on or off.

Regards,

Taz

[cutlassbrgm260]

look at my sig. wprls fine with my settiong on low/medium with any nvidia drivers. works better with the newest leaked drivers from 3d guru 6.1.1.1

AMD XP 2000+ thoroughbred-b core
1 X 512MB K-byte PC2700
Biostar M7VIG Pro-D Motherboard
PNY Gforce FX 5200 128mb running 4X AGP with aperature @ 128mb

[commander_stick]

Hi. Can anyone help me with Far Cry? When iâ´m going to play multiplayer and when it quests cd-key, i put my key there, it says that my key is timeout or something. What does that mean?

[hazards32]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DerRickster:
Ok Here are my specs....enjoy!!!!

Commodore 64
Home Computer
Operating System- Basic
CPU- 6510 (0.985 MHz (PAL) / 1.023 MHz (NTSC) )
COPROCESSOR- VIC II (Video), SID (Sound)
MEMORY RAM- 64 KB / ROM 20 KB
GRAPHIC MODES- 320 x 200
SOUND- 3 voices / 9 octaves, 4 waveforms (sound output through TV)
I/O PORTS- RGB (composite, chroma/luma and sound in/out), 2 x Joystick plugs, Cardridge slot, Tape interfarce (300 bps), Serial, User Port, TV RF output
BUILT IN MEDIA- Cassette unit. Provision for 170 KB 5.25'' floppy disc unit (1541)
POWER SUPPLY- External power supply unit


Far Cry runs beautifully on the highest settings!!!! Can't complain.

http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/53.gif (I bet some of you might wonder what a Commodore 64 is)

[This message was edited by DerRickster on Sun May 09 2004 at 08:24 AM.]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Yeah my spectrum runs it great too

[rabnat]

my game is choppy when it first starts and occasioanally during play (hardrive access).. do i need more ram? also does it with battlefield 1942/ at start and flying... please help!!!
thanks...

spec: windows xp pro
256 meg
geforce 3 64 meg
60 gig harddrive

nothing running in background.

[cutlassbrgm260]

its your gforce 3 64 meg try opening your agp aperature to at least 120 256 if your motherboard supports it. But i would reccomend using a vid card with at least 128mb on it

AMD XP 2000+ thoroughbred-b core
1 X 512MB K-byte PC2700
Biostar M7VIG Pro-D Motherboard
PNY Gforce FX 5200 128mb running 4X AGP with aperature @ 128mb

[teambushido]

Far Cry 1.1
high settings for everything
dolby digital 5.1 sound settings
1024 RES
Runs perfect
My system below:

Amd 64 3200+
1G (2x512mb) Mushkin level one black
MSI K8T Neo MB
120GB WD SATA HD
SB Audigy2 zs
HIS IceQ 9800 Pro
Steelpad 4d, MS intellimouse explorer 3.0. Gigabyte 3dcooler, vantec pci fan card, 120 intake, 2 80 exhaust, 2 80 on vid card, 1 80 side fan.

[Ru.]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hazards32:

Yeah my spectrum runs it great too<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Just a shame about the attribute clashes. Still waiting for Sinclair Research Ltd to fix that in a driver update...
http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Nuclear Cheetos]

Athlon XP 2000
384 DDR RAM, 3200(512 stick blew a while back, resulting in uneven number)
ATI Radeon 9800 AIW PRO (Latest Omega Drivers)
Win XP, and latest version of DirectX.
I get about 5-7 fps on the lowest settings, so I uninstalled the game and put it on my shelf; maybe one of you guys can tell me what's wrong with my system. If not, I really don't care seeing as the game only cost me $40 anyway. Back to WoW.

[jteasdale]

Far Cry runs smooth as silk on my machine. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Intel Prescott P4 3.2 1mb L2 Cache oc'd to 3.52ghz
Asus P4C-800-E Deluxe
1 GB Mushkin Level 1 Black RAM Cas 2-3-2
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
Creative Audigy 2 ZS 7.1
2 Western Digital 160 GB 8mb cache ATA 133 hard drives in Raid 0 config

[Destroyer431]

HI, im having trouble with my far cry game of course.. i downloaded both the demos, research and fort to see how the game was but everything is all messed up, my boat on fort level doesnt look like a boat and trees are white there are big square things in the sky when i turn they change position big glitches and ****... everything is messed up.. system specs, 2.4 p4 ghz 1024 ddr, 70 hd geforce 4 440 128

[Moegames]

Runs like a champ on my rig:

Athlon64 3200+@2.2ghz
1gig of PC3200 Corsair System Ram
Gigabyte K8N Pro Nforce3
ATI AIW 9800 Pro / 4.5 cats
Audigy Sound Card
Logitec 5.1 Digital Speakers w/powerd sub
Logitec Wireless keyboard w/ mx700 mouse
Viewsonic Graphic Series 21" G220FB CRT Monitor

Running the game at 1152x864 w/ AA@none and AF@Tri/x2. Everything else is Maxed out including Water at Ultra High. I get an average around 45-55 fps in FarCry with it hardly ever dipping below 45fps.

Things that i did to tweak:

Raised the AGP Arpature in Bios to 256, made a nice performance boost. In my desktop CP Panel for ati card i put both AA and AF to application preference.

Updated bios drivers and Nforce mobo drivers on May 13th to the latest versions. That increased my stability in far cry in all areas.

Overall im pleased with the performance im getting in FarCry. First game i've ran into that put up a good fight with my rig. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

http://home.insightbb.com/~tgd/farcry.jpg

[This message was edited by Moegames on Sat May 15 2004 at 12:14 PM.]

[CoLD.SToRAGE]

I'm running a:

P4 2.2 ghz
768 DDR RAM
GeForce 4 Ti 4600 (128)

im not goin to go into detail but.. im running this game on everything VERY HIGH and your not going to believe me when i say it runs SLIGHTLY better then when on medium.

I really dont know how this is possible considering the crapness of my system but i did use the tweak guide found on this forum.

Coldie

[Gatordad]

I have a gig of ddr and am running a Radeon 9000 video card. My problem is that my screen freezes. Sometimes it will move a few frames, then re-freeze. What's up?

[thesaucier]

ABIT nf7-s water cooled chipsetwith heatsinks on the southbridge and mosfets
Barton 3000+ cpu @13X225 2925MHZ Phase change cooling CPU temp -27c at load
Corsair 4000pro 1gig memory with active cooling
9800XT watercooled ramsinks on memory
two WD sata 10000rpm raptors in raid 0
Enermax 550 watt power supply
windows XP sp1


Had a problem running in mutiplay with lag and jitters. I started running at low setting for testing when I had this problem. It is a memory leak at these settings. I have set them to medium and the game runs great! I have not ested at high settings yet.

[MrIndependent]

I can run Far Cry (Ver 1.0) with mixed setings from medium on a couple of shadow effects to very high on all of the others.
Not sure of my FPS but it looks and runs like a dream.

2X AA
Vertical Sync on
Eax on

My system consists of;
Microsoft Windows XP (Home Edition)
Intel Prescott P4 3.0 GHZ CPU With HT Technology
Asus P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard (Intel 875P Chipset)
Asus TI 4200 DDR 128MB 8X AGP Graphics Card
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy LS 5.1 Soundcard
1024 MB Kingston 400 MHZ PC 3200 Dual Channel DDR RAM
80 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200-RPM Serial/ATA HDD
Antec Performance 350W Mini Tower case (Dual Fan)
Viewmaster 19 Inch Flat Screen Monitor
Sony 52 x 32 x 52 Re-Writable CD ROM
Logitech Z-680 THX Certified 5.1 Surround Speakers
Logitech Deluxe Access 104 keyboard
Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse
ADSL 512/128 Internet Connection

Hope this helps anyone having troubles out.

[Ritzcracka]

Working config:

Far Cry version 1.1, North American CD-ROM

System:

- Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz with Hyperthreading and 800MHz FSB
- 1GB Crucial DDR400 RAM
- Asus P4P800 motherboard (Intel i865PE chipset)
- ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb (catalyst 4.3 drivers) video card
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 sound card
- LG 16X DVD-ROM (HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8161B)
- LG 12X/8X/32X CD-RW (LG CD-RW CED-8120B)
- Windows XP Home Edition /w all reccommended and critical updates.

I've seen reports of the DVD-ROM (European version) of Far Cry NOT working with this DVD-ROM drive. To me, that's ridiculous. LG optical drives are EXCELLENT, and very reliable. They are very popular around here, and used by several large manufacturers (such as HP and Compaq) and there should be no excuses for the game NOT working with these DVD drives. The problem is with the GAME not the drives, and Ubi should admit that and issue a fix.

[uotrumpet]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by uotrumpet:
Pentium 4 2.8 ghz Northwoods HT
512mb Kingston Ram
160gb Maxtor Hardrive
Abit IS7 board
Nvidia 5600ultra 256mb
1gb Lan
WinXP

When Im am in a inclosed space or a lot of noise is going on then the FPS drop considerably.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I did it! I fixed my problem. I updated to the 60.70 nvidia drivers and now i dont see any lag on medium. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Myke_]

Hi, i Have problems with Farcrat, It installed fine and i re-started my computer however, I put the disc to play and i get the Auto load menu come up, i select play and it starts to load, but then i get an error message pop up saying "please insert the correct disc and restart the application". Now i replace the disc, and nothing will pop up at all, i look in my computer and my DVD drive has disapierd. Once i restart the computer it happens again. Any Suggestions?

[D4dZ1lla]

The Graphics and the AI system.. moved me to upgrade to the following rig... [self assembled]

Athlon XP 3200+ (@1.7v no O/C)
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe rev 1.01 bios 1008
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128M [Catalyst 4.5 drivers]
Corsair TWINX 1024-3200C2 (paired 512's @11 3 3 3T timings and 2.7v)
2X Seagate Barracuda's 80G, 7200rpm with 8M cache each in S-ATA Raid Striped Mode.
Enermax PSU - EG465P-VE 460W True Power
CD-Rom /Burner/ DVD x16 combo 52X24x52x
Using onboard LAN and Onboard Sound
Latest nForce utilities from website.

I run the screen res at 1024 X 768 X 32bpp, with advanced video options at medium, other than environment and water which are set higher.
AA in game is off and controlled from the ATI control panel under the 3d tab &gt; D3D

I still get three types of crashing http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/35.gif:-
i). The game stops and simply switches to the windows XP desktop???? Seemingly random, unannounced, unpredicatable...no error msgs??
ii). The screen freezes with a looping sound clip, hitting 'escape' stops the sound, the screen turns black and the P-C requires a hardboot to restart...no error msgs???
iii). BSOD... because I now have the windows auto-start disabled I get an error message comprising of lots of zeroes X's and other numbers and letters...which I copy and flog to death on my favourite search engine http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/53.gif

My Windoze Stop Error Codes seem to fall into three distinct catagories but may not be limited to :-

i). RAM issues - run a memtest app to analyse the performance of your ram chips...a reputable brand will honor the warranty and replace the duff sticks...if any.. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif
ii). HEAT - heat in transistors causes fluctuations in resistance and therefore current which may exceed the limitations of the silicon from which they are made =&gt; Fail http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/blink.gif so more fans, case off, clean the heat sinks so the fans / coolers can cool more efficiently.
iii). DRIVERS - software incompatibilities... namely BSOD ...may result from corrupted DX9.0b API... or Graphics drivers... un-install - reinstall, if necessary re-download the driver from the manufacturers site and refresh the install???

Other than the random stoppages...game runs great!!

Hope this helps some.

Good Luck

http://www.econodesigns.com/gallery/albums/album13/Dadz2.gif

[HazardousSmoker]

MOBO - Asus P4P800 Deluxe
P4 2.8Ghz C (Ovcld to 3.08Ghz)
1GB PC2700 Corsair Ram
PNY GForceFX 5900 Ultra
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
120GB Western Digital Special Edition
IBM 21" CRT

Running at 1024x768
Game works fine for a while then out of the blue gives a "Blue Screen of Death" and the system must be rebooted. Also Video is very slow and jittery when in deep jungle terrain.

[screamindemon6x]

P4 2.6GHZ
Corsair 512 DDR 400
Shuttle AV49AV Motherboard
Maxtor 7500 30 GIG Hard Drive
ATI Radeon 9200 128MB DDR 8X
Advance AC97 Audio On Board

I have a problem that has been giving me a headache for weeks.
Actually, I haven't even been playing the game because of the
weird and flickering textures. Sometimes the textures even go black. This only happens in OpenGL mode, but that is the only way the game will run. I am forced to use OpenGL mode by modifying the system.cfg and specifying
r_Driver = "OpenGl" It simply will not run in direct3d. In direct3d, I'm sure it would look a lot better, but when I try to load a map, the loading bar goes about 1/4 of the way through the load, then just locks up every time. I
have the latest catalyst drivers, and have tried 3.9 all the way
up to the latest drivers, with no success.


==========================================
The error log reports
---------------------------
Exception Code: 0xC0000005
Exception Addr: 0x0197:0x690A130B
Exception Module: &lt;Unknown&gt;
Exception Description: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION, Attempt to read from address 0xFFFFFFFFThe memory could not be "read"

Call Stack Trace:
3) function=0x690A130B
2) function=0xF841F000

The log.txt says
--------------------------------
WARNING: StreamEngine: OS (platform 1) doesn't support streaming,
WARNING: Error: CTexMan::ImagePreprocessing: Scaling of 'textures/defaults/palletteheat.dds' compressed texture is dangerous (only one mip)
1) function=0x0
Compile System Shader 'TemplFog'...
Error: Attempt to load pixel shader 'CGRCFog' for shader 'templfog'ok
Compile System Shader 'TemplVFog'...Fail.
Compile System Shader 'TemplFog_FP'...ok
Compile System Shader 'TemplFogCaustics'...
Error: Attempt to load pixel shader 'CGRCCaust' for shader 'templfogcaustics'
Error: Attempt to load pixel shader 'CGRCFog' for shader 'templfogcaustics'ok
Compile System Shader 'TemplVFogCaustics'...Fail.

Etc. Etc.
If someone could give me some insight on how to run direct3d
without locking up during loading screen, or even running
OpenGL and not having the textures flicker and look like ****,
I would be greatful!

Sorry for the lenght, but its my only hope!

-Ryan

[viskiicerimhebe]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Darren_Hodgson:
My setup runs perfectly and smoothly with everything set on Very High (Water on Ultra High) except Particles which is set at High. FSAA is set to None and AF is left at 1 ingame and I've set 2xQ FSAA and 2xAF in the nVIDIA Display properties. This way it circumvents the crash that you get when you use the game's inbuilt FSAA/AF when taking screen grabs with F12. I've never had one crash since...

================================================== ========
Athlon XP 3000+ (400MHz FSB @ 2.167GHz)
1,024MB PC2700 DDR 333MHz RAM
Xpert Visions 128MB GeForce FX 5900XT graphics (@ 425/725)
Realtek AC650 sound device (A3.58 drivers)
MSI-6777 (nForce2) mainboard (use GART 3.77 to enable sideband addressing in Windows)
120GB hard drive
2x DVD-RW
16x DVD-ROM
Pagefile fixed at 1,534MB

Windows XP Service Pack 1
ForceWare v60.80
================================================== ========<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


I got,

P4 2400Mhz (800Mhz fsb, Hyper Threading)
GigaByte GeForce Fx 5900 (XT), (256 bit, 128 MB)
Gigabyte 8IPE100-G (800Mhz bus, HT...)
2*256 MB Kingston DDR400 ram
20GB 7200 RPM Maxtor HDD

My graphic card specifications:

400MHz GPU core
700MHz memory core
128MB DDR memory
256bit memory interface
AGP 8x
Peak memory bandwidth: 22.4Gbytes/sec

but i even can't run this game smooth on medium settings Darren_Hodgson has only better rams and more disk space but he can play on high settings...
ps: i even can't run hitman 3 as it has to be. It's so slow in first level

ps: 3D mark 2001SE score is something like 13.500...

please help..

[SDX.be]

It's sad to see all those people posting their non-working far Cry setups here...I can't say Ubisoft is to blame for that but I have never had a game that had so much hardware conflicts. So yes, I also have a bad Far Cry setup although my system should be able to handle the game very well.

My specs:
* Processor: Intel P4 3.4GHz 800MHz FSB with HT
* Memory: 1024MB Apacer dual (PC3200 - 400MHz)
* Mobo: Intel i875P
* Bios: Intel, date: 02/24/2004
* OS: Windows XP Pro SP1 US
* Video card: Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 - 128MB
* Harddrives: 1 x Maxtor 250GB SATA - 8MB
1 x Maxtor 200GB SATA - 8MB

If I forgot anything, please tell me (I'm not a spec wizard) http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

I installed Far Cry 3 times already, I tried playing it on the lowest settings but still it runs like it would run on a Comodore 64 (in a way of speaking). I tried playing with many different video card driver versions, I installed and reinstalled DX9 but nothing will work. I don't know what to do anymore.

[viskiicerimhebe]

You're specs pretty good but until graphic card. Fx 5200 is not good for such system. You should change it i guess... It's the worst card which supports DX9. Game is not smooth because your slow graphic card tries to show everything which needs DX9 support... since your graphic card is not succesful enough to....s.s.s.a.fa.

i give up... sorry for bad grammar

[unowho666]

My specs:
* Processor: AMD Athlon 1 GHZ
* Memory: 512mb SDram 133mhz
* Mobo: Asus A7v 133
* OS: Windows XP home
* Video card: MSI Geforce ti4200 - 64MB (forceware 61.11)
* Soundcard: Soundblaster Live 5.1
* Harddrives: 1 x Maxtor 30GB 133
1 x quantum bigfoot 8gb

game runs in open_gl 1024x768 on medium settings with an average of 25-30FPS

[NickHimself]

This is my current setup:

CPU: Pentium 4 @ 3.20 GHz
Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 128 mb
Memory: 1 gig DDR PC3200 RAM
HD: Western Digital 200 GB @ 7200 RPM
Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum ZS

Tweaks:
Turned off every service that doesn't need to be running in order for my programs to run properly, windows starts up extremely fast.

I have, at startup, 14 processes running, with about 2% cpu usage at the most, while not performing any tasks.


Far Cry runs at 9 fps on my system with everything turned to it's highest setting in-game, and on my GPU itself.

including AA and AF both at highest on the newest Omega drivers.

When I have everything on the card turned down to their lowest setting (how I normally keep it) and the in-game settings at Average, I get 50-100 frames, depending on where I am. Possibly more indoors.

This game runs terribly compared to everything else. I don't know if it's the game itself, or the fact that it's basically designed for the 6800. I know what i'm doing with my PC, and I know that I don't have anything running that doesn't need to be. Even after fully tweaking everything, it gets those frames. wtf.

Also, as a sidenote, far cry seems to run like Serious Sam does...with swimming and some other actions.

It's not a complaint, because SS is a really good game, I actually like that, because it feels like they took the best from most FPS games, and put them all together in one.

Far Cry &gt; Halo, anyday. Seriously.

[Klaus_SWE]

* CPU: AMD XP @ ~2.1 GHz
* RAM: 1024MB DDR400
* Mobo: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (1.07 bios + latest nForce)
* OS: Windows XP Pro SP1
* Graphics: Geforce3 ti500 64MB (56.72)
* 19" TFT connected with DVI

The game runs really good at 1024x768 with everything except texture quality at medium. I dont know my FPS but it has never dropped enough to be noticed.
BUT, i experience constant crashes: "Critical exception". I can play for 5-15 minutes and then boom, the game freezes with the audio looping. I ctrl+esc to desktop and see that f**king "critical exception" box.

I have run Memtest with no errors, I have the latest drivers and bios, I have scanned for viruses, I have the 1.1 patch, I have tried about 7-8 different drivers for the geforce, hell - I even prayed to God.
And still no luck!

[letsgettaco]

AMD 3000+ xp barton fsb 333
2x512 Corsair match memory pc2700
Radeon 9800XT 256 mb
Creative soundblaster live 5.1 platinum
Leadtek K7NCR18D pro Nforce 2 mobo
LG DVD ROM drive
Antec 1080 AMG server tower with Antec TruePower 430 watt PSU
Thermalright SLK 900u copper heatsink
with 80cm Vantec stealth fan
Windows xp pro with sp 1 and all critical and windows updates
Catalyst 4.5 drivers
Nforce 2 3.13 chipset drivers
FarCry patch 1.1
Nothing over clocked
I run FarCry on :-

Texture quality- very high
Filter quality- trilinear
Anistotropic flitering level- 4
Particle count- high
Special effects quality- very high
Enviroment quality- very high
Shadow quality- high
Water quality- very high
Lighting quality- very high
Screen resolution 1024x768x32
Anti Aliasing low
Vertical sink ON
Sound Dolby 5.1
Doppler effect ON
Hardware mixing ON
Music quality- Medium

Runs at between 30-100 FPS depending on whats on screen.

I also had a Geforce FX 5900 in the above system when I first bought the game. I could only run the game on medium settings for everything, except for water which was set to high. I found the game very unstable no matter which forceware drivers I used. This game is supposed to optomised for Nvidia cards, but because of the problems Nvidia have with pixel shader 2.0 it runs very choppy. I had exactly the same problems with Halo, even when it was forced to run pixel shader 1.4. I just hope that Nvida don't make the same mistake with Geforce 6800. I have always had Nvidia cards and been more than happy, but the Geforce Fx range has been a bit of a turkey. Even the Radeon 9600 out performs the Geforce 5950 ultra in some of the Half LIfe 2 bench marks. I hope valve sort this out before the game is released. If it ever is!!!!!!

If it bleeds, we can kill it

[blarharhehar]

My System:
FarCry Semi-Working


CPU: Intel P4 2.4 ghz cpu
RAM: 512 MB (no info on mnfctr; didn't pay attention)

Mammyboard: MSI 848P Neo - seems like a lot of folks with MSI mobos and vid cards are having problems; I've been lurking for a long time.

Vid Card: MSI GeForce FX 5700 vtd256
Nvidia Driver Version: 56.64
MSI Driver: Latest version installed
Card BIOS: never updated after install

Card Tweaks:
-AA/AF turned off in advanced options
-The general performance vs. quality slider is set all the way to performance

Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2

Bios: AGP Aperture 256 mb, on-board sound disabled, nothing overclocked

PSU (power source): 450W
Systems Case: 3 fans.
System Temp (avg. after an hour in-game): 38 celsius


OS: Win 98SE
OS tweaks to get the game to run:

-Sound card hardware acceleration turned to 1 notch before off (this fixed a ton of issues for me, both graphical and sound-wise. Somehow, it bumped up my frame-rate - which is my biggest problem in the game)

-desktop: 32bit (I forgot what resolution I was running it on last night - it's my other computer)

HDD: Lotsa space, not de-fragged recently.


FarCry Settings:
Running Unsupported openGl mode
v1.1

Resolution: 800 x (I always forget the second number, but it's the lowest on the menu).

Advanced Video Options:
-Everything set to medium except lighting and shadows
-Particles: low

Sound Options:
-Doppler off
-EAX on
-hardware on
-compatible mode on

Performance (In General):

I'd rank the game's performance with these settings somewhere around medium to poor, weighted towards the "poor" end of the scale. I find this unacceptable for running on a system with my specs.

I have no problem playing UT2k4 with 16 bots and Max Payne 2 runs like a dream with everything set on high. FarCry is the only PC game I own with problems.

speaking of which...

Problems:

-no weapon sound when I fire a gun

-weird sound problems in general

-frame-rate still sucks. Before hitting on the previous combination of settings, the game was unplayable... 5-10 FPS. Now it hovers anywhere between 15-40. The weird thing is that this doesn't seem to necessarily be the product of my current surroundings in the game; at times, it will run fine in a large open space (even with helicopters!) at others (like when fighting 5 guys in a bunker), the frame-rate will drop to super-chug mode, similar to serious lag. (I am playing single player, though; no multi).

-Weird graphic issues similar to others reported: large swaths of glorious all-black textures randomly appearing, weird, neon-green and purple patches of non-texture, etc.

-When I start the game, it's almost like it's trying to run the game in a window because the taskbar stays on, stuck to the bottom of the screen. I usually have to use the tab key to navigate the menus to load my last checkpoint. Once I get in the game, the mouse becomes usable. The taskbar stays on the bottom of the screen throughout.

-At spawn, my screen goes completely light green, with the radar in the corner the only thing visible (apart from the taskbar). After a second, I can see and everything is "normal".

I'm actually becoming attached to this process of the green-birth-spawn-vision; it's almost like I'm waking up from the technical nightmare that is FarCry to the real version that should have shipped at release. But then the framerate drops again and I realize that I'm still in the nightmare and that I'll never wake up and that this forum will be the only other thing I know until I die. After I die (in real life), I'll wake up in my buggy version of FarCry (and then I'll know that I am in hell).

...sorry, venting.

Anyway, I think that's everything. The game is so f**ing plagued with issues (on my setup... no offense to Ubisoft as I'm sure that it's impossible that they have had any role to play in why my game is all f***ed up) that I'm sure I'm forgetting at least 7 unique things that are all f***ed up in the game. The framerate is the only thing I care about... I just want to play the game with a decent framerate.

Sigh. Where's the patch?

[Klaus_SWE]

Amen!

[SDX.be]

Why on earth do you stil run Win98?? It's so damn sloooooooooooow...

Just a suggestion http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[blarharhehar]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Klaus_SWE:
Amen!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Lol.

Actually, I just realized that I shouldn't have posted this here. Oh well. I doubt that anyone will have any info to help me (I've been searching the forums for almost a week for anyone whose been having problems with FX 5700's and the answers I've seen for most problems are uninspiring at best).

(seth rocks back and forth naked in his living room, drool dribbling down his chin, repeating "wait-for-the-patch-they-have-to-patch-it-don't-they?" over and over again as fast and as quietly as possible. Camera fades out as deranged laughter and screams are heard)

[blarharhehar]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SDX.be:
Why on earth do you stil run Win98?? It's so damn sloooooooooooow...

Just a suggestion http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Dude, I totally agree. It's just that I hate the way the OS is organized. Oh, and I'm kind of cheap (and poor... the key reason behind my cheapness). If it comes down to a choice between booze or a new OS... (MKII voice): Booze WINS!

Best of luck with FC; hope it works one day (for everyone).

Cheers!

[SDX.be]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by blarharhehar:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SDX.be:
Why on earth do you stil run Win98?? It's so damn sloooooooooooow...

Just a suggestion http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Dude, I totally agree. It's just that I hate the way the OS is organized. Oh, and I'm kind of cheap (and poor... the key reason behind my cheapness). If it comes down to a choice between booze or a new OS... (MKII voice): Booze WINS!

Best of luck with FC; hope it works one day (for everyone).

Cheers!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Dude, I totaly agree with u2 about the way WinXP is organized, but...it's very well tweakable. Take my OS for example...you can hardly see that I run WinXP (start menu maybe) because it's tweaked. I attached a screenshot but of course that's only the outside...the inside is much better! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

http://users.pandora.be/dierickx1/desktop.jpg

[emptywallet]

Hey Blarharhehar - I run an FX5700 (128), and it runs pretty good (1024 x 768 - Medium settings) on single and multi player. There's nothing very special about my rig.

AMD XP2400+
Gigabyte GA-7N400L Mobo
Albatron FX5700 (128) Guru3D 61.12 drivers
1GB DDR400 ram
WinXP Pro
http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[blarharhehar]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by emptywallet:
Hey Blarharhehar - I run an FX5700 (128), and it runs pretty good (1024 x 768 - Medium settings) on single and multi player. There's nothing very special about my rig.

AMD XP2400+
Gigabyte GA-7N400L Mobo
Albatron FX5700 (128) Guru3D 61.12 drivers
1GB DDR400 ram
WinXP Pro
http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Rock on for you, my friend. Rock on for you.

Cheers!

[Mad_Murdock2k]

Buy a pure Intel system next time and live a happy carefree life. live those crappy boards alone ! !

Just curious, I'm missing where your benchmark scores are. How about going here and running the timedemos and posted some numbers when you get the chance
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11380&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40

Without knowing you score, I'm not sure what to suggest, but surely you know that the 5700 isn't that great of a card, and comparing Painkiller to Far Cry, well that is just wrong..Just plain wrong.
But if you want how about posting your Painkiller benchmark numbers to give us a feel for what it is doing. Assuming you are running the 1.15 pacth, just drop the console and type benchmark C5L1

I personally suggest using the 60.72 drivers from www.guru3d.com (http://www.guru3d.com).
The jerky\funky sound problem you mentioned I had on my one system, until I rremoved and re-installed the latest Sound drivers for the Audigy and turned off some of the sound mixing effects.

If you don't like WIN XP, what's wrong with Win2K, anything has got to be better than Win98

How about posting a DXDIAG report when you get the chance

[Sgt2701]

ASUS A7N8X-X mob
AMD xp 2500 pro
512 DDR ram
Radeon 9700 pro /w latest drivers
Audigy 2 EX sound /w latest drivers
Western digital 80 HD
XP pro up to date

Game crashes to often to enjoy. Love the game, but disapointed with performance...re selling it

[blarharhehar]

Yo Murdock,

Thanks for the suggestions! Here's my reply:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mad_Murdock2k:
Buy a pure Intel system next time and live a happy carefree life. live those crappy boards alone ! !

-
Ach, I love MSI; cheap, good and (up until FarCry) never had a problem with a game that I couldn't find a solution to.
-

Just curious, I'm missing where your benchmark scores are. How about going here and running the timedemos and posted some numbers when you get the chance
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11380&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40

-
Sorry, but I can't; I'm on a 56k at home (I go to a cybercafe to multiplay).
-


Without knowing you score, I'm not sure what to suggest, but surely you know that the 5700 isn't that great of a card, and comparing Painkiller to Far Cry, well that is just wrong..Just plain wrong.

-
About the card: No, it's not the greatest, but it should be adequate enough on my system to get 30 solid frames with everything set to "low" on 800 x 600. If my expectations are off the mark, then why is it that people with lesser cards in similar systems are able to?

In terms of Painkiller (a game that I am actually beginning to enjoy):
Yeah, it would have been had I been comparing the 2. I was just saying that (even with all the bells and whistles set to very high) I have no problems with PainKiller. Like I said, they are radically different games on completely different engines, but I would imagine that if I were having problems with my system, I could expect problems in both games.
-

But if you want how about posting your Painkiller benchmark numbers to give us a feel for what it is doing. Assuming you are running the 1.15 pacth, just drop the console and type benchmark C5L1

-
Yep. No problems there:

On "Very High" at 1024 x 768 my score was:
FPS: 29.00 / 92 / 414
Score: 92.64

On the custom mode that I actually play the game on:
FPS: 29 / 42.76 /479.15
Score: 142.76


I killed this giant monster the size of a building called "Necro-something" in a gigantic cemetery (granted, with lots of fog) but didn't see a single skipped frame (although that's kind of a contradiction as you wouldn't see it in the first place, lol). My point being that it plays extremely well (along with every other game I own). Does it use pixel shading?
-


I personally suggest using the 60.72 drivers from http://www.guru3d.com.

-
Yeah. I was using them on Monday; it was a little better.


The jerky\funky sound problem you mentioned I had on my one system, until I rremoved and re-installed the latest Sound drivers for the Audigy and turned off some of the sound mixing effects.

-
I'll try re-installing the drivers.
-


If you don't like WIN XP, what's wrong with Win2K, anything has got to be better than Win98

-
Cash, laziness, "If it ain't broke, don't upgrade.", etc.
-

How about posting a DXDIAG report when you get the chance<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

-
In all honesty, I don't know where the output of the tests are stored. I've done them and they check out AoK (haven't done it with the unsupported drivers, though).
-

Cheers!
Seth

[Mad_Murdock2k]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Sorry, but I can't; I'm on a 56k at home (I go to a cybercafe to multiplay). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

The files are less than 1 meg. Even on dial-up, you should be able to grab them. I agreee, that playing at 800x600 on low you should be able to get a smooth 40-50 fps. The demos, might help you find the issue, or maybe not.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> On "Very High" at 1024 x 768 my score was:
FPS: 29.00 / 92 / 414<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Wow, that's actually worse than I expected. Was AF and AA on ? The lowest I've gotten on that demo was 135 on a 5900, but that was with The Insane settings and 8xAA and 8xAF on.

Normally, the 5900 scores in the 195-220 range.(1024x768x32, high settings, 4xAA,4xAF) I would have expected the 5700 to score around 130-140 setting to High\Insane and playing at 1024x768x32(noAA, noAF). I looked over on the PK forums and the only cards I saw get the same scores as that is the TI4200s.

I guess part of the point I was making about PK (and maybe you are too), is that it doesn't push your system nearly has hard has Far Cry. Getting a 95 fps avg is probably alot better than what you're seeing in FC, So to say that PK plays fine and FC has bad code because it doesn't, seems to be flawed logic.

I guess with the annoucement of the 1.2 patch coming by June 14th, we will see if they can tweak the code enough to make it work for ya

[This message was edited by Mad_Murdock2k on Wed May 26 2004 at 09:52 AM.]

[ger2]

I bought the game just for the multiplay key, and???
Invalid key!!

Sh**!!!

Why???

[Frraksurred]

System:

SOYO K7VME (Cheap mini-board)
Athlon XP 2600 (Thoroughbred 2.1gHz)
512mb Kingston value RAM
Radeon 9700Pro (Catalyst 4.5)
Audigy (Latest EAX 4.0 drivers)
40gig 7200 Maxtor
WinXP w/SP1 & all critical updates
*Nothing is overclocked

Game:

FarCry 1.1 patch
Res: 1024x768x32
Texture quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Trilinear
Anisotropic Filtering: 1
Partical Count: Medium
Special Effects Quality: Very High
Environment Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: High
Water Quality: Very High
Lighting Quality: Very High
Dopler Effect on
Hardware mixing on
EAX 2.0 enabled
5.1 Dolby configured
Music Disabled

I haven't benchmarked yet, but I'm getting very playable frame rates. I do get an occasional hesitation but nothing dramatic enough to irratate me. I've another 512mb DDR on order just to see if I can squeek a little more out of her. I like seeing ALL the bells and whistles! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

I have done several things to help general game performance:

Defrag (w/ Norton's) biweekly.
Utilize Norton's version of scandisk and WinDoctor regularly.
Windows is run in "Classic" mode (Windows Style under "Appearance" in Display Properties).
No background picture and background color is black (uses least RAM).
Virtual Memory is set to 900mb min AND max. (at least 2 x your RAM)
NO programs running in background!
I always reboot right before I play.
I do a fresh install of Windows annually (or more).
I always use "Driver Cleaner 2" before installing new video drivers.

Thanks for a great game!!! I've enjoyed nearly everything about it. Looking forward to 1.2 patch.

http://frraksurred.00me.com/Frak.jpg

[SDX.be]

Hey Frraksurred,

Do you have a broken heart then? http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/16x16_smiley-wink.gif(I'm referring to your sig.)

GreetZ
SDX

[leighdog]

Trying to get the demo working and no luck"".Sure would like to try before buying it.My problem is my graphics are corrupted.Gree nad black diagonal lines across the screenHere is my rig""

Windoes xp
abit nf7 board
amd xp 1800
2 sticks ddr ram (kingston value ram)
seagate 7200 drive
enermax power supply
dvd rom and cd burner(lite-on and asus)

[JuNgLe-ShOoTeR]

my specs:

ge force 2 mx force ware newest drivers
amd duron 900mhz
512 non-ddr
dunno mobo
40 gb slow hard drive
win 2000
nothing o.ced

runs on everything the lowest possible, no aa , no anything, lowedt resolution i get bout 5-10 fps , un-playable

upgrading my machine 2:
radeon 9200se/ge force fx5200 dunno which yet
athlon xp 2400
512 2100 ddr crucial

i am hoping to get 20-30 fps on low-medium settings with this machine, will i?

thx steve


Far cry owns!

[thelukeman]

AMD Athlon 2800+
ATI Radeon 9600 128mb Sapphire
Western digital 120gig 7200rpm Hard drive
LG DVD-RW Super drive
MSI KT4AV AGP8X
MSI CD-RW 48X
Not sure which settings any suggestions ?

p.s jungle shooter ur pc is a bit poo isnt it for far cry ?

[Phoenix_Inferno]

System:
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2Ghz
128 DDR266 x2 (so 256mb total)
ECS LV7MM2 motherboard
Saphire Atlantis 9800 Pro over clocked
420W PSU
Seal 4 channel 32bit sound card with EAX, DX audio
Main HDD: 40GB Fireball 3 5400RPM
2nd HDD: Samsung 80GB 7200RPM (FC is on this)
52X LG CD-ROM drive
48x CD-RW brandless...

thats all my specs i think.
Far Cry stability:
no crashes
loads around 1 minute

Settings:
ALL very high
"Paradise" rendering mode
no AA, 1 AF
1280x1024x32 res
fps: 30-45

i was surprised when i saw that my system could run FC like this lol

[Wester547]

'Ello all,

My system specs:

Intel Pentium 4 Willamate @ 2.2 GHz
512MB PC800 Dual-Channel ECC RDRAM(128x4)
Intel 850 Dell Dimension 8200 Model Motherboard Chipset
ATi Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB DDR VRAM
400W Dell PSU
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 1 LS, EAX 1.0, 2.0, advanced HD 3.0, and Direct-X 3D, and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound support. Up to
24-bit/96khz sound.
1rst HDD: IBM 40GB 7200RPM ATA 100 2MB cache HDD
2nd HDD: IBM 40GB 7200RPM ATA 100 2MB cache HDD
2X PIONEER DVD-+RW
48X LITE-ON CD-RW
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition.
ETC
(I have the latest drivers for all my hardware I am certain of that)

THat's it.

Far-Cry issues:

When configuring Far Cry on Far Cry Configurator(seperate from game), when accepting changes, I get a critical error telling me that there has been a buffer overrun problem and that farcryconfigurator.exe will shut-down. I have downloaded and installed the Far Cry v1.1 patch successfully.

My other issue is that when enabling EAX 2.0 in Far Cry and exploring a level for a little bit for a few seconds I'll get nothing but a long reverb on top of eachother beeping like sound then my frame-rate no matter what I do will slow to below 1fps and there will be no sound. I quite far cry, even my desktop looks like its running at a 15fps until I restart, log off then log back on, or shut-down then boot back up. This happens in the editor too(when exploring a map). I have all the latest drivers and patches, what could be wrong? Ideas please? Will the v1.2 patch fix that? PLEASE RESPOND ASAP! Thanks! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[j4kyll]

+ Windows 2000 Server (SP4)

+ AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (@1800Mhz)
+ 266Mhz FSB
+ 512 MB PC2700
+ GeForce 4 Ti 4200, 128 MB (Leadtek WinFast A250 LE ViVo)
Driver: Forceware 56.72(official) & 60.85(unofficial)
+ SB Audigy Player
+ not overclocked, no agressive timings.

r_driver = "Direct3D9" -&gt; DOESN'T work with Swamp Level

r_driver = "OpenGL" -&gt; DOES work with Swamp Level! (with some very minor glitches)

"If at first you don't succeed, die, die and die again."

[jedi3079]

Hey this is a update from my last post. I now have Far Cry running smooth as a baby's bottum.
Heres my new setup.

MOBO:CHAINTECH CT-SK8T800
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+
GFX: PowerColor RADEON 9800 Non Pro softmoded to Pro
RAM: 512 MB (1 pc3200, 1 pc3500)
OS: Microsoft Windows XP sp 1
HD: 40 gig
HD2: 8 gig

http://arc.aquamark3.com/arc/arc_vi...?run=1084258710

I play it at a resolution of 1024x768
FPS 30-70
Everything is on Very High exept for shadows. I have the shawdows on low, for some reason i speeds my game up alot and it doesnt take away from the graphics much.
AA and AF is off

[This message was edited by jedi3079 on Tue June 01 2004 at 04:22 PM.]

[tier0ne]

Win XP, Asus P4P800 Deluxe, P4 2.8C, Geforce FX 5950 Ultra w/ 60.85 Forceware, and 512MB RAM.

Everything Very/Ultra High, no AA or AF, and everything runs very smoothly.

[Ralgh]

My sound was giving me problems. When I would start the game the sound was fine. After a little bit, the music, my gun fire, underwater noise and the radio would get staticky and distorted. Quickly all those sounds would go away all together.

I tried everything in the README and a couple things I read on this forum and nothing helped. What finally worked was moving my audio card to another slot. It was in one of the lower slots because it was the last card added. I moved it to the upper most slot. So far it is all working fine. I am running hardware acceleration and EAX but not compatability. This is what I have:

Intel 850EMV2 mother board
Intel 2.53 ghz processor
ATI Radion 9700 Pro
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum
512mb ram

I spent the better part of a full waking day and last night trying different things. I was getting frustrated because I have most of the components that are recommended for Far Cry. I hope this information helps someone solve their problem too.

[TisonC]

I am TRYING to run Farcry on a :
Dell Inspiron 5100
P4 2.66
256 DDR Ram
Mobility Radeon 7500C / 64MB ((ATI)with Latest and greatest Drivers)
Win XP

I have installed the game and I try running it from Shortcut and folder files and the Splash screen comes up then Nothing..........

I have installed the Catalyst drivers for my ATI Card. I have tweaked the system based off of other POSTS etc. Still nothing works....... Splash screen just disappears and I never get into the game.. HELP!!!!

[kapuku71]

system specs:

mpc millenia - just out of box
P4 3.0 GHz HT
1GB DDR
GeForce 5600 256Mb
160GB HD
winxp pro
1.1 patch
newest nvidia drivers

autodetect sets everything to medium, which surprised me. still getting major performance probs, esp indoors on the carrier level, which is unplayable (5 fps max).

[TisonC]

So I just decided to look at my Log File and low and behold Mobility ATI Radeon 7500C is Not Supported. Anyone know if Farcry will ever support this Video Card?

[birdyman45]

2.8 Celeron
1 Gb RAM
Radeon 128 Mb graphics
1.1 patch.

As soon as it gets to the room with the radio where you pick up the Desert Eagle and the link to the geezer who talks to you, it gets really slow, and jerky, and takes about 30 secs between each jerk. Very annoying, as it used to work on my old 1.8 amd machine before it died.

Any suggestions? New drivers for the grahics? Help, please!!!

[Puskasoturi]

I have a problem with Far Cry. It installed normally, but when I try to play it, it says:

Critical Exeption
Exeption info

Code
0xC0000005

Address:
0x0177:0x3804A104

Module
&lt;Unknown&gt;

Description
EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Attempt to read from address 0xFFFFFFFF
The memory could not be "read"

Call Stack Trace
2) function=0x3804A104
1) function=0x0

I have the newest drivers, I've tried to reinstall, but it doesn't work! :'(

Help me quick!

P.S. The demo worked normally

[Ralgh]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ralgh:
My sound was giving me problems. When I would start the game the sound was fine. After a little bit, the music, my gun fire, underwater noise and the radio would get staticky and distorted. Quickly all those sounds would go away all together.

I tried everything in the README and a couple things I read on this forum and nothing helped. What finally worked was moving my audio card to another slot. It was in one of the lower slots because it was the last card added. I moved it to the upper most slot. So far it is all working fine. I am running hardware acceleration and EAX but not compatability. This is what I have:

Intel 850EMV2 mother board
Intel 2.53 ghz processor
ATI Radion 9700 Pro
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum
512mb ram

I spent the better part of a full waking day and last night trying different things. I was getting frustrated because I have most of the components that are recommended for Far Cry. I hope this information helps someone solve their problem too.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

My problem is back after playing 9 levels. I can't make it go away now. I have tried everything recommended by Ubisoft and Creative Labs and some things that weren't. I have come to the conclusion there is no fix on my end. They will have to patch this problem somehow.

[Euro_Squaddie]

Hi,

Xp1900
Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9800Pro 128
768 megs of PC2100
120gb Maxtor 8meg Cache
40gb IBM 2meg Cache

All on Max Setting, no AA and 4X AF
AVG 30 to over 100fps dpending on location and whats going on on screen.

Amazing

[Nielsie2000]

fx5700le
768mb ram ddr333
amd athlon xp 2400+ 2Ghz

My brother has a pc like this.
Ati radeon 9500 atlantis pro
512mb ram ddr333
intel pentium 4 1,9Ghz

Far cry works bether with his pc.
On mine it works like ****.
I think its because i have a geforce card.
What do you think.

[paul_craig]

pent 4. 2.8ghz
512mb ddr
120gb hard drive
nvidia geforce fx 5200
128mb video memory
windows xp

Help!

when i play the game it runs fine except for 1 problem. when im indoors the game runs really slow and is so annoying and wondered if anybody could help me! it runs fine when im outdoors but indoors its ridiculas. me computer is newish and fairly powerfull. i play with all settings on medium. any ideas??

[neo2112cl]

ok i didnt know wut ne of this **** is for my comp. so i went to dell.com and i guess this is the right stuff.
video card it said 16M, STB, Nvidia4.
Ram 128 MB
Windows ME
sound card im pretty sure is sound blaster
pentium 3 933 MHZ
mother board said card (circuit) planar (MB) no/sound, Dimension, Rxxx.

And when i go on multiplayer it freezes or feels like incredible lag, the background usually is all ****ed up and i see grey. and whe i go on campaign, after it loads my screen just turns black then i hit space bar and it exits out to the desktop. hope u can help thanx.

[neo2112cl]

also when it gets messed up i have on
resolution is 1024x768x32
renderer-directd9
lazy is all the way left, 0 i guess
and machine specs is medium

[Hiriyu]

My working setup:

Far Cry 1.1 (Patched at installation)
Windows 2000 Pro SP4
P4 Northwood 2.66/533
Cheapo ECS L4S5MG/651+ (SiS)Mobo
Cheapo Wintec 400W PSU
1GIG PNY PC2100 (2 x 512 2.5cl)
Radeon 9800Pro 128
SBPCI 128, running 4.1 setup
ATA 100 80GIG HD (C: )on IDE1 (Master)
ATA 100 20GIG HD (D: )on IDE2 (Master)
Lite-On 52x CD/RW on IDE1 (Slave)
NoName 16x DVD Rom on IDE2 (Slave)
Samsung 955df

Homebrew system, no errors or crashes ever. CPU @ ~45 Cel, Video/System Board @~42 loaded. No O/C, stock cooling, pagefile located on D: drive(IDE2). No unneeded processes/services running except MotherBoard Monitor.

Avg. 30-40fps (~80fps max) using everything high/ultra high except Shadows Med. No AA, AF=1 @1024x768.

Same setup worked at lower detail setting 20-45fps using fx5200 128 video card @800x600, no crashes but slow http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

*edit - odd, the phb software changed my drive letters into smilies*

[This message was edited by Hiriyu on Sun June 13 2004 at 09:27 PM.]

[dead_lock21]

AMD XP 2500 (Mobile) OC: 2.4Ghz
Thermaltake Volcano 12
DFI LANPARTY NFII ULTRA B
1Gb XMS 3200 Corsair (2x512)
Sapphire 9800 Pro 128Mb
80Gb Maxtor HDD IDE
Optorite 4x DVD R/RW
Alps 3.5"
Windows XP SP1

Running at a steady 80FPS on HIGH settings.

http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/11379/FarCry%202004-06-14%2010-24-24-81.JPG

http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/11379/FarCry%202004-06-14%2010-36-04-17.JPG

[Pep Panic]

NOT WORKING DETAILS...

My FC is not running. Still got the darn "Emulation" msg. each time i try to run the bugger.

SYSTEM:
P4 2600/800
512 MB RAM
Galaxy FX 5600XT
TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1212
XP-HOME

With no emu-software running. I about 2 cut my balls off in frustration... I'vd tried updating NVIDIA drivers, the DVD (no firm-updates tho), XP updates etc. etc. etc...

I'vd read all msg's on this forum still no FC... Plzzzzz help. Spnx.

All good comes to he who waits – and then he died...

[fifthmarine]

had:

XP2200+
758 DDR2100
RADEON 9800 PRO
GIGABYE GA7DX
AUDIGY GAMER
MAXTOR 120MB 8MB BUFFER

RAN ONLY IN MEDIUM OR LOWER SETTINGS WITH OUT CRASHING

NOW HAVE:

ASUS K8V
XP 64 BIT 3000+
1 GIG MUSHKIN PC 400
SAME HD, SOUND CARD

RUN FLAWLESS AT THE HIGHEST SETTINGS.

WAITING FOR THE 64 BIT VERSION TO COME OUT TO PLAY ON MY OTHER HARDDRIVE THAT HAS WINDOWS 64 BIT OS

THE ONLINE PLAY SEAMS PRETTY BUGGY, SINGLE PLAYER DID NOT SEAM TO BE TO BUGGY AT ALL.

BEST GRAPHICS I HAVE SEEN. THE MULTIPLER MAPS GO ON FOREVER IT SEEMS

[PedroTheDuck]

I can run FarCry on the highest settings with no problems, except at random points it will just freeze for about half a minute and sometimes it will recover (though resetting my desktop to 1024x768 which messes up my icons) though sometimes it doesn't recover, which is fudging annoying, especially during net games. This very rarely will happen in other games too, such as UT2004, which is at highest settings, though FarCry has this problem the most often.

Here are my specs...

FarCry 1.1 patch
Res: 1024x768x32
Texture quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Trilinear
Anisotropic Filtering: -
Partical Count: Very High
Special Effects Quality: Very High
Environment Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: Very High
Water Quality: Very High
Lighting Quality: Very High
Dopler Effect: on

AMD Athlon XP 3200+
2.19 GHz
1.50 GB of RAM
Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT 256mb DDR + Dual monitors, also 4.3 catalyst
ADSL Modem
Windows XP

[CrushedHead]

This is what i run...
XP3200 210x11
Abit NF7-S v2 mb
1024 mb Corsair XmS Pc3200
2 10K Raptors in Raid-0
Sapphire 9800Pro-256mb
XP Pro/os
Water cooled CPU/GPU

I have Sys Spec at: VeryHigh
All game settings on VeryHigh
ATI CP on 6xAA / 8XAF
Game AA on High and AF on 4x

But i feel whats more important is that i dont run a bunch of stuff in the Background, gotta free up as much CP resource as possible, and so far..(im on Volcano level) game runs Great, and the Visuals are Kickin!!!

[xxtech]

3000 xp @ 2472 mhz
1 gb ram
2 @ 80 gb hd
9600 pro aiw
farcry setting medium 40-60 fps
high 18-35 fps
other rig 2400 xp @ 2020 set to medium settings
same config as top
this game kills my 2400 xp even on medium i hit 5 fps
in some levels
should be just enough to get 64 fx & 9800 or x300
when i sell 2400

[Storm_Man]

Hi
I have an AMD 2800Mhz, 256mg RAM DDR 400mhz, GeForce FX 5200 128 ram, 80gb hard-drive, Sound blaster 128, motherboard NForce 2, win pro SP1, game version 1.1, and the latest drivers for video card.

But I have a problem.

Every time that I start the game, it only shows the screen with the men and the woman, and then it exits to the SO.

When I saw the Log it shows this:

Init Shaders
WARNING: Error: CTexMan::ImagePreprocessing: Scaling of 'textures/defaults/palletteheat.dds' compressed texture is dangerous (only one mip).

Can anybody help me?

[Keldd]

Setup
Mobo:Asus p4p800 Deluxe Bios V 1,09
Processor: p4 2,4Ghz Northwood oc. to 3,1 Ghz
Ram Geil 512 ddr dual Channel 400 Mhz
Hd:2x Maxtor 120 Gb sata 150 non raid & 1 Maxtor ide 133 80 Gb
Video:Asus 9520 Magic 128Driver Nvidia 56.72 1024x768x32
Audio: Sb Audigy latest driver
Direct X 9b
Xp pro servicepack 1 fresh installed
Game v.1,1
Settings FC: auto Very high


Works very fine, until i get to inside Carrier, it goes berserk ( very low FR)
Have tryed to set it up manually to Low in everything...Same problem..!!
Don't know what the problem is, does somebody have the same problem..??

[This message was edited by Keldd on Mon June 21 2004 at 02:28 AM.]

[This message was edited by Keldd on Mon June 21 2004 at 02:30 AM.]

[Gibjee]

Working system that consists of

Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G i865PE Mobo
P4 2.4ghz 800mhz FSB OC'ed to 2.5ghz 832mhz FSB
GeiL Golden Dragon 2x256mb Dual Channel DDR400
WD 40gb HD 2mb buffer
SB Audigy
PNY GeForce FX5900XT OC'ed to 420/760
Forceware 61.40 Beta driver
Generic 420w PS dual fan cooling
Generic Full tower with 2 80mm intake fans, 2 80mm outtake fans and a 120mm blowhole

I run everything on medium except for enviroment and texture which are on high mainly because i really dont notice the difference between medium and high on all the other things. Vsync is on and my resolution is at 1024x768x32 with my monitors refresh rate at 75. In the beginning of the game a palm tree shadow turned light blue but than i d/led the patch and that never happened again. I love the detail and the eye candy this game offers. And i love the rag doll effect. Cant wait to see how HL2 compares.

[Boydo666]

I'm having serious trouble getting far cry to run at the rate that I think it should be running. I think I might need a driver update for my video card. either way, here are my specs

p4 2.8GHZ (w/ Hyperthreading)
1024MB DDR 3200 RAM
80 GB serial ATA drive
128MB NVidia Geforce 4 MMX 400

All I can run it on currently is "Low" and it runs smoothly, but it even hiccups at times with that setting and slows down probably to like 15 fps. Any ideas?

I've downloaded the patch as well as a driver upgrade for my VC, but I haven't installed yet due to time constraints.

Any advice would be appreciated...

Thanks,
-Boydo de Satan

[Wolfman57]

System:
AMD XPM 2600+ OC @ 2405 1.825V
Zalman CNPS7000A HSF
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe V. 2
Omega BIOS 2.5.51
Win XP Pro
1024MB PC3500 GEIL 2-6-3-3 2.9V
ATI 9800 Pro(128MB) OC @ 421/372 1.8V
Zalman ZM80C-HP VGA Heatpipe Cooler
WD 160MB SATA X 2, RAID 0
NEC 2501 DVD/CD RW
Lots of stealth fans keepig it cool and quiet.
19" Viewsonic P95F+
This is as hard as I can push this setup and be 100% stable.

I run Far Cry in Paridise Mode with everything MAX except AA @ Med AF @ 2 with Audio MAX using 5.1 sound.
Game runs very smooth at my prefered setting of 1152X864.
Benchemall said I get 49 FPS @ 1024X768.
I have never had any problems with Far Cry at all. This is a Great Game!

[This message was edited by Wolfman57 on Mon June 21 2004 at 09:24 PM.]

[yellow(PL)]

System specs as in the signature.

I started the game on a mixture of medium/high settings, with shadows on low (system is set on high). I never went down below 40 FPS, sometimes (strangely, mostly in interiors) I got about 70 FPS or more.

After some time I decided to change the settings a bit. I switched everything to 'high', with the shadows on 'medium' (they seem to eat a lot of FPS capability). Now I have 35-50 FPS, sometimes it falls to abut 25 FPS, where there is some flickering light (I guess the shadows do it). I noticed that with these settings the game may take a bit more time to load/exit to the menu, but I usually get no glitches, freezing screens etc.

* * *
P IV 2.6 Prescott (1 MB cache)
MB: Intel Rock Lake D865PERL, 865PE, DDR400, ATX
512 RAM, 400 Mhz
Radeon 9600 Pro Ultra Gigabyte; core - 500 Mhz; Memory - 600 Mhz; RAMDAC - 400 Mhz
SyncMaster 17" 795MB

[Gibjee]

Boydo, I'm no computer genius or Far Cry genius but your video card just might not have the muscle to fully handle the complex engine, even with low settings. I use to have a Ti4200 but I bought my FX5900 and Far Cry the same day so I'm not sure how the Ti4200 would run it but my guess is your lower end video card because the rest of your setup seems good enough to run everything on high.

[trigjeeeh]

my comp:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1024mb DDR 400 PC3200
Sapphire Radeon 9800XT
Windows XP Pro

It autodetected everything on the max, so i didn't change anything http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

``````````````````````
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1024mb DDR PC3200
Sapphire Radeon 9800XT

[squaled]

Hi fellas.. I got FC running pretty smooth on my Toshiba notebook...specs in sig

1 Installed Radion Omega drivers v.2.5.51...gettem Here (http://www.omegacorner.com/)

2 Adjust Processor power down 2 notches. (The Toshiba power utility lets me underclock the proc etc. Not sure if all laptops do this). Keeps the heat down, doesn't affect gameplay for me

3 Perform clean boot ...details Here (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=331796)

4 Run FC in windowed mode in 800*600. Most settings med/low (It is a laptop after all http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/blink.gif)

Seems to work well for me, hope it helps any of you laptop guys out there.

Ho hum, only gotta buy the other half a new house then its AMD64 time..YUM! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/11.gif

Toshiba A30 Satellite
3.06 P4
512 DDR (Soon a gig and a half)
ATI Mob 9000 128
Yea...Whatever

[polymorphic2]

All stock speeds:
-Asus P4P800
-WinXP Pro
-P4 2.80c
-1GB (2x512MB) Corsair TwinX 3200C2PT @ 2-3-3-6
-ATI Radeon X800 XT PE (Catalyst 4.6 official)
-80GB Western Digital 7200RPM, 60GB Maxtor 7200RPM
-Plextor PX-708A 8x DVDâ±RW
-Antec True430 430W PSU
-Sky Blue Chieftec Dragon Mid Tower

ATI control panel: 6xAA and 16xAF, Quality

In Game Settings: 1280x1024@32bit, all graphics settings maxed (water: ultra high, everything else: very high)

~50fps in-game, rarely dipping to the low 20s.

-Asus P4P800
-WinXP Pro
-P4 2.80c
-1GB (2x512MB) Corsair TwinX 3200C2PT @ 2-3-3-6
-ATI Radeon X800 XT PE (Catalyst 4.6 official)
-80GB Western Digital 7200RPM, 60GB Maxtor 7200RPM
-Plextor PX-708A 8x DVDâ±RW
-Antec True430 430W PSU (oc'd to 1.21 gigawatts)
-Sky Blue Chieftec Dragon Mid Tower

[theelviscerator]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kaoss25:
win xp
p4 2.4 ghz
512 mb ddr ram
gforce fx 5200 128 mb
19 in sony flat panel
and all that other stuff

I am sorry but I do blame far cry and ubi soft for the poor performance I am experiencing. I cannot stand when I read the system requirements on the box and I smile feeling pretty content knowing "hey I'm fine!"

Then I get home spend about an hour getting all the drivers and patches and waiting for the entire game to install only to find that just like that disaster MAFIA there are more video options than I have ever seen!! And no matter what you do with those options your still either gonna have slow framerate, constant crashes, or if you put everything at low quality your now wishing that you were playing PS2.

I have a theory as to why this is!

You see these bloated companies put such low specs and fill you with all this hype so that unless you have a $4000 dollar gaming rig your not going to get all the awesome stuff they hype. And if you can afford $4000 then you don't have time to spend 4 hours a night playing video games!!

Then they leave all those options for you to figure out in order to have the excuse "Hey its not the game pal its your setup"

I swear this games engine is running on the outdated and frankly sickening engine of battlefeild 1942.

Maybe you guys could take a look at unreal4. Even though thats not really my type of game whats funny is that ut4 gives you like 5 video options and that game looks like heaven. WHY IS THAT LISA???

Take notes please.

UBI soft is getting soft if you ask me. pandora tomorrow was said to be completely different from the first and when I bought it for my XBOX I found that they just basically took the first game and added new maps and the lame half split jump to it (which there is like 2 places in the entire game 2 do that?) Its still linear as ever! None of the hype was true at all. The game was good but so was the original from years past. But alas I ran out and bought your pt and you got your money right?

Ubi is headed downhill and I sold all my stock.

lets hope that halflife and valve will not only make a great HL2 but that they can p0ick up where these others let us down.

Play counter strike on Valves steam network and then compare the smooth and exciting gameplay to far cry, ghost recon, and the gross rainbow six 3 and then come talk to me.

And just think counter strike is on the grandma of game engines. LMAO<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

a 5200 BLOWS get a real vid card noob

One of the fastest gaming computers on air in the known world.

[theelviscerator]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dead_lock21:
AMD XP 2500 (Mobile) OC: 2.4Ghz
Thermaltake Volcano 12
DFI LANPARTY NFII ULTRA B
1Gb XMS 3200 Corsair (2x512)
Sapphire 9800 Pro 128Mb
80Gb Maxtor HDD IDE
Optorite 4x DVD R/RW
Alps 3.5"
Windows XP SP1

Running at a steady 80FPS on HIGH settings.

http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/11379/FarCry%202004-06-14%2010-24-24-81.JPG

http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/11379/FarCry%202004-06-14%2010-36-04-17.JPG <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


aack those are UGLY ,

turn on some AA/AF for gods sake..I am going blind...

One of the fastest gaming computers on air in the known world.

[L0rd-Shad0w]

Got FC running very nice and smooth an High Settings at 1280x1024, no lags no nothing.

Spec:
WinXP SP1
Athlon 64 3400+
MSI KT8 Neo FSI2R
1GB RAM (Corsair XMS ProLL) 2-3-2-6
2x 120GB S-ATA Maxtor HDs
GeForceFX 5950Ultra
Audigy 2 ZS
22' Mitsubishi CRT

[iyfjoker]

When I loaded the patch, my performance around foliage worsened.

I removed the patch.

My performance improved.

I also am unable to get online because of an "invalid CD Key". I did not pay over 45$ for a "invalid CD Key".

[gazzathegreat]

heres my setup

-xp 2400+ (2.1ghz, 140fsb)
-512mb pc2700 ddram
-saphire radeon 9800 pro 128mb
-asrock mobo(no probs with that even though its a lower market m/b

i can run my settings on very high everything pretty smoothly on
indoor levels but outdoor i gotta run medium/high to run full smoothness. Guessing something 2 do wiv detail on outdoor levels.
ps my 3dmark03 score is jus ova 5000, how can i improve this in terms of benchmarking without durasticly changing my system ie not spending hundreds of quid!

[snoopy104]

My Machine:
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Biostar M7VIP V1.0 motherboard
512mb Crucial PC2700 (333MHz)DDR ram
80GB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm
Nvidia Geforce Ti4200 128mb DDR 8xAGP
Nvidia Forceware Version 56.72 drivers
Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1 Digital.

My Dad's machine:
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
MSI Delta-L Nforce2 motherboard
512mb Samsung PC3200 (400MHz)DDR ram
128GB Maxtor 7200rpm
ATI Radeon 9600xt(Asus)128mb
Omega drivers
Some chepo â£3.99 sound card from ebuyer

I have tried farcry on both machines, It works fine on medium graphics settings on both. Neither computer will allow the graphics settings to be turned up to high in-game, but not a problem. Incidentally my dad had a Geforce fx5200 256mb before the radeon, but sent it back because it was a useless piece of junk. Farcry would run with it, but wasn't exactly playable. In other games, the 5200 only performed as well as the old Geforce mx200 32mb it originally replaced, definitely a card to avoid for any game less than 4 years old, I got the impression that it was a cheap 'n' nasty chipset tarted up with pointless ammounts of memory and a fancy box as a gimmick.

[YSL_A_Matsubo]

i run this game on a pentium celeron 1.7 ghz with 128mb of ram with an nvidia Geforce 5200fx it runs smooth and even smoother in online play u ppl are stupid

[calmination]

my specs are below, i'd like to add that i've got the newest ati catalyst drivers on my radeon, and os xp pro With no SP's. Latest updated drivers for soundcard
sometimes the game runs like a granny with osteoporosis and sometimes it is as smooth as a lager.
for example the damn volcano level is like pouring gasoline to my eyes.
Sometimes i also experience texture problems. for example on some levels, blood on the ground flashes..
resolution 1280x1024 (i hate low reso http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif)
all settings exept for water and environment are set to medium or low with minor customizations.
water is high or ultra high and environment is high... no aa, and aniso is also very low...
usually the game runs pretty well exept for a couple of spots in the game =)

|. . . . . . . . . . . . . .|
|Asus P4s800 |
|P4 3.0 Prescott & Zalman | |cnps7000 cooler |
|Ati radeon 9600 256&Zalman | |ZM80c cooler with fan |
|Sb Audigy Platinum |
|2x samsung SP120G hd's |
____________________________|

"all machines&equipment operate with smoke, when the smoke comes out, they won't work"

[PTK1982]

This is my setup and all is working just fine.
1024*768 all settings maxed out.

Windows XP SP2 RC2 V.2149
Amd Athlon64 3000+
Epox 8HDA+ (Via K8T800)
2x512MB DDR 400Mhz
Ati Radeon 9800Pro (Cat4.6)
Creative Audigy 2
LG GSA-4082B DVD-+RW/RAM-Writer
2x Seagate Barracuda SATA 7200.7 120GB Raid0
Sil3114 4xSATA Raid 0/1/0+1
Antec TruePower 430W

[Sup3rn0va.uK]

P4 3.2Ghz w/HT
GeForce 4 Ti 4600
XP home
Abit IC7 MAX-3 motherboard
Realtech Audio
1024Mb RAM (PC2100)

[londonmark6969]

hi working fine with amd64 3400+ / msi k8t neo / 1gig crucial twin x / audigy2 zs / colour power X800 pro / 2 seagate 120 gigs in raid 0(8mb cache)/ XP pro. hope this helps

[ShockyFC]

3.06@3.4Ghz
2x512MB
6800 Ultra
Asus P4G8X-D
Audigy 2
19" iiyama VM PRO 454

And I havent really found a setting to play it at yet as its runs like **** in outdoor areas. ! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif Infact my R9800 Pro did a better job of making it playable but ran like **** indoors. :s

[Ganjamon1]

AMD Barton 2500+ at 2600+
2x256mb Kingston 2700
MSI Kt4 ultra (bios up to date - and not really tweaked all that much)
Gainward fx 5600 256Mb (61.80 Driver/original bios)
SB Audigy 2 (driver version 4.0.0.30)
Via driver version 5.0.0.3430 (Pretty old, but stable for me)
Win2kpro
too many tweaks to mention
Farcry v1.1

I run things in Farcry at 1024x768x32, AA off/Aniso off
all at medium except shadow Quality at high, texture filtering Quality at Trilinear

Some low Fps moments in the large labs, and in the tunnels in the beginning, good or acceptable fps the rest of the way in single player, good performance in multiplayer

Edit: forgot to mention my hds: both maxtor diamondmax 40 & 60 gigs (acoustic management set to performance), and a slow second hand dvd player (is master alone on the 2nd ide)

[This message was edited by Ganjamon1 on Thu July 08 2004 at 10:49 AM.]

[irvsmith]

Most in signature - catalyst 4.6 - win2k sp4 - sound/lan from onboard realtek 8139.

ABIT SG-72 (4-8AGP) v11
P4 2.8ghz
1GB RAM (3200 GEIL dual channel)
ATI 9800 Pro 128MB
Western Digital 80GB
Sony 16x DVD-ROM

[m4nage]

My system is:

Athlon 64 3000
Gigabyte K8T800 Motherboard
768mb Corsair PC2700
Radeon X800 Pro
Sound Blaster Audigy
60Gb Maxtor 7200rpm

I'm still waiting for the 1.2 patch to come out before I run it with the new processor, but it ran decent with my old xp2600. An avg of about 45 fps on high detail.

[ktr4]

See spec below, using beta driver 61.71 on my card. New system. Far cry for me is unplayable, d3d - no chance, opengl - marginally better but still jerky and colors are shot to bits. Tried all video settings with no joy or improvement http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

KtR

Barton AMD 2.66
ABit NF7-S Version2
nVidia Geforce4 fx5200 128mb
512 ddr ram
Windows XP sp1

[sean10mm]

Sony Vaio RS-630G
Pentium 4 3.2E, 800 MHz FSB
1 GB PC3200 RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128, Catalyst 4.7 drivers
Maxtor 250 GB 7,200 RPM hard drive
ViewSonic A90f+ 19" CRT
Windows XP Home SP-1

Settings:

Resolution: 1024x768x32
Anti-Aliasing: 2x (set in ATI control panel)
Texture quality: High
Texture Filter Quality: Trilinear
Anisotropic Filtering: 2x (set in ATI control panel)
Particle Count: Medium
Special Effects Quality: Medium
Environment Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: High
Water Quality: High
Lighting Quality: High

Far Cry version 1.1

FARPS timedemo results (start of Pier level, includes gunfights, gliding, & glider-to-helicopter aerial combat):
Min: 35 FPS Max: 73 FPS Avg: 55.5 FPS

Some observations (FPS are from FARPs timedemos I ran and obviously are only rough figures):

-FPS were actually very consistent. 90% of the individual measurements were 45-55 FPS in various timedemos I ran on FARPS.
-Setting AF to 2x in the ATI control panel is about 10 FPS faster, on average, than enabling "Applicaltion Controlled" in the ATI control panel and setting it to 1x (that's not a typo) in the Far Cry settings. I have no idea why.
-Going from 2x AA & 2x AF to 4x AA & 4x AF was a serious performance hit, about 10 FPS. Image quality improvement was very small, some edges were a little smoother but that's it.
-Going from the settings above to Very High across the board at 2x AA and 2x AF had about the same performance hit, about 10 FPS. Improvement in visual quality was... not much. The difference between High and Very High is actually hard to detect, the most obvious is that water looks a little better, and ripples seem to be animated nicer at longer view distances.
-Changing Environment Quality from Very High to High had literally ZERO impact on performance according to FARPS. I also couldn't tell the difference looking at it, either.

My conclusions so far (obviously just my opinions):

-Far Cry 1.1 has run great so far, and the Catalyst 4.7 drivers have given me no trouble at all. No crashes, freezes, or erratic performance. I did have to set the sound options to Compatible Mode and disable EAX and Doppler Effect to avoid (rare) sound bugs.
-Set AA and AF through the ATI control panel, not through Far Cry.
-More than 2x AA and 2x AF just aren't worth it unless you have a monster system with a x800 XT or something. The picture quality gains are close to zero, and the performance hit going with high AA/AF settings is big.
-Going above High for any of the detail settings seems to have a performance hit all out of proportion with the improvement in image quality, except maybe for water. Even staring at the screenshots, they look 99% the same to me, but that might be because I was "only" running at 1024x768.

[sean10mm]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ktr4:
See spec below, using beta driver 61.71 on my card. New system. Far cry for me is unplayable, d3d - no chance, opengl - marginally better but still jerky and colors are shot to bits. Tried all video settings with no joy or improvement http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

KtR

Barton AMD 2.66
ABit NF7-S Version2
nVidia Geforce4 fx5200 128mb
512 ddr ram
Windows XP sp1<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

The Geforce FX5200 is really a terrible video card for a high-end game like Far Cry. This is one case (and I don't usually do this) where I have to take the side of the game maker; the FX5200 doesn't perform well at ANYTHING.

Even though it is a relatively new card, it sits at the bottom of almost EVERY 3d benchmark ever made. Can't blame the devs for that. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/16x16_smiley-sad.gif

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/vga-charts-03.html

[kcop]

I get the error message "Unload Debuger and Try Again" what is it and how do I unload it?
I get the error when starting. I can't get into the game past the original screen. Can use some help. Thanks

[sean10mm]

1. FRAPS, not FARPS. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/35.gif
2. 4xAA 1xAF gives the same FPS, but better image quality.
3. 2xAA 1xAF 1152x864 is even better, and still the same FPS. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[tmh32]

MB= Asus P4PE 533fsb
CPU= P4 3.06gig
Mem= Kingston hyperX PC2700 1gig
Video= Radeon 9700pro AGP 128mb
CD/DvD= HP 9300 cdrw and NEC DVDx4 +r rw / CDRW
Soundmax integrated audio onboard dolby digital 5.1
LAN= D-link 56mbps wireless to comcast cable modem

[Kal326]

P4 2.4C @ 3.0Ghz (250fsb/250ram)
Abit IC7 mobo
CoolerMaster Jet4 cooler
2x512meg Kingston HyperX PC4000 @ 2.5-3-3-7
ATI 9800Pro 128meg
3com 905TX nic
SB Live Audigy 2 ZS
Antec True430
2x120gig Seagate SATA in Raid0 128k stripe
2x120mm Case fans
23C Case temp, 39.5C CPU Temp, 28.5C PWM temp

I can play single player for about 2 or 3 hours before it will BSOD. I am thinking this has to do with a graphics card overheating or power supply drop in voltage due to heat. I have not been able to figure out which one, but I have tried differant graphics cards and power supplies and reinstalling winXP but it will still crash. Multiplayer is a whole differant story. I have had that crash as soon as it finished loading, but it will usually run for 5 to 45 minutes before it crashes the whole system. Most of the time it will be within about 5 to 15 minutes. I think the problem is with the sound card. I have tried disabling EAX and using compatiblility mode. I have contacted UBIsoft support about this as well and they can seem to figure it out either. I have moved my sound card, reinstalled the os clean and it still locks up. I have not yet tried just installing the basic creative drivers and nothing else. That was suggested as a possible fix for the sound issues in far cry, but im not going to run my sound card with limited functionality to make far cry happy. No other game I play has problems and if you give me that "far cry is a more demanding game" im going to tell ya to stfu already. I have run this game at the minimul of settings as directed by ubisoft support and it still locks up like clockwork. Overclocking is not the problem, it does it even at stock clock settings. Also I can run 2 consules of folding at home at 100% cpu load for days on end and never ever have a problem. Prime95 works just fine too, can run it for days as well with out a problem.

[mmerne]

Non working:

Far Cry w/ 1.1 patch
Albatron K8x800proII
AMD 64 3200+
1GB ram 3300
1024x768 resolution
Radeon 9800 pro 128 MB w/ latest Catalyst drivers
Audigy LS

1. The video card randomly locks up and the screen goes black. Sometimes the catalyst driver will reboot the radeon, sometimes the whole system has to be rebooted. Swapped the power supply, no change. Graphics performance doesn't seem to be optimal.
2. Enabling 'EAX 2.0' randomly causes horrible squelching noise. Disabling that but leaving h/w mixing enabled seems to fix it.

[wingsredemption]

Far Cry 1.1
Dell Dimension 8200
Pentium 4 2.60 Northwood, 400mhz FSB, 512 cache
Samsung 768MB DDR, Dell Certified
ATi Radeon 9800XT (CAT 4.7, Overdrive *enabled)
Dell UltraSharp 1800FP

Far Cry ran superb until the CAT 4.7's. I won't roll back the driver as it fixed some Battlefield Vietnam bugs. Now Far Cry displays the grey pixelation around certain textures.

[dukedave]

P4 - 2.533GHz
512MB RDRAM
Radeon 9800XT @ 465MHz core - 500MHz mem. (for FC)

Ever since I got the 9800XT I have just about every game I play at the highest resolution and graphics settings. I mostly enjoy higher resolutions - compared to higher graphics settings. In other words I'd rather be able to play at 1600x1200 resolution - than enable AA or AF or even some of the higher advanced graphics settings.

For Far Cry I am limited to 12x10@32 resolution. All advanced graphics settings in Far Cry are set at High except Partical Count and Shadows which are set to Medium.

If I increase any of these settings I get major slowdowns in some areas of the game. With these settings I get acceptable performance. However, I do get pauses and long load times - and from what I understand this is due to my limited system ram.

I have done some testing and with only 512MB of memory my swap file was used up to 500MB while Far Cry was running. This could explain the pauses and long load times. I helped this out by installing a spare Hard Drive and am using it excusively for the swap file. But, an additional 512MB of memory would probably solve my pauses and long load times.

Bottom line is - this game needs the best of everything (vid, ram, cpu) to show its' true potential.

[Iceman_BobbyBoy]

I think maybe I am just lucky or something, but I can run all settings on their extreme highest except for AA. AF is on 16x and all settings on very high cept for water quality which is on ultra. Reso at 1280x1024.
80GB Ultra ATA 7200RPM HD (Samsung?)
768MB DDR400 PC3200 RAM (I think this is Kingston)
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800SE 128MB (with Omegas it runs 20FPS faster in every game)
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
480watt PS (can't remember brand name, but it rocks-three fans on it)
GA-K8VT800M mobo
XP Home
I optimize my system every month with Norton Systemworks. I run average of 30 FPS. I've never had problems with Far Cry. I also have DSL. I think I'm going to buy the R420 but who knows. I want to upgrade to a 3800+ too. Nothing on my computer is really tweaked. If any of you are from Canada go for tigerdirect.ca for pc parts-they have awesome prices-where I got my machine...

Athlon 64 3400+
768 RAM
Sapphire 9800SE
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows"

[neildittmar]

I actually had two different computers that I was running Far Cry on. For what it's worth, here's the breakdown...

Old rig:
Intel Celeron (P3/Tualatin Core) @ 1.4 Ghz
Intel 440BX Motherboard (Powerleap Adapter used to get CPU to Celeron 1.4, was a P2 450Mhz)
384MB PC100 SDRAM
Western Digital Hard Drive (80GB, 8MB Cache, running in UDMA Mode 5)
16X DVD-ROM / 48X CD-ROM combo drive
Soundblaster 16 PCI card
ATI Radeon 9200 128MB (AGP 2X Mode)
Windows ME
ATI Catalyst 4.3
Far Cry 1.1
Clean system with all other drivers up to date

To me, Far Cry ran "ok" on this computer with the following settings:
800x600 resolution
Machine Spec Medium
No AA, No AF
Textures: Medium
Filtering: Bilinear
Environment: Medium
All other in-game graphical settings: Low
Sounds: Medium (Doppler Effect Off, Hardware Acceleration Off, EAX Off, Compatibility Mode Off)

Issues: I had the "Radeon 8500-9200" bug stickied near the top of the technical support forum. Needed to set e_dynamic_lights to 0 to fix it. Cut scenes (Bink video, not in game) ran very choppy and the audio stuttered. Never figured out a solution to this issue, but it was probably slow hardware related. I also had specific pauses at certain points in the game (to load new information, etc.)

New Rig:
Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott Core) @ 3.0 Ghz
Asus Motherboard (not sure of the model number)
1024MB PC3200 RAM
Maxtor hard drive (200GB, 8MB Cache running in UDMA Mode 5)
48X CD-ROM Drive
12X DVD-RW Drive
Realtek AC97 Compliant 6.1 Channel Onboard Sound
ATI Radeon 9200 128MB (AGP 8X)
Windows XP Home w/ Service Pack 1
ATI Catalyst 4.7
Far Cry 1.1
Clean system with all other drivers up to date

To me, Far Cry runs "good" to "great" on this computer with the following settings:

800x600 Resolution
Machine Spec Very High
No AA, No AF
Textures: High
Filtering: Bilinear
Particle Count: High
Environment: High
All other in-game graphical settings: Low
Sounds: High (Doppler Effect Off, Hardware Acceleration Off, EAX Off, Compatibility Mode Off)

Issues: Really nothing to speak of too much. I didn't have the "Radeon 8500-9200" bug anymore. I attribute this fix to the updated catalyst drivers. I had an issue with some gun lag on the first enemy I shot, but this was resolved by turning "Doppler Effect" off in the sound options (was previously on). Far Cry runs great and plays great on the new rig.

Thanks for reading,

Neil

[|SaW|GodFather|]

I run this game on the following.

Athon 2500+Barton overclocked to 3200+(2.2 ghz)
1 gig pc3200 ddr 400mhz Ram (2x512)Dual Channel
7200rpm Western Digital Hard Drive w/8meg cache
Nforce2 motherboard, onboard sound/lan,
19 inch Flat Screen NEC monitor
ATI Radeon 9600Pro 128 meg

I can run Singleplayer all settings on high/very high, and get playable framerates, and no problems. (no vsync, antialiasing,or antisotropic filtering)

I can run Multiplayer at Medium settings Flawlessly.No matter how many people are on.
If there are less than 16 people I can run it at High settings and still get playable framerates.

Ive been playing the game since the beginning, I NEVER HAD ANY ISSUES, WHATSOEVER WITH THE GAME. IT HAS RUN PERFECTLY SINCE DAY ONE, THE DEMOS, AND THE BETA RAN THE SAME AS WELL.

Whatever bug is mentioned in the 1.2 information post, about the 9600 cards that is supposed to be fixed, I havent experienced.
I have no idea what the bug is. So I figure it applys only to 9600 non pro cards, and 9600se cards.

I get the same performance with My 9600pro in Far Cry as my clan members who have 9700 pros.



http://sawteam.com/avatars/logo1.gif
www.sawteam.com (http://www.sawteam.com)

[This message was edited by |SaW|GodFather| on Thu July 15 2004 at 02:39 PM.]

[BK255]

Working setup:

Processor: Athlon-XP 2800+ (333 FSB)
Motherboard: Abit NF-7 nForce2
Memory: 1GB RAM (1x512PC2700, 2x256PC2100)
HD: Maxtor 160GB, 80GB 7200RPM UATA 133
OS: Windows XP Home SP1
Video: ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (128MB), Catalyst 4.6
Audio: SB Audigy Gamer, 5.1 speakers

The key upgrade to me was going from 512MB RAM to 1GB; this made a night-to-day difference in framerate...

[dk8pack]

NON working setup: http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

Pentium(R) 4 processor w/HT
CR: 3191 MHz (P4 3.2GHz)
SRAM: 1023 MB
OS: Microsoft Windows XP
GFX: RADEON 9800 PRO (Omega 2.5.51)
CM: 378 / 338 MHz
VRAM: 123 MB
DRIVER: 6.14.10.6451

[martin_1987]

My Set Up is as follows and if runs far cry on all the maximum settings really smooth. Resolution at 1600x1200x32.

Mother Board - Abit IC7 Max3
Processor - Intel Pentium 4 3.40ghz with hyper threading.
Graphic card - Power Colour X800 Pro 256mb.
Memory - 1gb of Corsair XMS4000 pro twinX.
Sound - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2zs.
HDD - 1x 80gb SATA samsung spinpoint.
1x 160gb SATA samsung spinpoint.
CD/DVD - LG 16x52 dvd-rom drive.
Sony DVD writer DWU-18A.
PSU - 500watt colourit silent psu.
OS - Windows XP Professional/servive pack 1.
3DMark 03 score - 8655.

[Iceman_BobbyBoy]

Martin that looks like a wicked system-now all you nees is 2 74 gb Raptor RAID and an AMD 64 3800+ and your score would go hell high.

=======================
Athlon 64 3400+
768MB 3200 RAM
Sapphire 9800SE
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows"

[martin_1987]

Iceman_BobbyBoy what is your 3D mark 03 score.

[NjalStorm]

<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI> mobo: Asus A7n8x-deluxe
<LI> cpu: amd xp athlon 2400+
<LI> 1 gig Crucial ram
<LI> asus;Geforce fx 5950 ultra (256)
<LI> sound blaster audigy 2, platinum
<LI> logitech mx-700, mouse
<LI> nostromo gaming pad
[/list]

everything jacked up on 'very high'

runs like glass

[blakshep]

pentium 4 2.6mhz
1024 pc2700 512fsb
ATI Radeon 9800
SoundMAX Digital Audio
120 gig hd
Windows XP

Runs on auto detect settings: everthing high except for water quality at very high and texture at medium. Crashes every time I pass the carrier level. Please Help!

[erikkur]

mobo: Asus A7n8x-deluxe

cpu: amd xp athlon 2800+

512 gig Crucial ram PC3200

BFG Geforce 6800GT OC(256)

On Board Sound 5.1

logitech Corless Mouseman Optical

maxtor 7200 rpm 8mb cache drive

Mine runs like **** with everything set to high. It jitters & stutters like crazy, standard latest Nvidia board drivers as well as the drivers that came with the card. Nothing is overclocked. Any suggestions will help. I have wiped my drive & installed XP fresh hoping that it would help. It has not.

Thanks,

Erik

[martin_1987]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by erikkur:
mobo: Asus A7n8x-deluxe

cpu: amd xp athlon 2800+

512 gig Crucial ram PC3200

BFG Geforce 6800GT OC(256)

On Board Sound 5.1

logitech Corless Mouseman Optical

maxtor 7200 rpm 8mb cache drive

Mine runs like **** with everything set to high. It jitters & stutters like crazy, standard latest Nvidia board drivers as well as the drivers that came with the card. Nothing is overclocked. Any suggestions will help. I have wiped my drive & installed XP fresh hoping that it would help. It has not.

Thanks,

Erik<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Try turning you quality settings down and have you direct x installed

[Mike_995]

Okay in the Far Cry video i knoticed that there was more destrucatble terrain. But that doesnt happen on my system i have all of the settings up high and it still dont do any of the destructable terrain that was demonstrated in the video
is it possible that i need an fx card to get these effects

[erikkur]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by martin_1987:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by erikkur:
mobo: Asus A7n8x-deluxe

cpu: amd xp athlon 2800+

512 gig Crucial ram PC3200

BFG Geforce 6800GT OC(256)

On Board Sound 5.1

logitech Corless Mouseman Optical

maxtor 7200 rpm 8mb cache drive

Mine runs like **** with everything set to high. It jitters & stutters like crazy, standard latest Nvidia board drivers as well as the drivers that came with the card. Nothing is overclocked. Any suggestions will help. I have wiped my drive & installed XP fresh hoping that it would help. It has not.

Thanks,

Erik<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Try turning you quality settings down and have you direct x installed<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yes, I do have the direct X latest 9b installed. I thought this card should be able to handle everything on high! That's why I got the damn thing! Any suggestions as exactly what to turn off. I really just wish I could load the game & play it instead of spending hours tweaking the stupid graphics settings! It is very frustrating.

[roocat81]

System information:-

Asus A7N8X-deluxe nforce2 board
(onboard sound turned off, bios rev.1007)

Athlon 3000+ barton
1gb ddr pc3200 Ram (2 sticks of 512mb)
Radeon 9800pro (HIS Excaliber)
Audigy player sound blaster
Maxtor diamondmax plus9 80gb (NTFS Formatted)
Windows XP (all windows updates and service packs applied)

far cry patched to 1.1

Issues:

The game works fine with everything turned up. Game runs smoothly (except for the first shot lag but nothing serve) but after a few minutes of play I get pop, click, crackling sounds.
It effects the music and sound effects ingame more serve in indoor areas, tried to various methods to the sound properites, put sound to low quality, turn off hardware accel. Nothing works.
Hopefully the next patch might clear it up.

[the_antman2004]

my system is mostly in my sig and i am upgrading soon to a P4 2.5.

Intel Celeron 2.2
FX 5200 ULTRA (OC from 325/650 to 365/720)
768 MB DDR PC2100 RAM
40 GB Maxtor HDD
Hercules 5.1 sound and creative 5500 inspire speakers 5.1

I normally use customize to set detail so i dont really know what level i play at but at all set to medium (shadows off) i average 40 fps at 1024 x 768 and 4 X AF and no AA. I am sure the cpu is holding the gfx card back somewhat, as the gfx card runs over the FX5600 clocks speeds by a fair margin. Its a low to medium machine (machine spec medium) but i am quite happy with it. AA at 2X has little affect on gameplay for me also

Intel Celeron 2.2
768 MB DDR PC2100
GF FX5200 ULTRA (O/C 365/726)
Hercules Muse 5.1 Sound
40 GB Maxtor 7500 rpm HDD
Liteon DVD RW/ CD RW
LG CD RW

[woofmaster]

Athlon 64 3200+ Clawhammer CG revision
MSI K8N Platinum (Nforce 3) mobo
EVGA 6800GT - xx.76 drivers
1GB(2x512) OCZ Rev 3 PC3200
Audidy 2 ZS (Klipsh Promedia 4.1, Zalman 5.1 headphones)
18GB 15K SCSI (Maxtor Atlas) OS/game drive
Plextor 32x12x12
WinXP SP2 RC2

Game runs/looks awesome, 1280x1024 with every possible setting maxed, 50-60 fps, sometimes dips but never below 30. 1600x1200 chunks a little when I tried it with nearly maxed settings so I backed down on resolution. No problems, no crashes. Friend with same 6800GT card on an AthlonXP 2800 had much lower (30-45%) 3Dmark/Aquamark scores. I think you need to have the CPU and video card in balance or you will lose a lot of the benefit of whichever one is higher end. IMO from reading many benches, the extra $100-150 it costs to bump up to really good ram (3500-4000 Enhanced latency/bandwidth) will produce more framerates if that money is instead put into a faster CPU or next level up video card. But its got to be 1GB of at least PC3200.

[omniscientist]

MSI K8N Neo Platinum
AMD 3200+ 64 Newcastle OC'ed at 2.42
2 x 512 mb 2-2-2 latency Mushkin pc3200 matched memory
SATA Barracuda 7200.8 Hard drive
Geforce 6800 GT Overclocked to Ultra Speeds

Runs absolutely perfect on the highest settings.

[skyjack666]

I run very well at 1600x1200x32 on a 22" monitor it looks sweet.

P4 2.8
ASUS P4-533T mobo
RAID-0 80gb 8mb cache 7200rpm HDs x2
1024 mb pc1066 rdram
ATI 9800XT 256 mb 4.7 catalyst
SB Audigy

I run all settings on Very High in video. I dont use Anti Aliasing because at 1600x1200, on my monitor I dont really need it.

In Sound I use Surround, Hardware accel, no EAX, no dopler

[Bland37]

I am getting the same error ....... any ideas other that reinstalling ?

[OldMX]

GAme works flawless, specs in signature, only bug was the "error in ????-cpp" window almost at the end of the game, runnign everything on high.

cats 4.6, dx9.0b, win2k sp4

OldmX

Biostar M7VIP /AXP T-bred 2200+ /Volcano 7 modded
512MB of TwinMOS PC2700 (2x256)
ATI Radeon 9800Pro /ViewSonic E771
Audigy MP3+ /Cambridge SoundWorks
IBM 120GXP /Hitachi 7K250
Artec DHI-G40 /Teac W524E
WindowsXP /Windows2000

[peterchen620]

-------
Spec
-------
IBM Thinkpad R32
1.7GHz Pentium 4
640mb DDR SD RAM
20GB HDD
16mb DDR Ram ATi Mobility Raedoen
------------------------------------

The only problem is... MAKE SUPPORT FOR ATI MOBILITY RAEDOEN!!!!!!! &gt;_&lt;"

[narcico]

Works great on my puter with 1.2 patch http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
FarCry video settings on auto detect

APEX TU150 puter case with 400w power supply
Sony DVD+RW/-RW Drive, Model DWU18A
Seagate 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model ST380013AS
1GB CORSAIR XMS Extreme Memory Series DDR PC-3200 RAM
ASUS P4P800 SE Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 HT Northwood 2.8C GHz (overclocked to 3.0) 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache
GAINWARD nVIDIA GeForce FX5900XT Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV Out, 8X AGP, Model "FX PowerPack! Ultra/1100XT Golden Sample" (not overclocked)
Logitech MX700 Wireless Mouse
Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 1

[This message was edited by narcico on Fri July 23 2004 at 02:09 PM.]

[Alpha___13]

Alright, here's my specs.

Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz Hyper-Threading Technology (1 MB Cache)
1024 MB PC3200 DDR-SDRAM (400Mhz)
160 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM
128 MB GeForce FX 5200

I didn't get a chance to download the latest update before they withdrew it. I have all the settings on high and a resolution of 1024x768x32. This game's not working very well for me. When I'm outside it runs pretty good but when I'm inside or in an area of a lot of plants and trees it gets pretty slow. I tried bringing the settings back to medium but that didn't help a lot either. I tried shutting down my background programs like Anti virus and my messenger programs but it's still slow for me.

[fLUX69]

Locks up and freezes my PC at the first action scene during training with the settings above medium.

Far Cry 1.1

A64 3200+
Gigabyte K8VNXP (Via K8T800 chipset)
1GB DDR400
Gigabyte Radeon 9800 XT Cat 4.7
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
Logitech Z-680 5.1
4 x 250 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM SATA RAID 0+1
Logitech MX Duo wireless KB + Mouse
Windows XP Pro SP1

Only game I've ever had this much trouble with.
UT2K4 60 FPS @ 1600x1200x32
CS:CZ 120 FPS @ 1280x1024x32

[godness666]

Far Cry v1.1
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz 533 FSB 512K Cache
MotherBoard: Soltek SL-85ERV2
RAM: 2x256 DDR PC2700
Video Card: GeForce4 Ti4800 SE 128 MB DDR
Drivers: Detonators 44.03
HD: Seagate Barracuda 60 GB 7200 rpm
OS: Windows XP SP1a

It works fine with Very High settings, except Shadowing with Medium setting, and Water-Effect with Ultra-High, with frame-rate falls when there's a lot of people shooting and so on.
With the latest drivers ForceWare 61.72 it didn't work, when I tried to start it the Monitor Screen shutdowns and I only hear music.
The actually problem, that I've sometimes, is that I've graphic glitches if I make Zoom with binoculars, or another times with a specific angle of view. â¿ Any help ?

[solifer68]

asus a7n8x deluxe
amd xp2500 oc to xp3200 volt 1.65(standard)
pc3200 512
powercolor 9800pro 128mb
nvidia nforce audio
maxtor 80 gb 7200
wd 80 gb 7200
Xp pro (servicepack 2)

very high settings
8 anisotropic
0 antialiasing
30 to 60 fps

[solifer68]

sorry forgot;-) far cry 1.2

[andrew357]

Farcry V1.0
CPU: Pentium 4 2.6Ghz Northwood O/C'ed to 3.1Ghz
Motherboard: Abit IC7-MAX3
RAM: 2x512mb Geil High Performance DDR400
Video Card: Gigabyte 128mb 9800PRO, Stock: 378:337, O/C'ed to 435:384
Driver: Catalyst 4.7
HD1: Seagate Barracuda 7200.2 80Gb
HD2: Seagate Barracude 7200.2 160Gb 8mb Cache
Soundcard: Hercules Gametheatre XP 7.1
CD:Pioneer 107D DVDRW
CD: LiteON 52x32x52 CDRW
Monitor: CMV 17" LCD Monitor.


I have recently run into an audio problem where i can't hear sound effects. I can hear music and voice ok, but i can't hear things such as footsteps, shooting, rock/grenade throwing etc. I've done a complete uninstall-reinstall but to no avail. I've got all the sound settings on correct. I don't know whats going on

Visually, i have the settings on full, with anisiotropic filtering, max AA, on 1280*1024 with no problems at all

[djmaro76]

Gigabyte 8SG800 mobo w/Bios F5
P4 2.8 not oc'd
1 gig RAM
1 maxtor 40g 7200rpm hd
1 maxtor 160g 7200rpm hd
Antec 550w PSU
Soundblaster Live Value snd card (fully patched)
Onboard AC'97 audio enabled (fully patched)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro w/256 memory (fully patched w/latest cat)
Zalman VGA cooler ZM80D-HP with optional fan
Coolermaster CPU cooler JET 4(ICB-V83)
Fan Controller for 3 fans
Large heatsink on north & southbridge chips (keeps things real cool)
Win XP Pro SP1 (fully patched)
Far Cry v1.1

Auto-detect sets everything to high and texture is set to very high. Machine spec is set to high. Game Resolution is 1600x1400x32. It

runs anwywhere from 3min - 45min and then locks up. Sometimes with a VPU recover error, other times with a full hardware deadlock. I

tried reinstalling all drivers and far cry, no luck. It runs a little longer if I lower the settings to medium but eventually still locks

up. I disabled the onboard audio drivers, still locks. I disabled other devices sharing same IRQ as the graphic card, still locks. Fast

write on/off doesn't make a difference, still locks. Changing game resolution to match desktop resolution doesn't matter, still locks.

Disabled all processes except for the vid card and system processes, still locks.

System temp is not an issue. CPU never goes above 35c. Chipset never goes above 41c. GPU is barely warm to the touch.
I don't believe that my system is at fault here simply because I can run UT 2004 and Tiger Woods PGA 2004 with all settings at full

throttle for hours and I never get a burp. This upsets me cus Far Cry is by far the best game I've played in a long time. The graphics

are unreal and I just can't get enough of it. Anyone have any other ideas? I holding the game at fault now.

It's more than obvious that if so many people at having trouble with the game and their system is at fault, then there is just not enough

system compatibility built into this game. Other games run fine on many different platforms where Far Cry is very picky with the system

specs. I'm just fed up with this game and I'm putting it on hold until I see a new patch come out. Besides, Doom3 on Aug 3rd!!

[Scubanator]

Farcry v1.1
Comp: Shiny new Dell Dimension 8400 with P4 w/ HT extreme edition @3.4ghz (800mhz fsb)
OS: XP Pro w/SP1
RAM: 1gb dual channel DDR2 SDRAM
Video Card: Radeon X300 128mb
Driver: 4.7 Cats
Soundcard: SB Audigy 2
Hard Drive: 160gb Seral ATA Maxtor (7200rpm)

I can run the game at 1280x1024 with all settings on high with a framerate in the high 30's/low 40's, with an occasional minor slow down (to about 20fps), but no big deal. Looks Nice http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

http://img56.exs.cx/img56/2873/Untitled-13.jpg

[SlimSlyGuy]

Ok, I have a 1.8 gig Athlon, 256 DDR RAM 120 gig hard drive, ATI Radeon 9200. Works great until it starts freezin up. What the heck is the problem? Is there a bug in the game already? I just bought it an hour ago and I can't even enjoy it cause of the damn studder and freezing. Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on? I like the game but if it keeps doing this, I'm taking it back.
Thank You

Nate

[shtroumpf13]

Hello,
How do I activated the quicksave option once I've installed the 1.2 patch?
thanks!!!!!!

[fLUX69]

djmaro76 you have exactly the same problem as me.
We both have 9800 series Radeons and Gigabyte Mobos.
The only difference is yours has a P4 with a SiS chipset while mine has is A64 with Via.
I have F5 bios as well.
Perhaps this is an issue...

[djmaro76]

fLUX69 - After sacrificing most of my Sunday, I am finally able to play Far Cry with no glitches. My m/b uses the SIS648 chipset. The version that Giga-Byte posts on their site is v1.13 which is the version I have been running all this time. I checked out SIS.com and I downloaded v1.17E this morning. That fixed the issue.

There are some drawbacks to this. SIS claims that you will still have full functionality with v1.17E yet many are experiencing the same issue as me. My m/b supports 4x/8x AGP. With the v1.13 driver I was able to run 8x constantly. Far Cry seems to like 4X on my board. For some reason, the v1.17E driver won't let me go any higher then 4x. Since it doesn't seem to make that much of a difference and since it gets Far Cry to work, I'm okay with it. However, I would like SIS to post a newer driver that will allow me to still run 8x. It just gives ya that feeling when you know your hardware is capable of higher performance yet there's nothing you can really do about it.

Since I'm only 2 levels away from solving Far Cry, I'll just finish it and go back to the v1.13 driver.

Hope this helps!!

[Rudiger420]

Msi kt4 ultra
centon 512 pc 2700
amd 2600+
gainward fx 5700 256 mb
windows xp pro
3dmark03 - 3000ish


This is computer i am trying to run farcry on.
The game loads and u can start to play the single plater levels but as soon as enemy's come on the screen the game becomes very jumpy. To the point where it is unplayable. It pretty much just slows down like crazy and u just end up dead. This game should run excellent on this card......but doesn't. I already upgraded drivers for the card and windows updated everything with the performance only to get worse. Other games play great so it leaves me to believe this is another ubisoft screw up just like raven shield....Two games i bought from them that had horrible horrible technical problems. Any help is greatly apreciated.

[SlimSlyGuy]

I agree. UBIsoft sucks ***. They put system requiements that I feel comfortable with. But when I play it the whole game runs like ****. I am taking the game back and will never buy a UBIsoft game again. DOOM 3 is will kick far crys *** anyway. ID software knows what they are doing unlike this cheapass company.

[SlimSlyGuy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SlimSlyGuy:
I agree. UBIsoft sucks ***. They put system requiements that I feel comfortable with. But when I play it the whole game runs like ****. I am taking the game back and will never buy a UBIsoft game again. DOOM 3 will kick far crys *** anyway. ID software knows what they are doing unlike this cheapass company.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[benanne]

AMD Athlon XP 2400+
512 MB RAM PC2700 TwinMoss
ECS K7S6A, SiS 745 chipset (ya i know it's kinda ****...)
WinXP Pro
Geforce 4Ti4200 (supports AGP 8x, but my mobo doesnt, so 4x)
Maxtor 40GB HD (yes, thats enough)

Latest ForceWare (dled them a week ago since my PC crashed recently due to a power failure).

runnin Far Cry 1.0

I don't know my FPS, because my azerty keyboard won't allow me to type \ in far cry, apparently (comes out as &gthttp://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif. I know though, that it's decent with most settings on medium, some on low, and at 800x600. It still occasionally stutters, but rarely and remains playable. If i go higher though, it does it all the time.

Despite the fact that motherboard is ****, I'd expected a bit more. Or is the cryengine really that heavy? I think something else is wrong... But what?

[bettisfan]

Shuttle AN35N Ultra 400 M/B
AMD MP 2800 (barton) 211fsb X 11
Mushkin pc3200 512mb ram
Geforce FX 5900XT 425/850
Maxtor 40 Gb ata 133 7200rpm h/d
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound

I get 40-50 fps running 1024 X 768 with low AA and 8 AF and everything on high.
I do get some mild stuttering but that is due to having only 512 mb ram. That will be fixed in another week hehe.

[Suqmaster]

amd athlon(tm) 64 3200+(2.0 ghz)
512 mb pc2700 ddr sdram
200 gb 7200 rpm ultra DMA hard drive
48x cd-rom
Lancer geforce fx5200xt 128 mb(agp 8x)
far cry version 1.1

The game works perfectly with every video setting on the lowest possible except on water which can be on high.

Then after some time consuming far cry configuration, I made the game on a 1024x768 resolution with the texture,particle,enviornment, and special effects on medium and everything else on the lowest possible setting for videos. This configuration is playable although it does stutter sometimes whenever I try to straft with my guy or when theres alot going on, the response is also a workable .5 sec slower.

By the way, how do you find out the framrate of your configurations?

[negenelf]

Intel P4 3.4Ghz+
1024MB PC4000 Ram
eVGA 6800 or 6800GT (got both to test)
Audigy2
WindowsXP Pro SP1
DX9.0c
Nvidia 61.77 Drivers
All bios updated.

Farcry runs at any settings I want, but regardless of any settings, or which card, I have BAD artifacts all over the screen... Nothing I do changes this, so i'm thinking its an issue with 61.77 drivers and/or DX9.0c.

Help!

[wingsredemption]

Dell Dimension 8200
Northwood Pentium 4 @3.0ghz, 400mhz FSB
ATi 9800XT - Catalyst 4.7
1GB Samsung PC800

Even in Far Cry 1.1 there were grey pixelations around the outer perimeter of textures and 1.2 didn't seem to help either.

[james.coffman3]

Motherboard: Asus P4C800
Processor: P4 3.2E
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
Video Card: Radeon X800 Pro
Lan: DWL-520 (Rev.D)
RAM: 1024MB Corsair PC3200 (Value Select)
Hard Drives: 80 GIG Seagate Barracuda (IDE)
20 GIG Maxtor (IDE)
80 GIG Maxtor (SATA)
200 GIG Western Digital (SATA)
CD and Floppy: Sony DVD-R
LiteOn CD-R/RW
Generic Floppy
Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP1a

Drivers
Sound Card: Factory Drivers
Video Card: Catalyst 4.5

This is the current config that I am running. There is no problems besides the game not realizing the true power of the Radeon X800. I did have issed with the Sound Card Drivers on the other hand. When I first installed the game I had the factory drivers on there and I had issed with it. After speaking with tech support and troubleshooting for hours. I finally downloaded the updates for the sound card. Updated them and the game worked well. After a day though, the same problem occured again. There was no sound when the game started up at the starting screen, but I could hear in game noises, such as crickets. So I rolled the drivers back and the game seemed to work fine after that. That is just a suggestion for anyone having issues getting the sound to work. I would also suggest the catalyst 4.5 drivers to anyone that is having issues with there video cards.

[jeebus21]

Motherboard: ASUS P4P800SE
RAM: 1GB OCZ DDR400
Processor: P4 3.4GHz
Video Card: GeForce Ti something

The demo ran nicely on the machine but the retail copy (purchased today) does not show water correctly. The demo, with no modification, did water transparency but the retail, through all video settings (from Low to Very High) does not show transparent water.

[WarmMachineME]

P4 3.2 Ghz 512kb L2-cache w/hyperthreading
Intel D865GLC Mainboard
Springdale-G i865G Chipset
2x512 Corsair DDR400 Dual channel
PNY GeForce 6800 Ultra (256mb), 61.77 WHQL
Creative SB Audigy 2, driver version 5.12.5.441
Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm hard drive
Hitachi 16x/48x DVD-ROM

Far Cry runs beautifully with everything maxxed...sometimes. Other times, it will freeze while the sound continues (often with a ticking noise as well), usually after just loading a level or starting the game. Sometimes it recovers from this freeze and I can play for awhile. Sometimes it crashes.

I've poured over this forum and two others looking for the answer, and I don't know what all I've tried to get it to stop, including buying a whole new case for better airflow and more fans to cool down the CPU and video GPU. After all this I've finally found the only thing that fixes all my Far Cry troubles, and that is E-Bay.

Frustration, thy name is Far Cry.

[Krush123]

Well, as I noted a few weeks ago, I had to edit my registry to remove the faintest suggestion of Nero, CloneCd, and inCD - all of which are legally purchased, by the way. Thats my first objection. From that, my complaint is about the lack of response from Ubi. If this was any other business, we would have consumer rights. Unfortunately, buying a game (in my case it was a Fathers Day gift) with the spec. on the box telling lies, we consumers have no comebacks.
I have found the game to be just about playable to date. The frustrations of a poorly crafted engine remind me of Pandora Tomorrow - only worse.
I dont understand why I have to "turn the wick" down on my 2800XP-based system - a gig of 400 RAM, Nvidia etc. etc. When I played all the Half-Life variants, on a lower spec. machine, with no trouble. Yet Ubi are saying this game is progress?
Well, doubtless I will be ignored by them, but guess whose games I will NOT be buying or specifying as gifts......? http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/16x16_smiley-mad.gif

[goughandrew]

Sorry if i'm in the wrong place peeps, but don't know what else to try! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif
Specs as follows
Mobo ABit VT7
CPU P4 Presscott 2.8 (not o clocked) standard cooler
GPU Radeon 9600SE
PSU 450W
512MB DDR400 RAM
120GB SATA HDD
Onboard sound

All drivers / BIOS / directx upto date and working fine, OS is clean install of XP Pro and works well. Now the problem:

Since install, worked for 5 mins then crashed to Windoze, then after a while, crashed during game load, now crashes as soon as the menu screen opens!. Set all Gfx settings to min and it still happens. Any ideas?, posted my dxdiag to ubisoft over 2 weeks ago, and it's all gone quiet :O(

[Awesomecabbie]

Abit IC7-G
2.4B @ 2800 stock cooling
CPU + Heatsink lapped
Twinx 1024XL http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
128MB 9800Pro 420 / 350 (R360)
WD800 Sata (no Raid)
onboard audio
Antec 1080 AMG 430W PSU
Arctic Silver 5 http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
4095 Swap File

Everything Very High
AA - Low
Aniso -1x
Environment - Custom (extra's)
Lighting - Custom (extra's)
Water - Ultra High

DirectX 9.0c
Catalyst 4.7
Direct3D set to quality / 4x AA / 4x Aniso

Runs, Looks and Sounds beautifull

Its all in the RAM!!!! http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

(Was Built to play DOOM3, purchased Far Cry to 'benchmark'. CryTek has a nice engine here)

[pascalius]

my game keeps freezing when pc gets to 101 fahrenheit. I have 6 fans 2 on Video Card, 2 in Powersuply, 2 on the chassis.

Pentium 4 HT 3 GHZ
1.5 GB RAM Kingston
GeForce FX 5950 256 MB
80 GB Harddrive 10000 RPM
Sony DVD-CDRW Combo 16x
HP CDRW 56x

[kbid]

Emachines 19gb intel celeron 384mb 1ghz gforce 4 128 runs just fine on medium settings. dont know my fps.

[Magma]

My Rig:

Shuttle SS51G v2.0
Pentium 4 3.06 GHz 533 FSB
1024 MB PC2700 Samsung DDR 333 (2 sticks)
ATI Radeon X800 Pro (Catalyst 4.8)
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Gamer ZS
Windows XP Pro SP2
Maxtor 80GB U133 7200 RPM
Windows managed Swap File (5 GB free on C: partition where it uses it)

I played a little bit, but I am leary to go too far since whenever I go to adjust graphics settings in menu it crashes. Don't want to get too far in game if it keeps crashing, then I will be VERY frustrated.

Have tried numerous video driver versions, updated sound card drivers, etc. Run clean with nothing in background as this PC is my gaming PC specifically. I have played all other games like Doom 3, Joint Operations, C&C Generals with zero issues.

[konradski]

here goes

computer:zx-81

8bits o raw power
graphics: ineligeble possibly green cant tell playin on b/w telly

cant even install game , i dont get it this bloke on carboot said it will play anything .
friggin gypos lol http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/53.gif shouda bought tht dragon 1 mighta worked

[lenchmob1]

Every setting maxed out and I've had absolutley no problems running the title.

Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
WinXp/SP2
P4 3.2ghz HT
2gig DDR400 CL3(PC3200)
HIS Excalibur X800XT IceQII PE
21in KDS
2 WD Raptors 37gig
WD Quantum Fireball 40gig
SB Audigy 2
Speakers; FPS 2000 Digital
CD-ROM:Plextor 52x32x52 CD-RW
DVD: Nec 8xDVD+RW/-RW
UPS: 1100AVR Cyberpower (650watts)

[utgort]

It is certainly not a problem with FarCry, the engine or UBI. If your machine isn't working the way you would like than look at the machine. I am able to get 32 FPS (outside) at 1280x1024x32, paradise mode with all settings on high. If I lower the settings my FPS goes way up. But it is playable (and real pretty) on the highest.

My cheesy setup:
Video Card: RADEON 9800 PRO Video Driver: ati2dvag.dll Driver Version: 6.14.10.6467
Sound Card: Creative SB Live! (WDM) Sound Driver: emu10k1m.sys Driver Version: 5.12.01.3300
DirectX: DirectX 9.0(c)
Operating System: Windows XP Service Pack 1 5.1.2600
CPU Type: 1538 MHz AuthenticAMD Athlon XP
RAM: 512 MB Total 2xpc2700
Operating System: Windows XP Service Pack 1 5.1.2600
MB Gigabyte: 7VRXP
FSB Speed: 2x134MHz
Mem Clocking: 2x167MHz

Some things that helped a lot.
C: - Windows
D:Apps and swap
E: Games
All are different physical HDs.

If you have an ATI card get this:
http://www.transformerman1.plus.com/LtcyCfg.zip
That will allow you to set you PCI bus latency. By default ATI uses 148 I set mine to 32.

Finally go to the FarCry Tweak guide and use it.

[roryuk4eva]

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AMD ATHLON XP 2800+ @ 2170MHz
1024 MB PC2700 DDR RAM
128MB 9800 PRO @ 405/355MHz
SOUNDBLASTER AUDIGY 2
CREATIVE INSPIRE 6.1 6700 SPEAKERS
80GB IBM DESKSTAR
19" IIYAMA PROLITE C480T LCD TV

[tmihalics]

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (800FSB) 64bit CPU

CPU Fan: AMD Heavy Duty Cooling Fan With Heat Sink

Motherboard: Gigabyte K8VT800 K8T800 800FSB

AGP: 8X AGP slot

VideoCard: 256MB FX5500 AGP 8X video card w/DVI Retail

Mem: 512MB PC3200 DDR 512 MB PC 3200 DDR 400MHZ

Case Fan: 80mm case fan with neon light

Case PS: Black Neon Mid Tower 400w power supply (front USB)

Sound: AC 97 6 channel 5.1 digital sound

Two 40 gig 7200 rpm hard drives.

XPpro SP2

DirectX 9.0c

DVD burner

DVD rom

3.5 flopy

AVerMedia Video Capture Card PCI

Screen res: 1152 X 864

Screen refresh rate 85 Hertz

Color quality 32 bit

Graphic card settings are all at default settings.

XP pro adv. mem. settings are set at best performance with drop shadows under icons selected.

CPU not tweeked at all. Graphics card not tweeked at all.

This system runs FC at its best settings. MAXED OUT settings. I will have a frame rate drop on very high settings once in a while. But not often. While playing there are 48 processes running.

Will say this though. I get motion sick playing LMAO game runs to smooth. need a bit of lag to break it up.

One other thing. I am running the 1.2 patch as well.

Bow hunters go Deeper into the bush

[Uncle008]

Iv got a little trouble, 1.1 great game good frame rates,mostly in the 60, using Tempral AA, set at 4 AA and 8 FA problem is 1.2 multiplayer.
1. I cannect to the network.
2. If I connect to a full server it tells me that.
3. If the versions are different it tells me that.
4. When I connect with the right version I get kicked.
Can someone please help. It would have been nice if this forum had 2 stickies 1.1 and 1.2.. Less hunting around.

Never argue with an idiot,they'll bring you down to their level then beat you with experience.
CPU: AMD Mobile 2500 O/C to PR 3600 (Cooler: THERMALRIGHT SLK-900A)
M/B: Asus A7N8X Ultra 400
VID: Sapphire X800 Vivo (Core: 520 Mem: 555)
Memory: 1gig Samsung 3200
PSU: Antec BlueTruePower 480
HD: Maxtor 4x80gig(Raid Array) Silicon Image 0680 Medley RAID
DVD Burner: Nec 2510A Duel-Layer
DVD-Rom: Sony 16x
CD-Rom: Asus 52x
Vantec Fan Controler
Case: Lian Li PC65U
SCard: SB Audigy Gamer

[Uncle008]

Fixed the problem

[runescience]

I downloaded the demo. It was GREAT... now I bought the game.

I have win2kpro sp4
directx9c
farcry patched up to 1.1 build 1256.
geforce4 nvidia mx 440
creative sblive with nt drivers
asus133 board with AMD 850 and 512mg memory


IT crashes while the little redbar that goes across the screen while the first level is loading. I am playing it as easy level. ID say it crashes about one half to two thirds across the screen. Then it just dumps out to windows. No sign of errors or anything. Just Poof!

I put all the settings on low, and the 3 settings on '0' mentioned in the help doc and it still crashes. I even set my vid to 800x600 and it crashes. Installed the latest nvidia drivers. Still crashes. IS there a way to produce a log file for debugging, or does any one have a solution for me? feel free to email me at runescience@yahoo.com

[BARRYEATON47]

UNABLE TO FULLY INSTALL. TRIED 2 DIFFERENT HIGH END MACHINES. WOULD GET AS FAR AS SETTING UP DESKTOP ICON AND REGISTRATION AND THEN INSTALL SHIELD WIZARD WOULD SAY "INSTALL INCOMPLETE DUE TO INTERUPTION". WINDOWS XP HOME. FREE TRIAL DOWNLOAD WORKED PERFECTLY. GEFORCE 5700 256MB LE. CHECKED FOR ALL LATEST DRIVER UPGRADES. RETURNED FOR REFUND AFTER 11 FAILED ATTEMPTS.

[kangi26]

My Set up
ASUS A7N8X rev 2 1010 BIOS nForce 5.03
Xp2500+ Barton @ 2.13Ghz FSB 171MHzx2
Zalman CNPS6000cu CPU Cooler on silent
512x2 Kingston PC2700 Dual Channel
Sapphire 9800Pro 128 416/360 Cat.4.9
Windows XP Pro SP2, Direct X 9.0c
Western Digital 80G 8M IDE
Maxtor 200G 8M IDE
IBM Deathstar 45G IDE
Promise PCI Controller
Soundblaster Audigy Platinum
Lite-On LTR-52246S CD/RW
Lite-On DVD/RW SOHW-812S
MSI TV Anywhere PCI Card
Antec SLK3700-BQE case, 350W SmartPower Power
supply
2 Vantec Silent 120mm fans, 1 intake 1 exhaust

FarCry Settings
AA - Low
Texture - Very High
Texture Filter Quality - Triliniar
Aniso. Filter Level - 1
Partical Count - High
Special Effects - Very High
Environmental - Very High
Shadows - High
Water - Very High
Lighting - Very High

For me, at these settings, the game runs smooth as glass. I don't have any frame rates, but I see no artifacts or skipping during game play. I do not play online so I have no input there.

[vertthrasher]

p4 2.6ghz 800mhz fsb
corsair xms pro 1gb ddr400
nvidia 6800gt

fc settings- all very high no aa 4xaf 1024x768. This is the part I get confused. Whether on high, or very high settings in outdoor areas ESPECIALLY in "boat" and in training, well for pretty much any outdoor map. My fps drops to around 20. Yes 20 with my specs on high settings 1024x768 and 4xaf. But indoors, I get like 160fps and it never drops. Its really really really annoying and there needs to be a balance between outdoor looks and fps. On boat, sometimes my fps goes down to 15fps which is totally unacceptable. Also, yes I have sm3 on with the 1.2 patch. Benchmarks are completely misleading because the average between indoors and outdoors makes it seem like a constant of 50-60 or so fps. But its really 25fps outdoors and over 100fps indoors.

[ZcRaider]

Ive Posted in 4 other areas man. No response...

Im starting to believe this forum is dieing, and i just joined....sighs http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/51.gif

[deckie28]

Might be in the wrong forum but here goes.
I downloaded and installed the demo version of the game and while everything appears to be great the problem is that I cant use the weapons.
Graphics, sound, movement etc etc are all good.

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

If I have posted this in the wrong area perhaps someone could redirect it.

[tb9891]

Hi guys,
I've got a problem with the wheel on my Logitech MX700 mouse. In Far Cry it doesn't change the weapon properly (usually does absolutely nothing)- this doesn't matter whether I run 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2 versions it is simply unplayable. I've also tried changing the number of lines the wheel scrolls in the mouse settings and it makes no difference. The mouse works absolutely fine in every other programme on my PC. Does anyone know how to fix this? It's really ruining my Far Cry experience!

PC Specs:

775 3.2Ghz
Abit AG8 third eye
512Mb DDR ram
Abit X600XT graphics card pcie
2 mirrored WD 36Gb raptor drives
Logitech Desktop MX

[cerveaux]

P4 3.4Ghz
2 Gig PC3200 DDR Ram
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe mobo
XFX Geforce 6800 GT 256 mem
Audigy 2 soundcard

WinXP Service Pack 1
DirectX 9.0c

Farcry version 1.1
Runs smooth on high settings

Benchemall- Farcry demo
using max settings
map: Fort Demo: BenchemallDefaultdemo
1024x768x32 @100mhz
Average FPS 61.35

[Miral007]

My FarCry 1.2 is running perfectly on the highest settings http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

MSI nforce mb w/ AMD Athlon 64bit 3200+
1 gigabyte corsair pc3200 ddr sdram
ATI Radeon x800 Pro 256mb
Catalyst 4.9 w/ Control Center
DirectX 9.0c
Hercules Digifire 7.1
Creative Inspire 7.1 Speakers
2x 200gigabyte hdd's, stripe raid
Windows XP Pro w/ SP1

[vinelife]

Hi...this is what I'm running and it works great...my settings on the game are all on very high... anilaising is on medium and I'm at 1028by1024.

Intel Pentium 4 2.53 400 FSB
80 Gig western dig
PNY Geforce FX 5700 Ultra with 128 Megs of DDR2
512 K PC800 RDRAM ( blah! )

I feel the only thing I need to do to get some more of a performance enhancment is to upgrade my mem to 1 gig.. the game is a memory hog. But with a video card like mine, it runs awesome. I also have " auto overclocking " on my video card.. keeps the temps around 50-60 Celcius.. which is fine.. no glitches as of yet...hope I dont fry the thing...

[chrish26]

Just got myself a new gf6800gt, running 1.2 patch & enabled shader 3, absolutly brilliant graphics here's my spec settings on high + aa2x
1024x768 32 bit dx9c 1.2 patch
Athlon XP3000+ 1gb pc3200 ram
XFX 6800GT 256
SB audigy2 Plat Creative 5-1 speakers
Plextor 708A
2 x 60gb HDrives
Windows XP sp2

[siemin32]

Hi
I have a problem:
My system&hardware config:
Asus A7n8x Deluxe
Athlon 2500+ @ 3200 (200x11 =2200 Mhz)
GeForce FX Asus 9950 SE (5900) @ 400/700 (without overclocking)
256 MB Corsair 3200 CL2 DDR SDRAM
WinXP SP1 almost clean
The rest doesn't matter.

I didn't upgrade Far Cry with any of patches or updates.

The play Far Cry with the newest nVIdia (61.77) or ASUS (62.11) Graphic card driver.
Probably with a little older one's too.

I didn't test it with all available drivers, but it works correctly with for eg. nForce 3.13 display driver or nVidia 56.55 driver.

With newest driver on avarage details in Far Cry all I can see is blue "i dont' know" - mist??!! Everything is blue.

I tried all detail levels all diffrent WIndows configurations (eg. with or without SP1,SP2) and stil it doesn't work correctly.

Previously I finished the game twice on the same system configuration but with older driver and I just wanna know why it doesn't work with the new drivers.

Please help 'cause in almost all aplications this new driver's performance is a lot better than the older ones.

[Tejo.hr]

I have apsolutely the same problem. And not just me...