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Are you playing Far Cry on the 8790?? - Settings

post #1 of 16
Thread Starter 
All.

Ok. I had one hell of a time with the demo and enjoyed it enough to buy the game. It arrived yesterday and during the setup of the game, it performed an auto-detect and set the settings to LOW for video and resolution of 1440x900 (I have the original screen). I could not let the system do that to me - this is a gaming powerhouse machine - so I had to change it to High (or very high, I can't remember).

Needless to say, when I was inside, it was not bad, but once I went outside, the game was not as good. It studdered a lot and skipped a bit. I changed the settings back to medium and it seemed fine.

So my question is - what are your settings at? I went through the previous threads and saw some individuals had similar issues and even Corrupted I believe was able to have a flawless experience at high settings. But these threads were from the initial release, not two months later. Just checking to see what other gamers have experienced. I am going to play with mine a bit more when I get home from work.

Looking forward to your comments.

Thanks.
post #2 of 16
Hi Ratmyr
I don't have the 8780 I have the 5690 and I played FarCry at the highest settings and it ran smooth, indoors and out. My husband was amazed that a laptop could do this...He has a p4 2.53 512 rdram pc 1066 and one of the old Nvidia 128 meg TI4200 cards and he can only run it on low settings..and this is a desktop! So im not sure whats up, your machine is twice the monster mine is...I wonder if it has something to do with the widescreen maybe?

Synner Girl..
post #3 of 16
Thread Starter 
What resolution are you playing at? I am off work now, so I am going to do some playing around with the settings.

Thanks for the response.
post #4 of 16
Im playing at the highest for me 1400x1050 runs great..
post #5 of 16
Thread Starter 
I think I found my problem. Seems that if I leave all of the settings on very high and turn off the anti-aliasing, everything runs perfect. Not sure what turned it on, but AA was set to high.

What is your AA set to?

Thanks.
post #6 of 16
I'll have to check that one..i dont remember off hand..i'll let you know later today..
post #7 of 16
Looks like its set at 2x? Does that sound right? heh
post #8 of 16
What exactly does AA doing anyway?
post #9 of 16
AA stands for antialiasing

it smoothes out the jagged lines on textures w/o having to bump the resolution higher

it has an impact on performance tho coz its an intensive thing
post #10 of 16
You guys enjoy FarCry as well? I played the demo... the graphics are really cool, but the game is pretty much a standard shoot-them-as-you-go and I get bored reeeeeeal fast.
Hmm.. good games have spoiled me
post #11 of 16
i like the graphics and the AI.

theres alot of scripted stuff going on all thru out the game and it really ads to the suspense n stuff
post #12 of 16
Can u post the fps that you got at those settings? Cuz everyone's standard of running smothly is different- my friend plays CS on his old comp, and gets frame rates of 20-25fps and to him that runs perfectly... personally I dont like to go below 35fps. When i ran farcry on my 5690 at 1024X768 with low settings, I got fps of around 35fps... anything higher was a little jerky for me.... maybe something is wrong? Or maybe not, I'll wait till i see what fps u guys are getting.
post #13 of 16
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=25763&page=1

fps for farcry are displayed in those screenshots on the upper right hand corner

as you can see it fluctuates pretty wildly... indoors im getting 50-70+ fps
outdoors 30-40+ fps
post #14 of 16
I too am having some issues running Far Cry at highest settings w/4780.

Does anyone know of a simple program I can use to capture frame rates?
post #15 of 16
/r_displayinfo 1

you have to hit the little line next to the one button then type in the above line exactly as I typed it. That will give you your frame rate. Hit the button a second time to get rid of the green box.
post #16 of 16
benchemall

google it

is a benchmark program that uses prescripted timedemos for each of the latest games

farcry/unreal etc ... if u run it u can get an fps "AVG" in the timedemo they use
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