FarCry Driver

[scarecrow1]

I have far cry and an Ati r9800XT, amd64bit3000+, 1gigddr400
and was wondering which is the best catalyst driver to run the game, i have the latest but for some reason i dont know why, there seems to have a very slight slowdoen some times even in 1024x768 resolution. the sloww down happens when i move to an area or move the mouse to look somewhere else and it will have a slight (SLIGHT) slowdown that i can still see and franlky it annoys me especially with my powerful machine. Does anyone know if this thing is normal or is it that i need to do something else? oh by the way i have activated vsync and dropped the resolution to 1024x768 from the initial 1152x864. Please tell me wahts up?

[mike_sanfil]

The newest one, v4.4 i think, has a fix for Far Cry, although I think that was just for the demo version, and you should probably use the newest one anyway.

[scarecrow1]

Does that mean that a few slowdowns is normal? even with my ssytem and a 256mb graphics card? or do i have to wait for a game customised specifically for ati cards like hl2?

[mike_sanfil]

Well i have heard that Far Cry is pretty taxing even on a powerful system like yours. ATI.com has alot of their old drivers hosted on their site, try a few different ones and see if any of them help. ALso make sure that your far cry game is updated with the latest patch.

[eagle1]

Does that mean that a few slowdowns is normal? even with my ssytem and a 256mb graphics card? or do i have to wait for a game customised specifically for ati cards like hl2?

Yes. And even more if you have all the goodies turned on (FSAA, Aniso filtering, bla bla bla).

[scarecrow1]

So...no such thing as a perfectly smooth and perfectly playable game on PC? wont there ever be a game on PC that is as smooth in gameplay with good gameplay as on consoles such as the XBOX?

[tecy]

Iv got farcry running at 1280 x 1024 ,32 Highest everythink within the game and am running between 25fps lowest to about 69fps. I was getting slow down at even lowest settings so I dissabled my virtual memory as it was fraged up and defraged my HD renabled virtual memory and its running great. This tells me that I need more memory currently have 512 DDR 3200 and beleave this game needs 1gig as specified in the manual for the highest settings.

1 Note I tryed Cat 3.7, 3.8, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 drivers and 4.4 gives me lower scores in Aquamark 3 by 1000 points but has no effect in farcry at all.

[Redwolf]

Make sure you get the 64-bit driver for Far Cry when they become avaliable:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...?redir=IEGFC01

[tecy]

Originally posted by Redwolf
Make sure you get the 64-bit driver for Far Cry when they become avaliable:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...?redir=IEGFC01

Looks interesting pitty I wont benifit from it havent got a amd64 cpu.

[scarecrow1]

Sounds cool, can't wait to download the 64bit driver!