The far cry 2 thread!

[PVTCaboose1337]

I love this game. I am at 31% complete. My weps of choice are dart rifle, dragunov, and silenced pistol.

 

[ShadowFold]

I carry a AK, Grenade Launcher and RPG most of the time.

 

[olithereal]

Just a question: is there a way to like fill your flamethrower back? I seem to use all it's gaz real fast and find myself looking for a gunshop to get a new one.

 

[Mussels]

Just a question: is there a way to like fill your flamethrower back? I seem to use all it's gaz real fast and find myself looking for a gunshop to get a new one.

i thought it was infinite? mines never ran out. They can break after excessive use, and you just have to get new ones from your armoury.

edit: the FOV fixer, i have some recommended settings for 16:9 TV users
1.15 and 1.443 (top and bottom sliders, in that order)

When i had to talk to people, it felt like i was right up in their face - it just felt really weird to be that close to talk to someone in game. with the FOV fix and those settings above, its fixed that perspective issue and now the game feels right again.

 

[kid41212003]

I tried the built-in benchmark, In DX9, the first loop always the fastest. The 2nd and 3rd are slower than the 1st loop 15-20%.
In DX10, the first loop is the lowest, then 2nd, and 3rd is the best.
It's weird.

 

[ChromeDome]

yes it is the drivers. those betas are terrible, and screw lots of things up with the game.

lol the game keeps warning me at the beginning that my "drivers are old. Please update to the latest drivers." i get a pop up

meanwhile the game is playing perfectly with my 175.16's

 

[Kursah]

I'd say at least go 177.83's ChromeDome, great driver set. Enables physx when applicable, and the 175 drivers were kind of a bust...I skipped em completely when I had my 9600GT...stuck with 174.74's till the 177's were released.

I'm running the WHQL 178.24's with pretty good results, the game plays amazing. A buddy of mine with an 8800GT says the 178's seems smoother than the older drivers he had (couldn't tell ya...I removed em, updated to the new ones...needless to say he said he noticed a difference in the more graphics heavy games...he plays 1680x1050, 4xaa, ultra w/o issues in FC2, he's yet to run the bench, but says he averages around 40FPS+ using ShowFPS 1 command..so ymmv).

 

[ChromeDome]

hmm....i may give those 177.83's another shot, then. if i recall i had those installed last time, i'm pretty sure. but i got stutters in GRID with them which for a driving game is unacceptable, obviously

reinstalled the 175.16 and the stutters were gone. then again i had just installed Windows after a reformat, too. so maybe the driver installation was kind of messed up on the 177.83's?

i'll go ahead and give the 178.24's you are using a shot. i suppose they are for the 8800 series cards, too? if not i'll try the 177.83's again and take it from there

i'm always interested in better performance

thanks for the info

 

[Kursah]

The 178's seem fine, but don't seem to be all that much greater than the 177.83's imo...at least in the seat of the pants feel. I'm going to try the 177.83's in FC2...I am having some weird fan speed issues after installing the 180's I can't seem to shake...but the performance is good, the temps read cooler in the 178's (odd), and I really can't complain! I don't play GRID, never really got into it, but I've played many other games that reacted excellently to the .83's.

The 178.24's are the latest WHQL drivers, so yeah they're compatable with your card afaik.

 

[johnnyfiive]

Well, looks like the random crashing is resolved. DX9 mode seems to keep it from not crashing. Heres more screenies!

1440x900 - DX9 - 4XAA - Very High Quality

 

[ChromeDome]

The 178's seem fine, but don't seem to be all that much greater than the 177.83's imo...at least in the seat of the pants feel. I'm going to try the 177.83's in FC2...I am having some weird fan speed issues after installing the 180's I can't seem to shake...but the performance is good, the temps read cooler in the 178's (odd), and I really can't complain! I don't play GRID, never really got into it, but I've played many other games that reacted excellently to the .83's.

The 178.24's are the latest WHQL drivers, so yeah they're compatable with your card afaik.

yeah i have the 178.24's installed now. took GRID out for a turn or two and everything is nice and smooth. i use "seat of the pants" impressions, too. and things are lag and stutter free. seems like a good deal, then.

i'm going to play FC2 again soon. so i'll see how it goes there and with other games. according to what i read on the download page at guru3d the gains in some games can be quite substantial

 

[vega22]

got my first decent ping match last night. but overall i thought it was pretty bad.
It kinda reminded me of goldeneye, back in the day, which was then...but this is now...
poor Ubisoft, theyve got some nice ideas.......

hhhmmm back to cod4 for me too

i wonder what dvds smoke like????

 

[Kursah]

Love CoD4, great game, but I'm burnt out on it, having a blast with my clan in FC2. I love this game!

N e ways, gave the 180.43 beta's a shot, since they're the "new" FC2 hotfix drivers on NV's side, gotta say the FPS have increased in game by a decent amount, but what I want to show is the increase in the bench for you bench hounds out there...almost a 10FPS average increase, more stable performance across the demo, no hitches, glitches, errors or issues.

Original results with 178.24 WHQL's (most recent whql's as of this writing) found here: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1029195&postcount=78

For those not interested in reading that report or much further, the Average results are:

178.24 ---------------180.43

Min: 36.27 ----- 43.43
Max: 66.65 ----- 70.30
Avg: 43.42 ----- 52.75

Nothing has changed, except for the drivers...OC is the same across the board. For just changing drivers, not only do I still have NO issues, glitches, hitches, etc, but I gained a healthy amount of performance. My avg low FPS is the same as the Average AVG from the 178 drivers. Gained almost 10FPS on AVG vs AVG, and gained about 4-5FPS on max. I won't complain about that one bit! To fix the fan speed issue a simple bios mod took care of that, so no worries.

Now for those interested, the new graphs:

There you have it...again not the best results I'm sure, but I'm very content with them! The game already played effing awesome on the older drivers...smooth, never had an issue graphical wise, but now I'm getting even better results, hell why not?! Love the game, now it plays better, DX10 is playing very nice, I hope some of you having issues out there can get the stuff you need to get it resolved, noone should have to deal with some of the crap you guys are. For those that don't like the game, I can see why, it's simple, no game can be made to please everyone, some had higher expectations, sure this game could've provided more...but last I checked on my game install DIR it was at 3.16GB (maybe vista is reading it wrong? lol)...show me a game with that kind of install size that can do what FC2 does...to me that's pretty impressive in it's own right...that's gotta be the smallest install I've seen for a game like this in years!

 

[Mussels]

those drivers only work properly on the 280 + 260. all the other cards tend to suffer pretty bad bugs with those drivers (game/editor not starting, crashes, stuttering, etc)

 

[EviLZeD]

what mussels said with 180's i got crashing after and hour or so and couldnt change my resolution it would crash again

 

[Sc1mitar]

just finished it now...played as Josip..dude w/ the white mustache..wont spoil it or nutin for yall...the bus is a lifesaver, no more driving accross the map 10 times threw checkpoints you cleared out about 2 mins ago...

but wow...tahts all i have 2 say...incredible game, incredible graphics,great story. love the twist they give to it.

the best kit imo, is an AK47, a deagle/uzi, and a Carl Gustav. bascily unbeatable, make sure to get all the ammo upgrades.

time to hit up MP and see if its any good...sure hope it is...dont think ill play the SP anymore, never seem to play SP more than once threw...


maybe time 4 some sleep?

 

[Mussels]

i cant even join LAN servers, it gives me new errors every time.

My kit is AS50 sniper + Uzi + RPG.

it works

 

[newconroer]

Looking at this again, I realised the BLUE results are average, and grey is minimum.

How the FUKK did they get over 70avg on an X2 with 4xAA? Or even no AA for that matter...

Their minimum is the same as my average and that's only with 2xAA.

 

[adrianx]

any one have that ....



I also same tine the game simple close and send me to the desktop with out any error message


I have the 8.10 amd/ati driver and the farcry2 hot fix all ready installed

I run on win vista x64 and 3870x2

 

[Asylum]

Ok heres my results with my res and all maxed out and cards at stock settings!!

Not to bad for stock!!

Use the 178.13 there running smooth as glass for me and check my bench marks earlier in this thread

 

[mikek75]

I've just bought it through Steam, whereabouts will I find the benchmark tool?

 

[Mussels]

to the people with crashes: i've seen three causes for problems in the game.

1. Drivers. Nvidia betas have problems. Some soundcards have problems - make sure the drivers are updated!

2. DirectX. Steam versions of the game at least, dont update directX for you. even if its vista and DX10, you'll need to update DX9.

3. Run it in DX9. the game was made for DX10.1, and shit seems to be going wrong for just about everyone in DX10.

 

[olithereal]

to the people with crashes: i've seen three causes for problems in the game.

1. Drivers. Nvidia betas have problems. Some soundcards have problems - make sure the drivers are updated!

2. DirectX. Steam versions of the game at least, dont update directX for you. even if its vista and DX10, you'll need to update DX9.

3. Run it in DX9. the game was made for DX10.1, and shit seems to be going wrong for just about everyone in DX10.

PhysX caused crash on my side, and for a few other people on the official forums.

 

[rampage]

ill have to try it in dx 9 and see if i get a bit more performance, things run like crap for me

has anyone used the dart gun... and is there any real benefit to it? (knock out a gun insted of killing them) ??

 

[newconroer]

to the people with crashes: i've seen three causes for problems in the game.

1. Drivers. Nvidia betas have problems. Some soundcards have problems - make sure the drivers are updated!

2. DirectX. Steam versions of the game at least, dont update directX for you. even if its vista and DX10, you'll need to update DX9.

3. Run it in DX9. the game was made for DX10.1, and shit seems to be going wrong for just about everyone in DX10.

Update to what month? The latest is August ya? Surely everyone already has that.