Far Cry WAYYY too fun!

Lazlo Panaflex · Post by **Lazlo Panaflex** » Sun May 16, 2004 11:22 pm

Thanks guys. Hey FlyingPenguin, just curious...what did it auto configure for your system? I have a Barton 3200+, 1G ram and a 9800 pro...should be interesting

peace out

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Mon May 17, 2004 6:05 pm

Autoconfigured mine to mostly medium settings at 1024 x 768, water on high....
running mobile XP at 2.3 ghz, 512 ram, 9800 pro....

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Mon May 17, 2004 7:29 pm

the auto config is a joke if you ask me... i have a 9500 pro and i got all medium setting on it... yet i cranked them all up to high and its playing just fine.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon May 17, 2004 9:16 pm

Medium here except for the water. If I turn up anything higher it lags bad. Autodetect does give you the best visual experience versus performance.

Far Cry (like HL2 will be ) is pushing the limits on today's technology.

Lazlo Panaflex · Post by **Lazlo Panaflex** » Tue May 18, 2004 1:04 am

thanks guys...this is gonna be one heck of a year for 1st person shooters, eh? Anyone have a Best Buy 15% off coupon they ain't using?

glassoftea · Post by **glassoftea** » Fri May 21, 2004 10:10 am

Hey FP,

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't know what to think about this game, I saw an ad in maximum PC and thought it looked cheesy, just goes to show ya, don't judge a book by its cover.

I just got home from Wally World and am installing it now, four damn disks, out of control man, out of control.

Glass

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Fri May 21, 2004 10:18 am

Duh.... you are missing a disk then, glassoftea... I count 5

Mike89 · Post by **Mike89** » Mon May 31, 2004 1:47 pm

I agree, FarCry is one cool game.

What gets me is how on some forums, people are ripping it to shreds. It makes me wonder what some people are looking for in a game. Some seem to spend all this money on a gaming system and then spend all their time in forums criticizing games. I guess they would rather have their vid card overclocked (of course with all the eye candy on) and enjoy the performance in forums. Heh heh.

To me, this game has it all. And what's refreshing is these guys know what they're doing, being able to create a game with these kind of visuals and still run the way it does.

A lot of game makers could take some lessons from these guys and some other game makers like Painkiller and Manhunt. Whether you like these games or not, they run extremely well and no one can take that away from them.

The_Frapster · Post by **The_Frapster** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:31 am

I was playing it about a month ago, then I reinstalled the op system and lost my progress. Oh well, just will have to do it again.

It is a pretty good game, I think for betterment sakes, play it single player before you ty multi. That way you don't look too noobish. There is a variety of weapons and tactics that you can learn playing single player that you just might not get playing multiplayter for a while.

LTrain · Post by **LTrain** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:37 am

Man, this game hoses my system. P4 2.6, iwth a geforce 4200ti. I definitely need to upgrade the vid card.

I just started playing the game, I'm at the treetop lab. Well, trying to get to it. I have no assault shotgun =(

Larry

Mike89 · Post by **Mike89** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:40 am

Yep, this game will test your system, that's for sure. The good thing though is the game is only slowed down by the system. A lot of other games are slowed down by the game itself, meaning no matter what system is used, the performance is still bad. I can always upgrade my system if needed to improve a game's performance but can do nothing about a game that just runs bad no matter what.

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Far Cry WAYYY too fun!

Thanks for the heads up FP