[Muro] PC gamers furious: What happened to Far Cry 3's graphics? - Page 40  

Just beat the game, got to say it was fun and graphics were still above average lol. Would have LOVED the other graphics and all the more bushes I could have hid in when sneaking ; - ;

This game really reminds me of Crysis, but without the cool suit I don't think I'd like it as much. Love using stealth and strength modes to own some Koreans!

Although i agree with you strongly, i think you are overestimating Far Cry 3's requirements. With my single GTX 460 (OC'd to 825/1950) i can max it out with 4xaa @ 1080, well above 30fps. This is with only a 2500k as well. I can't even begin to imagine how little this dents a gtx 680 overclocked or a 7970.

Heh sure it's nowhere near as bad as the original Crysis, but it really does need SLI or Crossfire to truly get that 60FPS+ fluidity with any kind of AA even @ 1080p (Ultra Everything + DOF 100+) in it's current state. Playing well above 30FPS as you say wouldn't be my idea of smooth at all. For an FPS shooter you should be looking at a 60FPS average to get the best experience in my opinion. But some people can deal with less i guess....

Half the issue with this game is the way it utlises CPU cores or the lack of it. It's baaaaad.....and results in a starved GPU(s).

EDIT: Ignore the above, something must of changed in the recent 1.4 patch as it seems to be using them reasonably well, although not ideal. As you can see with 1 core compared to the others.


Edited by Mhill2029 - 12/30/12 at 1:24am

You're kidding me, right?

Ok, My PC is crashing on stock and overclocked on this game. Tried a reinstall of windows and all possible fixes.
This game was rushed for xmas shopping and was not tested on a wide array of systems.
I have literally tried everything.

I'm afraid they cannot account for everything. It could conflict with some other software, it could be a obscure hardware/driver issue. Whatever the case, if you read forums you get a biased opinion, 95% of people on them are there to get something fixed or complain... for the vast majority of people (like myself), it works fine with no issue...

No. It's fine on the majority of peoples systems.

As with ANY software deployment there are unforeseen problems.

1.03 was perfection! 1.04 has been crashing non stop.
Even now when i reinstall the game and reformat it crashes. I don't know how that works.
I just now had to crack Max Payne 3 cause it has the infamous "forever Loading" and now i can't play online. That's why i love that i bought an xbox 360. I put $6k into this rig and half the games i cant play. Amazing

As per usual with these tech demos and E3 gameplays, they usually have some sort of tri/quad SLI/Crossfire system lurking under the table ready to crunch the frames. Similar to the Samaritan video for the Unreal 4 engine...

While it's all good and well, when it comes to the nitty gritty sales portion of the development I'm almost certain they opted for the more simplified version purely to increase their sales market and system compatibility... I mean, very few of us run quad/tri card setups.

Nevertheless, with games such as Assassin's Creed 3 sporting 20Gb of content on installation and Far Cry 3 only breaking in at 11-12Gb, I don't see why they couldn't have added in an optional system to launch an 'Extended' version of the game with extra graphical content. It seems there is a larger variety of vegetation and ground textures in the E3 demo.

I have an overclocked 680 in my system running at 1245Mhz on the GPU and an overclocked 3770k, however I almost just break even in fps to make it enjoyable. The game is definately not fully optimized and this is something that's becoming something of a trend with Ubisoft games as of late...

Sadly it all boils down to the console side of the table, it's the current gen consoles that are causing this lack luster advancement in development resulting in unoptimized or last-gen gfx games.
And people can hate all you want but until those POS 360's and PS3's get upgraded, I really can't take all these PhysX, particle effect eye wizardry and trillion polygon tessellation tech demos seriously...
They're only a figure of showroom flabagastery and game engine showcasing, nothing else.

Far Cry 3 is STILL a brilliant game that needs some extra TLC from the developers, I'd love to see some DLC packs released for PC or some extra vehicles, weapons or animals to hunt...
How about some anteaters or jaguars... you get my point...

Wall of text is eye sore, lol.