Problems running far cry- graphics rendering problems.

Patricide

Ok today i got the first new game for my band new komplett pc and thinking it wouldnt be too much for my powerhouse pc i got far cry.

When i loaded up the game however i first thought a few of the colours were wrong (like the straw roofs and stuff were luminus yello) and at first i thought it was just the gamma but after adjusting the gamma for a while with no results i realised that it must be something else and ill get around to fixing it sometime later.

Then however i realised that the textures were not rendering probrably i.e. a part of the beach might just load up as black and so on so i thought id just change the renderer as this fixed a similar problem i was having with giants but it would not let me change from direct3d9.

Another wierd thing is when i go to auto detect settings it puts everything on low when i know damm well it should have no problems being run on all full as the specs i have are follows:
AMD atholon 3700+ 2.2ghz(1mb cache)
1024 ram
Nvidia geforce 6800 gt 256mb
200gb hard drive

Anyone know what the hell is going on and how i can fix it?

Ciaran500

Did you install the latest drivers?

Does it happen on any other games?

feylya

Sounds like the drivers. And you don't really want to change from Dx93d

Patricide

dunno where would i get the latest drivers?its an xfx card by the way, couldnt find em on their website

lostexpectation

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Stephen

Drivers: http://www.nvidia.com. Don't bother waiting for XFX to make their own drivers (if they even do that), the reference drivers from nvidia's own site will do the trick nicely.

angelofdeath

you can use opengl, but it's like unreal you have to edit one of the files in notepad to do it


edit:// r_Driver OpenGL in console, then restart the game

Patricide

how exactly do i do that?

bounty

press tilt for console ingame and type r_Driver OpenGL ?

angelofdeath

tilde key to bring down the console (`) button just below the escape key

Patricide

just after trying that there i dunno if it worked, What exactly do i type after i press the tilde key?Like dont put in any spaces if there not there ect.How will i know if it worked?

-EDIT-
Also just noticed how the game although running on everything full doesnt look as good as al the screens ive seen of it on top spec.whats up with that.

angelofdeath

type in this without the quotation marks "r_Driver OpenGl", press enter then quit the game, start it up again and look at the video options, it should say opengl where d3d was, then start up a game and see if you still have the graphical errors

Winning Hand

Had a similiar problem with my 6800GT, never did resolve it. Was sick of the game by the time I upgraded my card.

TerrorFirmer

Interesting. The exact same problems happen on older cards such as the Geforce 2/3 and some integrated chips when playing Far Cry.

I'd imagine it's your drivers, and for the record, Far Cry looks beautiful at top spec....

....as well as that, every PC I've owned since 1995, even when I had triple the recommended specs for any particular game, the auto detect setting always set everything to either low or at best medium :rolleyes:

irish_stu

had similiar prob with friends pc,and geforce card.and at that i had to downgrade the drivers,yeah down grade.just nvidia been awkward.did ya install the far cry patches 1.3..1.31...1.33.and now to pick your brains.another friends pc is dell.5000 or something.a recent model.game plays well enuff on its pci card.but no sound.the card is audigy zs,did the drivers lark.cos sound is fine on every other game and app ie playing cd.dvd.media files.thru media player,tried dxdiag and nothing.anybody shed some light....

irish_stu

and mobile infintry another reason why the game is autodetecting a low spec is cos of your athlon processor.had same prob myself on few ea games.cos when the processor is idle the frequency is low and as ye know the athlon will change its frequency depending on its load.try playing a dvd in background and start up far cry whilst dvd is playing.auto detect it,see does it change your machine settings.and then close the media player...just my 2 cents

irish_stu

my apologies mobile,that post not meant for you

Ri_Nollaig

im running far cry on a XFX 6800gt wit no problems hell it run on my old 5950u wit no problems.
id trying the latest drivers off of nvidia i believe its on 78.01
reinstall farcry and repatch it
try again use the console command '/r_displayinfo 1' to see your fps, 0 to turn it off again

also run 3dmark05 and see wat kinda score u are getting should b round the 5000-6000 mark

Patricide

irish_stu wrote:

had similiar prob with friends pc,and geforce card.and at that i had to downgrade the drivers,yeah down grade.just nvidia been awkward.did ya install the far cry patches 1.3..1.31...1.33.and now to pick your brains.another friends pc is dell.5000 or something.a recent model.game plays well enuff on its pci card.but no sound.the card is audigy zs,did the drivers lark.cos sound is fine on every other game and app ie playing cd.dvd.media files.thru media player,tried dxdiag and nothing.anybody shed some light....

nope still have to get around getting the patches cause of my ****ty dial up itl take me a while, was half way through getting the latest nvidia drivers last night when i got a friggen phone call!! i was seriously about to snap far cry then and there but as i was told its such a good game i said no ill give it a second chance.This is starting to really annoy the **** outta me and if i get any similar problems with doom 3 or half life 2 someones head is gonna roll.

Patricide

angelofdeath wrote:

type in this without the quotation marks "r_Driver OpenGl", press enter then quit the game, start it up again and look at the video options, it should say opengl where d3d was, then start up a game and see if you still have the graphical errors

o yea and as for this it doesnt work, for me anyway.

Ri_Nollaig

try getting a DVD version of pc gamer or pc zone they tend to come wit a large patch collection and the latest nvidia and ati drivers

u arnt the only one who is on dial-up (fu.ckin isdn...)

Patricide

Ri_Nollaig wrote:

try getting a DVD version of pc gamer or pc zone they tend to come wit a large patch collection and the latest nvidia and ati drivers

u arnt the only one who is on dial-up (fu.ckin isdn...)

yea i have one from a good while ago i think it was around 2 months ago it has the 64 bit patch(that doesnt work for me) and a few drivers for the graphics card but it still fixed nothin.yargh

irlrobins

Patricide wrote:

nope still have to get around getting the patches cause of my ****ty dial up itl

Can post you drivers and patches on CD if you like.....

Patricide

Can you pleeeeese do it ima gonnna kill everyone without em

JacoStanley

I just reinstalled the game today and got the same problem. Luminous yellow and all that. I installed the patch 1.1 and it worked just fine. You gotta get it from somewhere.

Patricide

JacoStanley wrote:

I just reinstalled the game today and got the same problem. Luminous yellow and all that. I installed the patch 1.1 and it worked just fine. You gotta get it from somewhere.

yargh i hate downloading **** like patches and drivers but if i must to play what im told is the best fps since half life ill do it, although i got to 97% of downloading the drivers again today before i was disconected, I WANT BROADBAND.Thankx for your info.

Mutant_Fruit

get a download resumer! Flashget... getright, anything that can resume half-completed downloads. Its insanity trying to download anything more than 3-4 megs on dialup without a download resumer!

Stephen

Patricide wrote:

yea i have one from a good while ago i think it was around 2 months ago it has the 64 bit patch(that doesnt work for me) and a few drivers for the graphics card but it still fixed nothin.yargh

Are you running Windows XP x64 on a 64 bit CPU? If not, then the 64 bit far cry patch is never going to work.

irlrobins

Patricide, sent you a PM.

Patricide

Mutant_Fruit wrote:

get a download resumer! Flashget... getright, anything that can resume half-completed downloads. Its insanity trying to download anything more than 3-4 megs on dialup without a download resumer!

Whats the name of one of theese programmes, any sugestions where i can get one without a ****e load of spyware?

Mr. CooL ICE

Patricide wrote:

if i get any similar problems with doom 3 or half life 2 someones head is gonna roll.

Half-life 2 + dialup = more frustration for you...

gizmo

Indeed, a mate with a 6800GT had the same problem. He just patched up the game and installed the latest nVidia drivers and it went away...

stevenmu

Just a little tip, when you get far cry patched to 1.3, enable HDR (high dynamic range) lighting by going to the console (as above) and typing in
"\r_hdrrendering 7" (you can try other values 0..15 afaik but 7 i said to be the best balance). It looks absolutely incredible.

Patricide

Ok after MASSIVE frustration i got it patched to 1.1 and its working good enough im being sent the patchess and drivers by irlrobbins so i think thats me solved/thankx for all your help guys.

Ri_Nollaig

i have to admite that fairly nice of irlrobins

irlrobins