Can someone please help?

[bud7miker]

I've just got a MSI Radeon 9800pro and after installing the card and drivers i went to play on farcry but the graphics are the same as my old graphics card which was a Geforce 4 64mb! I can't work out whats wrong with my new graphics can someone please help???

 

[bosox188]

What exactly is it about the graphics that you notice is the same? Have you turned the settings up? But I think I may understand what you mean. If I turned the graphics up all the way on my 5200, it wouldn't look nearly as good as a 9800 with the graphics turned up all the way.

 

[bud7miker]

Oh yeh sorry, It's like really jumpy and when i fire a gun i'll need to wait about 5 seconds before it fires and this is with the graphics settings all on low. and it pause's for about 10 sec when i use the boncalures.

 

[bud7miker]

Hello? help please

 

[iamaelephant]

Sounds to me like you need more RAM, although this is a chronic problem in Far Cry, seems to do it on every system I've played the game on.

 

[bosox188]

Oh I thought you were talking about visual quality. Well, my friend has an X800 pro and he has the settings all the way up and he does get those pauses, he has 512 dual channel ddr333 ram. Far Cry just does that, but you said you're getting this bad performance on LOW settings?! Did you uninstall all your old drivers? That would do it. Download a driver cleaner, it may also get rid of you current ATi drivers, if they do just download the latest ones from Ati.com. The latest I think are Catalyst 4.8's.

 

[bud7miker]

Yeh i download the catalyst, but no luck i guess i need more ram(i've only got 256mb) but what really bugs me is that my friend has 512mb ram and a 9600pro and it plays really really smooth on medium its wierd.

 

[bosox188]

Yeah Far Cry requires a lot of ram if you don't want all that freezing up and stuff, really 1GB is what you should have for it to be okay. But 256mb ram no wonder you need more.

 

[Cyanide]

Also, you'll want to patch the game. Farcry's recent patches supposedly help performance on ATi cards.

 

[Dead-Inside]

Today 512mb is the recommended RAM. Currently anything above isn't really noticble with a medium-to-high-end computer. That's fact. Of course there are performance increases above that but not as high.

 

[iamaelephant]

Bah, you should have told us you only had 256mb RAM Far Cry is very RAM intensive. Also Dead-Inside, I disagree, when I upgraded from 512 to 1024mb RAM I noticed a massive difference in every single game I played.