FarCry 1.3 with 3DC and HDR Technology

HL2 already has HDR capability. The Source engine is capable of using HDR as you could see in the HRD video so if there were some sort of race, Crytek lost it long ago.
 
Rico, im talking about Far Cry's HDR. CryTek opted to use hdr with fp blending for Far Cry, which ATI doesn't support. so if you have a nvidia 6800, you will have HDR and SM3.0 in far cry's 1.3 patch. if you have a Ati card you will have 3Dc.
 
Release date?

Considering that 1.2 was delayed about, oh say, a month.
 
what is 3dc and if ATI doesn't have HDR in FC then will it have it in HL2? Argh the 6800 is looking better than the x800 now.
 
Crytek and their engine suck ass. Half life 2 looks wayy better than Fart Cry
 
How can 6800 only support HDR if they were running the Source engine demo on a ATI? :| That makes no sense.
 
Intel17 said:
Crytek and their engine suck ass.
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Are you ****ing serious? I mean shit, the engine is damn good, nothing wrong with it, its no Source engine, but still its very good.
 
DiSTuRbEd said:
Are you ****ing serious? I mean shit, the engine is damn good, nothing wrong with it, its no Source engine, but still its very good.
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I bet he hasn't even played FarCry..
 
Six Three said:
I bet he hasn't even played FarCry..
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I thought it was a pretty good engine. Environments are beautiful, gameplay is lacking, character models suck though...I didn't buy it, I only played the demo.
 
I'm just pissed because Crytek has given barely any attention to the ATI owners. Screw Nvidia and their damn software partnerships. Half Life 2 is the only good game coming out that was developed for ATI cards.....
 
x84D80Yx said:
Rico, im talking about Far Cry's HDR. CryTek opted to use hdr with fp blending for Far Cry, which ATI doesn't support. so if you have a nvidia 6800, you will have HDR and SM3.0 in far cry's 1.3 patch. if you have a Ati card you will have 3Dc.
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I'm slightly confused. I'm no expert, but I though the DX9 code path allows hardware to automatically downgrade from 32 FP to 24 FP internally and still render a correct image (except in extremely long calculations which current hardware can't handle). AFAIK, ATI hardware should be able to render HDR just fine.

As for 3Dc, I wonder how much of a performance improvement we will see. Far Cry uses a fair amount of normal maps.

[Edit]: I'm going to wait for the 1.3 patch, I don't like the performance hit seen on all non-6800 hardware with patch 1.2 :|
 
blahblahblah said:
I'm slightly confused. I'm no expert, but I though the DX9 code path allows hardware to automatically downgrade from 32 FP to 24 FP internally and still render a correct image (except in extremely long calculations which current hardware can't handle). AFAIK, ATI hardware should be able to render HDR just fine.

As for 3Dc, I wonder how much of a performance improvement we will see. Far Cry uses a fair amount of normal maps.

[Edit]: I'm going to wait for the 1.3 patch, I don't like the performance hit seen on all non-6800 hardware with patch 1.2 :|
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not completely sure on that blah, i think it has something to do with the 6800's fp blending that no other card can do that makes the hdr look better and performs better than it would a 6800 without fp blending. thats just a guess, not 100% sure. hope that helped a bit tho.

Sedako said:
I'm just pissed because Crytek has given barely any attention to the ATI owners. Screw Nvidia and their damn software partnerships. Half Life 2 is the only good game coming out that was developed for ATI cards.....
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FAR CRY WILL HAVE 3Dc FOR ATI CARDS!! :sniper:

Intel17 said:
Crytek and their engine suck ass. Half life 2 looks wayy better than Fart Cry
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did you even play far cry yet? im sorry but i havent seen a game that even holds a candle to far cry's tropical enviroment and definately their water.
 
x84D80Yx said:
not completely sure on that blah, i think it has something to do with the 6800's fp blending that no other card can do that makes the hdr look better and performs better than it would a 6800 without fp blending. thats just a guess, not 100% sure. hope that helped a bit tho.
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No offense, but from what I understand, that doesn't make any sense. If it used full 32 FP, the FX series of cards should be able to render HDR also. Instead HDR is a 6800 only feature. I think Nvidia is forcing Crytek to do "special" stuff for its new cards. This better not be FX redux.

I don't think I would be aggitated if there were actually 6800's in the marketplace. I know the X800 is rare, but the 6800's are almost impossible to get a hold of. Maybe Crytek should spend some time fixing bugs and multiplayer problems before adding in things like 3Dc, 6800 HDR, and SM 3.0 that a whole 3 people in the world can use.
 
I believe that Far Cry is currently the best FPS out there. That will change in September (hopefully :p), but as of now, it's a fact.
 
blahblahblah said:
Maybe Crytek should spend some time fixing bugs and multiplayer problems before adding in things like 3Dc, 6800 HDR, and SM 3.0 that a whole 3 people in the world can use.
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I completely agree, I think there is like 2 or 3 members on that forum with them, other than that, they are on pre-orders from places like best-buy, etc...Bug fixing should come before adding new features, I guess they don't understand that. :hmph:
 
they did fix many bugs ive heard. and the multiplayer bugs are getting most of the bugfixes in 1.2 patch.

blahblahblah said:
No offense, but from what I understand, that doesn't make any sense. If it used full 32 FP, the FX series of cards should be able to render HDR also. Instead HDR is a 6800 only feature. I think Nvidia is forcing Crytek to do "special" stuff for its new cards. This better not be FX redux.
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none taken bro. but look at the quote again...

FiringSquad: Well, the 5900 series also supports FP32, so will those cards support HDR as well or will it be a feature unique to the 6800 cards?

Cevat Yerli: Yes it’s unique to the 6800 series because of the blending capabilities.
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obviously the 6800 has FP blending that the 5900 series does not, and can not do. thats why its a exclusive 6800 feature.
 
x84D80Yx said:
FAR CRY WILL HAVE 3Dc FOR ATI CARDS!! :sniper:
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Yeah, but that's just one thing... how many updates and have Nvidia cards recieved? A hell of a lot more that ATI...
 
Sedako said:
Yeah, but that's just one thing... how many updates and have Nvidia cards recieved? A hell of a lot more that ATI...
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as far as i know, nvidia just gets sm3.0 and hdr on far cry. ati gets 3dc. i dont see what your talking about. thats just one more thing, no?
 
x84D80Yx said:
as far as i know, nvidia just gets sm3.0 and hdr on far cry. ati gets 3dc. i dont see what your talking about. thats just one more thing, no?
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Well, it's just that a lot of games are supporting Nvidia more so than ATI, and it gets frustrating.
 
Sedako said:
Well, it's just that a lot of games are supporting Nvidia more so than ATI, and it gets frustrating.
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nvidia's new card has more features than ati's new card (weather ya like it or not) so developers are just trying to enable those features in new games. but money and the "TWIMTBP" campaign probally does have a bit to do with it. ;)
 
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