x800 performance (far cry)

[jackal]

I've been messing around with my settings and I'm not sure if i should be dissapointed. I dont have any of the patches installed in far cry (dial up still). And, my monitor is just getting me by until my new one comes in this week. The refresh rates are extremely low i believe. Although everything is still playable (besides the yellow textures when on high and u-high), it seems choppy and laggy alot. It's annoying as shit. I only run 1024x768-1280x1024 it seems to do this on all of these. Maybe a little less on the lower ones. I've lowered AA to 1 lowered AF to med. i dont get it. Everything is on high, ultra high water though. The config detects my system as ultra high but does detect settings as medium and low...... it may just be me i dont know. Dont get me wrong it will burn sometimes but damn, i wouldnt be writing this if it wasnt pretty annoying...

 

[jackal]

i disabled vsync seems to be alot better... i thinks its the monitor

 

[Tinneth]

You have an X800 Pro? I thought they were supposed to be worse than the X800 XT.

 

[Warbie]

Somethings not right here - with your pc Farcry should be flying, even with everything on max.

 

[jackal]

they are a grade below.... still cost 400 dollars though

 

[jackal]

yeah i think somethings wrong... i should be everything max plus some head room

 

[Asus]

Do you have 1 gb of memory or 512mb? Farcry is really memory dependant.
I would set the texture quality to very high but perhaps the rest of the settings to just high. I forget which setting it is, possibly the lighting or reflections, but it doesn't matter that much yet it gives a big performance boost when lowered.

It sounds like there is something else going on here though.

 

[blahblahblah]

My X800 Pro annihilates Far Cry. I usually run at 1280 by 1024 with 2AA and high AF with all settings max. With the 2.0b path I can use 4AA.

You should also update your video card drivers to the newest 4.7's.

Far Cry and Far Cry patch 1.1 does not register the X800 series with a proper path. Since it is an unidentified card, it automatically defaults to the lowest settings.

Also, make sure you have AA and AF disabled in your control panel. Far Cry prefers its AA and AF settings set in-game.

 

[jackal]

blah i have the new cats and i have 1 gig oh xms Asus and does it ever have corrupt textures like a yellow helicopter or water everywhere for brief time periods i think it happens when shadows are high

 

[blahblahblah]

Yes, it has corrupt textures on Versions 1.0 and 1.1. Those corrupt textures can be blamed on Far Cry, not your video card drivers. They fixed the corrupt textures in 1.2, but they recalled patch 1.2 because of bugs.

 

[jackal]

then how do u play on the high settings everyone is floating....lol reminds me of the yellow submarine video

im bout to go put everything on really low and see; i think its the monitor its not exactly "quality" gaming equipment, but maybe im being a dumbass and over looking something ohh yeah whats up with vsync?

 

[blahblahblah]

You have a brand new computer, right? There was no other video cards in the computer before the X800 Pro?

Can you post a screenshot of your floating people?

 

[jackal]

yep, brand new ill edit this post with some screens real quick hang on and a yellow helicopter

nvm it wont take screenshots for some reasons, but you are just running along and dry land turns water its weird and random objects look great then for like 2 seconds they are bright yellow, the lag seems to come from all the foliage....i dk