Far Cry 3 Lag on Low Settings/Need Help

Black_Hawk

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I'm running the Far Cry 3 on Lowest Settings. i found on google what i had to do to stop the lag on low end pc and so i setted the settings to the lowest. when i start playing the game it works fine without any lags but after 1-2 minutes of gameplay the game starts lagging very hard heres the things i changed in the settings: Screen Resolution 640*480, everything in custom quality i have setted on low through the Gameprofile.xml, Shadow and PostFX i have set to "False", SSAO level 1, SDSM 0 and etc. (to the lowest as possible). in the nvidia control panel 3d settings i've set the vsync off and Anisotropic Filtering - Application Controled, Antialiasing Mode - Application Controled, FXAA off, power management mode - prefer maximum performance, Texture FIltering Quality - High Performance, Negative LOD Bias - Allow, Trillinear Optimization - On, Anisotropic sample optimization - On.

My pc specs
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66Ghz 2.67Ghz
RAM: 4GB DDR3 (2x2)
GPU: Zotac Geforce 210
Windows 7 64Bit

i really need help because i think that this is the lowest as it gets and i think i changed something that makes the game lag.

P.S- settings in-game are all set to low MSAA and other settings are off or set to lowest. im running the DX9 version of the game. and i always set the priority to high from the task manager.

Thanks earlier.
 
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You GPU is terrible but if it runs OK for a bit then slows (not just because there is more going on in the game) then its likely something is overheating. I would be surprised though if that card could play FC3 at all on any settings.


That is by far the weakest point of your PC. The 210 was never meant to use for gaming. It was a card to put in systems that had no integrated GPU, and it performed like an integrated GPU of the time. Your CPU isn't that strong either, but it is at least reasonable for lower end gaming.
 
You GPU is terrible but if it runs OK for a bit then slows (not just because there is more going on in the game) then its likely something is overheating. I would be surprised though if that card could play FC3 at all on any settings.
 
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hey guys thanks for the answers and i've got another question. i can't afford GTX 650 or 660 but i found MSI GTX 460 Hawk edition 1GB in a cheap price and i want to know if it will work on the FC3 and the other games without lagging on medium settings?
 

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Yeah it will do unless you're gaming at high res. Just keep the res at 1280x1024 at med settings. if it doesn't work, lower settings.

Also keep an eye out on your PSU. Upgrade if GTX 460 cannot work in your system.
 

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You may need a power supply to be able to run a bigger graphics card.
500w or better.
Don't quote me on this,but I think the biggest you can run without 6-pin power is 6570
Even a 9800GT would be a vast improvement.
240-50 GT with gddr5 would be improvement, too.
460 would be great!Probly could even run med-high settings with it :)
 

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my PSU is OCZ CXS500W CoreXStream 80+ True 500 Watt, i bought it because they told me i needed at least true 400Watt PSU to run a quad qore CPU so i bought the 500watt one because i was going to buy a better gpu but i couldnt afford one. so this will run the GTX 460 without any problems right?
 

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you were right, the pc was overheating, today i went and bought the case fans and intsalled them and the goddamn lag stopped completely but i already decided to buy the GTX460 but anyway you were so right about overheating man, thanks!
 

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