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We've tested Far Cry on a newly, aquired system with these specs:
AMD Athlon64 3000+
MSI MS-7010 VIA-K8T800 based
512mb PC3200 DDR SDRAM
200 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
8x DVD+/-RW brenner
Ati Radon 9800XXL (Pro/XT)
TV-card
3 FireWire ports
6 USB 2.0 ports
Integrated 5.1 surroundl with S/PDIF in and out
56K Fax/modem
100 Mbit integrated network controller
54 Mbit wireless network card
Far Cry is patched to 1.1. We've tried with the driver that came with the
system. I think it was 4.7 or 4.6 and the newly launched 4.8 from ATI, but
the same problem happens.
We finished the Carrier level and the next level loaded. The loading screen
didn't disappear, but we heard that the audio was back to the game play
where you are placed in a boat soon to arrive at an island. No matter what
we tried, we were not able to get into the game or quit to the desktop. The
system didn't hang, because the sound worked. We could hear the boat rev
when pressing the right key. At the time of the hang visuals were at very
high at 1024x768.
We reset the machine, started Far Cry again, and loaded the quicksave that
was done by the system before we reset it. We moved the mouse around to have
our character look around and in a few seconds the graphics froze and Radeon
cut the signal to the screen. Tried several times, but the same happened
every time. We tried to lower visuals to high, but the same thing happened.
Previously we had played through the previous level with all settings to
Very high except textures which were set at medium at 1024x768. Through
these level there was one similar incident. We thought it was the Radeon
that had overheated, but was not convinced as we have an impression that Far
Cry is buggy.
We then fired up Doom III and played it for an hour on high settings at
1024x768. No problems at all. No freezing of graphics. If I'm not wrong Doom
III is OpenGL-based and Far Cry is Direct3D. There must be a/several bugs in
the Far Cry code since Doom III works fine and after our opinion stresses
the system way more than Far Cry.
Do anyone here have an opinion on what we should do to be able to play Far
Cry? I've searced the net and found one that said we should use the Catalyst
4.4-driver.
We've tested Far Cry on a newly, aquired system with these specs:
AMD Athlon64 3000+
MSI MS-7010 VIA-K8T800 based
512mb PC3200 DDR SDRAM
200 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
8x DVD+/-RW brenner
Ati Radon 9800XXL (Pro/XT)
TV-card
3 FireWire ports
6 USB 2.0 ports
Integrated 5.1 surroundl with S/PDIF in and out
56K Fax/modem
100 Mbit integrated network controller
54 Mbit wireless network card
Far Cry is patched to 1.1. We've tried with the driver that came with the
system. I think it was 4.7 or 4.6 and the newly launched 4.8 from ATI, but
the same problem happens.
We finished the Carrier level and the next level loaded. The loading screen
didn't disappear, but we heard that the audio was back to the game play
where you are placed in a boat soon to arrive at an island. No matter what
we tried, we were not able to get into the game or quit to the desktop. The
system didn't hang, because the sound worked. We could hear the boat rev
when pressing the right key. At the time of the hang visuals were at very
high at 1024x768.
We reset the machine, started Far Cry again, and loaded the quicksave that
was done by the system before we reset it. We moved the mouse around to have
our character look around and in a few seconds the graphics froze and Radeon
cut the signal to the screen. Tried several times, but the same happened
every time. We tried to lower visuals to high, but the same thing happened.
Previously we had played through the previous level with all settings to
Very high except textures which were set at medium at 1024x768. Through
these level there was one similar incident. We thought it was the Radeon
that had overheated, but was not convinced as we have an impression that Far
Cry is buggy.
We then fired up Doom III and played it for an hour on high settings at
1024x768. No problems at all. No freezing of graphics. If I'm not wrong Doom
III is OpenGL-based and Far Cry is Direct3D. There must be a/several bugs in
the Far Cry code since Doom III works fine and after our opinion stresses
the system way more than Far Cry.
Do anyone here have an opinion on what we should do to be able to play Far
Cry? I've searced the net and found one that said we should use the Catalyst
4.4-driver.
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