FarCry 1.40 Patch + lighting artifacts fix?

Hi Guys

Ive gone back to playing farcry for a change, and ive read that there are problems with the game and later drivers that you get lighting artifacts. And ive seen it.

When you rise all video options to max and play the game you get lighting artifacts and ive seen if you raise all options to max and leave the lighting option to low the Lighting Artefacts are gone.

I have a 6800 card. Does anyone know if the 1.40 patch will fix this texture problem?

Thanks

Thanks for the reply.

The problem is that i only have a dial-up and the full standalone patch is 180mb will take me around 20 hours to down load just want to see if the patch will work before i download it over a full day.

Yip thats true, ill get a mate to get it for me. And i only can try to see if it will work.
Thanks for your help.

I recently installed Far Cry onto my new PC and for some reason it's not working as it should.

The menu system works fine and so does the very start of the game. However, when I move to the part where it goes outside the picture goes all psychedelic. I took a snapshot below which highlights the problem - in that instance only half the picture was affected, but when I move closer to the light it's completely unplayable.



I've installed the latest patch (1.4), the latest drivers for the X1950Pro gfx card (7.5) and the latest DirectX. I've had no problems with any other games - does anyone have any idea?

The only games I've tried are Half-Life 2 (incl Lost Coast) and Enemy Territoy and I've had no issues whatsoever (on max settings).

I'll try and download some demos and see if the same happens.

Would I be able to tell if anything was wrong by running 3DMark05/06?

Do you have both HDR and FSAA enabled? I got similar images, and this was the case for me (7950gt with latest drivers). Try disabling AA when you have lighting turned all the way up.

I'm using patch 1.33 by the way.

If you are getting artifacts in other games or in 3d mark, chances i would think, is a over heating problem or power issues. But you say you dont, so that cant be it.

Farcry has alot of issues with newer cards/drivers.

I found when i installed farcry and had it on max settings i got alot of artifacts. I found by lowering the lighting detail to 'Low' and have everything else on high seems to fix most of the artifact issues. Try to play with the details settings. Start with everything on low then slowing increase the detail levels and see how it goes.