far cry with cat 4.9's

[Sazar]

going from cat 4.7 to cat 4.9 (I didn't bench with the 4.8's) shows a nice improvement in frame-rate all round...

I used the hardware oc benchmarking tool and also ingame fraps results to measure frame-rate and depending on the resolution the improvement was between about 1.5 fps through to just over 10 fps @ lower resolutions on the volcano map...

Far Cry (patch 1.1)
Resolution (AA/AF)
Pier
1024x768 0x/0x 62.5 65.7
1280x1024 0x/0x 41.4 44.6
1600x1200 0x/0x 30.1 31.3
Steam
1024x768 0x/0x 47.6 55.4
1280x1024 0x/0x 33.1 40.8
1600x1200 0x/0x 22.9 27.4
Regulator
1024x768 0x/0x 34.3 37.4
1280x1024 0x/0x 23.5 26.1
1600x1200 0x/0x 18.2 19.6
Volcano
1024x768 0x/0x 44.1 54.5
1280x1024 0x/0x 28.3 36.2
1600x1200 0x/0x 20.1 23.3
Research
1024x768 0x/0x 52.3 54.1
1280x1024 0x/0x 38.1 40.1
1600x1200 0x/0x 28.5 29.5


first score is with cat 4.7's... second is with cat 4.9's using CCC

maximum detail... balanced/app preference settings in CCC average of 3 runs using the benchtool... ver 1.3

thus far I have seen no visual anomalies and in some areas my max frame-rate seems to have shot up significantly...

the CCC seems to be a little chunkier to run than the stock control panel but I can only verify when I repeat w/o CCC... not gonna do it right now :cool: perhaps later

[mustrum]

Wow. Once again i am impressed of ATIs driver team. Other than many people here i think their drivers rock. If only my new PRO VIVO would arrive. :bash:

[schuey74]

Wow. Once again i am impressed of ATIs driver team. Other than many people here i think their drivers rock. If only my new PRO VIVO would arrive. :bash:
Just a reminder - this patch fixed the texture corruption in Far Cry 1.2, so if you have that patch it works perfectly now - I didn't have any problems playing this weekend. Run the 4.9s w/ the sm2.0b path enabled and compare to the 4.7s or 4.8s and you'll see the absolutely huge gains.

[zer0]

i hope that nvidia is fixing also their drivers for farcry regarding iq... :(

[Sazar]

didn't realise nvidia had a problem with farcry's IQ...

[zer0]

didn't realise nvidia had a problem with farcry's IQ...

the 1.2 patch + 65.76 driver is a good combination for farcry... it minimized some iq problems... but some shadow rendering problems remain...(ex. the shadow generated by the movable flourescent bulbs). i hope this will be fixed.

my screenshot:

geforce 6800 128mb, sp1, directx9c, 1.2 patch, 65.76 driver....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/zeero1978/sept%203/FarCry-bug.jpg

...as i recall, i think this area is from the treehouse level, this is the stairs going down to the basement wer the truck is parked...