Far Cry Benchmarks - Shader Model 3.0 performance - Page 21

rewt · 07-05-04, 01:08 AM

I still use the tommti FP32 patch, because like you, I dislike the ugly banding and 1.4 "replacement" shaders, yuck! Just recently hooked my PC up to TV and running Far Cry at 640 x 480 and 8x AF. No need for AA in this mode because I'm far e-nuff away from the TV I don't see any jaggies. Looks really good and plays much faster too

Bring it on, 1.2

OWA · 07-05-04, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by anzak

This is good and bad. As you can see from the chart I attached (from xbit) the only PS2.0 hardware that takes a hit is the nv3x.

Isn't this to be expected since it's now "fixed" for the Fx users? Using the R3xx path basically did the same thing. Dropped performance.

OWA · 07-05-04, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by jbirney

Well that seems totally dumb to me. You have a game thats been shipping for what 4 months now. And you write a patch that slows down the performance on a majority of the hardware that its ran on (granted it will run faster on the 6800 but I would guss only a small fraction of the users have them atm). I mean call me crazy but if you have a shipping title then one thing you normally dont do is mess with the rendering engine to hurt perfromance on a majority of the other cards out there. Seems to me the smart thing is to fix all game critical bugs. Then play around with the rendering engine on the next game....

Simple solution. Don't install the patch. The game already runs pretty well on the ATI cards so why bother with the patch if any of the 1.2 changes bother you. Or wait for 1.3 when 3Dc or whatever is supposed to be added and that should help improve performance.

six_storm · 07-05-04, 09:05 AM

Where the heck is the patch? It's Monday morning here and nobody has the patch available for download yet. Oh well, it'll probably be released later tonight or something.

**MUYA** · 07-05-04, 09:07 AM

you might have answered your own question there

Skinner · 07-05-04, 09:16 AM

The shinyness in SM3 with the 6800 is still less then the X800:

6800

X800

Not that's really a big deal on these shots, but I wonder how its looking in real time.

Riptide · 07-05-04, 09:23 AM

Damn.. 8AM and no patch yet.

mario64 · 07-05-04, 10:09 AM

Bad news folks - no v1.2 patch today according to a UBI forum mod.

"In the german Forum the Moderator UBI_Marc annouced some minutes ago, that there is currently no releasedate for Patch 1.2!!!"

This was posted at 6:45am this morning. I hope he's wrong.....

Here's the link BTW: http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/6/ubb.x?a=...91&m=572105325

Mario64

six_storm · 07-05-04, 10:13 AM

Yeah, I read something about that on the US FarCry forums. That really sucks. Stupid GameSpot just wanted people to subscribe to their services. That's really retarded.

mario64 · 07-05-04, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by six_storm

Yeah, I read something about that on the US FarCry forums. That really sucks. Stupid GameSpot just wanted people to subscribe to their services. That's really retarded.

Not only that but all the review sites, including this one, said the patch would be released today.

Mario64

anzak · 07-05-04, 10:21 AM

Quote:

In a few hours Ubisoft/Crytek will be releasing the much anticipated patch for Farcry which upgrades the game to version 1.2.

Quote from the driverheaven article here.

OWA · 07-05-04, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Skinner

The shinyness in SM3 with the 6800 is still less then the X800:

Not that's really a big deal on these shots, but I wonder how its looking in real time.

One of the sites said they were going to ask about that to see which was one was correct. They speculated the shinier one could be a result of having to do the lighting in two passes so it's overbright whereas with the SM3.0 it was one pass so it's not. Of course, they said it could go the other way also. I think they had hoped to get answer from Crytek on that but not sure if they have yet.

Edit: Cool graph in the DH article.

07-05-04, 01:08 AM	#241
rewt mmm, Beer.. :drooling: Join Date: May 2004 Location: USA Posts: 3,667	Re: Far Cry Benchmarks - Shader Model 3.0 performance I still use the tommti FP32 patch, because like you, I dislike the ugly banding and 1.4 "replacement" shaders, yuck! Just recently hooked my PC up to TV and running Far Cry at 640 x 480 and 8x AF. No need for AA in this mode because I'm far e-nuff away from the TV I don't see any jaggies. Looks really good and plays much faster too Bring it on, 1.2 __________________ My pimp'n rig Athlon64 Venice 3000+ @ 2.6GHz (4100+) · Win XP Pro x86, Vista Ultimate x64 · eVGA K8-NF41 nForce4 SLi · Corsair XMS 1.5GB PC3200 CAS2/1T · eVGA 2x 6600GT SLi · Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Deluxe · Western Digital Caviar SE ½TB RAID 0/1 · PowerLink LPK2-30 400W · LiteON LDW-411S OC to 811S 8x DVD±R/RW/ROM · MicroAdvantage 64MB QuickiDrive · Samsung SyncMaster 931B 19" LCD · Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse USB · Sony PSXtoUSB Analog Gamepads · Memorex MX2700 Multimedia Keyboard · Lexmark 3200 Color Jetprinter · nForce Network Controller 1Gb/s LAN (Cable ~3Mb/s down) · ΩPioneer Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound

07-05-04, 09:05 AM	#244
six_storm Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Nashvegas Posts: 11,575	Re: Far Cry Benchmarks - Shader Model 3.0 performance Where the heck is the patch? It's Monday morning here and nobody has the patch available for download yet. Oh well, it'll probably be released later tonight or something.

07-05-04, 09:07 AM	#245
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07-05-04, 09:16 AM	#246
Skinner Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands Posts: 1,128	Re: Far Cry Benchmarks - Shader Model 3.0 performance The shinyness in SM3 with the 6800 is still less then the X800: 6800 X800 Not that's really a big deal on these shots, but I wonder how its looking in real time. __________________ Intel i7@3,8gHzAsus P6T Deluxe* 2x Sapphire HD7970 3GB Crossfire 6 GB Corsair Dominator 1600C8OCZ Vertex 120 GB SSDadaptec 19160U160Intel X25 80 GB Quantum Atlas 15KII SCSI U160 147Gig* WD Raptor 300 GBApple 24" LED Cinema X-Fi TitaniumLogitech Z5500Coolmaster RP 1000WW7 64 Home

07-05-04, 09:23 AM	#247
Riptide Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Billings, MT Posts: 8,303	Re: Far Cry Benchmarks - Shader Model 3.0 performance Damn.. 8AM and no patch yet.

07-05-04, 10:09 AM	#248
mario64 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 160	Re: Far Cry Benchmarks - Shader Model 3.0 performance Bad news folks - no v1.2 patch today according to a UBI forum mod. "In the german Forum the Moderator UBI_Marc annouced some minutes ago, that there is currently no releasedate for Patch 1.2!!!" This was posted at 6:45am this morning. I hope he's wrong..... Here's the link BTW: http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/6/ubb.x?a=...91&m=572105325 Mario64

07-05-04, 10:13 AM	#249
six_storm Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Nashvegas Posts: 11,575	Re: Far Cry Benchmarks - Shader Model 3.0 performance Yeah, I read something about that on the US FarCry forums. That really sucks. Stupid GameSpot just wanted people to subscribe to their services. That's really retarded.

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