Call of Juarez - Feedback Thread

[Dreamingawake]

just for fun i turned the res. down to 1280x960, and the AA and 16.
uhm..
wow.. completely playable, frame rates are even better than at 1680x150 with 4xAA..

also, noticed something weird..

i had stutters at first, and it also ran in windowed mode but gameplay was smooth..

i played around with the settings in the video options, and changed for example;
shadows from high, to medium and then back to high.

clicking apply resized the window to full screen and gave me a huuuge fps boost.
in fact it's looking the way it should be !

[Arioch]

I spent the last few hours fiddling with this game. DX9 mode runs flawlessly in SLI and at a decent framerate for me in Vista. DX10 mode gives me some problems however. First, the SLI bars do not show up when I run it. For some reason the game does not seem to register full screen mode correctly because if I go into the video settings and change the game from full screen off and then back to on the SLI bars show up. Once I load a level I can tell the performance gain from SLI but as soon as I get to a checkpoint area where the game loads the next section, it hangs about 3/4 of the way through and the game stops responding. I have to disable SLI in the control panel to get the game to run without any lockups or other issues but I obviously notice a performance hit this way. I hope Nvidia releases some newer drivers to address SLI in this game as I do no have issues with anything else, including the DX10 Lost Planet demo so that makes me think its a driver issue. I am using the 158.45 driver by the way.

[nekrosoft13]

i will e-mail techland about the patch

[crainger]

Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

i will e-mail techland about the patch

Yay! I'd like to know the status. Seeing as they lumped us Aussies with the EU version...

[Burnt_Ram]

Originally Posted by Arioch

I spent the last few hours fiddling with this game. DX9 mode runs flawlessly in SLI and at a decent framerate for me in Vista. DX10 mode gives me some problems however. First, the SLI bars do not show up when I run it. For some reason the game does not seem to register full screen mode correctly because if I go into the video settings and change the game from full screen off and then back to on the SLI bars show up. Once I load a level I can tell the performance gain from SLI but as soon as I get to a checkpoint area where the game loads the next section, it hangs about 3/4 of the way through and the game stops responding. I have to disable SLI in the control panel to get the game to run without any lockups or other issues but I obviously notice a performance hit this way. I hope Nvidia releases some newer drivers to address SLI in this game as I do no have issues with anything else, including the DX10 Lost Planet demo so that makes me think its a driver issue. I am using the 158.45 driver by the way.

when SLi *is* working are you seeing a nice gain in frame rates?

[DRen72]

Originally Posted by Dreamingawake

...Combined with depth of field there are quite a few times your brain questions if you're looking at real life, or not.

Have you been outside lately?

[Arioch]

Originally Posted by Burnt_Ram

when SLi *is* working are you seeing a nice gain in frame rates?

The game looked a lot smoother to me from what I could see. FRAPS does not seem to work under DX10 to verify it though.

[Dreamingawake]

Originally Posted by DRen72

Have you been outside lately?

Yup, hence my statement.

-I guess you haven't spent much time playing COJ in DX 10 with everything maxed.. have you.

[Brent101]

Im looking to get this as soon as Nvidia fixes SLI in Dx10 (anytime Nvidia). I never played the EU version so Im looking forward to playing a western game.

I tried modifying the drivers myself by adding this line of code

/8800 Dx10 SLI = ON

but that didn't seem to work. I'll keep trying.

[nekrosoft13]

158.45 has SLI support for DX10 CoJ

[Brent101]

Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

158.45 has SLI support for DX10 CoJ

I can't seem to get it working. I thought I wasn't the only one which is why I assumed it wasn't supported. Ive been using the 158.45s. I should probably just start clean and do a format anyways.

[lespaul85]

Mine was choppy at 1600x1200 with everything maxed, but I backed textures down to 1024x1024 and also went to 1280x1024 and it runs without a hiccup now in DX10. Not that it ran "bad" at 1600x1200, but I'd push my mouse button and it would take a bit to translate into my gun firing. Now it's spot on with the timing.