Far Cry SP demo

[Letters]

Yes, the AI is definitely the best I've seen since Ghost Recon. Come to think of it... this game is sorta like Ghost Recon without the squads... that's sweet...

[Dr. Freeman]

whats the command to show ur fps?

i'd like to know how it runs at medium settings..

[[Matt]]

Also to those who are complaining of bugs... Demo's that are released months early are in essence public beta's as they give the developer a chance to find bugs that they have yet to find and they help developers improve the game play via feedback from the games community!

Anyone remember playing the Breed game demo at the start of this year? When it was released the consensus was that the game was far too buggy and that the game play left a lot to be desired. Thankfully the developer Brat Designs took note and held back the game whilst the development team re-worked much of the game...

[ShinRa]

I have like a brightness problem. Yes I have a 9800, and i toned the brightness down, but its like this really annoying sun glare but i know its not what the game is supposed to look like. Alot of the colors are blotchy and shit...anyone know what I need to do?

[Pauly]

whats the command to show ur fps?

i'd like to know how it runs at medium settings..
dr. freeman its \r_displayinfo 1 make sure its \ slash not / slash

[FortisVir]

Well, it took me 8 hours to get file off of bit Torrent, but hot damn was it worth it.

This demo is awesome, I can't wait for the full game.

First off, the graphics, yeah are amazing - no shocker there. The physics are also amazing. I think the bodies have the perfect weight. It's retarted in games where you shoot someone with a pistol and they go flying. Yes I guess they are "heavy", but it works well. For example - One soldier(?) was running away from me and I shot him in the back. He fell but still had his running momentum - which sent him head first into a post after which he fell into the water.

The AI, is also very well done. Yeah they do kinda run back and forth in the same spot sometimes, but other than that I was really impressed. They take cover behind posts, call for reinforcements, and they even try to flank you! I was taking on the group of 4 (5?) soldiers at the beginning. I had 2 cornered, when I noticed that the other 2 were sneaking around me on the left.

Driving the "buggy" was fun too with the nice physics. Has anyone else been getting stuck all the damn time? I can't drive for 10 seconds without ramming into a rock, still fun to drive though. I also noticed the nice independent suspension between the wheels they had put into the buggy.

Observations/things to do
-You can shoot the fish!
-I shot the birds, but they seem to just disappear when you do, glitch maybe?
-Anyone else notice the soldier's bodies float?
-Did anyone else find the rusted hulk of the japanese figther-plane?
-Sneaking up on people with the knife....teehee
-Running shit over with the buggy
-Beaching your boat to run soldiers over killer-whale style.

Would anyone be willing to host a couple screens for me?

[/giddy excitement]

[BHC]

holy crap I cant stop playing and its just an sp demo WOW

FAR CRY = UBER WIN OMFG!!!!!

physics are amazeing, rendering for massive enviorments=win, voilence is goretastic decals per pixel doom III style, ragdoll physics are win and so are objects I accidentlly shoot stuff over all the time especially inside, and boats and cars and even helos all semlessly integrated HOLY CRAP with good editing tools

we rarely see this and its not a sequel, its far cry ;( and im sure as hell buying it

(artificial intenegence is amazeing they hide, run out of ammo, strafe and talk to each other in an actual tactical sense!!!) this is no freaking quake 3 bot here :naughty: :naughty:

the long distance killing and one perticular instance were I shot a corpse that had many holes in it from my abuseing it and nadeing it it slid across the mountainside and evewere it slid blood realisticly had left its mark on the terrain in a smeared sickly fashion it was to die for... im not going to tell you what it made me react :naughty:

the ambience really got me into it and the effects on my 9700... water physics roxt my sox....... the guirilla warfare was kickarse and realistic bright topical skies

anywho HOLY CRAP ;( all I can say is HOLY SH!7

im buying this, I rarely say this about a game with a demo (and not even a bug free one at all) but no chance in hell I can pass up an orginal title like this

il see if I can post screens on my geocities :D :D :D :D :D

oh and were the hell are you guys getting this buggy??? i want one!!!
(i also really havent seen many fish/birds but I didnt really look hard)

its a visual orgasm with ai to die for guirilla warfare tactics kickass physics and orginal plot and boats/planes/cars and tons of realistic violence

[qckbeam]

One gripe with the demo (and for me anyway, it's big). Why, Why, WHY don't dead bodies stay put in this game? If I get in a gunfight and kill 4 guys at the start of the level, I want to see them laying there, in a pool of blood just like I left them, upon my return later. In farcry, you shoot a guy, and as soon as you turn around *poof* he's gone, without a trace! That bugs me to no end. It makes me feel like I'm not actually doing anything to the world, like my actions have no consequences.

Also, where is the gemod technology? Did they take it out?

[BHC]

I dont think deforamable in the sense of everything was intended I think it meant it was possible using crytek and certain things in the game would deform..? dono, about bodies ya it should stay... hmm well maybe it just cant handle all that (wonders if boats and such stay put)

also its important to note its actually a pre release demo with not everything you will see (or hear) in the final version... mp5sound lol :sniper:

one thing came to mind when writeing up the above review... Out door Doom III technology... :monkee: thats what this reminds me off especially models and shooting corpses

[Shuzer]

What kinda FPS do you guys get in FarCry? Kinda curious, I get a constant 30 (usually never below, does get above it depending on the area) atleast..

Athlon XP 2800+, 512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM, Radeon 9700

[Mr. Bildo]

As far as the GeoMod technology, which I was REALLY, REALLY, REALLY disappointed about, does exist to some small degree. Basically, if you toss a grenade on the ground, sometimes (not sure why it doesn't always) the ground will deform (sink in) and an explosion decal is overlayed. I wasn't able to get anything to blow up. Also, I don't think the physics are that great. I still think MP2, albeit exagerrated, were much better.

On the good side, the engine is really fast. I had every setting to Very High and it ran smooth as hell. The draw distance is amazing, but the dense jungles blew me away. I would LOVE to play a Vietnam Mod in this game.

I'm going to play it some more and hopefully see more that I like, but so far I guess I was expecting to be really WOW'ed and it hasn't happened yet.

--Mr. Bildo

[chu]

Woohoo, got the demo!! Thank god I have friends who have cable.

About to try it now, I will post thoughts later

[AmishSlayer]

As far as the GeoMod technology, which I was REALLY, REALLY, REALLY disappointed about, does exist to some small degree. Basically, if you toss a grenade on the ground, sometimes (not sure why it doesn't always) the ground will deform (sink in) and an explosion decal is overlayed.

No offense...but what else did you expect besides grenades and rockets to deform terrian?

They always made holes for me...I don't know what else would really deform terrain enough to affect gameplay in any way...

Ah well.. im out...gotta play some more farcry then goto bed on my drunk bed..
:cool: man.. that bed becomes a trillion times more comfortable when you are wasted...not to mention the ladies enjoy the silk sheets and fur pillows :farmer:

[chu]

Hmm, I thought I would of been able to get more out of this game (gfx wise)

It runs real good with everything at medium detail at 1024x768 32. I tried putting the settings at High but it seemed sluggish, then I got an error message thingy.

Athlon XP 2400+
512mb DDR
Radeon 9600XT

[AH_Viper]

Well I'm just loving this game!!

Couple of points I would like to make about it though, first the bad:

1)Bad guys can see and shoot you through walls….

Try it, go straight forward out the boat and under the decking and shoot through the hole where you can see one of the guys talking about how to properly kill fish. The second guy will start blasting away at you under the decking, I know that makes sense, but run out from under the decking to the other side of the house and I bet he’ll still shoot ya.

2)Commenting on EVERYTHING they do

Awh this just ticks me off, fair enough your going to tell your team mates that your away to through a grenade but you sure as hell don’t want the enemy hearing.

3)There is no 3, this game owns!

Good stuff now :)

1)Its sexy
2)The AI although not perfect is pretty nice.

Its probably the only game where I’ve shot at a NPC from behind a rock then moved up to the next rock only to have a guy trying to sneak past where I was hiding walking straight past my view to the rock I was at previously, ehhehhe that was totally cool!

3)The reinforcements!

Damit it’s a nice touch. You’ve gota admit it adds a whole new element to taking on a group of guys rather than just blasting away.

4)Ach there’s so much more but this post is too long anyway.

P.S. I never noticed it was rocks I was throwing at the start of the game, I always thought it was just a bug and the grenades where going through the ground :D

[Sandman]

Anyone get this problem where the game just doesn't work? It takes forever to load the level, then when it gets in... it's like I'm trying to run it on a 486 or something. It changes from bright to dark ever frame. I see about 1 frame every 5 seconds, it's just all messed up. Not playable at all. Anyone else have this kind of problem?

[AudioRage]

Anyone get this problem where the game just doesn't work? It takes forever to load the level, then when it gets in... it's like I'm trying to run it on a 486 or something. It changes from bright to dark ever frame. I see about 1 frame every 5 seconds, it's just all messed up. Not playable at all. Anyone else have this kind of problem?
go into video options, clicked advanced, click auto detect, click apply, click ok, restart the game.

Then try to play :P

[He@t!]

when u shoot dead people they DO move around...anyways looks like theres nuttin special about hl2 anymore...both this and stalker play very good and have excellent gfx.

i agree..sad but true

[dawdler]

Just downloaded it, and I have to say:

Meh :dozey:

Mainly cause the AI is as dumb as the enviroments are pretty. Sure, they hide which is good. But it does extremely stupid things. How about screaming "I'm out of ammo!" straight in front of you, shoot him and he drops a weapon for you to pick up, loaded with ammo? Or having someone walk up, stand 2m behind you, unload an entire clip and miss every time? Suddenly freeze when running, lol! And dont get me started on what they do after you load a game when at the save time 5 people was hammering you...

Some pretty severe rendering glitches too.

But maybe the full game is better. Multiplayer with that world would rock!

[Lil' Timmy]

Multiplayer with that world would rock!
.. you'd be surprised.. :|

[CrazyHarij]

Damn I can't wait for my comp to get fixed so I can dl the demo.. GRRRAUURGH!

[Gorgon]

Man, I played the demo on my Brother PC, with AA on and 1024Res, man you got to see this game. I changed my mind about this game, This game is very COOL, In other word (Sexy as heaven). I am adding it back to my list. The beta version was rubish comparing to this one. In the demo version I could see the water lighting effects and the dynamic shadows are more sharper in this version. I hop the vinal version will run smoother than the demo on 9800XT. :)

I rate this game 9.5* out of 10

:thumb:

[CrazyHarij]

Damn you G0rgon. Damn you to hell. Now my house is flooded with drool because of all this hype and I can't download it. Damn. :D

[Gorgon]

Damn you G0rgon. Damn you to hell. Now my house is flooded with drool because of all this hype and I can't download it. Damn. :D

:laugh:

Go to a public Internet Cafe and download it there. Its only going to cost you £2 or more. :thumbs:

[azz0r]

when u shoot dead people they DO move around...anyways looks like theres nuttin special about hl2 anymore...both this and stalker play very good and have excellent gfx.

Nothing special about Half Life 2? ROFL. Your just one of these guys who never played the original, saw the e3 halflife2 video then jumped on the bandwagon. If you knew how good Half Life was you'd never under-estimate HL2.

[babywax]

Nothing special about Half Life 2? ROFL. Your just one of these guys who never played the original, saw the e3 halflife2 video then jumped on the bandwagon. If you knew how good Half Life was you'd never under-estimate HL2.

Have you played HL2? I have, and tech-wise, it wasn't that much better than Far Cry. The Far Cry demo was much more polished, but comparing them that way is stupid as HL2 wasn't even close to being finished. The AI in Far Cry is much much more open-ended. They don't need any waypoints or anything like that, they're all AI and no special set-up required. Heck, in the editor you can actually play, to me that is a lot better than using a brush based editor that has to compile. You can get good gameplay much faster that way.


never under-estimate HL2.

Can't under-estimate something that doesn't really exist right now ;)

[Gorgon]

bizzy420, Keep your mouth shut.

Think twice before posting.

[Mr. Redundant]

things I like:

-Stealth: I can crawl around in the bushes, where I can lay prone and watch them with my binocs and pick them off one by one and watch them run around in panic trying to see where the shots came from (bushes actually occlude their vision)

-AI, the ai was impressive.. not the best but it was better than your average "running at you shooting" AI.

-The vehicles: the control and feel of the boats, and the jeep were the best I have ever experienced, better than bf192, better than halo, better than the hl2 stolen leak. I thought the jeep was the coolest thing since sliced bread.

-the ambient sound.... pure bliss.

-the shadowing.. awesome, if you have your shadows on very high you know what I mean.

things that dissapointed me

-sluggish fps for my monster rig (this is ridiculous) (~40fps on max 1280x1024)

-I hated the fact that you couldnt explore more (however this could just be the level, and not all other levels could be the same)

-animations all across the board could do with refinement.

-particle effects like explosions water splashes etc, could realllllly use a revamp.. they look cartoony like the kind you would find in some console game.

damn, need to run will update this later.

[thenerdguy]

Hmmmm
Has anyone ran this in opengl? There is a render type dropdown in the advanced options.

[babywax]

It is greyed over, you can run it in OpenGL with a few cfg-ish(they use something called .lua or something) changes, but apparently it's not all complete with OpenGL.

[dawdler]

(bushes actually occlude their vision)
Bushes can apparently stop bullets too :p
The hitboxes for them are awfull. Actually the worst I've seen in a game... (and the question is why they have hitboxes in the first place, they dont stop you going through them, but sure enough ends up with bullet holes)

[babywax]

Are you sure? It seems really accurate to me... Most of the enemies have bullet proof vests on though so you have to shoot them in arms/legs or the head. Try shooting a dead body and you'll see what I mean when sparks come out of the chest.

[Mr. Redundant]

Bushes can apparently stop bullets too :p
The hitboxes for them are awfull. Actually the worst I've seen in a game... (and the question is why they have hitboxes in the first place, they dont stop you going through them, but sure enough ends up with bullet holes)

I guess because when you shoot bushes it spits out some leaves (particles), which is a nice touch, however I havent had any problems with them stopping my bullets (or theirs for that matter)
in fact I love the bushes especially when I was hiding near the blown out tank watching the guys down by the jeep, I threw a rock and they sent 2 guys up to inspect where it came from, then I threw another to the bushes to my right, and they crapped themselves, the one guy fired an entire clip into the bush.
they ran right in front of me (past me) towards the bush where I threw the rock, I stood up and knifed the second guy.

the guy who had fired his clip into the bushes didnt notice and kept going, when he got there he started stalking through the bushes, I ducked down back to my prone position next to the now dead merc... guy #2 turns around and sees his dead buddy, shouts "what the hell happened here" and runs toward me...

now really the damn coolest thing in this game is the sound of a guy stalking through the bushes (as he crunches leaves etc) and then seeing them appear through the thick bush right in front of you... so cool

needless to say he was chop sue.

:)
I hear the multiplayer blows, (or is a hit or miss) but I mean all they had to do was slap in 32 people or so, a couple vehicles and tons of bush... omg the ambushes would be sweet... how can they mess that up?.....
My mind isnt made up yet wether to purchase this game or not.
it needs some major optimizations, some animation rehauls and a few tweaks here and there.

however I must say it is shaping up to be an excellent game.
another thing of note

-Jack (the character you play as) looks like a slightly less bulky hawaiin "duke nukem" and his wisecracks are of the same calibur.
at first I thought it was slightly cheesy.. however after playing with it a bit more it does suit him.

[babywax]

MP isn't that bad. They still have to program the netcode though, but it is developing very fast. I don't really wanna say more tho because of the NDA, I like the developers (they seem very involved in the beta) enough to respect it.

[Lil' Timmy]

omg, i've DLd this damn thing 3 times now and everytime it's a corrupt zip file. winrar won't repair it :angry:.. am i just stupid? (i'm certainly aware that that's a likelihood). um, well, i'm DLing it from gamespot this time.. had to register with the devil (gamespot), but i really want to see how the SP will be (MP very likely won't be enough to buy it, imo).

:devil:

[Mr. Redundant]

oh another thing I loooove doing is using the binoculars (B) to listen in on conversations.

two guys talking near the radar just said this a second ago, and I laughed at it.

guy #1: Man, that guy better not come around here (refering to the player)

guy #2: yeah, if I see that guy, I'll FIX his lil red wagon

guy #1: you'll what?

guy #2: Fix his lil red wagon.

guy #1: what are you man? like 100 years old? my grandpa has better trashtalk than you.

guy #2: fine fine, I'll mess him up, I'll kick his ass... I'll rip of his head and drink his fluids, is that better?

guy #1: man... cool just cannot be taught.
--------

hehe then I sniped guy #2 in the face ah the joy

edit:
oh another thing I love how the radar (your compass in the lower left) shows how much noise your weapon makes via a white pulse.
mp5 makes none. m16 makes moderate, sniper is pretty loud (unfortunately)

[babywax]

The coolest is you can see what your "signature" is, it's on both sides of the radar, it's a little vertical bar that fills up the more noise/more visible you are. It makes sneaking really cool!

[wowyouareacow]

I made some pics for you guys

[Warbie]

Any ideas why it still looks jerky, even when running at 60 fps :/

Enjoying FarCry a bit more now - the AI is more funny/enjoyable than good, like fighting a bunch of gun-ho idiots XD

Bushes stopping my bullets is becoming increasingly annoying tho, the bullets sometimes hit nothing, up to a foot away from the bush :/

Fun game - nowt special

[babywax]

Hey wowyouareacow, how did you do that damage stopped cheat?

[CrazyHarij]

Thanks alot for posting those "wowyouareacow" !!! A great treat for those, like me, who have to wait for their primary comps to get repaired before they can play the demo.. I'll hug everyone who bother taking some screenies just to be nice ! :D

BTW, the blood system, decals and such looks cool , that #74 screenshot looks horribly realistic. Kind of.

[ductonius]

The damn game hangs when I try to play. It cuts to a black screen and then nothing happens. Is it frozen or is it just that it takes a reallllllllyyyyy long time to get to the loading screen or start the game?

[CrazyHarij]

One thing about Far Cry that has kept my attention is because of the fact that it seems to be kinda like Delta Force 1&2 (you guys maybe think they suck but i've had some fantastic moments , playing on LAN and such with my brothers and making levels and such, it's like a sacred part of my life) .. All this jungle sneaking stuff, and the game editor.. It really warmths my inside.

[babywax]

Some screens, a couple of the Hog :) (Edited for size, no filters though)

[wowyouareacow]

Hey wowyouareacow, how did you do that damage stopped cheat?


Got it off the FarCry forum. U have do this:

Replace \Far Cry Demo\Scripts\Default\GameRules.lua
with this
http://www.paz.lightningbalt.net/farcry/GameRules.lua


And replace
\Far Cry Demo\Scripts\MenuScreens\Ingame\InGameSingle.lua
with this
http://www.paz.lightningbalt.net/farcry/InGameSingle.lua


props to Quachee from the FarCry forums for the cheat.



And glad u liked them CrazyHarij :) Hope everything workes out for you.

[Shuzer]

Took some screens myself, anyone notice the blood in the water if a corpse lands in it? Really well done, mists just right

http://home.comcast.net/~shuzer/FarCry0002.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~shuzer/FarCry0005.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~shuzer/FarCry0006.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~shuzer/FarCry0008.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~shuzer/FarCry0010.jpg

[CrazyHarij]

Took some screens myself, anyone notice the blood in the water if a corpse lands in it? Really well done, mists just right

http://home.comcast.net/~shuzer/FarCry0002.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~shuzer/FarCry0005.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~shuzer/FarCry0006.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~shuzer/FarCry0008.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~shuzer/FarCry0010.jpg

:O :eek: Gah, that's beatiful! Awesome scenery! Argh I want the demo so bad...

[azz0r]

Looks lovely, plays like ass, cheating ai, buggy ai, horrible zooming on guns is so slow it gets me killed.

[Shuzer]

Looks lovely, plays like ass, cheating ai, buggy ai, horrible zooming on guns is so slow it gets me killed.

AI is fine as long as its on hard..
I think it plays really well, you just have to get used to it.

Anyhow, I was just playing it again.. so much fun, there's something about hiding in some brush, listening in on a conversation, then picking off enemies at a distance with the M4.
Then, raiding the jungle in the buggy.. oh my, that's so much fun :) Probably one of the most fun things I've ever done in a game

[Murray_H]

God it looks shit on my GF 2 compared to the screens you are showing. I didn't even know that bullet holes appeared on bodies :(

Where is the buggy? And can you go into 3rd person mode?

[Shuzer]

Where is the buggy? And can you go into 3rd person mode?

The buggy is along the initial shoreline, when you first get onto the main island, to the left.

As for ThirdPerson, there is a thirdperson command in the config, I changed it to 1, but it didn't do anything :|

[Dile]

Once upon a time, when everything was on the lowest, Dile, with his cool gef2mx and cel1000, clicked on the "Launch Demo Level" button.

After approx. 30 seconds, he said:
-The sun is shining, the sky is blue...everything's f.ckin' blue!

That's it. Time to upgrade...

[palindrome]

i showed him whos boss!

[ComradeBadger]

Moved to our new forum: General Gaming :D

[Mr. Redundant]

Once upon a time, when everything was on the lowest, Dile, with his cool gef2mx and cel1000, clicked on the "Launch Demo Level" button.

After approx. 30 seconds, he said:
-The sun is shining, the sky is blue...everything's f.ckin' blue!

That's it. Time to upgrade...

you do know you have to disable AA and AS in your hardware profile dont you?

also turn off Anti aliasing ingame.
it causes such corruption... its been discussed to death though.
however it be time to upgrade ;)

[azz0r]

Favorite screeny; http://www.wuggawoo.co.uk/images/games/FarCry/3.jpg
http://www.wuggawoo.co.uk/images/games/FarCry/2.jpg
http://www.wuggawoo.co.uk/images/games/FarCry/4.jpg
http://www.wuggawoo.co.uk/images/games/FarCry/1.jpg

[Mr. Redundant]

how to find the jeep (for those having trouble)

http://www.undertheinfluence.org/users/mrredundant/a.JPG
http://www.undertheinfluence.org/users/mrredundant/b.JPG
http://www.undertheinfluence.org/users/mrredundant/c.JPG
http://www.undertheinfluence.org/users/mrredundant/d.JPG
http://www.undertheinfluence.org/users/mrredundant/e.JPG
http://www.undertheinfluence.org/users/mrredundant/f.JPG
http://www.undertheinfluence.org/users/mrredundant/g.JPG

[ductonius]

Can anyone help me here!?!?!

The damn game hangs when I try to play. It cuts to a black screen and then nothing happens. Is it frozen or is it just that it takes a reallllllllyyyyy long time to get to the loading screen or start the game?

[wowyouareacow]

Got some more for you. Finally found those 2 pigs. I put them both down in a very human way.

[AmishSlayer]

Hmm, I thought I would of been able to get more out of this game (gfx wise)

It runs real good with everything at medium detail at 1024x768 32. I tried putting the settings at High but it seemed sluggish, then I got an error message thingy.

Athlon XP 2400+
512mb DDR
Radeon 9600XT

Weird.. I have...

Athlon Barton 2500+
512mb DDR
Radeon 9600

I run the game at 1024x768 32 on very high and it runs beautifully for me...

[Shuzer]

Weird.. I have...

Athlon Barton 2500+
512mb DDR
Radeon 9600

I run the game at 1024x768 32 on very high and it runs beautifully for me...

Same here, atleast a constant 30FPS, FPS goes to about 40 in huts, and 60+ in the tunnel thing.

Attached another screenshot, naded this guy and he went funky on me, looked kinda funny

[azz0r]

How the hell did you do that?!

[Shuzer]

How the hell did you do that?!

I dunno, I killed a guy, he died near the water, I threw a nade at another guy, but it fell short, and ended up hitting the corpse, and the corpse sat up, lol

[Maxi]

Are there any cheat codes?

[Mr. Redundant]

I havent used them personally (I loathe all cheats) but these were on the farcry forum.

http://forums.ubi.com/messages/message_view-topic.asp?name=us_farcry_general&id=zzekj

earlier in the thread, just quoting myself

[Maxi]

Thanks :) diddn't want to read 10 pages to find them heh...

[Mr. Redundant]

Thanks :) diddn't want to read 10 pages to find them heh...
hehe no problemo, I only wrote that because my post had to be over 10 letters

[palindrome]

I can only play on medium at 1024x768. When i go to high it gets very sluggish. :(

9600xt
512mb ram
p4 1.8ghz

[chu]

This game is very wierd.

At medium detail the game runs great.

At Very High detail it runs good, a lil sluggish here and there, especially indoors.

When I try to set some details high and some medium the game runs like crap.

[SubKamran]

Mine won't run on Very High or High settings...it gives me a memory exception error.

Of course, I'm on a Pentium III with SDRAM :P

[Lil' Timmy]

since i have an ati card, i can't turn AA on :( but with a barton 2500+, 9800pro, and 512mb ram i can run it with everything very high :) (cept that one that's always medium..)

something interesting, i had OCed to 3200+ and the game actually ran worse than at 2500+, and eventually crashed (have been running at 3200+ stably for quite some time). i'm thinking about OCing my vid card.. but i don't know if that would improve things or not. 1024x768x32, FPSs around 30 mostly (up to 60s or so), and it was all very smooth to me. if you're having any issues and you pc is comparable to mine, you might want to tweak your windows, ala www.blackviper.com (and try not overclocking if you do already).

man, this game is simply gorgeous.. i wonder what it would look like with AA :(

[MultiVaC]

Does anyone else get this totally hideous black crap on the rock textures from every angle? I can't stand it, I'll get a picture of it later.

[qckbeam]

Does anyone else get this totally hideous black crap on the rock textures from every angle? I can't stand it, I'll get a picture of it later.

turn of Anisotropic filtering and AA.

[Murray_H]

I was gonna post about not being able to find the jeep, but now you've shown me Mr. Redundant I have a question - do you have to go straight to the jeep, not alerting anyone? Cos when i go to that area, there is only the washed up boat, the burnt out tank and 2 guys :(

[nw909]

I was gonna post about not being able to find the jeep, but now you've shown me Mr. Redundant I have a question - do you have to go straight to the jeep, not alerting anyone? Cos when i go to that area, there is only the washed up boat, the burnt out tank and 2 guys :(

I blew up the people on that part with the attack boat, they didn't drive away...

Unfortunately, I blew the jeep up :dozey:

[MultiVaC]

turn of Anisotropic filtering and AA.
My friend VPU Recover decides to pay a visit. I don't know what's going on, I've got AA on but there's no AA, just texture corruption. I turn it off and the game screws up.

[Lil' Timmy]

heh, it's weird.. sometimes i'll go sneaking around in the jungle and happen upon a group of like 5 dead mercs. kinda scary.. :(

[BHC]

I cant set anything to very high without studdering and my machine is good

dell 2.4 512rdram radeon 9700pro

bleh I hate the future sometimes (and love it)

but i want the birdies and fishies so its pissin me off :sniper: :sniper:

maybe its a bug hopefully they will put some creatures in medium before it releases (or make the game perform better in general) bah still a great game im just dissapointed in my..........dell............ ;(

[Murray_H]

heh, it's weird.. sometimes i'll go sneaking around in the jungle and happen upon a group of like 5 dead mercs. kinda scary.. :(

That happened to me, i went round the back of the island a little bit in the boat (to where the plane + hog is) and then i walked round to the front. I used the minigun above the beach and all the men down there were dead. I thought they were sleeping/sun bathing/resting cos one was flat out and a couple were sitting up against things. Then i shot some of them and they just slumped over. Creeped me out ;(

[Mr. Redundant]

That happened to me, i went round the back of the island a little bit in the boat (to where the plane + hog is) and then i walked round to the front. I used the minigun above the beach and all the men down there were dead. I thought they were sleeping/sun bathing/resting cos one was flat out and a couple were sitting up against things. Then i shot some of them and they just slumped over. Creeped me out ;(

lol that sounds awesome.

and to answer your other question...
about the jeep not being there
I havent run in blasting, I love being stealthy.. however one guy runs for the jeep and shouts "keep him busy Im going for help" I of course never let him get into the jeep (although he does try).
so Im guessing if you let him, he will get in it and drive off for re-inforcements.

man I love this game.


edit: and yes I usually go straight to the jeep then circle around and kill everyone from behind....
stealth... gotta have stealth...
and IM not even into stealth games.... but damn I LOOOOVE this :D
only thing that pisses me off is when you go prone in a bush after a guy sees you enter that bush, he goes blind... logically he should at least fire at it, when they walk in to look for me they still dont see me even when they are so close that they are stepping on my head... even when I stab them...
annoying to say the least.. makes killing guys as simple as running into a bush and shooting/stabbing.

and yes I play on Hard (I always do) with adaptive AI off (although I have tried with it on, I dont note a difference)

[azz0r]

Something I also noted. I was going through the jungle area with the steps and I shot one soldier in the arm so 3 of them flanked to get me. One flanked in front of another but he started shooting and got the one in front. The one in front rank far left and then started shooting his teammate on purpose from behind a rock, made me laugh.

[azz0r]

Also another cool thing, drive straight into the main curve of the entrance island (almost directly straight from spawn) and just as you hit the sand press u to jump out and somehow youll bounce off a piece of land, if you do it with enough force youll end up on the roof or atleast on the wood platform.

[Mr. Redundant]

hehe, first thing I do is shoot a radio if I see one (so they cant call re-inforcements that way, they still can call an osprey with a flare though) now sometimes I take on a buncha guys and I kill them all, and I move further along the coast and I hear a ton of shooting, so I hit the ground spin around... but theres nothing.

I use my binoculars to check whats going on and I find a squad of guys running around full force shooting into the bushes, calling commands and throwing nades... as if someone was there.
now either this is a glitch in the AI... a major one.. shooting rocks aint impressive.. or (as Lil Timmy found dead bodies around the island) maybe theres supposed to be someone else there?

still fun to watch though.

[azz0r]

There is something weird going on with the ai, maybe its the pigs theyre after?

[Shuzer]

Actually, the guy runs to the jeep and radios for help.. then 2 or so troops from another part of the island show up

I had some fun, I went for the jeep first and foremost, stealthfully killed the 4 guys guarding it, hopped in, and drove to the main part of the island. Apparently, a noisy jeep "hiding" in the bushes isn't very stealthly.. suffice to say, they all saw me, and I was dead in about 2 seconds :( I did take two down with the mounted gun, though!

[azz0r]

I cheat like a mofo, you should too ;p

No-one aknowledged my sega saturn picture, boo.

[Shuzer]

I cheat like a mofo, you should too ;p

No-one aknowledged my sega saturn picture, boo.

I tried cheats, they were boring.. I'd rather be able to die, makes it more intense :)

[azz0r]

http://www.wuggawoo.co.uk/images/games/FarCry/SegaSaturn.jpg

aknowledge it dammit

[Shuzer]

http://www.wuggawoo.co.uk/images/games/FarCry/SegaSaturn.jpg

aknowledge it dammit

Don't run FSAA n3wb~!!~~!~! :) lol

[azz0r]

Im not??? Not through the game anyway, are you suggesting I turn it off on my ati tab?

[azz0r]

Also whats with the sucktastic lens? On the multiplay I did with you they were realistic to what was infront of me.

[Shuzer]

Im not??? Not through the game anyway, are you suggesting I turn it off on my ati tab?

Yeah, FSAA through the game = game crash/computer reset
FSAA through ATI tab = weird ingame glitches



Also whats with the sucktastic lens? On the multiplay I did with you they were realistic to what was infront of me.

Not sure, I hadn't actually looked in the demo

[qckbeam]

Also whats with the sucktastic lens? On the multiplay I did with you they were realistic to what was infront of me.

In the SP demo, my Sniper Rifle has a special shader applied to it that works like you said, not that crappy texture in your screen shot.

[Murray_H]

Still no jeep for me ;(

[azz0r]

In the SP demo, my Sniper Rifle has a special shader applied to it that works like you said, not that crappy texture in your screen shot.

Grr, I wonder why, in multiplayer its fine O_o

[Mr. Redundant]

In the SP demo, my Sniper Rifle has a special shader applied to it that works like you said, not that crappy texture in your screen shot.

ditto I see whats in front of me with the cool shader on the sniper lens, as well as the rocket launcher lens

[Mr. Redundant]

Still no jeep for me ;(
what difficulty do you play in?

[AmishSlayer]

That's really weird that you can't find the jeep.

I usually kill the first set of guys you come to...take the patrol boat...kill the next 2 sets (after which you would normally hit the beach and climb up) then I take a patrol boat to the jeep area and use my 5 sniper shots I get from one of the dock huts to kill the 4 men around the jeep and broken boat (I like how one guy is fixing the boat up).

That glitch where enemies shoot at rocks and such happened to me too. It was the second time I played the demo. I just looked thru my binocs...and see 3 guys strategically circling around...using hand signals...and throwing nades at a small rock...I assume it's a bug in the AI. I really like this game even with the somewhat crappy/buggy AI...lots of the time the guys aren't very careful. They just charge at me shooting...pretty easy to take 'em down.

[Mr. Redundant]

heres a savegame with the jeep

http://www.undertheinfluence.org/users/mrredundant/savegames.rar

extract and put these into your

\Ubisoft\Crytek\Far Cry Demo\Profiles\player\default\savegames

folder
(backup your old ones if you want to)
then it should be the second savegame.

(this is my savegame, its on difficult, and I got shot but its just so that you can see the jeep)

[chu]

The more I play the more I love this game.

Too bad the AI enemies can't swim. I was sitting about quart of a mile away(eh?) from the base at the top of the hill. I sat there and shot rockets at the base making all the soliders go crazy. A couple came down to where I was, in that lagoon area. I was across the lagoon and they came down to the other side and just stood there at the edge of the water, staring at me.

Too bad this didnt come with a mini-editor.

[azz0r]

They can swim, Ive forced quite afew in the water and they quickly get back out.

[Direwolf]

Hmm...I had a bunch of little render errors that were bothering me, but I wanted to see how far I could put up the graphics settings, so I pegged them on very high.
I only have a modest system, but I didn't suffer any real perfomance hit, and all my corruption went away. Win win. :farmer:

[A True Canadian]

Strange, I'm on a P4 2.8G machine with a Radeon 9100 card and I can't get the video settings past low. If they go any higher the game locks up. Sometimes the textures become all distorted or the framerate takes a major nosedive. Is it possible that the .zip file I downloaded is corrupted or something.

The size of the file I have is 508, 833 KB. How big is it supposed to be? Maybe I'm missing something? Is it the Video Card? Any ideas?

[Shuzer]

Strange, I'm on a P4 2.8G machine with a Radeon 9100 card and I can't get the video settings past low. If they go any higher the game locks up. Sometimes the textures become all distorted or the framerate takes a major nosedive. Is it possible that the .zip file I downloaded is corrupted or something.

The size of the file I have is 508, 833 KB. How big is it supposed to be? Maybe I'm missing something? Is it the Video Card? Any ideas?

Are you running Catalyst 3.9 or later? I believe you need 3.9 at the very least. I'm running Catalyst 4.1 and it's working fine for me.

Also, make sure FSAA and AF are switched to off in the D3D tab on your graphics card properties settings

[A True Canadian]

Just upgraded to 4.1 and there's been no change; this is strange.

EDIT: Going to try it with the new settings. Here's hoping. :thumbs:

EDIT2: No luck, I tried it on medium and my framerate dropped to about 10. ;(
It looks like there's some sort og gamma problem as the screen flickers from light to dark colours. Any other settings I should know about?

[Shuzer]

Just upgraded to 4.1 and there's been no change; this is strange.

EDIT: Going to try it with the new settings. Here's hoping. :thumbs:

EDIT2: No luck, I tried it on medium and my framerate dropped to about 10. ;(
It looks like there's some sort og gamma problem as the screen flickers from light to dark colours. Any other settings I should know about?

No idea, the only thing I can think of is you're running FSAA or something, other than that, I can't help you.. sorry

[A True Canadian]

FSAA, I couldn't find the settings for that. hmmm...

[Shuzer]

FSAA, I couldn't find the settings for that. hmmm...

Full screen antialiasing, in your graphics card settings under the D3D tab

[chu]

Anyone else here figure out how to explore the whole island?

I have been all over the island, I found 1 stray soldier. I tried to be friendly with him and take him back to his buddies, but my trigger finger slipped. oops.

[qckbeam]

Murray_H, a quick question, can you see the hanging shark? If you can't then you're victim to a bug that is affecting lots of people. It seems to render the jeep, shark, and boat in the west bay, invisible.

[A True Canadian]

Full screen antialiasing, in your graphics card settings under the D3D tab

If found it. It's called SMOOTHVISION (or something like that). I've tried the game with it on and off. Still no luck; oh well.

I'm off to download another copy to see whether its the file or my PC. :sleep:

[Mr. Redundant]

If found it. It's called SMOOTHVISION (or something like that). I've tried the game with it on and off. Still no luck; oh well.

I'm off to download another copy to see whether its the file or my PC. :sleep:

turn of Anti-alialising in your ATI control panel
as well as Anisotropic filtering
you do this by clicking the "application preferenced" box

also ingame theres an option in video options for "anti-aliasing" put that option at "none"

heres a pic to help those having trouble.

http://www.undertheinfluence.org/users/mrredundant/help.jpg

then do the same for Opengl.

[Murray_H]

Go to your systemcfg.lua file (open with wordpad) in your far cry demo folder, and change r_driver to r_Driver = "OpenGL". That made the game look better for me and improved exiting times and frame rate :)

[Mr. Redundant]

Go to your systemcfg.lua file (open with wordpad) in your far cry demo folder, and change r_driver to r_Driver = "OpenGL". That made the game look better for me and improved exiting times and frame rate :)

just tried it on my Ati 9800 pro outta curiousity... it ran at about 5-10fps (opposed to ~60fps in d3d) it took a hell of a lot longer to start up and to load.
so be careful

[Murray_H]

Oh i'm on a P3 1ghz system with a GF2 MX 440 and 512MB of RAM, games usually run a lot better for me in open GL mode than DX for some reason :S

I've messed about with the jeep now, good fun!

Oh and the AI can tread water - i went for a walk and found 2 guys in a boat circling the island. I got out my sniper rifle and i hit the boat, not the driver (i am positive about this) i looked again, i saw the driver dead in the water and the gunman in the sea! So i killed him :)

Then i turned around and saw this guy looking at me, he had a nightvision google thing on, so i zoomed in, quick screeny and then bang :) He slid down the hill so i followed him. Just as well he was dead, he banged his balls on about 3 trees on the way down lol

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.phillipson1/murray/Far%20Cry/

Shots of the above

[Gorgon]

Gamespy.com article The most wanted games for 2004.

1-HL2
2-D3

The interesting part is that I searched the whole List (40 games) and I could not find FARCRY:(

[ray_MAN]

How many enemies? I am downloading now.

[Murray_H]

I just fired a rocket at a boat in the sea, and when it hit the water before the boat, it completely changed direction and headed for the bottom of the sea! I don't know wether this is what happens in real life or wether it should detonate when it hits the water, but it was cool!

[Shuzer]

How many enemies? I am downloading now.

30-40, I'd say

[ray_MAN]

Only 30-40? Wow that's not a lot.

[Shuzer]

Only 30-40? Wow that's not a lot.

It's laid out well, it's all about stealth anyway

[ray_MAN]

All I can say is "Wow"...

[SubKamran]

It's really fun. I especially like the bug (or feature) that the rocket launcher on the boat has unlimited rockets :D

They still need to fix it up a bit. I can't load it on High or Very High without a memory exception.

[DimitriPopov]

My favorite part is that it takes about 5 minutes to start a game, and when it does start it runs HORRIBLE. Its very jumpy like its flashing , it has a horrible frame rate. Bad demo , Im soured on the game.

Unless someone could suggest a fix.... plz (Im running a FX5900U )

[SubKamran]

I have a Pentium 3 so I expect bad framerates and long loading times.

What about you? I've also concluded it sucks on SDRAM.

[DimitriPopov]

Pentium 4 3.2ghz , 1 gig ram , its not poor old computers fault :-/

[Dile]

I checked the jeep, it's not just invisible, its simply not there!

Can somebody post a shot of the hanged shark?

[Maxi]

Theres now a fix out for the the glider and for the humvee (jeep is turned into humvee) here: http://forums.ubi.com/messages/message_view-topic.asp?name=us_farcry_general&id=zyzab

[Shuzer]

Yar, humvee isn't half as fun as the jeep, though. Jeep = smaller, more versatile, cool sound effects, humvee = teh sux

Hang glider.. I was hoping it'd be more fun, lol, oh well

[Maxi]

Yeah, it's a bit boring... they should add a bomber to it! That would be awsome!, I tried the hanglider and shooting rockets down at the beach, that was mad fun :D

[Murray_H]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.phillipson1/murray/Far%20Cry/

i took some more pikatures, some in the glider :)

its really hard to fly, i wanted to fly up to the top but i could only get to the radar :(

[DimitriPopov]

Are there any official Farcry boards that someone could point me to?

[Maxi]

Murray, wth happend to your water!?

[Maxi]

http://www.farcry-thegame.com Then go to community then to forums.

[DimitriPopov]

This is among the worst demos Ive ever downloaded , its hard to install , hard to remove , slow to run and I have to set the quality settings to 'low' to even run the thing , and my computer obviously isnt at fault for that problem.

[Murray_H]

What happened to my water? A GF2 MX 440 and Open GL mode, thats what ;(

[FictiousWill]

I went all the way around the island, I also climbed to the top of the mountain. I'll make a new thread with screens as this thread is a bit muddled topic-wise.

[Murray_H]

\p_deathtime 9999

This gives bodies that stay there all the time :)

[ray_MAN]

I can't find the glider of the humvee. I only see the jeep.
EDIT: And I can't find the rocket laucher...

[lePobz]

You need to download the extra files that give you the glider and the jeep... and if you want all the weps then u need a file that gives u god mode / all weps / infinite ammo.

[FortisVir]

Heres a pic of the hummer-

I like it because in addition to the machine gun it also has a rocket launcher mounted on top :) .

Although I couldn't get it past the first set of stairs, its too damn big.

[CrazyHarij]

When my computer gets back from repair, do you think the demo will run okay on my computer?

2.68 GHz , 512 mb RAM, Geforce Ti4200 w AGP 8x..

[FortisVir]

What speed is your ram? How fast is your motherboard?

[ray_MAN]

When my computer gets back from repair, do you think the demo will run okay on my computer?

2.68 GHz , 512 mb RAM, Geforce Ti4200 w AGP 8x..
It will run great. It is better than my:
P4 2.53 GHz, 768 mb RAM, GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128 mb :cheers:

[Bad^Hat]

I played the demo just now, I really quite enjoyed it although I could see it getting monotonous. Also I thought the hummer was a piece of shit =/ It feels way too light, it's hard to control, and there's nowhere to drive it!! Not without braking every 3 seconds anyway... and the back wheel got caught on everything >_< Bah, end rant.