farcry 2 performance

[Thundercat710]

Hey all. Anyone played farcry 2 yet? If so, how are your framerates and what settings are you able to play it on? I'm kinda disappointed with my gameplay performance at the moment. I saw some thing online saying that only the 8800 laptop card is supported in the game, but who knows. Eh. It runs alright until anything hectic starts happening, then I have to lower all settings to medium to maintain any kind of playable framerate. Oh well. I played through Crysis while trying the whole disabling of my mcafee antivirus and honestly I didn't see much improvement at all and the same thing applies with this game. Hmm. Anyways. Take it easy all.

[Zatara214]

Well, people are reporting better rates than Crysis. You can bet that an 8800/9800 card is the best results you're going to get on a laptop as of now.

As for desktop benchmarks, haven't seen any yet. I didn't even know the game was released until about 5 minutes ago lol...

[memetwotwo]

What's your specs? I've been reading about how people with a ddr3 8600gt were able to play it on high settings with dx9 on 1024, or even 1400 when shadow and HDR were disabled.

For me at least, it runs tons better than crysis, see my "my benchmarks thread" for details.

[Thundercat710]

specs should be posted in my sig. I dunno what changed in my system but I started the game again right after my last post and now it runs butter-smooth. I didn't reboot or anything. I'm able to do 1600x1200 dx10 ultra high and it only gives me occasional hiccups when a million things are going on now. Much better! The only thing I can think happened is that I noticed my computer had been in sleep mode prior to me playing the first time. I've noticed that my system really slows down even doing basic windows stuff after coming out of sleep mode. Is that common? If so, is there a way to get around that? Anyways. Things seem to be fixed. Sweet!

[Woody]

Is it the same engine as Crysis?

I don't have FC2 yet but here's a couple things I've set to get playable framerates in Crysis:

Using a 9800GT (8800 GTX) with 512MB

16:9 aspect ratio instead of 16:10 The wider screen in this game actually gives you more visuals instead of cropping it like other games. You need to set your NVidia control panel to NVidia scaling with fixed aspect ratio and you will have black bars at the top and bottom of the screen but this gives you native resolution but slightly higher frame rates than full 16:10 aspect because there is less to draw.

AA off. You don't really need it at this resolution and it causes massive frame rate hits on cards with only 512MB VRAM. If you have a smaller screen or are running at a lower native resolution you may be able to get away with some AA. For best visuals use the highest resolution your LCD screen will support otherwise it will look fuzzy.

Under advanced settings I use all "Good Visuals" except for Shadows, Shaders, and Water which are set to "Good Performance." Shaders causes the biggest frame rate hit and there's not a huge difference between these two settings visually. Don't use the lowest setting or it will look noticeably worse.

[PSRT]

Is it the same engine as Crysis?

I don't have FC2 yet but here's a couple things I've set to get playable framerates in Crysis:

Using a 9800GT (8800 GTX) with 512MB

16:9 aspect ratio instead of 16:10 The wider screen in this game actually gives you more visuals instead of cropping it like other games. You need to set your NVidia control panel to NVidia scaling with fixed aspect ratio and you will have black bars at the top and bottom of the screen but this gives you native resolution but slightly higher frame rates than full 16:10 aspect because there is less to draw.

AA off. You don't really need it at this resolution and it causes massive frame rate hits on cards with only 512MB VRAM. If you have a smaller screen or are running at a lower native resolution you may be able to get away with some AA. For best visuals use the highest resolution your LCD screen will support otherwise it will look fuzzy.

Under advanced settings I use all "Good Visuals" except for Shadows, Shaders, and Water which are set to "Good Performance." Shaders causes the biggest frame rate hit and there's not a huge difference between these two settings visually. Don't use the lowest setting or it will look noticeably worse.

Nope, different engine...Ubisoft developed this internally, not Crytek. I've heard the engine is more efficient, but I'm not sure if it can match the sheer raw power of CryEngine2.

[Elecman]

I bought FC2 for my Desktop last week (Yes I'm shopping for a laptop). For those of you on the fence about FC2... see if you can hold out for a demo. Many people have been disappointed with the game, myself included. Its already on eBay for sale (Gamestop preorder edition)

FC2 = (GTA 4) + STALKER basically sums it up. If you think you dig that, then by all means buy it.

For the record, I despise GTA in all forms but absolutely loved STALKER.

As for FC2's engine yea the common misconception is that it is related to CryEngine. Well that's true if you consider 2-3% of it is from Crytek GMBH. Seriously the game looks like a souped up STALKER. To no surprise should the game run well on modest hardware. Just keep AA to 2x or less and shut off HDR and you should be good to go.

The best part of the game IMO is the realtime clock (albiet accelerated). You can actually see the sun set! I found that amazing (being an Astronomy junky).