Far Cry and FW 56.64

[Jon Rista]

I'm just curious what kind of experiences people are having with the Far Cry Demos and the 56.64 ForceWare drivers from nVidia.

I reinstalled the demo, and noticed that the game degraded automatically to using Pixel Shaders 1.1, rather than 2.0. The game ran properly, but it didn't look as good as it does on a Raedon.

I snooped around the files in the game directory, and found the CustomAliases.txt file. I changed the GPU=NV1x to GPU=NV3x, and changed r_NoPS20 = 1 to r_NoPS20 = 0. The game had all sorts of problems, but you could tell that better shaders were beeing used in some places (i.e. on metal surfaces....human skin looked better too).

Is anyone else having these problems with Far Cry on nVidia cards?

 

[leukotriene]

Unfortunately the game defaults to the PS1.1 mode with NV3X cards, probably due to the game itself. Outside of what you did, I don't believe there is a way to resolve this issue.

The intrepid Brent talks about just this issue and several other problems in his pursuit of great video card justice.

edit:
You're not trying to run the game in PS2.0 mode with the GeForce 4 in your sig are you? The GeForce 4 is not capable of PS2.0.

 

[Jon Rista]

Oh....no, heh, I need to update my sig. I'm using a GeForce FX 5900 Ultra now. Its a decent card, except for all the game compatability problems.

Thanks for the link....good info.