Raised all graphics settings and performance improved?

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hunter33

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I have a GeForce 7300LE in my home office computer, planning to upgrade to something DX10 compliant in a couple months. Last night for the heck of it maxed all settings in Far Cry (1680x1050 res, 4x AA, all high quality textures, etc.) and tried it out. I know there are some higher settings for stronger cards, but I maxed everything that was available to this card. Strangely the game ran smoothly and actually better than with everything set to low. Any ideas as to why? This is a typical weak 7300LE with 256 meg onboard DDR2 and it's stealing another 256 from system memory. It is not overclocked and the OS on this machine is Vista Home Premium.

The only strange things were that the water looked bad even with high texture setting applied, and the texture quality kept resetting itself back to medium.
 
The CPU shouldn't be a problem. It's a socket AM2 Brisbane 4400 X2, and the mobo is an Abit NF-M2 Nview with 2 gig of DDR2.
 
You sure that your drivers aren't forcing a lower AA/AF setting... or forcing no AA/AF at all?
 
In Nvidia Control Panel everything is set to application controlled, and in the game options everything (except the texture quality which won't go above medium) is set to high quality. Even though water quality is set to high it looks very bad, everything else is great.
 
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