Far Cry 1.2 Patch

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  yep. still via console... : SlamDunk
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    You can't bind keys in farcry? : cajuncook
    • yes. if you want :) : SlamDunk
  • ????????????? : roceicollie

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  if the sound crackling isn't fixed (Soundstorm audio?) ... then I guess I'll stick to 1.1 with all the pr... : GloriousCow
  • No... I have Audigy 2 : SlamDunk

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• There's probably a registry setting that's pointing to E:\ you can edit. : Topaz

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  PunkBuster server maybe? Click on the "Enable PunkBuster" in the server browsing screen. : SlamDunk
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    Did that, same problem. : Chod
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      I was repeatedly kicked when i hadn't yet applied the patch : nivorous
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        I have the patch installed. THats the reason I decided to actually try multiplayer for the hell of it. : Chod
        • This is really a joke. I will NEVER buy an ubisoft again. I couldn't play multiplayer in Raven Shield a... : Chod
• You have -DEVMODE added into your Far Cry game shortcut? If it is there, remove it... : SlamDunk

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• Yep yep yep and yep. I've had the stuff going in techdemos on my 9600 Pro with similiar performance incre... : MrLonghair
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  http://www.firingsquad.com/features/crytek_far_cry/page2.asp FiringSquad: One new feature NVIDIA has a : Ajax
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    HDR is just High Dynamic Range I thought, it gives those halos of light that creep around the edges of th... : Dynotaku
    • Yeah, it is. I thought that was part of what made the textures look all crazy good in those 6800 screensh... : Ajax
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    lol, ATI hardware can't DO 16bit precision, it's 24bit all the way. : Toraz Chryx
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      I don't think nVidia supports it, but one wonders what the bench numbers might look like if nVidia were d... : Ajax
      • probably not, the reason 24bit precision isn't generally used is that it's not a 'comfortable' number for... : Toraz Chryx
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      They cant do 32-bit either! ;-) : TheNarcis
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        I believe 'it's 24bit all the way' covers that. : Toraz Chryx
        • Yeah my bad .. I didnt read it that way :-P : TheNarcis
• That is the 1.3 patch that has all the cool eye candy. I guess ati are supposed to have 3dc implemen... : atom519

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  The last level was always beatable, maybe now it just won't take three fucking hours worth of restarts to... : Ajax
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    simply the first part where you have to swim in that river to avoid monsters was bad enough; last time I : the archvile
    • haha yea, the chair trick... I actually did that without having read any tips, so I guess I wasn't alone ... : proclone1
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      My first time swimming the river part I wasnt bugged by bad guys at all. Just kept underwater as much as ... : Hello Kitty
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        what's with all you pansies swimming the river... I just rambo'd my way guns blazing! : proclone1
        • For the River part: I just stayed left agains the mountain as far as I could, crawling if necessary, usin : jemafinch
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      what is the chair trick????? I beat the game and have no idea what you are talking about.... : FormerHPB
      • The Chair Trick: it's the last checkpoint in the game, where you are in the building with the cage full o : proclone1
  • I had to actually cheat to get through that last level because I had been playing for hours and wasn't ab : stelth
  • You don't need the chair trick, just hide in the little alcove on the right of the door with the heavy ma... : nudel
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  I beat it on Realistic, but only then did I turn on AI_autobalance. : Turd Ferguson
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    What does AI Autobalance do? : renegade732
    • it autobalances the AI : tunis5000
    • it slowly adjustst the AI to your skill, but just for the one level. so if you die at one part it makes ... : Turd Ferguson
• It took me a while to beat, but not nearly as long as all you guys seem to claim it did. : famine101

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• for $20, I'd get it dude. : troublefree
• Buy it. It's a great game. You will not be sorry. : x-eyd|mary
• Yeah I just bought it a few days ago to hold me off until Doom3 and I am loving it. Its a lot of fun. T... : TheNarcis

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• oh, and 1900 NVidia CG pixel shaders, totaling 282 MB in size. Thanks, Crytek! : the archvile
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  wow, that's fucked up! : moshman
  • licensee agrees : SlamDunk
• I hate punkbuster anyway, it's buggy and annoying but there are so many whiners who won't play without it... : thebigbeefsandwhich
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  Not to sound like an ass, but how do you expect it to detect cheats otherwise? It has to be able to look ... : GloriousCow
  • I know, but EULAS of mass destruction piss me off. : the archvile
• omg punkbuster will haxor ur files n send them ur porns : armypant

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  What card are you using? : Ajax
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    Athlon 64 3200+ (512k cache) Asus K8V SE Deluxe 1GB GeiL PC3200 Sapphire Radeon 9500 softmodded and ov... : DKo5
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      Wow. I have no idea wtf is going on there. You're probably going to have to uninstall/reinstall to fix th... : Ajax
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        Thats not happening. My DVD drive is dead and the only copy I have is from the AMD bundle - on a DVD. ... : DKo5
        • Welp, turn all the settings down to 'Low' and start it up. If it renders correctly, keep ramping the deta... : Ajax
    • im going to take a stab in the dark but i'd say this is your problem: Sapphire Radeon 9500 softmodded an... : pvt mike
• j00 r in teh matrix!!11one : virus
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  overclocking? : [7]kami
  • Try turning your card down to default speeds and see if that fixes it. : stelth
• This is why the patch should have been further delayed.. maybe we'll get an ATI version of the patch late... : MrLonghair
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  My car looked like that for all games (test out some others and see if it is not just your card and not t... : srobin01
  • Its not the card. Every other game I've tried works (UT2K4, Painkiller, jDoom) : DKo5
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  I would try downclocking it and testing it. If that didn't work I would go back to ATI's drivers. : Turd Ferguson
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    But it was working perfectly... 6 hours ago. Its not the card, its not the drivers, its the 1.2 patch :( : DKo5
    • Well, if the drivers don't support something that was optimized in the patch then its the Omega drivers, ... : Turd Ferguson
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  looks too much like ocing. I can do that too if I really wanted =) mem may be oc'd too far. Just far enou... : rjklevels
  • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8207005 I've reduced it to 100% stock and still have the problem ONL... : DKo5
• You are the one. : khaosman
• you see the code : str8upkiller
• Inster obligatory witty matrix comment here _________. : Skateguy
• Looks great. Hahahahahah : Iron Chef Sakai
• LOLWTF - the picture is an effect from Tron 2.0... : Dimmona

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• owned how? do you know what you are talking about? : moshman
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  why so you can have some nice fugly shaders? : Turd Ferguson
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    no difference in visuals...just more speed...pwned : Original G
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      maybe nvidia fixed it, but nvidias shaders were pretty ugly at one point. : Turd Ferguson
      • yes the 1.2 patch fixed the shaders on the GEForce 6 series.. I think the FX series still have fugly sh... : Shadowdane
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      more speed now, when did the game come out? I would say nvidia owners have been fucked in the ass on thi... : moshman
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        benchmarks are everywhere...look harder : Original G
        • Like here: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040705/index.html : SilverSnake
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          benchmarks with pre-releast patches with graphics cards that 1% of all computer owners own? ok : moshman
          • pre-release I mean : moshman
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            ok what? : Original G
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              ok, ATI is pwnd. nvidias run a little faster on current processors, with AA and AF switched on, fair e... : moshman
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                runs faster...pwned : Original G
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                  I bet if two computers were put infront of you, one with ATI and the other with nvidia cards, you wouldn'... : moshman
                  • Indeed. Except the ATI version might look slightly better due to the superior image quality offered by AT... : Speedy8
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          nvidia get thier asses saked in the latest patch benchmarks, I suggest you look again. Or why not post a... : Rapid 99
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            with the Shader 3.0 path, the Nvidia card comes out a tad faster. But honestly, this doesnt say much. ... : VegasX
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              then why does it make a HUGE difference in quake3 games when frames go from 60 to 120? oh i know why..... : Original G
              • Because Quake 3's input timer and framerate are loosely tied, and running them 1:1 changes the feel of th... : Toraz Chryx
              • Let me know if you can SEE the difference between 80 and 120 fps in a non-q3 engine. If your answer is '... : cajuncook
        • What you mean like these? Turn up the IQ and nVidia doesn't look so strong even with its SM3.0. http:... : aa004
• Silly ATI, not paying out developers to do their bidding. : MrLonghair
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  lol yeah, how long has Far Cry been out now? : VegasX
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    how long have u been born? whats ur point? : Original G
    • lol, I know right? http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=32731&8206640 : VegasX
• GO TEAM GO : Eratik
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  SM 3.0 certainly is a valid argument in favor of the nv4x line. I just wish their high res/AA/AF perform... : johnny rotten
  • it is..but this requires alot of extra work by the dev groups, and I dont believe everyone will be suppor... : VegasX
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  agree.. got radeon 9500 pro... nothing but problems since day one. crashes, artifacts.. windows UI integr... : Ukrainian Thunder
  • same here. I haven't liked ati since the day i tried to install an all-in-wonder pro on a school comp, t... : Skateguy
  • well, the slipup was the geforce fx/5 line, and they fixed that up pretty well with drivers. but the 6800... : armaduck
  • Had a Voodoo3 2000, Geforce DDR and Radeon 9600 Pro. No problems with any of them. : mc-fine
• reading your history is teh funny : eyegeegeewhy
• Someone save this post for when ATI "pwns" Nvidia in HL2...it's fated to happen now, so that the biggest ... : brewsterdog

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• nvidia can't pay MS to release 9.0c early, unlike this =0 : crazywigga
• with SP2. : BongSlayerB@work
• http://www.iamnotageek.com/articles.php?aid=85&page=1&topic=DX_9c : SlimJim

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• Dunno maybe they were having server troubles. I remember writing customer support a nasty email about my... : Turd Ferguson
• wait 15 minutes and try again. : Bali

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  Yes, I really want to know this too. I don't want to play half way through the game again. : redwood
  • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8206169 : Maarten Goldstein
• Works fine for me : renegade732
• I could load levels from Carrier, Research, and the last checkpoint of Volcano, but loading a Rebellion c... : the archvile

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• Works fine on my 9600. :-) : Chod
• I get lots of artifacts with my 9700 pro too, as do some other friends with various ATI cards :( My fram... : moshman

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  lemme check. : moshman
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    they work fine : moshman
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      Thanks man : tomservo
      • no problem : moshman
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  it fucked mine up >: : thebigbeefsandwhich
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    no way! Did you upgrade from 1.1 or 1.0 ?? I tried it on both computers here, my flatmates and mine! :( : moshman
    • from 1.1 ... i had to reset my password since it deleted the stored one, dont know if that has anything ... : thebigbeefsandwhich
  • fucked mine as well :( : duka

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• same here....if buy.com would ship my vid card and my cpu wasnt DOA >:( : sexninja!!!!

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• the 3.0 shaders only work on the nvidia 6800 line of cards. : johnny rotten
• current ati cards dont even have 3.0 shaders : sexninja!!!!

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• MP is fun, but if you buy Far Cry buy it for the SP. The MP works as a temporary distraction but its ... : Turd Ferguson
• Right now, according to All Seeing Eye - 197 servers 697 players 2540 total possible players : DKo5
• it's pretty dead, so don't buy it for mp : thebigbeefsandwhich

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• it even has 2.0b support... crytek just enjoys adding stuff and not about bugs I guess but since most com... : thebigbeefsandwhich

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• Yeah I think they mean AMD 3000+. : hohoh0
• You'll need an overclocked 3800+ :) : Topaz

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  speak for your online community. The servers here are always full up, it's great fun online. : moshman
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    I can't seem to find anything other than half populated FFA servers with nothing but "Jack Carver___"s in... : DKo5
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      yea, for some reason Europe parties away with MP Farcry but america has zero dedicated servers : proclone1
      • none??? damn! :( We have 10 dedicated ubisoft servers per gametype (and they are always full up, have ni... : moshman
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        Are the dedicated server files even out for Far Cry? : sevogajre
        • no, but I guess he means servers dedicated to running far cry all the time, run by official peoples : moshman
    • :( try the assault servers, I play that all the time. Never even bothered with FFA or Team games. CTF... : moshman

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• Yes, it's your money, you are free to buy any game you want, so buy a game that has that very important f... : SilverSnake
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  Umm Quick Save was always there ... all you had to do was hit the tilde key (`) and type \quick_save and ... : TheNarcis
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    Having to go through the console sort of takes the "quick" out of quicksave, doesn't it? : jason bergman
    • commands can be bound to keys. : Turd Ferguson
  • Quick Save was also very buggy, hopefully this patch fixes that : Shadowdane
  • Well if it was buggy and I had to go through all that then that kinda defeats the purpose of it. Also how... : jason28
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    it wasn't supported, it would fuck up scripted events amongst other things : moshman
    • Yea, one of the missions was impossible for me to complete... but it randomly worked one time... : TheNiXXeD

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• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8205890 i.e. it didn't work :) : moshman
• Actually that was the old system, the patch is supposed to fix it. : astrofunk

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• IIRC using the devmode quicksave would break a script in the Cooler level, preventing you from going to t... : the archvile

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• Works for me (now at least) :) : SilverSnake