Ubisoft has released the
Far Cry 1.2 patch, offering a slew of fixes and improvements for the Crytek first person shooter. And though not mentioned in the readme, the 65mb update adds Shader Model 3.0 support for GeForce 6-series of videocards. Here are some of the changes
* Made the run speed about 15% faster
* Made sprint last 30% longer
* Adjusted damage to vehicles
* Fixed a number of serious issues with headshot detection
* Fixed some issues with ladder animations appearing odd to other players
* Added quicksave support for single player (still in process)
* Fixed a significant number of bugs relating to quicksave (~100 bugs)
* Addressed a number of issues with the server list UI
* Fixed a rendering issue with Radeon 9600 graphics cards