SupahBlah said:Enjoying it a lot, but I understand that probably won't go down well in this thread.
Just saying if you're running an ATi card especially in crossfire definitely get the latest hotfix drivers.
http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=38664
EDIT: Don't use 8x AA with the hotfix.
JSnake said:I run the same settings except with DX10 on and at 720p res. My CPU and GPU is also better than yours but I get around the same FPS.???
BigKaboom2 said:Also causes severe mouse lag/acceleration for me...
-viper- said:Far Cry 2.. what a disappointment and it's an overrated experience.
The guns have WAY too much recoil and the driving is COMPLETELY tedious. The pacing of the game is terrible.
90% of the time you spend in this game is driving around the fucking country.
Also, why on earth is the game running at like 20 FPS for me? It dips to 10FPS from what I can tell.
I'm running it on 1280x720 on 'very high' with a E6600, 2GB RAM, 640MB 8800GTS.
That is killing most of my 'enjoyment' from this game. Also the visuals don't look that good.
I prefer playing games with a pad anyway. Maybe I should rent the PS3 version and see how it is?
mandiller said:I just started playing and I'm having a great time with it. I've only played about an hour or two so far but it seems like a really facinating game. The atmosphere is great. This is turning into what I wanted Stalker to be. It's open, atmospheric and unlike stalker, this game has polish and a great engine.
On my 2.4ghz core 2 due, 2GB DDR2 and 8800GT I have all settings on either High or Very High except for shadows, which I set to medium (it gives a huge fps boost). The game runs silky smooth like that.
I took some pics of my setup. They were at 1680x1050 but I resized them obviously. I don't care what other people say. This game looks gorgeous. It may not be Crysis Warhead but it does damn fine!
ChrisGoldstein said:Eh now I dont feel so bad I couldnt afford it, Fable 2 will hold me over until R2 and Gears 2
Shake Appeal said:Negativity in this thread is crippling. I've been debating whether to get this, Fable II or Dead Space tomorrow morning. I might end up getting none of them. Only Left 4 Dead can save gaming now.
Zzoram said:OMG do NOT pick Far Cry 2 over either Fable 2 or Dead Space. Those games are better. I beat Dead Space just before starting Far Cry 2, and I can tell you for a fact that Dead Space is better.
JSnake said:Would Dead Space work fine on PC with a wired 360 controller?
bee said:dragonov, mach10, rocket launcher = 1 man army
just need marksman bandolier now. i'm still having fun with it, certainly won't be doing all the side missions but im probably gonna be finishing it
love the ai mess ups, seen one jump in a river after me only to realise he couldn't swim haha and another stood in the middle of the road shooting me only for his mate to run him over
Zzoram said:That's the best way to play it. Dead Space seems to be tuned best for a 360 pad, and looks best on PC, so that's what I'd suggest, if you have a good PC (plus its $10 cheaper). Otherwise just get it on 360.
JSnake said:You know I have a good PC. Or at least you should. I've repeated my specs so many times.
Shake Appeal said:Negativity in this thread is crippling. I've been debating whether to get this, Fable II or Dead Space tomorrow morning. I might end up getting none of them. Only Left 4 Dead can save gaming now.
Dead Space runs great and plays great on a pad. no pc game should be marked down for bad keyboard and mouse controls if it plays great on the 360 pad (ie plug and play with correct onscreen prompts). no pc gamer should be without a 360 pad in this day and age. just make sure you use vsync in your graphics card drivers and not in game (in game vsync locks you at 30 fps).JSnake said:You know I have a good PC. Or at least you should. I've repeated my specs so many times.
dark10x said:That's not bad.
One trick that might interest some people is that Ubisoft actually saw fit to include a framerate limiter in their game (a great decision). I was getting a pretty solid 60 fps with some minor drops here and there, but I found that locking the game at 30 fps, while initially limiting, actually feels good in the end in that the game NEVER drops below 30 fps. I even bumped up details to Ultra High, resolution to 1080p, and anti-aliasing to 4x and the game always holds 30 fps. So, really, I think I might just try enjoying it at 30 fps with v-sync as provides a perfect framerate in all conditions. I wish more games had options like this as I value a constant framerate above all else.
The command is obvious as you simply type "help" in the console and it's one of the few commands listed (something like "gpu_maxfps").
Interestingly enough, I do believe the minor drops I experienced while playing were actually the result of my CPU as the game seems to benefit from quad cores. The area during the benchmark where you first see all of the fire drops to ~52 fps no regardless of the settings (unless I go with Ultra High and then it drops to like 42). It didn't seem to budge no matter which video settings I tweaked. This is why the 30 fps lock is a nice feature as I can enjoy the game without any variation in framerate.
Zzoram said:OMG do NOT pick Far Cry 2 over either Fable 2 or Dead Space. Those games are better. I beat Dead Space just before starting Far Cry 2, and I can tell you for a fact that Dead Space is better.
BobFromPikeCreek said:You guys suck. I'm having a blast with this. If you put a little time into the game all the flaws go away.
A) Bad gun recoil and enemies being damage sponges. That's not a problem after about an hour since you will have enough diamonds to buy a real weapon. My silenced MP5 barely bounces with each shot and takes guys down like nothing, and it only cost me like 15 diamonds.
B) Long travel. I can see why this upsets people, but I don't really feel bothered by it. There are a ton of things to do along the way, and once you find a buggy you go fast enough that it's barely an issue. You can get from one side of the map to the other in about 5 minutes.
C) Malaria. Holy crap was this over exaggerated. You get pills within the first 20 minutes of the game that make your attacks go away. Wow.
BobFromPikeCreek said:Far Cry 2 is a game that makes you want to hate it at first, but if you keep playing for a bit it's very fun and rewarding.
BobFromPikeCreek said:You guys suck. I'm having a blast with this. If you put a little time into the game all the flaws go away.
A) Bad gun recoil and enemies being damage sponges. That's not a problem after about an hour since you will have enough diamonds to buy a real weapon. My silenced MP5 barely bounces with each shot and takes guys down like nothing, and it only cost me like 15 diamonds.
B) Long travel. I can see why this upsets people, but I don't really feel bothered by it. There are a ton of things to do along the way, and once you find a buggy you go fast enough that it's barely an issue. You can get from one side of the map to the other in about 5 minutes.
C) Malaria. Holy crap was this over exaggerated. You get pills within the first 20 minutes of the game that make your attacks go away. Wow.
BobFromPikeCreek said:Far Cry 2 is a game that makes you want to hate it at first, but if you keep playing for a bit it's very fun and rewarding.
Y2Kev said:I'm kind of happy I rented it.
I've learned of a sort of "Ubisoft montreal design theory." All their games have the same sort of feeling and I'm beginning to catch whiff of it after playing enough of it. :\
EvilDick34 said:You guys are so harsh on this board lol. Those of you who wanted to know how i game and happen to kick your ass everytime i go online....i only use my mouse to look around and my right hand exclusively takes care of that...and it is a touchpad mouse!!! My left hand takes care of everything else. I use my left hand to shoot, crouch, strafe left and right, jump, go through inventory, etc.. SO a typical layout would be this, ENTER key is shoot, RIGHT CTRL is for crouch, RIGHT ALT is for alt fire(zoom etc), SPACE BAR is for jumping, COMMA and PERIOD key are used for strafing, : and " are used as extra keys for anything useful like maybe zooming in and out, [ and ] are used for going back and forth through inventory. I also use backslash and dash and plus key and forwardslash, etc...
I believe my key setup is far superior to the dinosaur w, a, s, d. I don't know how people play that way.
But look at it this way. It took me like 2 hours tops to get all the stuff needed to make this game not annoying, and I've only done like 3 of the like 90 or so missions in the game. This game is fucking huge, and that's a very small percentage of the playtime.Zzoram said:I guess I'm spoiled by the good games I recently played where I enjoyed them from beginning to end.
INDIGO_CYCLOPS said:INSANITY. but impressive!
PS3 version here also. I've had the same thing with stutters. Not many, but there are some. But I thought I was the only one with the weird audio hiccups. I was shooting and I swear I saw the muzzle flash but no gunshot was heard. Weird. And arrrgghhhh! The enemies are a pain in the ass sometimes. I swear one of the AI enemies was just tagging me with a shotgun from maybe a hundred feet away. WTF? To me the controls also feel slightly floaty. Usually in fps games, I turn the sensitivity up one notch from default, maybe two. But I've left it at default here cause to me any higher and it "feels" a little harder/sloppier to aim. I've even tried the sensitivity a notch lower, but it was just too slow for me. It's like overall, the controls don't feel as smooth as say, Resistance or COD 4. Not saying the controls in Far Cry 2 are broken, just to me they feel slightly floaty. But even with these issues, I've been sucked into the openness of the game. The world feels huge to me. And the different ways you can approach situations, I like. Except trying to be stealthy with the machete....it's useless. But the world feels very immersive. Just driving around the African planes in my jeep to the next objective I found fun. The game's not perfect, but I'm having fun with it....chubigans said:No frame rate stutters really, and I tried to put it to the test by basically setting everything around me on fire. Framerate didn't flinch.
I did actually have some slight framerate hiccups when moving to a new area, but that's all I can remember...it's very smooth. I have had audio cutting in/out sometimes, but it's not a big deal. Solid port, but I haven't played the PC version so I cant compare it to that.
BobFromPikeCreek said:But look at it this way. It took me like 2 hours tops to get all the stuff needed to make this game not annoying, and I've only done like 3 of the like 90 or so missions in the game. This game is fucking huge, and that's a very small percentage of the playtime.
Chiggs said:I'm going to give it a few more hours, but so far I am not impressed. And this is coming from a huge fan of STALKER.
It's basically just two ways of completing the same objective. The buddy ones are just more interesting so I tend to do those.Justin said:Having a blast with the game so far but I have a question. Should I be doing the buddie requests instead of the main objectives. I have done the first 2 quests from the guy in the town (the 2 oasis ones) and each time one of my buddies called me and gave me another quest but it seems like I can only do one of them because after finishing the main objective the other one goes away.
slasher_thrasher21 said:I'm with you on this one! Its a very fun and immersive game. Once you've played for a couple hours... missions open up, new weapons are bought, and the game is just good times.
I love how you can take a mission for the weapons guy and basically you can ambush a convoy and get the new weapons for purchase at the store! Nothing like waiting for that vehicle to come around the corner when you have your rocket launcher pointed at them.
I found the best grenade launcher in one of the save houses, so I just did a ton of convoy missions with it. It was so awesome. I'd just park a car across the road and hide in the bushes or on a hill within view. It's like Raider of the Lost Ark only the nazis don't kidnap you and get their faces melted.slasher_thrasher21 said:I'm with you on this one! Its a very fun and immersive game. Once you've played for a couple hours... missions open up, new weapons are bought, and the game is just good times.
I love how you can take a mission for the weapons guy and basically you can ambush a convoy and get the new weapons for purchase at the store! Nothing like waiting for that vehicle to come around the corner when you have your rocket launcher pointed at them.
slasher_thrasher21 said:I'm with you on this one! Its a very fun and immersive game. Once you've played for a couple hours... missions open up, new weapons are bought, and the game is just good times.
I love how you can take a mission for the weapons guy and basically you can ambush a convoy and get the new weapons for purchase at the store! Nothing like waiting for that vehicle to come around the corner when you have your rocket launcher pointed at them.
Not this shit again....INDIGO_CYCLOPS said:Patching this game would be a gift from above....TRUE widescreen resolution.....