Tainted
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If you have a decent rig
Far Cry 4 PC performance thread
- Thread starter JaseC
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If you have a decent rig
Do you have to completely uninstall normal AMD drivers to install beta drivers? I tried installing the beta driver earlier but after restarting it still shows I'm on the older non beta drivers/software.
It's not Ubi that is not allowing developers to use certain GPU abilities within DX or OpenGL.
Like interpolator information in pixel shader. etc.
http://youtu.be/Bmy3Tt3Ottc?t=43m42s
Here is more info on HRAA.
http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2014/drobot/hraa.pptx
I noticed this too, and it's awesome. It's a small thing, but it's really nice to have for us DS4 users.
grandwizard
Member
Game runs great on my 970. However I get a black screen on startup so long as I have a usb controller connected (not official 360 pad), doing some searching it seems other people also have this issue so I wonder what it's polling the usb ports for thats stopping it up.
icecold1983
Member
Smaa as implemented in this tite does nothing to alleviate the shimmer on trees or even basic geometry. It also prevents you from using msaa
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
Usually its recommended to use DDU to completetly removed and reinstall drivers. Don't often do it however but its highly recommended.
icecold1983
Member
Thx for the hraa link. Thats huge. Hraa looks MUCH better than any of the aa solutions available to amd users. Would love to see s comparison to txaa
Really? That sounds awesome. Is this the first game that's doing this?
No, AC Unity had native DS4 support as well.
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
Well the weird flashing was from me trying to get a crossfire profile to work. Crossfire def seems broken even on the new beta drivers! Getting anywhere from 45 to 55 @ 1600p on one 290x.
And Transistor before it.
Edit: The Steam version is now playable everywhere save for Japan.
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
Well game runs really well getting 60-70 fps with a single 290x @ 1080p. Now for that crossfire support =).
Good to hear! Is this on the latest drivers released just now?
First game I can't run on near Ultra with my 4GB GTX 670. Most of my settings are on High/Very High with a few on Ultra using SMAA. I'm getting around 45 fps but I don't think the counter is reliable since it said the same thing on higher settings but with extremely noticeable stutter. It doesn't matter though because there's really little difference from Ultra and the game still looks amazing.
Try it. Tree shimmering is GREATLY reduced with it on compared to MSAA. SMAA in this game works very well, though the blurring of the backdrops is what keeps me away from it.
Read the release notes,
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-11-2-BetaWINReleaseNotes.aspx
they said the crossfire profile for this game is temporarily disabled for the time being. They're working with Ubisoft to address some issues and will either have Ubisoft release a patch or AMD themselves will release another driver.
In the meantime, AFR mode works ok with crossfire in this game.
Mohonky
Member
Okay updated some settings for my GTX670 2GB
Textures Medium
Shadows Medium
Everything else High
SSBC
SMAA
Trees whatever it is - Off
Motion Blur On
Fur On
1080p vsync'd
Mostly 55+ frames per second, during combat, explosions etc. the only real drop is in dense foilage areas where it can drop to mid 40's but then it usually moves around in those areas in the 50's, driving round I am getting mostly high 50's / 60fps.
The stutter I was getting earlier I think was Textures on High. It would be running the same as current settings, then bomb into the 30's and back again so probably running out of vram. But everything said, game looks amazing and is playing really nicely.
Textures Medium
Shadows Medium
Everything else High
SSBC
SMAA
Trees whatever it is - Off
Motion Blur On
Fur On
1080p vsync'd
Mostly 55+ frames per second, during combat, explosions etc. the only real drop is in dense foilage areas where it can drop to mid 40's but then it usually moves around in those areas in the 50's, driving round I am getting mostly high 50's / 60fps.
The stutter I was getting earlier I think was Textures on High. It would be running the same as current settings, then bomb into the 30's and back again so probably running out of vram. But everything said, game looks amazing and is playing really nicely.
Oh what the fuck Ubisoft.
Thanks for the heads up. I just checked my email and sure enough, had 2 emails waiting in my inbox for the past hour with keys for this and the season pass.
Gormenghast
Member
Isn't there any decent and cheap AA?
SMAA could work if it didn't have the weird effect of producing a different image when static and one when moving.
It's really annoying. I thought it was motion blur causing the shift, but it's SMAA. It's as if the image loses focus.
SMAA could work if it didn't have the weird effect of producing a different image when static and one when moving.
It's really annoying. I thought it was motion blur causing the shift, but it's SMAA. It's as if the image loses focus.
Yes otherwise it hangs, I just did it myself.
I'm getting better frame rates than in FC3 on a 7950. Playing with most settings on ultra.
I had to restart uplay once, no issues since.
BTW this is another title that will not run on external drives.
This needs to be posted to demonstrate how great this game can look:
Holy shit. This makes me want to play heavily modded Skyrim again, not FC4.
Anyway, still trying to figure out whether i want this game or not. Seems too "samey", as in a reskin of FC3 just with a different story. And don't get me wrong, that's probably a great thing since i loved FC3, but i'm probably just sick of the formula now.
icecold1983
Member
It must be a temporal smaa. I thought it was standard smaa 1x as seen in most titles
We've got a first video from the PC version up, showing some environments. We now have a dedicated capture PC, so there is no performance hit due to fraps/mirilis/whatever anymore.
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_our_first_pc_video_of_far_cry_4-16057_en.html
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_our_first_pc_video_of_far_cry_4-16057_en.html
It's most likely combination of motion blur and SMAA.
If SMAA pass is done after motion blur it cannot find those polygon edges and thus does not really help..
Check if there is way to remove motion blur and see if SMAA works better.
BTW, does anyone has pics of the fur tech, would love to see the impact on image quality.
BloodMoney
Banned
Only issue I'm having is hitching while driving vehicals quickly.
diggmcbadass
Member
Thanks. Looking forward to trying this when I get home from work.
BloodMoney
Banned
Wow, downsample much.This needs to be posted to demonstrate how great this game can look:
I need more powAr
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
Yep, latest beta drivers!!
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
Thanks, didn't see the notes before. AFR works ok, but all the shadows ficker non-stop when enabled. For the time being 60 fps on 1080p will do!
CyberPunked
Member
I could never get it to work. It just wouldn't detect that I had a controller connected at all...
stufte
Member
Did you download the day1 patch?
TB is saying that he is concerned and yet he didn't read Nvidia guide to the and and he thinks that Nvidia Fur is in game and that it looks bad.
https://soundcloud.com/totalbiscuit/some-farcry-4-concerns-prelaunch
https://soundcloud.com/totalbiscuit/some-farcry-4-concerns-prelaunch
diggmcbadass
Member
From my short play session yesterday, the fur on the monkey heads you first get to see stood out in a weird way. I have to get up close to a friendly bear to investigate further.
Nvidia Fur will be added post launch and it should look way better.
TB is generally off, often massively so, when he is talking about tech. At least that was the case when I still watched some of his videos years ago.
Oh man, yea. The foliage looks so much better here, and I think that's something that is making or breaking the look of the game for me. Seems if you can get TXAA, it really goes a long way in cleaning up that foliage and makes for a much nicer looking image, even if its a tad less clear. SMAA would be second choice but leaves a bit to be desired. MSAA seems fairly ineffectual on its own, even at 4 and 8x.This needs to be posted to demonstrate how great this game can look: