[H]ard|OCP recently put out a pair of articles covering Far Cry 4, the first of which covered the various new graphics features, many of which are only available to NVIDIA users and others like the Godrays which have such a performance impact on AMD GPUs that they may as well be NVIDIA only. The second will be of more interest to gamers as they benchmark a dozen GPUs, covering NVIDIA from the GTX 750Ti through to the GTX 980 and AMD from the R7 260X through to the R9 290X. They also had a chance to test SLI performance but unfortunately as Ubisoft decided to disable Crossfire completely in the game there could not be any multiple AMD GPU setups tested. Perhaps the most telling conclusion from [H]ard|OCP is also the most obvious, even though this is an evolution of the FarCry3 engine there have been numerous issues with the game since launch and even after six patches major issues with the game and the continued refusal to support Crossfire are hurting this games performance. If you still plan to play the game you can read [H]'s full performance review to see how your GPU should perform in Ubisoft's latest … release.
"We play Far Cry 4 on no less than twelve different GPUs for this in-depth look at what graphics settings are playable in Far Cry 4. We will talk about playable settings and show apples-to-apples so you know what to expect in this game and what upgrading your video card may do for you in this new game."
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Nvidia gameworks for
Nvidia gameworks for you.
The issue is not just
The issue is not just gameworks, but a combination of gameworks along with a game not finished at release.
TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH
TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH YOU!
FC4 is 100% more stable then FC3 hands down. No matter what I tweaked on FC3 that game randomly crashed on both my single GPU and SLI rigs.
FC4 I’ve only had a few CTD’s and that was do to OC/GPU being set too high.
personally speaking i totally
personally speaking i totally disagree with you. i installed farcry 3 on my pc and played the hell out of it without any issues. i had high hopes for farcry 4 and i am pissed at ubisoft, so pissed that i have no intentions on purchasing the latest AC game. even with the latest update the game is unplayable.
Completely fucking agree. Fc3
Completely fucking agree. Fc3 has so many driver errors and Memory leaks its not fuckin funny at all. Game was never ever ever optimized and the Post processing sucks up 25% of the gpu wtf
I don’t think the problem is
I don’t think the problem is gameworks really. Ubiosft doesn’t care about QA it seems. They sell broken games all the time, sometimes a little better, sometimes worse. And sometimes a patch break more stuff than it fixes. It’s just bad, I’ll stay away from them.
Game is pile shit only way to
Game is pile shit only way to get rid of stuttering and erratic frame rate go into BIOS disable Hyerthreading.
Shutting down threads with set affinity helps but only 100 percent when disabled completely in BIOS.
This isn’t 2004 HT shouldn’t still have neg effect on games especially to the effect it does in this game..
The Witcher 3 will determine
The Witcher 3 will determine of gameworks indeed is the culprit or just incompetent ubisoft programmers in all recent titles! If the witcher 3 will be fully optimized amd ironed out we will have our answer.
heh, they already had to
heh, they already had to delay Witcher 3 not looking good.
Oh, that’s good to know. Two
Oh, that’s good to know. Two months after they sold it to people.
People aren’t really missing out on much, though. I have had to force myself to play through it for the last two months and I’m still not even halfway done. It’s more FC3, which is good, but it’s *too much* more FC3.
I can’t wait until FC5, when they wear out their welcome.
I have boycotted ubisoft
I have boycotted ubisoft since FC 3 , which had many crossfire issues , thanks for the heads up cuz i have a 7990.
I’ve heard u can even play FC 4 on a dual core CPU
hmmmmmmm, I hear a lot of
hmmmmmmm, I hear a lot of complaints about this game and I have never had one. I love it, so much fun, sooooo much fun. I’m not sure what is going on “under the hood” being efficient of well coded or whatever, all I know is It looks great, it’s fun and I love it. There was a tiny stutter at first, but an edit to GamerProfile.xml and it’s fine. It’s Far Cry 3-part 2 and that’s exactly what I wanted, FC3 is in my top 5 games of all time list and I love being able to play more of it, but I digress..
The thing is tho, I’m running on relatively low hardware, very very close to the minimum recommended system, so I have all the “enhanced settings” off, hair=off, shadows=low, god rays=off, ect, Perhaps I am just not seeing all the problems and glitches that people are getting with the enhancements and high power hardware.
The glitches I DO see however are more fun than problem, as they are mostly to do with in game world physics, for example every once in a while I will shoot a guy with an arrow and he will fly strait up, 180° in the air and never fall, or I hit a guy in the face with an explosive and he fly’s right at me at top light-speed, or you will see a npc bent over butchering a pig or sumptin and the pig he is working on is 8 feet away, weird things like that, shit that actually ENHANCES the joy, and certainly nothing that affects gameplay or stability. Acording to steam I’ve now played 158 hours of FC4 (i fucking love this game) and it’s only crashed once, but that coulda been anythings fault as it has never happened again.
I do have alot of problems volunteering for random co-op, HOWEVER my u/l is caped at 0.07mbps (d/l is great and it’s a great deal) so I have-to assume it’s on my end.
I doubt anyone is still
I doubt anyone is still reading this, but lol, 2 days after I write this comment I’ve had a shit load of issues with this game! It’s crashed 3 times, once it took the system down with it, and there is a annoying bug in the arena where sometimes the doors close with a bad guy still inside and there is no way to possibly finish the wave. It’s fucked that I only started finding big problems AFTER I praised the game, but oh well, karma. I still love it, gona keep playing with every free second I have, but it is annoying/funny