Far Cry If you haven't played the demo or the game, well shame on you! Far Cry's story centers on Jack Carver, who has put a mysterious past behind him in favor of a less stressful life chartering boats in the South Pacific... or so he thinks. After delivering a female journalist to an uncharted island, Jack's boat is attacked and he subsequently finds himself stranded against a group of mercenaries, at which point his adventure begins. Graphically Far Cry is amazing; the action takes place in a huge, brightly colored environment with dense jungle style shrubbery, peacefully quiet beaches and large indoor areas. The excellent shadow effects simply bring the game to life with reflections on walls and even on your own weapons as you creep through the trees. It’s like something straight out of a movie, helped along by the lighting and tight, crisp textures.
For Far Cry we did things a bit different then normal. First off, the game has been patched to version 1.2. Secondly where possible we made sure that the graphics cards were forced to run Shader Model 3.0 if possible. Next to that we are using our own Guru3D.com constructed timedemo to prevent driver cheats.
The results (frames per second) that you see below are a lot lower then in normal conditions as we modified configuration settings and make it as rough as it can get on the graphics card. All in all, at this time and moment, this is one of the best tests we can offer you to benchmark DirectX 9 compatible graphics cards.
Far Cry
800x600
1024x768
1280x1024
1600x1200
x600
27
22
16
10
6600 128 MB
52
41
30
22
6600 256 MB
58
49
35
24
x700
61
55
47
32
6600GT Reference
57
55
44
32
x850XT Reference 4xAA 8xAF
63
62
49
40
6800GT
57
57
56
54
x850XT Reference
64
64
63
58
Right then, first I MUST state this. We always go for the highest possible image quality during our tests. So our regular testing uses a personalized configuration file that is more heavy on the graphics card then you guys use. The Far Cry scores you can see here are a little lower then you'll have at home, as we enable all possible graphics settings from the game engine. This goes for things like maximum texture sizes to looking at water and actually seeing sand banks underneath the water surface. So that's like the highest game setting available plus a few additions from our side and that does effect the framerate. The additional AA and AF tests is the average framerate measured over an intensive shader rich timedemo, also with that custom Guru3D.com written configuration file.
But what an experience Far Cry is, a feast for the eyes. You'll be completely blown away by the graphics and it's very playable on the x850 series even with all whistles and bells turned on 1600x1200x32 will render a big smile on your face.
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