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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. Its 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.

As Antialiasing results were not consistent between different brands we can't use them in this part of the benchmark results.

Right then, first I MUST state this. We always go for the highest possible image quality during our tests. So our standard testing uses a modified configuration file. 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 the water and actually seeing sand banks beneath the water surface through it. 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, also with that custom Guru3D.com written config file.

But what an incredible experience it is to play Far Cry, you'll be completely blown away by the graphics; the game engine is THAT good and extremely playable on the 6600 GT. If you goi for a PCI Express system, then I'd like to suggest you opt the GeForce 6600 GT or anything better as it works really well on this platform.