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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 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 to 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 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x12006800 128 MB Inno3D 66 59 316800 128 MB 64 60 33x800Pro 67 64 526800GT 71 70 586800GT - Gigabyte 4xAA 8xAF 61 44 346800GT - Gigabyte 16xAF 69 59 456800GT - Gigabyte 71 69 64x800XT 66 66 656800U 71 70 666800GT Gigabyte 420/1.10 71 69 70
Right then, as you can see Far Cry is having no issues at all with this card even with 4x Antialiasing and 8x levels of Anisotropic filtering enabled. It's impossible to play Far Cry without being completely blown away by the graphics; the game engine is that good.
