Useful little article if you're considering buying Far Cry 2.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/far-cry-2-pc-vga-graphics-performance-review/1

Seems it runs great on all recent gfx cards.

Funky, cheers

The latest beta drivers just gave me the black screen problem. I put the latest official drivers on instead. Runs really nice at full detail @1680x1050. That's on a Q6600, 4gig and a 8800GT.

think ill get it on ps3

bought it on 360 myself... looks good.

Bit occupied by Dead Space at the moment. Now THAT is a game.

well i don't know what i'm doing wrong but FC2 runs like a pile of crap on my machine.

too much nazi dwarf porn on it.

Just ordered a Q9550 so i'll wait for that to show up before installing it , if i can wait 2 days

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well i don't know what i'm doing wrong but FC2 runs like a pile of crap on my machine.

I wonder if it's another game that's all pro NVIDIA and runs like shit on ATI hardware until after several driver updates.

i hope they fix it, i'm having to run on 0AA with setting set to 'High' looks ok, but was expecting to be able to play will everything on max after reading reviews, i get better performance in Crysis randomly.

i put mine up to very high with 4xaa and its running ok still. ultra high is a no go, but it looks fantastic as it is.

ATI/AMD have released a driver hotfix to hopefully fix your FC2 problem Liam...

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=38664

What do you think of it Bri? I'm working on a review for the Xbox version now- not that they're very different.

Catalyst 8.11 is out..

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

It's alleged to improve Far Cry 2 performance.

well still crap for me, i'll have to format and see if i can sorth this out.

Run 1
Settings: Demo(Ranch Small), 1680x1050 (60Hz), D3D10, Fixed Time Step(No), Disable Artificial Intelligence(No), Full Screen, Anti-Aliasing(4x), VSync(Yes), Overall Quality(Very High), Vegetation(Very High), Shading(Very High), Terrain(Very High), Geometry(Very High), Post FX(High), Texture(Very High), Shadow(Very High), Ambient(High), Hdr(Yes), Bloom(Yes), Fire(Very High), Physics(Very High), RealTrees(Very High)
Loop 1

* Total Frames: 1605, Total Time: 51.00s
* Average Framerate: 31.47
* Max. Framerate: 55.91 (Frame:135, 2.78s)
* Min. Framerate: 18.80 (Frame:885, 27.86s)

Loop 2

* Total Frames: 1226, Total Time: 51.04s
* Average Framerate: 24.02
* Max. Framerate: 51.03 (Frame:264, 6.44s)
* Min. Framerate: 7.45 (Frame:718, 20.94s)

Loop 3

* Total Frames: 1235, Total Time: 51.00s
* Average Framerate: 24.22
* Max. Framerate: 49.98 (Frame:1071, 46.71s)
* Min. Framerate: 10.78 (Frame:1, 0.19s)

Average Results

* Average Framerate: 26.57
* Max. Framerate: 41.28
* Min. Framerate: 15.48

with the old drivers i get:


* Total Frames: 1866, Total Time: 51.01s
* Average Framerate: 36.58
* Max. Framerate: 57.89 (Frame:278, 6.05s)
* Min. Framerate: 25.26 (Frame:787, 21.00s)

* Total Frames: 1788, Total Time: 51.02s
* Average Framerate: 35.05
* Max. Framerate: 56.67 (Frame:269, 5.87s)
* Min. Framerate: 21.31 (Frame:772, 20.65s)

* Total Frames: 1380, Total Time: 51.01s
* Average Framerate: 27.05
* Max. Framerate: 49.74 (Frame:1178, 46.66s)
* Min. Framerate: 15.47 (Frame:633, 30.99s)

* Average Framerate: 32.89
* Max. Framerate: 50.51
* Min. Framerate: 22.19

how do you run that demo/benchmark?

Seems to run great for me, loving the game tbh, not your average shooter for sure

there is a tool in the bin folder. (well at least on steam there is)

As I can't game on the pc, would you recommend I try this game on the ps3, and how do the ps3 graphics compare to the pc graphics.

Absolutely no idea, it seems it's vry good on 360 so should be similar on ps3.