Hi folks,
I recently bought Far Cry here from gog and played it for a short time, but I get this annoying slowdown to unplayable framerates every few minutes. I suspect this only occurs when vehicles are near, at least that's my observation so far. Cars, at least the heavy jeeps, also behave wrong, they often start bouncing wildly after a short time.
Does anyone know a fix for that?

Even with specifics (like your OS, computer processor speed, video card, etc), it's hard to know for sure.

I've never had this problem, but if I did, I would do the following:

Uninstall the game.

Update my video drivers.

Reinstall the game as the Administrator.


If the problem persists, I'd try lower graphics settings (although considering how old the game is, you should be able to run it maxed out).

I'd also disable my internet connection. If you've got a trojan, that might be a factor. I run Windows disconnected from the internet 100% of the time and use Linux to go online.

Or, do a virus scan.

However, I was playing a different game once that seemed to have a similar problem (slowdowns, car physics not behaving properly, etc). It turns out I needed to select a different audio driver. Sometimes you can choose which one to use in game (like EAX). I tried each one and found one that worked.

If you can give more info about your PC, that might help.

Hey, thanks for your answer. I forgot to mention the load of tweaks and inofficial patches which I installed ( :D ) - so now I chose to deinstall the game and do a clean new installation, without the tweaks and stuff, so I'll find out wether the game itself is broken (at least on my system) or the error is caused by the tweaks.
Nevertheless, my system in detail:
CPU: Phenom II x4 @ 3,2GHz
Ram: 4GB DDR2-800
Mainboard: Gigabyte MA-790FX-DQ6
Graphics card: HD6970 (Catalyst 12.11 beta)
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
OS: Windows 7 64 bit.

New findings: also the gog vanilla version runs like crap. I'm confused...

Ok, weird. Your computer and video card are much faster than mine and I can play Far Cry and Far Cry 2 maxed out.


I don't enable anti-aliasing though. Do you? I run at 1920x1080 with 4x anisotropic filtering.

Maybe that's it. If I enable AA, my frame rates drop to a slideshow.

I play with 4x SGSSAA (also tried MSAA and adaptive) - but still my card should be able to produce
sufficient framerates. No AA is not really an option for me ^^
This article brought me back to Far Cry:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Far-Cry-dt-PC-16743/Tests/Far-Cry-1-meets-Far-Cry-3-Test-Benchmarks-618290/
And as the benchmarks show ( http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2012/12/FarCry-Tuning-Grafikkarten-1920-4xSGSSAA-PCGH.png ), my card should give me about 60-70 FPS (in 1680*1050) with 4xSGSSAA.
They even use the same driver, Catalyst 12.11 beta 11.

Will do. ;-)

It seems support is still dazzled by the sheer complexity of the problem... No answer yet. ;-)

Does the version of Windows 7 you're using have an XP compatibility mode? If so, does running the game in XP mode make it run any differently?

Also, what are your frame rates like?

Bring up your console with the ~ button and type:

\r_displayinfo 1

To disable it, type:

\r_displayinfo 0

FPS are either 60 (Vsync) or anything from 20 to sub-10. The RadeonPro OSD tells me that my GPU is often at workloads between 0% and 40% - never higher.
Compatibility modes (XP or Vista) make things worse, the GPU remains at 0% load and FPS at 8-9.
I already tried the "high performance" power plan to force my CPU to highest clocks, but this doesn't help either.

I've read on other forums where they have problems running Far Cry in windows 7, but it seems to run better when they use the 64-bit patched version. I can't test that though since I'm running 32 bit Windows XP.

I also had a thought. One person said that they let the video card drivers / software handle all the AA, etc instead of the game and it helped. Conversely, if that' doesn't work, let the game handle it and not the video card drivers.

I found something else that said Punkbuster may be the problem for slowdowns. To make testing easier, just rename the PB folder in your Far Cry directory to something else, like PXB.

The 64bit-exe seems to work better, the slowdowns were less frequent when I test-played. AA has little influence, no matter what mode or where i set it (in-game or forced by driver). Punkbuster is not installed on my system (don't know if it is even part of the gog-version). Anyway, thanks for all your input and effort :-)

I have the GOG version installed and there is a Pb directory. Try renaming it to see if that affects anything.

Hi:

I had the same problem with an NVIDIA GTX 660 on Windows 7 64bit: low framerate, playable but way below expectations.
However, I changed the compatibility option to run the game as administrator and now it runs smooth as butter.

Hope this helps