FarCry 3 stutter in SLI

Gregster · 10 Dec 2012 at 17:28

Just watched this vid and have to agree with this guy about the micro stutter in this game. Mine isn't as bad as that (I have toned settings down) but it is similar to the AMD stutter that is showing.

If I turn settings up, I get it the same as what is being shown in the top vid. Is anyone else getting this with single/SLI/CF/1080P+ resolutions? I have tried numerous fixes but it is still quite noticable (not a game breaker) and would love to have this game as smooth as my others.

Tonester0011 · 10 Dec 2012 at 18:07

Yes, identical.
Makes the game unplayable, i keep meaning to try without CF...but been watching GOT.

Rusty0611 · 10 Dec 2012 at 18:44

Game feels awful even with 60-90 FPS as I do (Ultra preset with HDAO on; MSAA 2x; and some more mish mash settings).

Fairly sure it's refreshing at only 60 Hz but no way I can tell to force 120 Hz. It just feels really sluggish even with vsync off.

Morale of the story: game is fantastic but even without the microstutter you aren't going to find it overly pleasurable IMO.

Kaapstad · 10 Dec 2012 at 19:00

Which are the best drivers to use for this game

Im downloading it at the moment to have a look at it - I don't normally play this style of game.

ICDP · 10 Dec 2012 at 19:14

Some people who use GTX 680 SLI state you can significantly reduce stutter if you set an FPS cap at 59.

Final8y · 10 Dec 2012 at 19:17

The Top one worse but they both look bad to me as they are tearing.

Durzel · 10 Dec 2012 at 19:45

Game is fine for me with 690 SLI and the 310.67 beta drivers. Haven't noticed microstutter.

pgi947 · 10 Dec 2012 at 19:58

Game is completely unplayable for me, 7970 CF.

Have tried all sorts of settings as well as radeonpro just nothing works despite hitting over 100 fps @ 1080/120hz

I've given up for now, not even going to try again any time soon. It can wait.

Jay85 · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:42

I get stuttering when i turn on or up msaa but works perfectly fine when its off. Games running really well on my system.

Gregster · 10 Dec 2012 at 22:12

Nice to see a few of us GPU freaks can't get it to run smooth. With lower settings and 80-90fps it should be feeling very smooth but sadly it isn't.

Damned game is addictive though and such a spoiler for a great game

pgi947 · 10 Dec 2012 at 22:15

gregster said:
Damned game is addictive though and such a spoiler for a great game

Exactly why I'm waiting for it to be fixed, I don't want what should be a simple fix to ruin this for me, especially as far cry 2 sucked so much

"Far Cry 2: Oh look we made fire in a video game!!"

Gregster · 10 Dec 2012 at 22:28

pgi947 said:
Exactly why I'm waiting for it to be fixed, I don't want what should be a simple fix to ruin this for me, especially as far cry 2 sucked so much

"Far Cry 2: Oh look we made fire in a video game!!"

I should have waited but my damned curiosity got the better of me and before you know it, I was stuttering along for hours at a time

Kaapstad · 10 Dec 2012 at 22:29

Durzel said:
Game is fine for me with 690 SLI and the 310.67 beta drivers. Haven't noticed microstutter.

Going to give it a go on my GTX 690s in a minute

I got it free with a HD 7970 :confused:

Rusty0611 · 10 Dec 2012 at 22:36

Game of the year for me. It's really really good. Hope you multi GPU ex brothers get it sorted soon!

Gregster · 10 Dec 2012 at 22:39

Rusty0611 said:
Game of the year for me. It's really really good. Hope you multi GPU ex brothers get it sorted soon!

Even though it has 'issues' it will still be my GOTY.

pgi947 · 10 Dec 2012 at 23:05

Pffft borderlands 2 for goty, any game that's pulled over 100 hours of my time and still keeps me coming back wins for me.

Saying that it helps to have had a real play on fc3 before deciding...

Tonester0011 · 10 Dec 2012 at 23:28

pgi947 said:
Pffft borderlands 2 for goty, any game that's pulled over 100 hours of my time and still keeps me coming back wins for me.

Saying that it helps to have had a real play on fc3 before deciding...

If that's how high the bar is for GOTY...
You could combine all games this year and the total playtime is less than 100 hours lol

I'd probably put BL2 though, Steam reckons i've played that 23 hours.

Kaapstad · 10 Dec 2012 at 23:34

Just tried it

Everything maxed @1600p GPUs @stock CPU @4.0ghz

Driver 301.42

Looks awful turns out its only using 1 GPU

Driver 310.70

Ran perfect

Used all 4 GPUs - notice in the pic link below the vram usage its hugh for 1600p could this have anything to do with the problem in the OP.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/687/farcryw.jpg/

chaparral · 11 Dec 2012 at 05:13

Kaapstad said:
Going to give it a go on my GTX 690s in a minute

I got it free with a HD 7970

A GTX 690 came free with your 7970

Kaapstad · 11 Dec 2012 at 07:19

chaparral said:
A GTX 690 came free with your 7970

Yes I have 2 HD 7970s hence the quad sli.

On a serious note at some point I want to run Far Cry 3 on my HD 7970s to see if the memory usage goes above 2 gbs per GPU. The highest memory usage I have seen at 1600p before this was BF3 which was about 1800mbs per GPU.