Anyone played Far Cry 3 recently?

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Looking for some settings advice as I'm having a nightmare with hitching and slowdowns. My spec is in my sig.

Everything is maxed, v-sync off.
I've tried fiddling with all of the settings in Video, but I haven't tried dropping anything from Ultra in Quality.

Has anyone played with a recent rig and found the same? Did you find any solutions? There is some chatter from years ago but nothing seems to work.
 
Haven't played it for a while and I have a Fury X so not likely to be any benefit in my trying it for you. Do you have any older drivers you could roll back to? It's not unheard for new drivers to break older games - happened to me recently when I went back to play Dead Space and The Evil Within with new drivers - made the games unplayable due to the hitching and slowdowns however after rolling back to older drivers the games were perfectly smooth again. Worth a try...
 
I am, not having any hitching or slowdown with current Nvidia drivers. Also i'm at 4k and pretty sure i have everything maxed except AA.

24gb ram, 1080, xeon x5687

not sure whats up with the hitching. I am getting loads of crashes though, its something to do with my tablet drivers, i have to disable them
 
Unfortunately the hitching/stuttering was and still is a very common issue with the game regardless of fps and settings, you can try putting vsync on and play with various FPS caps i.e. 1-2 fps below your monitor refresh rate and so on.
 
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Unfortunately the hitching/stuttering was and still is a very common issue with the game regardless of fps and settings, you can try putting vsync on and play with various FPS caps i.e. 1-2 fps below your monitor refresh rate and so on.
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I may have this wrong but does the game not have an option for triple buffering or similar?

I'm sure I had to use that option along with vsync for the game to run as smooth as possible.

Certain 2012 tomb raider was the same
 
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I may have this wrong but does the game not have an option for triple buffering or similar?

I'm sure I had to use that option along with vsync for the game to run as smooth as possible.

Certain 2012 tomb raider was the same
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I think it does and it even has gpu rendered frames option but this didn't really solve it either, still some bad micro stuttering/hitching :( Funnily the game actually ran better on my 7850 than my 290 in terms of smoothness.....
 
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I think it does and it even has gpu rendered frames option but this didn't really solve it either, still some bad micro stuttering/hitching :( Funnily the game actually ran better on my 7850 than my 290 in terms of smoothness.....
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I'm unsure. I actually played that games on my 7970 a few years back.
 
Forgot I updated drivers a few weeks back. Updated again to newest and it's as good as the previous set. But still hitches a bit.

Feels similar to how Crysis was recently, but that was a multi-core CPU issue iirc.

DX9 seemed flawless (bar its obvious limitations). Did they tack DX11 on as an after thought?
 
I've just installed and played it having currently finished a new build and not being able to on my old GTX 470. The stuttering is awful, it really ruins the experience as it doesn't run smooth at all.

I planned on playing Far Cry 4 and Primal in anticipation for the fifth, which looks really interesting; do they also suffer from the same performance problems?
 
I have it loaded on my Uplay account for a long time, cannot remember having any issues.

I'll try after I've eaten and report back.
 
An early Christmas pressie for you. On more modern builds Far cry 3 appears to have the same chronic bug as Far Cry 4 - which is - one CPU core / thread is permanently maxed out at 100%. This causes lots of intermittent stutter. There is a not very well known fix I found tucked away on an obscure forum a few years ago, which works a treat on my x99, 5930k system...

-Once game has loaded, ctrl-alt-delete and run task manager
-Click "details" tab and find farcry3 exe
-Right click it and choose "set affinity"
-You can see which core is maxing at 100% if you use a monitor prog like I do (I use HWinfo 64 with widgets on a sperate little screen). In my case using a 5930k CPU (6 cores, 12 threads) it was the 3rd one down that spikes which is "CPU2" according to the system.
- UNTICK this "CPU2" then click OK. Go back in again Then, RETICK it and click OK. Go back into the game and the problem of one core spiking at 100% is now gone, and the stutter IS NOW FIXED!

Note: Obvioulsy depending on what cpu you have and what number of cores/ threads then it might not be "CPU2" for all systems - that's why you need to monitor your own.

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OTHER THINGS...

Make sure game is running FULLSCREEN in the ingame settings. It has a tendency to sometimes change every time you load!

OPTIONAL

Use RTSS and framerate limit to 1 under monitor refresh rate. 89 in my current scenario.

On my Gsync x34 screen, doing the above results in a pretty decent, virtually stutter free experience.
 
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No worries, let me know if it works you.

I was amazed when I found this fix for far cry 4. It's a chronic chronic bug that was never fixed.
 
Holy ****! This actually works, I'm so surprised! It's noticeably better albeit not perfect after doing this. I have a feeling it's an extremely poorly optimised game to be begin with; I am currently playing recent AAA titles that run smoother but this fix has made it more palatable. Thank you!
 
Setting max pre-rendered frames to 4 can work, also setting an FPS cap either slightly below or to half your refresh rate can also work.

This has been an issue in Far Cry games since Far Cry 2, but Primal seems to be fine for me, same with Blood Dragon without any need for fiddling with configuration settings.
 
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I took your advice and installed Blood Dragon; it's totally fine, didn't need any tweaks and it runs perfectly which is confusing because it's obviously the same engine as FC3, even though it's a standalone.

How is Far Cry 4? Is that the same?
 
My solution to the hitching was run my cpu at stock speeds, for whatever reason it hated the otherwise stable overclock on my fx8350

Dam thread, now I want to play through FarCry3 again...
 
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