Far Cry HDR issue

[Mundu]

The other day this happened in Far Cry:


What it looked like to me was the HDR effect had frozen in place so I restarted the game then it happened again so I reduced my clock by 5MHz and it was fine until today and this happened :



Now I didn't think it could be my overclock as it's been fine in ATI Tool for 2+ hours and all games for the last 3 months. I'm thinking it's getting to hot as the fan is always dead quiet and last time I checked reached 79C under load.

I'm going to run the 7800GTX at stock now and see what happens.

If anyone has anymore advice it would be much apprieciated.

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[Lfctony]

Delete the Farcry profile, that should fix it. Or try using HDR mode 2, it doesn't display those problems. Renaming the Farcry executable to something else will do the job as well, since the profile won't be applied.

 

[Mundu]

So this is a knowmn problem then? I thought I would have been okay scince everythinbg is set to application controlled.

Changed it so I'll see how things go then.

 

[blackbull]

How do you activate HDR in Far Cry, I have just downloaded the 1.3 patch. I have a X850XT.

 

[kinggost]

i get the same thing but when i turn hdr down a lil it lot less worse

 

[Mundu]

How do you activate HDR in Far Cry, I have just downloaded the 1.3 patch. I have a X850XT.

Bring up the console by pressing the "`" key and type in \r_hdrrendering 7

 

[blackbull]

Bring up the console by pressing the "`" key and type in \r_hdrrendering 7

Thanks, will try that.

 

[ps3ud0]

Doesnt work on the X8** series - need a SM3.0 compliant GFX card as Farcry uses that path to produce the HDR effects...

ps3ud0

 

[Things change I've changed]

i think this is something to with the nvidia profiles, try renaming your farcry.exe to say, farcry1.exe and see if that helps, also I don't think hdr works with AA.

 

[blackbull]

Doesnt work on the X8** series - need a SM3.0 compliant GFX card as Farcry uses that path to produce the HDR effects...

ps3ud0

Thats what I thought, but I read this yesterday and this why I downloaded the v1.3 patch!!

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=201&type=expert&pid=7

this sentence is particularly pertinent.

"The new Far Cry 1.3 patch finally brings the features that the 1.2 patch was supposed to give us. This includes support for SM3.0 for the NVIDIA 6800 and 6600 line of cards as well as the SM2.0b that ATI has enabled in their latest drivers."

I will give a go anyway and see what difference it makes, Lost Coast looks great using SM2.0b, I was less impressed with Day of Defeat though.

 

[ps3ud0]

Cheers for the info - interesting...

I have to admit Ive got the 1.32 patch installed IIRC and just didnt think to try and enable HDR, perhaps I might give it a go if I reinstall it...

Looks like theres a 1.33 patch out now aswell - perhaps thats what Im after...

ps3ud0

 

[D.P.]

How do you activate HDR in Far Cry, I have just downloaded the 1.3 patch. I have a X850XT.

You can't run HDR on that card, it doesn't support it. You will need a card that support SM3.0 and floating point blending like the Nvidia 7800/6800/6600 and ATI X1800/X1900.

 

[Blackmage]

have you tryed not using HDR? this will remove the problem.

 

[GAMEfreak]

lol that defeats the point. he asked how to fix the problem, not avert it lol. thats like saying: my car has broken down, howdo i fix it?

and you replying : " have you tried not using it?" lol.

 

[ps3ud0]

Not really - you could check to see if the issue is actually caused by HDR or not and take it from there - would have thought a farcry reinstall might be the quickest way to solve it...

Best way to fix something is to identify the problem by trial and error - the simplest solution is usually the correct one

ps3ud0

 

[Mundu]

I'll have to play some more but so far it's been fine.

 

[blackbull]

You can't run HDR on that card, it doesn't support it. You will need a card that support SM3.0 and floating point blending like the Nvidia 7800/6800/6600 and ATI X1800/X1900.

D.P. I have just played Far Cry with HDR using SM2.0b on my X850XT. As stated in a previous post I made;

"The new Far Cry 1.3 patch finally brings the features that the 1.2 patch was supposed to give us. This includes support for SM3.0 for the NVIDIA 6800 and 6600 line of cards as well as the SM2.0b that ATI has enabled in their latest drivers."

Looks good too. Just make sure you have all your settings at their highest and it actually use HDR rendering by default. The only thing I have switched off is AA which at 1024 x 768 is not needed on my 17" CRT monitor.