Far cry issue.

MadMacs · 25 Dec 2007 at 20:53

Hey i'm having problems with far cry.

I'm gaming at 1680 x 1050 and every thing on high. Looks great except the game seems to have flashing problems. The texture seems to flash randomly for some reason (like a bright light will falsh instead of grass ect). I think it may have only started since i've used vista 64. Has anybody else experianced a simular thing?. Is there a vista patch for the game? (I am using a 64bit patch)

Thanks

Edit:

Just to give more of an idea what I'm talking about.

Normal and bad

As you can see the landscape is being replaced with other textures. It happens so quick it just looks like a flash

Firegod · 25 Dec 2007 at 21:09

MadMacs said:
Hey i'm having problem with far cry.

I'm gaming at 1680 x 1050 and every thing on high. Looks great except the game seems to have flashing problem. The texture seems to flash randomly for some reason (like a bright light will falsh instead of grass ect). I think it may have only started since i've used vista 64. Has anybody else experianced a simular thing?. Is there a vista patch for the game? (I am using a 64bit patch)

Thanks

I think I used to get this in FarCry when Lighting was set to HIGH or ULTRA? Does it occur when the Lighting/Shadows are set to Medium?

Ta!

HangTime · 25 Dec 2007 at 22:22

Make sure you aren't using HDR and AA at the same time.

MadMacs · 25 Dec 2007 at 22:37

Ok I turned AA of and lowered the Lighting/Shadows to Medium. But the problem still continues.

Aod · 26 Dec 2007 at 10:06

MadMacs said:
Ok I turned AA of and lowered the Lighting/Shadows to Medium. But the problem still continues.

err, this happened to me when playing Far Cry (when it came out!).
i put it down to the failing Radeon 9800 and ignored it. i think it still does it, so i guess its a problem with the rendering engine.

ignore it and enjoy the game!

MadMacs · 26 Dec 2007 at 19:48

Just to give more of an idea what I'm talking about.

Normal and bad

As you can see the landscape is being replaced with other textures. It happens so quick it just looks like a flash

BoomAM · 27 Dec 2007 at 00:21

Is your video card, or any part of your system, overclocked?

PermaChanged · 27 Dec 2007 at 01:35

I get that too on stock clocks, same resolution and all on the highest setting. Only happens occasionally though.

LeoN88 · 27 Dec 2007 at 01:49

oops sorry was meant for crysis thread....

Aod · 27 Dec 2007 at 08:49

MadMacs said:
Just to give more of an idea what I'm talking about.

Normal and bad

As you can see the landscape is being replaced with other textures. It happens so quick it just looks like a flash

Hrmmm. that IS odd. i've only ever seen that one other time, on a friends computer. but he has a 7600GT...

i assume you've tried reinstalling?

knowledge123 · 27 Dec 2007 at 09:21

Set all of your nVidia control panel settings to low (bar mip-mapping), don't force anything, esp. not AAA, multi-spampling, AF, AA etc etc.

MadMacs · 27 Dec 2007 at 11:00

I am not overclocking anything, and yes I have tried reintalling a few times.

knowledge123: Unfortunatly It did now work. Don't think it ever will tbh.

knowledge123 · 28 Dec 2007 at 12:03

MadMacs said:
knowledge123: Unfortunatly It did now work. Don't think it ever will tbh.

Sorry to hear that, I had a major problem even installing the 1.4 cumulative patch, in the end I had to extract it (using the /a switch) and then copy and paste on top of the existing files.

There are two files for 64 bit version; the content update and then an additional patch, have you installed both ?
See here for both files.

CuZ · 3 Jan 2008 at 19:55

Only times I have seen that effect is due to HDR and AA or due to the patches not being applied correctly.

Have you tried a clean install, patched to 1.33 or 1.4 in 32bit mode?
The 64 bit version isnt officially supported under Vista