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FarCry Corruption

Camalot

Camalot

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I decided to try farcry again after a while. I get bad screen corruption, what could this be? Its never happend before.

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using 6.7 and ATI X1800XT, its not overclocked!

Farcry has patch 1.33.

Had X1800XT about 4 months it works fine with everything else. :eek:
 
Sure it's definitely patched? You didn't reinstall it and forget or they didn't install correctly? I get corruption, though with a Nvidia card, out of the box until the patches are installed.
 
I dunno what this could be but my Farcry had bright green shadows RIGHT at the start :D :D
 
I get a similar thing, with a similar set up. I'm certain my X1800XT isn't overheating, even with a long stress test with ATi tool it never goes above 56C, with a VF-900 fitted.

I have patched up to 1.33, and the corruption only occurs when looking at somewhere containing the horizon/sky. when im inside and looking at walls, ceilins, floor, etc, its fine. On the 6.8 Cats.

Anyone got any other ideas? All my other gaqmes run perfectly.
 
Camalot said:
I decided to try farcry again after a while. I get bad screen corruption, what could this be? Its never happend before.

using 6.7 and ATI X1800XT, its not overclocked!

Farcry has patch 1.33.

Had X1800XT about 4 months it works fine with everything else. :eek:
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Its obviosuly not the card & something specific to the game. Maybe a driver bug. Try a different driver revision (an earlier version).
 
Zefan said:
I dunno what this could be but my Farcry had bright green shadows RIGHT at the start :D :D
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I get this sometimes depending on how I install the patches, the following sorted it out for me,

no_1_dave said:
With Farcry:

Patch to 1.2
then to 1.3 etc.

I used the 64 bit addon as well (on xp32 bit), and HDR. Looks stunning :D
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identical to when my graphics memory was overheating, clock your memory back a bit and have a look then ;)
 
Have you tried lowering the shadows, ive heard they can cause some problems. :)

I don't know if it was fixed (probably was), but i remember the shadows not being able to be maxed on ATi cards as the maxed setting used a Nvidia path to do them, and so if the shadows were ran at maxed on ATi cards then that would cause problems, had to be lowered one, but as i say thats probably been fixed long ago, but its worth a try i suppose. :)
 
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Gashman said:
identical to when my graphics memory was overheating, clock your memory back a bit and have a look then ;)
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The card isn't overclocked so that shouldn't be causing an issue.

Because this is only happening in Far cry I would be inclidined to say its either a driver bug (possibly have a look at the readme to your latest drivers) or a game specific bug - corrupt game files etc.
 
Zefan said:
I dunno what this could be but my Farcry had bright green shadows RIGHT at the start :D :D
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Strange, I just installed my old AGP X850 XT card into my mates athlon as I've just upgraded, and he gets bright yellow shadows :)

Gonna try patching the game but I'm not sure its going to work.
 
another thing, no offense but those textures look a bit shoddy for such a fast card, i have 7600GTs with everything maxed, HDR and it looks nice and crisp :confused:
 
Dont think its an issue with cat 6.8 or 6.7 infact all drivers from ATI have worked with my X1800XT from 6.5 on Far Cry. Try a reinstall, but like Loadsamoney saids it could well be the shadows need turning down, always have mine on low anyway.

I'd be gutted if i couldn't play FC, play it most nights, not that im any good :rolleyes:
 
As it happens does anyone know if the X64 Far Cry patch improves things on a 32bit XP? will it work? and is it worth it? Where do i get it?

lol, so many questions
 
Foehammer2003 said:
As it happens does anyone know if the X64 Far Cry patch improves things on a 32bit XP? will it work? and is it worth it? Where do i get it?

lol, so many questions
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you need XP 64-bit edition to benefit from that patch, but it does a few things, gives small boost in FPS i noticed, improves crispness of textures at a distance another thing i noticed and reduces the CPU usage of the game :p
 
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