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    Far Cry 4

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by moviemarketing, Oct 30, 2014.

  1. thegh0sts

    thegh0sts Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    i wonder if it's possible to take out both amita, sabal, and pagan min in one play through? then i plan to replay the game where i don't leave the dining table at the start.
     
  2. triturbo

    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    It's fun, this way I beat the game for half an hour :D Why killing Pagan? It's the best character in this game, shortly followed by Yogi & Reggie. Some say that when you finish the main course, but let him live he still calls you with a funny line from time to time. Shot Sabal on site and shot Amita after the final cut scene, damn power hungry &^()#@$!@!!! Not that it matters, but I feel better when I know she's no longer around :)
     
  3. King of Interns

    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    It's what I intend to do!
     
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    DackEW Notebook Consultant

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    Yes, already started with farcry3 this problem. Not sure what it is and why?
     
  5. D2 Ultima

    D2 Ultima Livestreaming Master

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    Looks like you're using crossfire and the second card is screwed
     
  6. thegh0sts

    thegh0sts Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    finally finished the main story campaign stuff and the ending i picked was quite underwhelming....no real pay off.
     
  7. hfm

    hfm Notebook Prophet

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    I might pick it up on a deep steam sale. I liked FC3 well enough but it started seeming like a huge slog near the end. The characters were interesting though, I liked it I overall. Thinking about playing FC4 to the end makes me feel fatigued before I even touch it, though. ;)
     
  8. n=1

    n=1 YEAH SCIENCE!

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    Anybody with 970M/980M tried playing this game using the latest 347.09 beta driver? Supposedly gives a good boost in frames along with fixing stuttering for the most part.
     
  9. DackEW

    DackEW Notebook Consultant

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    Nope, it is real issue with single card;

     
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  10. D2 Ultima

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    Then more reason for #DownWithUbisoft
     
  11. King of Interns

    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    It isn't a huge slog! FC4 campaign is pretty short. I would say shorter than FC3 campaign.
     
  12. thegh0sts

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    odd, i started up far cry 4 and for some reason it's downloading an update. i am not sure if it's a new patch or it's just decided to download the 1.5 patch....will see what the number ends up being when it's done.
     
  13. King of Interns

    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    Yeah i downloaded it yesterday! Seems to play a little smoother now.
     
  14. thegh0sts

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    yeah, it's the 1.6 patch!
     
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    n=1 YEAH SCIENCE!

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    Still waiting for the 2.0 patch so I can finally play a (mostly) bug-free game.
     
  16. King of Interns

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    Finished it. Killed Sabal, shot down Pagan after scattering askes with the buzzsaw lol and then shot Amita in the back and threw her corpse down a waterfall at Tirtha.

    Now we can all be happy! Clean up time for King Ajay...
     
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    finished and done with this game! time to work on GTAV on the PS4 and dragon age inquisition :D
     
  18. King of Interns

    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    By the time I have finished cleaning up GTA V should be out on the PC :) happy times!
     
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    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    I think you forgot Paul, King :p
     
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    anybody tryied far cry 4 with latest patch?I was surprised that stuttering is almost gone.Its now playable and im not sure it fhat is patch or my tweaking with gpu buffered frames in game profile.I have set it to 1 and im not sure if i should do that or leave it off.I dont know what gpu buffered frames does and is it good for cards who struggle with vram?i have 2gb vram and should i turn it on or off?
     
  21. octiceps

    octiceps Nimrod

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    It's the number of frames the CPU prepares for the GPU ahead of time. The default value is 3. I'd play around with it. General wisdom is that lower values can reduce input lag and stuttering but decrease performance slightly, while higher values do the reverse, increasing FPS but also input lag since what you're seeing on-screen happened a few frames ago.

    I don't think it has any effect on VRAM.
     
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    Well, 2GB vRAM is enough IMO.. Although now with 6GB, I think I have a bit too much :D
     
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    Can never have too much. Unless it otherwise breaks your system somehow. *glares at 880M*

    Start playing some newer AAA titles and you'll never claim 6GB is too much again
     
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    My newest game is BF4.. Need to try Titanfall, COD AW, MGS5.. I guess in those the 6GB vRAM will be welcome..
     
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    Titanfall uses a flat 3.8GB of vRAM for me with my second monitor up playing in borderless windowed at max graphics. MGS5 uses 2.2GB at 1080p. At 4K and max settings it uses closer to 3GB. CoD: AW will use 8GB if you have it. No idea how much actual vRAM is needed for it.
     
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    Anyone else getting ghosting issues with the latest patch? The only information I can find online is related to SLI users, not single GPUs! Tried turning off AA, motion blur, post processing, all the NVIDIA specific settings to no avail.

    Sent from my Nexus 5
     
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    im getting flickering tree's once in a while.
    slowly getting into the game but getting fed up cos i cant find the ruddy animal skins to make the bag bigger.
    in the end ive found the mini helicopter so am going over the whole map getting the towers first. a little trick if people are finding some of the towers difficult is to land on the top level as the heli fits quite nicely :D
     
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    I think I cracked the problem. I noticed that DIRT 3 also had the ghosting double-vision effect so I thought - must be drivers? I installed 327.25 but that didn't work. So I reverted back to 344.75 and tried disabling MFAA, triple buffering etc. in the NVIDIA Control Panel. Nothing. So by this time I was really stumped. Until I thought to check out the Intel Control Panel. I disabled CMAA, which had previously been set to the recommended 'override application setting' option. And now it seems that Ajay has visited his opticians and sorted out his double vision :)
     
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    LOL I told you to disable AA. ;)
     
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    Did anyone run into the camera bug problem (Can't take pictures)? Out of nowhere damn camera stopped working. I can open camera, but I can't take pictures. This of course means all missions that require a picture taken can't be completed. Was there s fix for this, besides starting game over. I've played too long and would rather delete it from my system than start over.
     
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    After the yeti patch have you guys with sli experienced the flickering.? I thought it was one of my graphics card going out but after a quick Google search evidently it affecting the vast majority of sli users and ubisoft admitted they are working on it
     
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    Yep, Ubisoft pulled another Watch Dogs/AC Unity and broke SLI with a patch. Revert back to FC4 1.8.0 and run Uplay in offline mode until Ubisoft fixes its broken game in a few months to never.
     
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