GTX 850M vs Far Cry 4

Hi guys, i want buy Far Cry 4 and i play in 1600x900, can i reach High detail settings with the 850M? Plus, i saw some videos with the God Rays enabled and are just awesome, how many FPS i will lose activating them?

Oh, i have one more question, i have the latest drivers installed, (but i have problems since 344.11), i use Msi Afterburner to overclock, and i have some problems, i have to run it as Administrator, and this would not be a problem, right now i'm at +135 on core and +295 on memory but often it gives me strange results, like that the core is at 540 or says that my memory is at 65536, checking with gpu-z when i have these results says that my core clock is at default and my memory at +1000 mhz (without any problem, by the way ) when this happens, sometimes is enough restart the application, other times i can't do anything, even restart the pc doesn't work. Could someone help me? And i read somewhere that with nVidia Inspector i can pass the +135 mhz limit on core without a modded bios, how does it work? Thank you

 

for full speed

 

Hehe if that was enough i would have keep my 9500M gs

 

hey welcome back jajo.You can play on ultra far cry if you aim for 30fps without aa cause you play in 900p but wait for few patches cause they need to resolve massive frame drops and stuttering especially while driving.There isnt any other way to overclock more as far i know cause i wouldnt flash it if there was some other way

 

Yeah at the moment. Don't even buy the game. Stuttering rubbish. My 680M OCed hasn't the horsepower to overcome the un-optimisation so unless you have a Oced 780M,880M or the 970/80M no point trying to play.

By next year a few patches should sort things out.

 

dude, I am running an OC'd 780M (i clocked it to the same speed as the base clock of the GTX 680....because that's what a 780M is: a downclocked GTX 680) and I get framerate stuttering even at 900p which is the lowest i am willing to go when it comes to resolutions. I even tried 720p and i still get stuttering. I don't think it's GPU thing though I have seen my temps go into the 80s. it might be a streaming issue but I don't know for sure. all i know is that it stutters at whatever resolution i tried.

 

TotalBiscuit's SLI desktop 980's have the hitching too. It's not GPU related.

 

AMD cards are so much faster than (comparable) Nvidia ones in this game, it's not even funny. So much for GameWorks™.

Spoiler

 

i think it might be the same issue as with watch dogs initially - streaming of textures and assets.

 

i tracked my vram and its always around 2030mb(eats all my vram)...They put a 680gtx 2gb vram as recommended but its not enough at least for current state of the game.How are yours vram usage?i think i read on a site that it uses 2gb for low?

 

its a port from ubi kiev so im not surprised.Far cry 3 was made by ubi montreal

 

The Russkies pulling for Team Red, how am I not surprised...

 

funny considering that ATI (before it was acquired by AMD) is actually a Canadian company.

HA!

 

I know. But seriously, Radeons are more popular than GeForces in that part of the world.

 

Oh, ok i will wait for some patches then, but i saw a lot of homemade fixes for the stuttter, none of them works?

 

The best fix = patience. Shame gta 5 isn't out yet!

 

that's what i'm doing cos i don't recall dunia being so heavy it makes my gpu temps go into the 80s.

 

my 20% oced 460m can run 720p some things low, some things ultra(eg texture), 30-45fps(and thats in stealth mission in the woods, probably more indoors), still looks great for a peasant
NVIDIA godrays work 30fps+ without AA

 

Yeah, would be great to wait with gta v , meanwhile i will try the "jack sparrow demo" to have an idea

 

Ok, at 720p i can get 35-50 FPS with SSAO and SMAA on High preset (with my overclock of +135/+295), probably if i look deeper into settings i can get better framerates, plus my game isn't patched, so i may reach 60 FPS , i have the stutter only when i drive, and the game looks great and fun, tomorrow i will buy it for sure!!!!

 

I have a 680m slightly overclocked i play on ultra with about 28-32 FPS (ball parking it ) but i dont lag at all

 

Yes, the optimization is good (exept for the stuttering), even if the graphic it's worse than Unity, i like it anyway and is much more playable. For one time Ubisoft made a decent job.

 

Downloaded the original game from Steam (thank you kinguin ) now with patches and 344.75 driver installed, runs way better i have an average of 36-40 FPS on High 900p and God Rays enabled (they don't hurt much my framerate maybe 2-3 FPS) when a lot of things happening on screen, i have some drops, so i think that i'm going to lower the resolution at 720p to reduce drops and, who knows, maybe even 60 FPS stable

 

My friend's GTX 750Ti desktop runs it at around 90fps, 1080p max settings

 

my friends dad is named ralph..lol

dude why do you hate so much...desktop vs laptop wars commence >>>>>>

 

Yes a 750ti is an OCed GDDR5 860M... What do you expect? The 850M is about only 50% as fast as it...

 

Is nvidia inspector a good program to OC my GTX 860M? cus msi aftrburner and evga precision x glitches here xP

 

I have a 840m and run mostly ultra at1366x768 30fps avg game looks great

 

Yes it is fine.

 

768p mehhh.. Go run it at full HD.. That's if you have a full HD screen!!!

 

Guys is normal that my game doesn't scale? In 900p, high and with SSAO and SMAA i get 35-40 FPS, if i try 720p with everything on Low i reach 45. How is possible?? Looking at Notebookcheck at Medium 768p i should get 60+ FPS, and they have tested the DDR3 version, so mine (GDDR5 + OC) should be way faster...

 

What is your CPU? Also unoptimized games (cough Ubisoft) tend to scale poorly.

 

I have the i5 4200M, is just slighty slower than the i5 4340M tested by notebookcheck, i don't think it may be a bottleneck...

 

I think it probably is. Far Cry 4 requires a quad core at a minimum. Is your CPU usage maxed out while playing?

 

No, never core 1, 2, and 4 are usually between 30-70% and core 3 sometimes (often to be honest) goes to 100%, because of the damned Uplay. Even if could be my bottleneck the thing that i don't understand is that the laptop tested by notebookcheck has the 4340M and the 850M DDR3, i don't think that a difference of 500 MHz can increase 20+ FPS

 

Make sure temperatures are good and nothing is throttling.

 

My CPU never went above 75C, and my GPU hardly reach 60 (usually stay on 57-59), all my cores are at 3 GHz and my GPU core and memory are always at 1089/1400, as it should be.

 

Is your GPU always at 99% usage or does it drop when FPS is low? If so, that bottleneck on CPU thread 3 is probably limiting it.

 

No is always at 100%, anyway i don't care anymore, i looked into settings and found that i was using the MSAAx4, i changed to SMAA and now fps are always 45+ with always on high at 900p, and is enough for me . But thanks for all your help, i really appreciated it

 

LOL no wonder.

 

Hehe, poor my little 850M xD