1621

Agreed. In Far Cry 2 I had to willfully ignore the fact that they were going around in circles, lest it break my immersion. That was really hard.

1622

I just started playing the PC version on Steam, and I’m having problems with stability. Whenever I change the graphics settings and click “apply”, the game will crash to desktop with no error. I had the same problem in game whenever I tried to change the difficulty. Anyone else have these problems?

I’m playing on an 8800 GT with the most recent drivers.

1623

I had some issues on day 1-7 doing the same things, with the same card. The moment I disabled DX10, all the issues stopped, and I can’t tell the difference anyway. Hope that helps. Great game, though!

1624

i’ll try that out. thanks, doom.

1625

DX10 will do two things for you:

  1. Performance should be better.

  2. You’ll get effects on the sun when it’s near the horizon, such as bulging when you look at it, etc.

1626

Oh, I know DX10 is better, Quitch. But if disabling it makes my game not crash, then I don’t have much of a choice.

1627

A little off topic, but DX10 sure has been a let down. The conspiracy theorist in me half thinks that this was yet another attempt by Microsoft to kill PC-gaming.

1628

What is DX10? is it that nice marketing speak on the box of my GTX280 that has no use whatsoever?

1629

It is really weird how the PC version seems to lose half its frame rate if you switch to DX9. Is the DX9 code just half-assed? Is there some secret sauce in DX10 they’re using? Blast processing maybe?

1630

A big part of DX10 was performance, another bonus was the removal of the optional extra nonsense that plagued DX9 and led to something like four revisions of the spec.

Sorry, that was in response to DoomMonkey “I can’t tell the difference anyway.”

1631

DX10 can do certain things more efficiently.

1632

So, no enterprising modder has made a ‘when guards are dead, they stay dead’ mod?

1633

No enterprising modder has made anything at all. As far as I can tell, Far Cry 2 is completely, 100% devoid of any modding community whatsoever, which is probably the single worst mistake on the part of the devs. That game is aching for mods.

1634

Have developers figured out DX10 now, then? Because about two years ago this forum was full of complaints about how crap DX10 was compared with DX9 and how nobody felt that upgrading to a DX10 compatible card and Vista was remotely worth it. Of course, that was back when games like Far Cry and Hellgate: London seemed to be patching in or tacking on DX10 functionality as a bullet point.

1635

That wasn’t the games, that was nVidia making their usual move of putting the new DX on the box while not providing a usable level of performance for it.

1636

I’ve tried everything and can’t seem to fix this problem, even after a reinstall. I’m half tempted to go out and pick up the 360 version.

1637

Is there something locked down in the engine or data files? I know there’s no SDK but that doesn’t stop the kids from tweaking the really big mod titles like crazy before one is released.

It’ll be interesting to see if Far Cry 2 has any legs to it. Seems like you can open up the game and let your community do it for you, or support it until the end of time like Team Fortress 2. I guess I haven’t even ever purchased any “DLC” in my life but it seems like that doesn’t do much of anything for the longevity of most games.

This was the first game I can remember where DX10 performance in a game was better than DX9, and I think I commented on it at the time. I know other devs like GSC have said they could do certain graphical things in DX9 but it would kill processing time due to the efficiency of DX10 for those things, so perhaps they didn’t take them all out for FC2? Or did they really find ways to use DX10 to make the game faster in general, rather than just for a few wowza effects?

1638

I think the last steam survey suggested 60% of people had DX10 cards… but only 30% had a DX10 OS. Those seem like pretty high numbers, and given the positive sentiment Win 7 seems to be getting, presumably DX11 will help things along.

1639

Right… quick question. (hope this particular problem hasn’t been mentioned in the past 41 pages)

The game was running fine when I played it a few months ago, but recently I installed a newer graphics card (from Ati x1950xt to geforce 8800GS) and started getting problems. Yesterday I installed the latest Nvidia drivers and the problem is still there.

Basically what happens is that there are horizontal lines flickering across the screen, but heres the odd part, they are ONLY visible when I’m in the menu! I ran FRAPS to attempt to get some screen shots, but they came out clean and everytime I took a snapshot, the lines were gone again for a few minutes. After a while I get the BSOD…

Any ideas? Guess I could uninstall and reinstall the whole game, but I doubt that’ll really fix my problems. (btw running XP, with 2 GB Ram, Intel E6750, DVD version of game, patched)

1640

Sounds more like a bad card, probably a heat issue.