Hey there Fellow Far Cry Afficionadoes, I'm about a quarter of the way through the single player portion of the game, and have been noticing a lot of Far Cry performance tweaking commentary. I'm currently playing at: video: 1152x864 no anti-aliasing advanced video: texture quality: medium texture filter: trilinear anisotropic filtering: 1 detail settings: high to very high I'm getting pretty smooth gameplay from this combo, but was wondering if there were any other setting fanatics like me who have been experimenting with other settings/resolutions and found something that runs exceptionally smooth; conversely, if there are any settings you've dumbed down and found performance improvements with mininal differance in visuals, i'd love to hear from you. Thanks! Stretch ___________ P4 3.0 ghz 1gb DDR 3200 Radeon Pro 9800 128mb Asus P4c800-E Ac'97 Audio

Heres a FarCry Tweak guide that i found pretty useful http://www.tweakguides.com/Farcry_1.html Abit IS7 865PE Pentium 4 2.6ghz @ 3.2ghz eVGA GeForce FX 5900 SE

ahh, very cool, thx! Anyone else who has been playing with the settings and found that "sweet spot" between performance and visuals?

As I have a 15inch LCD 1024x768 @ 75hz is my max res, I run the game at ultra detail settings no AA or AF turned on and I average 65fps, gameplay is very smooth even when in huge battles ________________________ MSI KT8 NEO FIS2R Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.0ghz 1.0 GB DDR PC3200 2X 160 GB HDD Hightech Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro Iceq 128mb ( Core 425 MHz and Memory 380 MHz ) 3DMark 2001 SE = 20,555 Points 3DMark 2003 = 6,442 Points

Thanks for that suggestion! I'll try those settings, and see if I notice a differance.

BTW - how do you like that MSI KT8 Board?

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