Hello All,
I need your help. I'm having problems with FARCRY performance. I am sure that my machine should perform so much better so I need any suggestions possible. Before anything else I would like to say what I tried first so I would not waste anyone's effort. I used to have an NVidia 5600 FX card when I installed Farcry, I had huge lags when starting gunfights and the graphics looked crappy, I also had a static sound. so going to other forums I found out that the FX series is a problematic card, thus I decided to buy a new card ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB, and I bought a PCI Creative Sound Blaster to replace my on board card. It solved the sound problem but am still having lags when starting at gunfights. I have to set everything to medium in order to make the game playable but even in those crappy settings, I still get lags.
Problem Summary
Performance problem with FARCRY - Running more than 80 frames per second without gunfights and when gunfight starts, I get (lag)stuttering and delay before I shoot the first bullet.
Basically I've done the following...
I think it may be a motherboard problem or a PSU problem but I don't have enough proof to suggest that one is the culprit. The funny thing is that when I used 3d Mark I got an acceptable score of 5435. I gave my brother my old 5600FX card and he get's 3500 score but he can play Far Cry in High Settings. It's just pretty frustrating that I have far more superior computer to his but I can't even run mine in Medium settings. Please I need your help.
My System Spec are the Following
AMD 2600XP
GIGABYTE GA-7VT600 1394 Motherboard
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB.
512 MB RAM
80 GB HD
300W PSU
I need your help. I'm having problems with FARCRY performance. I am sure that my machine should perform so much better so I need any suggestions possible. Before anything else I would like to say what I tried first so I would not waste anyone's effort. I used to have an NVidia 5600 FX card when I installed Farcry, I had huge lags when starting gunfights and the graphics looked crappy, I also had a static sound. so going to other forums I found out that the FX series is a problematic card, thus I decided to buy a new card ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB, and I bought a PCI Creative Sound Blaster to replace my on board card. It solved the sound problem but am still having lags when starting at gunfights. I have to set everything to medium in order to make the game playable but even in those crappy settings, I still get lags.
Problem Summary
Performance problem with FARCRY - Running more than 80 frames per second without gunfights and when gunfight starts, I get (lag)stuttering and delay before I shoot the first bullet.
Basically I've done the following...
Updated BIOS
Installed Hyperion Drivers for VIA type motherboards
Reinstalled Windows XP SP1
Using latest Catalyst drivers.
installed FarCry patch 1.3
Disabled Fast Write
Changed from 8x AGP to 4x AGP
I think it may be a motherboard problem or a PSU problem but I don't have enough proof to suggest that one is the culprit. The funny thing is that when I used 3d Mark I got an acceptable score of 5435. I gave my brother my old 5600FX card and he get's 3500 score but he can play Far Cry in High Settings. It's just pretty frustrating that I have far more superior computer to his but I can't even run mine in Medium settings. Please I need your help.
My System Spec are the Following
AMD 2600XP
GIGABYTE GA-7VT600 1394 Motherboard
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB.
512 MB RAM
80 GB HD
300W PSU