FarCry 3 - Blood Dragon, draw your own Duke Nukem conclusions here Options

[Mach_Ten]

God gave us the EIGHTIES ... Get Some !

that is all

[CanRay]

Waiting for the 1st to DL it.

[_Pax._]

Waiting for the 1st to DL it.

Same here. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[_Pax._]

GAH.

What a laggy, jaggy, MESS.

There is no way in the ninety lesser hells that my machine should choke on any game, especially .... not, triply-especially, when I haven't dialled the graphics settings to 11.

Yet, this?

Yeah.

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Guess that was fifteen dollars I didn't really need to spend until next month, when a patch or two has come out.

Good grief, all they did is reskin FC3, build new maps, and write a new (intentionally campy) storyline ... how could it have turned out this much worse?!?

[CanRay]

Good grief, all they did is reskin FC3, build new maps, and write a new (intentionally campy) storyline ... how could it have turned out this much worse?!?

You were expecting something else?

[_Pax._]

You were expecting something else?

Yeah, actually ... I was expecting something that could actually be, you know ... played. Because, um ... that's what I paid for?

Seriously, I'm getting framerates that are in the SINGLE DIGITS - despite 8 CPU cores at 4GHz, 16GB of system memory, and a Radeon HD 7970 GPU backed by 3GB of video memory.

Trying to play makes me nauseous.

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All I wanted was my FC3, reskinned and rewritten to give me a brief but delightfully-campy romp though an 80's-esque game, on new maps, with a few new toys to play with. You know: what they advertised.

Instead, I have a nausea-inducing waste of money and HDD space.

...

I should have waited to buy this. July or August, maybe.

[CanRay]

Ah, got confused there. Runs fine on my rig with no problems. Even got a controller working with it. Maybe your rig is TOO 1337 for the '80s?

[_Pax._]

Dunno. I suspect it's a "not optimised for AMD" thing. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

[CanRay]

I'm running a ATI Radeon HD 6770.

[Critias]

Picking this up via Playstation Network (or whatever the heck it's called) is likely going to be my "finished grading final exams, semester grades are submitted!" reward. So it'll be a week or so. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

Sorry to hear your PC and/or the game is giving you fits, though.

[CanRay]

Why I started getting into consoles. The problems with PC games and my rig all the time were giving me problems.

[_Pax._]

Normally, I don't have problems like this; I've been super lucky so far, I guess.

I've gotten the game MOSTLY playable - by dropping all the way back to using DX9, instead of hte DX11 my PC should be capable of. That shuts off a whole swath of postprocessing effects, and I go from "completely unplayable" to "god it's irritating that this doesn't run smoother".

[Mach_Ten]

Normally, I don't have problems like this; I've been super lucky so far, I guess.

I've gotten the game MOSTLY playable - by dropping all the way back to using DX9, instead of hte DX11 my PC should be capable of. That shuts off a whole swath of postprocessing effects, and I go from "completely unplayable" to "god it's irritating that this doesn't run smoother".

daft question, but you don't have a setting like Shadows or PhysX turned up to full ? being Nvidia, it kills AMD CPU's.

that was what did me in borderlands 2, it worked but was slow till I dialled back the physx

Also. again a simple thing but which Catalyst driver version ? have you upgraded drivers since buying that lovely machine ? some of the catalyst versions have been atrocious
for some games ... until a later fix or patch comes.

maybe Blood Dragons don't like AMD

**EDIT** hope I don't come across as patronising, not my intent. not sure how techy you might be or not (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[_Pax._]

Not patronising at all.

As for settings: like I said, I even turned the game down to DirectX 9. Still not smooth. Yet, I dialled everything to 11 for Far Cry 3 (which uses the exact same engine), and it was silk.

Driver version .... lemme run dxdiag ... an update might help, but it'll be a tedious PITA; I'm on 9.12, dated 19 December 2012. (The computer was only purchased at the start of February, this year.) And updating that is indeed next on my list of things to try.

Not right now, though. I've been suffering from insomnia all night, and I _know_ my overtired self hasn't the patience for driver-wrangling.

[Mach_Ten]

Not patronising at all.

good, sometimes I revert to form, and almost speak in 101101001001001111 ... nerdspeak as my girl calls it.

Driver version .... lemme run dxdiag ... an update might help, but it'll be a tedious PITA; I'm on 9.12, dated 19 December 2012. (The computer was only purchased at the start of February, this year.) And updating that is indeed next on my list of things to try.

Not right now, though. I've been suffering from insomnia all night, and I _know_ my overtired self hasn't the patience for driver-wrangling.

yeah it's never fun, now here is where I get a thunderbolt from the heavens or flamed by the remainder of the population..

"I have never uninstalled an AMD Driver, just install the latest package over the top" ... it has worked and of course YMMV

but it's not as complex as has been in years past. hunting for driver cleaners and registry cleaners etc.

[Stahlseele]

Only going from Green to Red or the other way around have i ever deleted old drivers before installing new ones . .

[ShadowDragon8685]

One thing I noticed was the gun - you don't actually have to seat the magazine yourself, just get it somewhere up the magazine well, and it seats the clip for you. That's totally smartgun stuff there.

[CanRay]

One thing I noticed was the gun - you don't actually have to seat the magazine yourself, just get it somewhere up the magazine well, and it seats the clip for you. That's totally smartgun stuff there.

All the reload animations are pure unadulterated awesome!

On the downside... Yeah, the war on drugs is alive and well in gaming again...

[Critias]

Screw waiting until finals are graded, I downloaded it and fired it up this afternoon. Needed a break from working and being productive and crap. So far, so fun! Just wiped out some mutant turtles living in sewers beneath a research lab.

[CanRay]

Screw waiting until finals are graded, I downloaded it and fired it up this afternoon. Needed a break from working and being productive and crap. So far, so fun! Just wiped out some mutant turtles living in sewers beneath a research lab.

Two of the little bastards was waiting for me with a trap!

[Critias]

I'll be honest, my biggest problem with the game so far is that it's just friggin' hard to see sometimes. The dark and moody vibe goes a wee bit overboard sometimes, and I genuinely just have problem seeing a lot of the time.

Gameplay itself is fun, I don't mind the abstracted/simplified leveling system too bad (man, do I miss Heavy Beatdown, though)...and all in all I'm still having a good time with it (and cracking up pretty often). I just might have to play with my video settings a little to brighten things up a bit.

[CanRay]

I needed to boost brightness high on my HDTV, but it looks great on my monitor. The enemies are Neon-Lit up which helps. A lot!

[Mach_Ten]

and all in all I'm still having a good time with it (and cracking up pretty often).

this is what I was hoping for and Waiting for, if I can get rid of 'er indoors for a bit this 3 day weekend, I'll be paying I hope ..

More than likely though, I'll be pressure washing the decking and weather proofing the fence ... damn I hate summer

[CanRay]

Final view of the game: If you know someone who doesn't know the '80s, show them this game, and say, "This is the '80s. The awesome parts. Be glad you missed some parts, and I'm sorry you missed the rest."

My RPG group has a 20-year old who has to constantly remind us that she hasn't seen half the movies we're talking about. Including Ghostbusters (despite the fact that she's playing "Betty White, Nazi Hunter" in the game.).

[Stahlseele]

Make her sit down, if you have to, forcefully tie her to a chair and make her watch them god damned movies . .
Sheesh what do they teachchildren nowadays? <.<;,