far cry

newguy5

newguy5

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so i just got my 3850, e6750, 1 gb ram computer build, and i play far cry at 1280x1024 medium settings and it plays fine but every now and then there will be a slight lag between scenes or as i turn quickly. is that normal? i just don't know why it does it. if i play something like CS those problems never show.

is there a way i can watch my fps while playing far cry to see if i notice a big drop in fps whenever this happens?
 
You should be able to play it on ultra settings easily with that equipment i played it on ultra settings with a 7600gs, pentium d 805 and 1gb of ram with out any problems....
 
and you never got any small lags? i'm sure it can play it better settings...just didn't try them.

any reason why it would have those lags?
 
Use fraps to detect the FPS. And also, do you mean Far Cry or Crysis? It seems to make more sense if you get small lags in Crysis on medium settings.
 
diduknowthat said:
Use fraps to detect the FPS. And also, do you mean Far Cry or Crysis? It seems to make more sense if you get small lags in Crysis on medium settings.
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no, far cry. it's nothing big, but it's like when a door opens and i turn it may lag a little bit as i turn. but it doesn't do it often, although i've noticed it only a few times.

i have it on the highest settings and it runs fine other than this. i tried fraps and got 59 min, 163 max, 84 avg, in dense jungle. that sound about right? i looked at my e6740 processor usage and it got to about 60% at the most...i wonder if my hard drive and cd rom (both connected via ide) could be causing the slow down. i don't even know the speed of the dvd/cd rom to be honest. could that be a factor?
 
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Frames look fine. I forget how well Farcry runs on just 1Gb of RAM, but that stuttering is exactly what would occur if you were suffering for a mem bottleneck. Consider getting an extra gig.
 
1GB or ram should be good. On my old pc i was playing it on ultra settings with a Pentium D 805, 1gb ram, 7600gs without any problems at all.
 
it seems to happen right around when i start playing the game. after i play it for a while i don't see the stutters. maybe that has something to do with it.
 
Sounds like your experiencing a slight stutter as the textures are being loaded onto the VRAM. It go away after awhile, because all the textures have been addressed. Drivers all updated? I wouldn't know what else would be causing it. You said slight lag, less than second? If it's not that annoying, I'd just ignore it...
 
hermeslyre said:
Sounds like your experiencing a slight stutter as the textures are being loaded onto the VRAM. It go away after awhile, because all the textures have been addressed. Drivers all updated? I wouldn't know what else would be causing it. You said slight lag, less than second? If it's not that annoying, I'd just ignore it...
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yeah, less than 1 second. it isn't that annoying, just doesn't seem like it should be happening at all with the setup i have (which makes me think something could be wrong since i'm paranoid like that). could it be the hdd or the cd rom causing it to lag? just wondering if having them both hooked up via ide could cause such a stutter.

the drivers are updated. the vram issue you speak of, does that mean i don't have good ram or maybe not enough? i thought 1gb would be enough.
 
1gb of ram is enough for that game i've played it on rigs with as low as 640mb of ram and still played great. 1gb is plenty for that game. Another gig of ram wouldnt hurt you though, but i dont think thats your problem.
 
Pc_Pimp said:
1gb of ram is enough for that game i've played it on rigs with as low as 640mb of ram and still played great. 1gb is plenty for that game. Another gig of ram wouldnt hurt you though, but i dont think thats your problem.
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any clue what the problem could be then? again, no spike in the cpu or fps when the game stutters. but it really only happens at the start of the game when i enter a door or something and turn. i will play the game for longer this evening and see if the problem persists after a while. i've only played it for like 5 minutes max. but if the cpu spiked that could say something is wrong with the cpu, and there is still memory available, so i don't think that's it. the video card obviously shows good fps, so the only thing i can think of is the hdd or the cd rom. hdd is probably not it, maybe the cd rom is too slow? i have no idea how a slow cd rom could affect that game...
 
Vram is video card memory. I'm not saying the VRAM or RAM is the problem, but that the stuttering you speak of is definitely Memory (or hdd) related.

When you install a game, all the textures, geometry, wireframe, everything is put on your HDD. When you play the game, it read primarily from the HDD, the CD is secondary, many times it's not even used when it's sitting in the drive, it's merely there as a form of security. So when you enter the game and look at objects, textures, anything, it's pulling that off the HDD and onto the VRAM, where it can be accessed much faster. A slow HDD is therefore suspect.

I should have thought of that earlier, alas I'm tired, and should really go to sleep. :o
 
hermeslyre said:
Vram is video card memory. I'm not saying the VRAM or RAM is the problem, but that the stuttering you speak of is definitely Memory (or hdd) related.

When you install a game, all the textures, geometry, wireframe, everything is put on your HDD. When you play the game, it read primarily from the HDD, the CD is secondary, many times it's not even used when it's sitting in the drive, it's merely there as a form of security. So when you enter the game and look at objects, textures, anything, it's pulling that off the HDD and onto the VRAM, where it can be accessed much faster. A slow HDD is therefore suspect.

I should have thought of that earlier, alas I'm tired, and should really go to sleep. :o
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i'm not even going to ask if you've been awake all night :P i remember those days...haha.

well the HD is a hitachi deskstar 7200rpm 80gb HD, but it's hooked up via IDE with a cd rom. does that sound like it could be a source of the problem in any way? i just don't know.

but, i had a problem when i installed windows...videos wouldn't play at all. so i just did a disk defragmentation last night (and it needed it). that defragmentation might make a difference and help the problem. pretty bad after a week of owning the computer and i already had to defragment. then again i did install about 15 codecs and uninstall them and a bunch of other crap trying to get the damn movies to play on my computer. i almost think i should reinstall windows after all that. what do you think?
 
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hermeslyre said:
A 7200rpm drive is ample speed in itself. You could try EVO's idea and patch* the game up, might be the only problem.. A reinstall shouldn't be needed, you can run ccleaner's registry cleaner though, if you want, might clear out some unneeded entries.

*http://www.ubi.com/US/Downloads/Info.aspx?dlId=691
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cool, thanks. btw, do you think the fact that the disk was pretty defragmented could cause the slow-down? i think it could, then again i don't really know and am considering that as the best possibility because otherwise i'm stumped!
 
Fragmented data can slow the hard drive down, yeah. But if you defragged, and the problems persisted, then you can sorta rule that one out..
 
hermeslyre said:
Fragmented data can slow the hard drive down, yeah. But if you defragged, and the problems persisted, then you can sorta rule that one out..
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oh, well i'm pretty sure i defragged and then went to sleep. i don't think i played after that. don't really remember. that was several hours ago. :P
 
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