Far Cry demo

This demo crashes my machine. Anyone get this to
work, or can verify the demo's bad?

Jeff

what is your system, and where does it crash? Most people have it running
fine, myself included.

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"jeff b" <> wrote in message
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> This demo crashes my machine. Anyone get this to
> work, or can verify the demo's bad?
>
> Jeff
>

Billy_Bat wrote:
> what is your system, and where does it crash? Most people have it running
> fine, myself included.
>

When I try to launch, it hangs after loading about 98%.
task manager shows "pr9ogram not responding".
Since there's nothing wrong with my computer,
I needed to know if there is something wrong
with the file so I don't waste time if there's a known
problem.

Jeff B

jeff b wrote:
> This demo crashes my machine. Anyone get this to
> work, or can verify the demo's bad?

What version of the nVidia drivers do you have? Minimum for Far Cry is
53.03. http://farcry.ubi.com/demo.php

ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/

The game takes a very powerful card. What card do you have? I have a Ti4200
and the full game and frames/second is hurting big time.


Too_Much_Coffee ®

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>
> Jeff

> What version of the nVidia drivers do you have? Minimum for Far Cry is
> 53.03. http://farcry.ubi.com/demo.php
>

I have played Farcry all the way through using the 45.23 drivers with my
Ti4200. All the settings were on medium at 1024x768. At some points in the
game I used the high settings and it still played "ok" but not as responsve
as the medium settings during large action sequences. Then again reading the
UBI forums I see people complaining about slow downs on high settings with a
9800pro etc etc etc.

The Ti4200 is still a very good card

Morgan

Yeah, I just changed to the 56.56 from the 44.03
drivers, works now. I have a 3.4 P4/5600U and the
game chugs at 1280x1024 res.

BTW, I can't seem to save my game in the demo.
I assme it allows unrestricted game saving in
the full version (as opposed to that lame-assed
'checkpoint' crap ala Halo).

Jeff B

"Too_Much_Coffee ®" <> wrote
> What version of the nVidia drivers do you have? Minimum for Far Cry is
> 53.03. http://farcry.ubi.com/demo.php

Seems to work fine with 43.45 too.

> The game takes a very powerful card. What card do you have?
> I have a Ti4200 and the full game and frames/second is hurting big time.

So full version has more "loose code" than the demo?
For me the demo runs quite well considering the medium-settings
and GF3 Ti200... But different people are used to different
framerates :-) I'd still say it runs around 20-25fps most of the time.

"jeff b" <> wrote in message
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> BTW, I can't seem to save my game in the demo.
> I assme it allows unrestricted game saving in
> the full version (as opposed to that lame-assed
> 'checkpoint' crap ala Halo).

Nope, it's checkpoint saving. Check the UBI forums, someone came up with a
way to get save though.

Dan

"Aki Peltola" <> wrote in message
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> "Too_Much_Coffee ®" <> wrote
> > What version of the nVidia drivers do you have? Minimum for Far Cry is
> > 53.03. http://farcry.ubi.com/demo.php
>
> Seems to work fine with 43.45 too.
>
> > The game takes a very powerful card. What card do you have?
> > I have a Ti4200 and the full game and frames/second is hurting big time.
>
> So full version has more "loose code" than the demo?
> For me the demo runs quite well considering the medium-settings
> and GF3 Ti200... But different people are used to different
> framerates :-) I'd still say it runs around 20-25fps most of the time.
>
>

I have an AMD 3000, 1 gig memory and a 5950 ultra and the full game plays
badly on medium/high settings when anything starts happening.. i.e. gunfire,
in tunnels etc

"Aki Peltola" <> wrote in message
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> "Too_Much_Coffee ®" <> wrote
> > What version of the nVidia drivers do you have? Minimum for Far Cry is
> > 53.03. http://farcry.ubi.com/demo.php
>
> Seems to work fine with 43.45 too.
>
> > The game takes a very powerful card. What card do you have?
> > I have a Ti4200 and the full game and frames/second is hurting big time.
>
> So full version has more "loose code" than the demo?
> For me the demo runs quite well considering the medium-settings
> and GF3 Ti200... But different people are used to different
> framerates :-) I'd still say it runs around 20-25fps most of the time.

I found the full version ran better than the demo on my Ti4200. With the
nVidia 56.72 drivers and my XP2400 I can smoothly run it at 1024x768 with
Medium settings and AA enabled, or High with no AA. Very High runs but
occassionally struggles.

Dan