lol I love all you guys who only have moderately new computers and are like "my computer is really old, there's no way it could play Farcry!"
On my old computer, a Pentium 4, 1.4GHz, 384MB (RDRAM) with a good ol Geforce 2 mx400, I can still manage to get the game going and it's fairly playable. But don't even think you're going to see any hint of the awesome graphics the game was designed with, the gorgeous water reflection replaced with strange solid colours and a lot of the non-critical graphical elements (such as fish) are removed, but for an old system I think that's still fairly respectable. Surprisingly the pixels weren't as distracting as in other games but I'm not sure exactly what the settings were I used.
If you're running low on ram, or even if you have a new video card which is just under the best performing cards, consider turning the graphics down from "very high" to "high" or even down to "medium" or less and and seeing what effect it has on the performance of the game. You just need to find the correct balance between graphics quality/resolution and performance for your individual system to achieve the best possible experience.
...But you have to agree, that game looks seriously amazing with high graphics!
(Note: is anyone else finding that internet explorer often crashes when you try to preview your message? Of course it crashes the only time I didn't copy my message before selecting preview, so naturally this is the second time I am typing this message! 😡 )
Patrick
