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Far Cry 3 PC performance thread
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Odd, I have mine to none and there's no shimmering here.
Sutton Dagger
Member
You can also turn off SSAO by changing either the 1, 2 or 3 under SSAO in the config file to a 0. You still get the other DX11 features but without the weird shadows around objects (plus I think I got a small fps boost).
Tyrone_Biggums
Banned
Pretty much this ^
Skyfireblaze
Member
Well I'm running on DX11 now and it runs fine between 40-60 FPS depending on what's going on with these adjusted settings:
Everything maxed out but Shadows on High, Geometry on High and Post Processing on High
Ambient Occlusion on HBAO
Alpha to Coverage on Enhanced
MSAA set to off
And I figured out some things that Post Processing seems to do on Ultra and Very High, it seems that a form of FXAA is missing on High as is Motion Blur entirely. Hopefully someone finds a way to adjust these settings individually since maybe there is more but that's all I could spot so far :/
And can someone maybe explain something about Ambient Occlusion for me? I know what it does but it has some very strange effects on my end such as:
SSAO: Supposedly the least taxing option but it makes my card notably louder
HBAO: Looks better and is supposed to be more taxing but actually makes my card quieter o.o
HDAO: Looks best of them all since it's very subtle but sets my card on a noise level between SSAO and HBAO
So yeah I'm a bit confused about that xD
noomi
Member
So with all the different AO options ingame, I'm having a hard time deciding which one I should be using and which one is the best for visuals.
Running on nvidia here, does that mean I can only use SSAO/HBAO? HDAO is for AMD cards only from what I understand?
Which is the best option for visuals? SSAO better than HBAO/HDAO? or HBAO/HDAO better than SSAO?
Anyone?
Running on nvidia here, does that mean I can only use SSAO/HBAO? HDAO is for AMD cards only from what I understand?
Which is the best option for visuals? SSAO better than HBAO/HDAO? or HBAO/HDAO better than SSAO?
Anyone?
No, there's no vendor exclusive AO.
SSAO is the fastest with a poor accuracy on the AO. Creates a lot of halo effects.
HBAO is a bit more precise, takes a bit more of an FPS but still has some halo effects but not too bad.
HDAO is the most precise, takes a pretty hit on FPS for some but in this variation it seems almost invisble.
I opted for HBAO.
Backfoggen
Banned
Anyone else think the Ultra DX11 shadows look kind of bad? They have the whole "becoming smoother as they go along" look which is neat, but the base of the shadows always looks bad and that's what you're seeing mostly.
noomi
Member
Thanks for the clarification sir.
Afterburner limit to 60 fixed it for me.
-bakalhau-
Member
Were you playing the tutorial? If so, it's a mix of indoor and outdoor areas, so it's pretty normal your GPU was being pushed to 100% outdoors and less indoors.
Also, guys, I added the farcry_dx11.exe to the Nvidia Control Panel, and turned on FXAA. MSAAx0 ingame. I see NO jaggies while playing normally. Standing still I don't see them either. I swear I looked for them, they just weren't there. If not a perfect IQ, a near perfect IQ by my standards. Definitely a solution to try which will provide awesome results and no fps hit.
Got my upgrades yesterday too. From a GTX285, which I can install again if anyone wants me to test the card with this game, to a 660ti. 60fps with drops only to the 50s. Running everything maxed out with the aforementioned MSAAx0 and FXAA on CP, SSAO and Alpha to coverage disabled. Once I turn down post processing, this will be a 100% 60fps game.
Also overclocked a CPU for the first time in my life. i7 920@ 3.4Ghz.
1680x1050 though.
Hope this helped.
where is this config file? i just stumbled upon an xml file in the far cry 3 folder in my docs is that the one to change?
FXAA removes jaggies but it also makes everything really blurry. If you compare screenshots it's very obvious. SMAA works similarly, but looks much better and doesn't blur nearly as much. I don't know if the SMAA injector works here though.
I'm Playing at 30 since I can't stand the frequent drops under 60. I capped it to 30 in inspector and been fiddling around with different vsync / triplebuff settings but to no avail.
Just lower your settings for a constant 60 mang! Doubling your fps makes WAYYYYY more difference than a couple of extra subtle visual effects.
I'm starting to realize that. Many of the settings I can barely tell any difference between however I'm sure one of the worst culprits is the HDAO, but dear god ssao and even to a certain extent hbao makes me want to put my head in a tiger's mouth.
Playing at 30? Jesus man
Hey man, those are the times, a cpu close to 5ghz and a 400 dollar gpu only takes me so far you know? These multiplat games man, they're so next gen my pc doesn't know what to do.
Then turn off AO
Wait... what? You can turn it off?
C:\Users\NAME\Documents\My Games\Far Cry 3
Open GamerProfile.xml
Find SSAOLevel="X"
Set to "0".
Should do the trick.
Do you guys have horrible, nasty dithering when objects fade from low quality to high quality as you approach them? I have it on everything and it's really quite distracting. You can see it quite clearly if you find a parked car and walk back and forth to it repeatedly. Very weird "speckly" effect.
Yes, the LOD switching is horrendous. Especially noticed it inside a house as the carpets were drawn, looks like some sort of digital drawing effect, black pixel blur.
Skyfireblaze
Member
Hmm I don't know if I'm on to something but I have a feel it's the games internal FXAA or whatever that kills Post Processing on Very High and Ultra. It might be a bug but for testing reason I enabled Morphological Filtering in Catalyst and ever since then the difference between Ultra and High are 3 FPS according to FRAPS o.o
Or not... I just restarted the game and Post Process is as bad as ever again... And this time dropping it to Medium brings me near constant 50-60FPS when before Medium didn't do much different from High, this game has some very weird quirks going on D: I would buy the game a second time if only someone would provide a detailed description of whatever Post Processing does... I know I must have said that about four times now but that's some sort of technical OCD I have
Or not... I just restarted the game and Post Process is as bad as ever again... And this time dropping it to Medium brings me near constant 50-60FPS when before Medium didn't do much different from High, this game has some very weird quirks going on D: I would buy the game a second time if only someone would provide a detailed description of whatever Post Processing does... I know I must have said that about four times now but that's some sort of technical OCD I have
turn off all monitoring software and stuff in the background
like I said earlier I can get smooth 60 fps at 2880*1620 downsampled, but when I fired it up this morning it was anything but smooth ... only when I closed Chrome, EVGA Precision X and some other stuff the stuttering was gone again
also I need to set resolution to 1080p and back to 2880 everytime I boot the game, else it will just play at 1080p without V-Sync despite having the settings menu set to 2880+Vsync ? also alt-tab = automatically set back to Borderless Window at 1080p ...
so all in all happy I can get it to run at a smooth downsampled 60 fps but the game has a lot of weird quirks going on
Bless your ass it worked. 2560x1440, ultra preset, dx9,no aa, no ao. 60 fps and gpu headroom to breathe ( albeit conservative ).
I see, gonna give it a shot.
Good my son, next time I hear about you using 30FPS I will hop in my longboat and find you.
Now now let's not be too hasty, find me a card with the performance of sli 670s all neatly packed in a single card single gpu solution and I'm there!
Portugeezer
Member
1600x900, DX11, mostly medium with high textures, 2xMSAA.
I have a HD 5850 with Phenom X4 840 @3.2GHz.
I get about 30 to 35fps as the lowest, average seems to be about 35 to 40fps though. the odd loading slowdown goes to 25fps for a second.
I had several things open in the background as I played the first tutorial mission though, so I don't know if that affected performance much, but it seems to be about what I expected.
I have a HD 5850 with Phenom X4 840 @3.2GHz.
I get about 30 to 35fps as the lowest, average seems to be about 35 to 40fps though. the odd loading slowdown goes to 25fps for a second.
I had several things open in the background as I played the first tutorial mission though, so I don't know if that affected performance much, but it seems to be about what I expected.
Portugeezer
Member
Wait what, DX9 runs better than DX11 on DX11 cards?
memecomplex
Member
Sorry a little off topic; anyone know if the steam version supports achievements?
It has Uplay achievements, but I haven't gotten a single Steam achievement so far. Don't think it has any.
legacyzero
Banned
I want a 690Just get that 690 and quit yer' yapping
memecomplex
Member
Thanks for the info!
iNvid02
Member
I want a 690
anyone who has a 690 post their performance yet?
im expecting 60fps when i get this thang tommorow
ss_lemonade
Member
LOD on the 360 version is laughably bad. I once noticed a car turn into some sort of boxy figure that looked even worse than anything out of virtua racing... Hopefully the PC version doesn't share the same problem
there are some 670/680 SLI results in here so you should get sort of the same performance right
running stock or overclocked?
neatly packed? ha! just have your mom/sister/gf/wife pour in some Liquid Nitrogen every 5 minutes while you hunt
Average on my 690 is 74fps when downsampling from 2560x1440 with everything on Ultra and MSAA off. It can be somewhat erratic though, I've seen it drop as low as the mid 30's when going in a hut.
Edit: No worries dude, I'll be dropping down the post processing like suggested by Sethos tonight so I'll post some more impressions then.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
I just purchased two EVGA GTX680 FTW+ (KR-3687) with the intention to run them in SLI. I was wondering if anyone is knowledgable enough to let me know if this configuration with an I5 2500k processor and 4 gigs of ram will be able to run this game at a good framerate with good settings. Thanks!
did you also change SLI bits to " 0x0C1902F5 " like he posted ? Game ran fine without doing that for me, until some particular gunfight where the framerate suddenly tanked (doesn't happen every gunfight?) ... hasn't happened yet with those bits adjusted so I guess they work
sure, just get that CPU to around 4.5 GHz and follow the settings in this thread
although you might want some more memory in the future, but that hasn't got anything to do with framerates
if consoles released in 2006 perform better than a 4.6 Ghz 2500K + 680 SLI then we should all go find a new hobby
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
did you also change SLI bits to " 0x0C1902F5 " like he posted ? Game ran fine without doing that for me, until some particular gunfight where the framerate suddenly tanked (doesn't happen every gunfight?) ... hasn't happened yet with those bits adjusted so I guess they work
sure, just get that CPU to around 4.5 GHz and follow the settings in this thread
My CPU is overclocked to 4.6 GHz at the moment. Do you think I can get better performance than console version?
AO?
Turn down the AO! Why in the world is his elbow shadowing the ground 30 feet behind him? The AO is outrageous in this game. I hope there's a setting for that.
Portugeezer
Member
Lol. And the console version almost looks like Borderlands.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Yea the AO in this game is pretty absurd. None of the settings look any good to me, with SSAO and HBAO looking chunky or something. I switched back to DX11 with some of the suggestions, and will be turning off AO in my next session. Game runs a bit better than last night in DX11 - I can certainly tell the difference, but DX9 also looks great.
Man, I hate treking across the map to a radio tower only to die in gunfire steps away. They didn't get rid of respawning checkpoints, they only made them mobile and often
Man, I hate treking across the map to a radio tower only to die in gunfire steps away. They didn't get rid of respawning checkpoints, they only made them mobile and often
Oh, you play at 1440p? I'm at 1080 and can max out DX9 and maintain 60fps (with a few rare drops) with a 2500k @ 4.5GHz and a factory OC'd 670 using SMAA. BTW, I don't like the ringing around characters with the SSAO, but the game looks incredibly flat without SSAO at all. I wonder if you can maybe force driver AO with Nvidia cards. Far Cry 2 could.