First post, by bZbZbZ
Hi everyone,
Despite using what I think is a fairly overpowered WinXP machine, I'm getting very poor performance in Far Cry 1 [GOG version, no mods] and maybe someone here can inform me on what I might be doing wrong.
I tried searching the forum and despite cruising through this thread and a couple others, I didn't find anyone else with this problem per se (sorry if I missed something!).
Basically Far Cry is a stuttery mess once I get out of the bunker into the open jungle (first level). Within the bunker things are fine. I've tried disabling anti-aliasing, turning down the settings to 'high', disabling EAX, and lowering the resolution slightly... but no dice. The performance is just very very poor (maybe like 5-10fps). Like actually unplayable. I remember back in the day playing this game (disc version) on original era-appropriate hardware and while I remember performance being borderline, it was at least playable.
The system in question runs other games like UT2004 with over a hundred fps, maxed out at 1600x1200 with 8xAA. I also get great performance in other late-XP era games like Need For Speed U2 & MW, Doom 3, NHL 04 Rebuilt, and Civ 4. My specs are kind of overkill:
- Core 2 Quad Q6600 currently at stock 2.4GHz
- Asus P5E-VM-HDMI (Intel G35)
- 2x 2GB DDR2-400MHz
- Radeon HD 5850 with Catalyst 14.4
- Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0880 PCIe
- Windows XP 32-bit SP3
Does the GOG version perform worse than the original DVD set? Is there a setting I need to toggle in-game? Or the graphics driver? Or is it just not realistic to expect this game to run maxed out (I definitely didn't run it maxed out back in the day... but the reason I have an overkill XP machine is to run this stuff maxed out!). I'd very much appreciate your advice/experience.