All the Far Cry and Crysis posts here

[ionicsachin]

Please post all the Far Cry and Crysis
Note: Only PC related posts, no PS2 or XBOX360.

You can ask all the questions from console command to ways of improving graphic and performance.
I am a big Freak of Far Cry and I've been researching on the console commands. I will periodically be telling you about the latest mods and the good maps and also about the update.

You might require the registration to various Far Cry website to download anything , but i'll provide you the direct links.

Also post topics regarding CRYSIS.

[ionicsachin]

Did you people who are owning GeForce 6 or 7 series of cards can enable HDR Rendering in the game. But you must have 1.33 patch installed and antialiasing turned off.
Just press ~ to bring down the console and type \r_HDRRendering 2
the value can be 1 - 11 but 2 and 7 looks best and 2 has better performance.
Also those who wants o play the game with HDR Rendering with anti aliasing with all the antialiasing on you have to install pre beta patch.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/games/buzz/do...beta_patch.exe

What people no one is interested in Far Cry? I've not got even a single post from you all.

[wizrulz]

has CRYSIS been released???
IF yes then i can getthe game.......

[Darthvader]

No Crysis is pretty faraway in the future.

[wizrulz]

Originally Posted by Darthvader

No Crysis is pretty faraway in the future.

so is there any point discussing DEMO(crysis) if any???

[ionicsachin]

No Crysis is not yet released. It is releasing at E3.
If you want to see the gameplay and footages you can see here
http://incrysis.com/crysis/index.php...&id=1&Itemid=2
They say "Play it at E3"

[ionicsachin]

What people? No one has interest in Far Cry which is one of the best games of the decade till now. If you have finished the game and feel that its over than you are wrong. There are thousands of maps and mods available which are extremely intresting and adventurous and also dangerous.
I suppose many of you like Far Cry. Look at the Counter Strike Thread, it is just so big and still farcry thread has 3 posts ( excluding mine)

[Darthvader]

E3 is over And Crysis is still not here so how can it release in e3

[ionicsachin]

If you want to know more what they say than look at the trailers which are available in download section of www.incrysis.com.
They say "Play it at E3".

[Chirag]

I will have to update to nVidia 7 series to be able to play Crysis. Damn. Recently I got XFX 6600gt 256 PCI-e.

[vmp_vivek]

^^ LOL. By the way, I doubt even on 7800 GTX to play Crysis smooooothly, only 7900 GTX 512 MB can run it efficiently for sure.

[tarey_g]

as its not out yet so discussing the hardware req's is waste

[ionicsachin]

In the Crysis forum they were talking abt SLIs of high end for smooth gameplay. But also they were saying that a 1 GB RAM and 6600GT with work without the following things:
Soft Shadows.
Volumetric Clouds.
Direct X 10 Features
The HDR Rendering will be smooth but if you put Real Time Ambient Light than the HDR will be slow.
But still what you get with 6600Gt and 1 GB RAM is
Dynamic Day and Night Sun Cycle.
Motion Blur.
Depth of Field
Fully Interactive Environment
Shader Model 3 full support and lots of other features.

The Motion Blur and ambient features are also included in X-Isle mod of Far Cry. You can check out the Demo in the single player map pack1.1:-
http://farcry.filefront.com/file/Sin...Map_Pack;53449
Warning: Size 734.96MB

[Darthvader]

All this is speculation. Why dont u w8 till the actual sys reqs are announced .
However looking at the graphics the 6600 gt will certainly be the bare minimum

[reddick]

I wana ask abt d cheats of FARCRY.

I hit '~' key n d console windows appears while playing d game.But i type all d cheats of God Mode,All Ammo,All Weapons etc. but none of them even works!

Secondly,I replace d file 'DevMode.LUA' to get access in Cheats but nothing works at all.Whenever i type '-DEVMODE' at d end of target file,it says that 'd path is wrong'

PLEASE tell me how do i use CHEATS in this game...I search n google for it but only these two methods i found n both failed for me!!! THX FOR UR PATIENCE

[ionicsachin]

after replacing the devmode.lua thing give thae following extension to the shortucut.
"Path of farcry folder\Bin32\FarCry.exe" "-devmode"
It didnt work for you as u might ot have seperated "-devmode" by a space.
Also see if there is no " " for the first part in shortcut properties than use only -devmode instead of "-devmode".
Check and than say me.

[tarey_g]

i have tried hdr on farcry , strangely i see no difference changing the values to increase decrease HDR rendering , i see only the hdr on and off difference .

one more thing , if u enable HDR while AA enabled on a nvidia card then whole level will get filled up with water , strange . seems like tsunami hit the shores of the island

[ionicsachin]

Actually the HDR Rendering is in its beta versions. It has been tested succesfully only on one game till now and thats NFS MW. There are minor un notable differences between HDR 1 - 11 but the thing is that as per the experts of Gamerspot.com and also from official website they say that 7 looks the best and 2 has better performance.
If you enable AA the water comes on to top. For this bug there is Far Cry patch 1.4 under construction. but for 6X00 and 7X00 card owner's an unofficial pre release patch is released by which you can play with all the AA on and HDR on without tsunami. The link for the pre release patch is:-
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/games/buzz/do...beta_patch.exe

[reddick]

@ionicsachin
As per ur suggestion,i rub d commas in target line.Also i put space into -devmode n then without space...But still it shows same error message!
Please tell me in brief how to put damn thing in target line

[tarey_g]

Originally Posted by ionicsachin

Actually the HDR Rendering is in its beta versions. It has been tested succesfully only on one game till now and thats NFS MW.

beta versions !!! lol
Dude what are u talking about , nfsmw doesn't even use HDR , and u say it has been tested successfully .

Instead of using HDR, EA chose to implement "overbright," which simulates some of the light bloom effects without being too overpowered.
Source

And the games using HDR are Oblivian,AOE 3, Juiced , Tomb Raider Legend,Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter ,Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory ,etc.

[ionicsachin]

Thanks man i didnt have that info.
But the HDR is surely in its beta stage.
My information was after release of Far Cry 1.33 pre release patch. At that time these all game were absent.
Anyways sorry man.

[ionicsachin]

First off, download the cheat enabler from http://www.actiontrip.com/cheats/farcry.phtml and unpack the DevMode.lua file to the main FarCry directory overwritting other file (make a backup of it!).

Now you need to modify your desktop shortcut. Right click on the Far Cry icon on your desktop, select properties and a new screen should pop up. Add the " -DEVMODE" parameter (without the quotes) at the end of the target field so it looks similar to this:

"C:\Program Files\UBISOFT\Crytek\Far Cry\Bin32\FarCry.exe" -DEVMODE

Click Apply to save the changes and run the game using that shortcut. All levels will be unlocked and you'll be able to use the following buttons:

[F1] - Toggles first/third-person camera modes
[F2] - Move to next checkpoint
[F3] - Spawn point
[F4] - Toggle no-clip mode
[F5] - Default speed
[F9] - Save current position
[F10] - Load current position
[F11] - Toggle extra information
[=] - Increase speed
[-] - Decrease speed
[BackSpace] - Toggle God mode (if it doesn't work for you use the God mode cheat from below)
o - Gives 999 ammo
p - Gives all weapons

On that page you can find even more cheats
But play the game without cheats than yo'll enjoy it.

[ionicsachin]

For tarey_g:- Look here they clearly said that HDR is in beta stage
http://www.elite*******s.com/page.ph...d=1&comments=1
Though at link mentioned by you it is given but HDR and bloom and overbright have the same technology behind them.

[tarey_g]

Dude , i read that page . The hdr rendering thing 'for farcry' is in beta stage not HDR as a whole is in beta stage.

Normal map compression and HDR support are both currently in the beta stages, and thus need to be enabled from the console or command-line shortcuts.

and HDR bloom may produce similar(not same) results , but HDR) lighting is a form of lighting effect which dynamically alters based on the way it interacts with various objects and surfaces, as well as the environment in which the light source is portrayed.. Bloom is a lighting effect alters the appearance of lighting in an attempt to make it seem more realistic. However unlike HDR, bloom is less dynamic and less realistic. Bloom is a lot less graphically intensive than HDR lighting.

[Holy_fat_man]

Hey
i got a prob here.the game installs fine,but when i wanna play it it say"cannot find default.xml"(wrong working folder?)
my friends tell me this is coz i got a fake.
is this true?

[rockthegod]

Originally Posted by vmp_vivek

^^ LOL. By the way, I doubt even on 7800 GTX to play Crysis smooooothly, only 7900 GTX 512 MB can run it efficiently for sure.

Acc to gamespot forums, the E3 demo of Crysis was done on a 7800 GTX SLi system with Directx10 emulation mode (under Dx 9.0) and resulted in 8-16 FPS will full Dx10 glory. So, to play it with full glory.. be ready to upgrade to the Dx10 complaint nvidia G80s and Ati R600s with Windows Vista running. Though Directx9.0 is suported in the game.

[ionicsachin]

The times which are coming ahead are really high end. 6 series of GeForce will soon go into oblivion. Before 256-512MB RAM was considered good. Now they talk abt 2GB RAM. I suppose games will start coming directly on mini Hard disks because of enormous size.
Well most of the Indian games Freaks use 5950U, 6600GT, 6800GT. They will definitelry have to turn off all the eye candy and play in the "good" old(comparative to Crysis) Far Cry kind of graphics.

[Ethan_Hunt]

Personally,I would rather pass with Far Cry's HDR capabilities as it is better left alone without any HDR.It has ample potential to render beautiful light emulation.The thing I noticed when HDR values were increased in Far Cry was the Sun light became a bit wierd.On a whole the HDR concept hasn't yet clicked with everyone as a major leap in natural light emulation.Even in Seriosu Sam 2's engine the light fractions were rendered exotically without the slightest bit of HDR setting added to it.

[ionicsachin]

allwyndlima is right. The HDR in Far Cry is just having one plus point : - Improved contrast in water and all.
But the negative effects are many. If you get under a tree shadow and look down, everything around you becomes excessive bright.
Many places the sea sand becomes very bright that we cant even see sand texture on it.
Also HDR doubles loading time and halves the FPS.

[ionicsachin]

Man once again the Far Cry forum has gone down. Please people put it up. After all it is the best game till date.