[SOLVED] Black patches in the ground appearing in Far cry?

[zijin_cheng]

Hi, i have a 1.7ghz 768ram and geforce 6600, and there are black patches appearing in the ground and the grass is sometimes turning black. I can't play because i can't see my enemies. Why? I have tried playing on high and super high, the same.

[Laurie52]

Sounds like a graphics display texture/rendering problem. Although a GeForce 6600 "should" handle it. So High and Super High settings would not fix this. Because the higher your Texture Quality settings, the greater the amount of memory and graphics card power used (although your 768 RAM is more than what is called for)

TweakGuides.com has several pages of tweaking guides for Far Cry that may help you. This quote is from page 11:

Far Cry was one of the first games to offer HDR Lighting for graphics cards which support Shader Model 3.0; namely GeForce 6600 or above...... To enable HDR in Far Cry, you will need to use the r_HDRRendering command as covered on page 9 of this guide..... In general though since Far Cry wasn't really designed for HDR lighting, you may see visual anomalies when HDR is enabled (emphasis is mine), and of course performance will be lower when HDR lighting is used......

When Far Cry came out in 2004, it was the "bee's knees" in all departments as a gaming benchmark. The CryEngine game engine from CryTek gave what every FPS gamer had hoped for, wanted and more....but at a price. The Engine was very demanding on a computer's system. Like I said, 768 is more than enough to run the game (it calls for 512) and your GeForce 6600 is supported...just have to do some "corrective tweaking".

But saying this, check to see if there were any game patches that could help too.

[zijin_cheng]

Could you tell me what to edit to get rid of the black patches? thanks

[Laurie52]

Not having the game myself, I went looking around. It seems some players with a Nvidia 6600/6600 GT card also have this problem. Here are some suggestions I found from the game's Official forums at UbiSoft:

Try lowering your graphics settings to medium or low to see it this helps.
(Yeah, I know...why do this and miss all the "eye candy", but you might be able to "see" your enemies now.)

Try lowering the "Lighting" option to low
The person who suggested this option said: this kept him from getting anymore "horrible graphical tearing when in outside environments." All his other settings were left on "high/Very High".

After searching through the "UbiSoft Technical Community Help forums" other players who followed this advice, had no more problems.


Patches

UbiSoft "Far Cry" Patches Download website has all the latest patches for the game. The UbiSoft site details what is fixed with each patch. Be sure to patch in numerical order if needed (for example: 1.3, 1.31, 1.32). From what I have read, Patch 1.3 is for Single Player problems is really all you may need.

Here is a clearer list from a UbiSoft "Far Cry" Technical Community Help subject thread.

On the UBI site patches 1.1, 1.3, 1.31, 1.32, 1.33 and 1.33 for linux dedicated server are available.

But the only patches a player needs are 1.3 for single player(SP) and 1.31 & 1.33 for multiplayer(MP).

The 1.3 patch includes all the fixes of the 1.1 patch and the 1.33 patch includes all the fixes of the 1.32 patch. The 1.31 & 1.33 patches have fixes/tweaks for MP.

So if your only playing SP the only patch you need is 1.3. If you want to play MP you need all three patches 1.3, 1.31 and 1.33.

For any further help, you might want to register on the UbiSoft forums and post. If not, just type in keywords in their "Search" to find helpful threads. But over the years, as an Official PC gamesite admin myself, I have always found a game's Community is very willing and helpful in sharing their "Technical Help" knowledge with new players. "Far Cry" is four years old now, but their community is still "Very" active.

Hope this helps you.

[zijin_cheng]

Hey thanks laurie, but now, i have everything set on ultra, the highest possible and i can see my enemies faces fine. The black patches are appearing less frequently now. I'm satisfied with this, since i have problems with cod4 crashing during the training mission. Makes me go stuck mad. Thanks anyways