I have upgraded ram to 16 gb and my graphic is gtx 660, Pentium i5 4670 and display setting is at high by default. This game ran perfectly in Windows 8.1 before, but after fresh installation of Windows. The shadow area's are quite dark. Like if the sun is on the other side of the house, that side is completely bright and normal. However the back side of the house where the shadow is, its completely dark, same goes with mountains. I have started a new game and at the beginning the GP warrior throws a rope from top, I couldn't see anything it was pitch black. I had to keep on tapping E until Ajay grab the rope. I think its Windows 10 which is causing the problem. I have not downloaded any update for my game yet, I am playing it straight out of the disc. Also I have the latest nvidia drivers installed already. Any suggestions? Shall I try to reduce the graphic settings?
my guess its the nvidia drivers
shut off any and all gameworks features ..see this thread and also see the threads on the windows 10 drivers ..its a mess with an Nvidia card and windows 10 it seems for some people
https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...-in-far-cry-4/
windows 10 driver feed back forum link is here
https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...read-8-13-15-/
game runs crash free on my GTX 960 but i'm using win 7 still and an older nvidia driver (347.52)
i have all the nvidia game works options off
my settings in game are
res 1920 X 1080
vsync - on
quality settings
motion blur off - not a fan of it ..
Textures - Ultra
Shadows - High
Post FX -Ultra
Geometry - Very High
Vegetation- Ultra
Environment - Ultra
water - Ultra
ambient occlusion setting is SSBC
and using SMAA for Antialiasing
god rays - off- not a fan of how it looks
fur - off
trees relief -off
in advanced settings
triple buffer - off
Vsync mode - normal
any driver newer then 347.52 i keep getting lockups with my other games like the Witcher 3 (i'm guess that may be that my ASUS strix is a factory overclocked model is whats causing the errors in that game )
plus i saw A UBI TEch support person say that the game is not officially supported by windows 10 since the game was created before windows 10 came out http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...in-Windows-10?
also i would say yes install all updates and patches for the game
here is a list of changes that with details up to Dec 26th 2014 and version 1.6.0 current version is 1.10.0
patches 1.7.0 thru 1.9.0 came with no patch notes but did make several changes in the game such as under patch 1.8.0 they added the ability to disable the loot animations under general settings
so there is no documentation of that and other fixes that may have been part of those updates but as you can see from the patch notes graphic issues were addressed several times
current patch notes for 1.10.0 are
Far Cry 4 PC version 1.10 patch notes:
- Multi-GPU performance improvements
- Fixed bug with grapple lose functionality on keyboard and mouse
- SMAA option is disabled for Multi-GPU
- Fixed bug with water has now fog occlusion
- Fixed crash in credits
- Added full Overrun game mode support to session browser
- Various UI fixes
previous patch notes from 1.2.0 to 1.6.0 are
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Ubisoft Entertainment
Far Cry® 4 v1.6.0
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Added hotkey for toggling the HUD on/off (F11)
Fixed an issue when the game loaded incorrect save from Uplay Cloud
Fixed an issue with performance drop for Crossfire Multi-GPU
Fixed an issue with broken shadows in the northern region
Fixed various Controls issues
Fixed various Graphic issues
Fixed various IGE issues
Fixed various UI issues
Fixed various Uplay/Steam issues
Memory usage reduced
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Ubisoft Entertainment
Far Cry® 4 v1.5.0
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Added 21:9 aspect ratio support
Added Russian text and subtitles to worldwide game version
Fixed an issue with aim assist
Fixed an issue with grappling if aim button was remapped on another key
Fixed an issue with mouse input
Fixed an issue with movement key binding on mouse buttons
Fixed an issue with Uplay invites in Steam version
Fixed various Controls issues
Fixed various Graphic issues
Fixed various IGE issues
Fixed various Session Browser issues
Fixed various UI issues
NVIDIA graphics preset was removed
Reduced performance drop impact during streaming
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Ubisoft Entertainment
Far Cry® 4 v1.4.0
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Fixed black screen issue
Fixed grey screen issue
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Ubisoft Entertainment
Far Cry® 4 v1.3.0
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Fixed various Graphic issues
Fixed various IGE issues
Fixed various Input issues
Fixed various Localization issues
Fixed various Sound issues
Fixed various UI issues
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Ubisoft Entertainment
Far Cry® 4 v1.2.0
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Fixed error when playing map two times from Map Browser
Added FOV option in Advanced Graphics
Added NVIDIA GeForce Experience support
Fixed various Graphic issues
Fixed various IGE issues
Fixed various Input issues
Fixed various Multi-GPU issues
Fixed various Multi-Monitor issues
Fixed various UI issues
I have several machines, all do different things for me, so the common things are, they must work, they must maintain identical operation with the same peripherals, and must work with all my installed software. The only way to guarantee that is to not upgrade.
To get around that, I purchased Win10 Pro Full Retail, and installed it as dual boot on my "gaming" machine. Of course I turned off all the privacy stuff (I don't need those features enabled), but other than that, it is a box stock install of Win10. Once installed, I downloaded the entirety of Far Cry 4 into the Win10 partition.
I have GTX 580 and have decided to trade frame rate for visual quality, V-syncing at 30Hz
On Win7, the game looks good, is essentially fluid, and with V-sync off I get 48FPS on a test scene...
On Win10, the game actually looks a bit better, but more importantly, it is perfectly fluid at 30Hz V-sync, and the same test scene gives 57FPS with V-sync off. The drivers are the same version.
So, the game runs fine on 10, noticeably improved. I can't wait for the next installment of Far Cry on DirectX 12. Actually, I owe it to myself to find other FPS games, the trouble is, good FPS' are far and few between and far too many otherwise good games are 3rd person perspective, which I loathe.
I'm at 35+% complete on the Win10 install, with not one single issue of any kind, so I think it's solid.
interesting i been holding off since i saw so many post issues with the Nvidia DriversOriginally Posted by Far_Cry2_Fan Go to original post
i did put 10 on my laptop but that's not a gaming machine and has AMD graphics anyway (tho FC4 works on it @ about 20 FPS used to get 30 or better with win 8.1 with the 14.1? AMD drivers )
what Vid driver are you using for your 580 and do you have the gameworks features enabled ?
like soft shadows HBAO+ Nvidia enhanced god rays and Txaa ?
i may just go pick up a hard drive next week and try win 10 ..but for now i'm happy with my WIN 7 setup and don't plan on doing the free upgrade until a DX 12 game comes out i wanna play
Excellent! I will try to download all the patches, but damn so many patches and look at the gb. Also the Windows 10 that I have is Home premium 64 bit downloaded from Microsoft site and did a clean installation, deleted every partition and wiped out every thing. I have disabled unwanted stuff in Windows 10, especially Windows 10 privacy stuff. The game where the light is there, the graphics look far better compared to my Windows 8.1 and I really mean it. Literally amazing! I am happy with Windows 10, hopefully I will download all the patches and things will be fixed. Ill keep you guys posted with the updates.
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I know PC gamers are usually far advanced from the average PC user, but I hope everyone is paying close attention.
The Windows free install is an upgrade, only. Once installed it consumes your previous (7, 8, 8.1) license, but, you can do a clean install after the initial install (hold that thought).
Once installed you have 30 days to revert to your previous install, if you miss that date, your license is irrevocably tied to the Win10 instance.
However, be careful as it is my understanding that choosing to do a clean install before that 30 days means the recovery files are gone.
Again, I purposefully paid for a full retail copy so I could do whatever I want with it, and that was a dual boot so I can keep both Win7 and Win10.
did that today... there is no performance increase
installed the upgrade on a clean drive
wiped it .... installed win 10 pro.... FPS are the same maybe 1 or 2 FPS decrease with the current nvidia drivers... let alone the hassle of no sound in game for cut scenes till i totally reset my sound settings to stereo 16 bit
and in fact i saw drops for downloads under win 10 that i never saw with win 7 / 64 ultimate , took a good two hours to re-config my system.. shut off all the windows 10 crap
and it still wants to upgrade my vid driver even tho i downloaded and installed the latest one ..WIN 10 = FAIL
i shut that off ..right quick
cannot install a new driver under custom settings and not include Gforce EXP software //nvidia went down hill man man
next card will be AMD