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  1. #1

    What settings do you play on?

    Hey all!

    I recently just started playing this game and have been enjoying it quite a bit. The reason I started playing it is because I recently purhcased a GTX 970 and was able to get a free copy of the game. When I booted it up it automatically put the preset to ultra and made the game look amazing. Although, I did get some FPS drops here and there and the temp hovered around 70 celsius, everything else was great. Then I remembered that Nvidia has auto optimization settings through their geforce experience program and decided to give that a try. I pretty much left everything the same except that it set the shadows to soft and the ambient occlusion to HBAO+. It also set textures to very high instead of Ultra. Now even with the textures set to very high, I am guessing the shadows and HBAO+ must be pretty taxing because my GPU was at a solid 99% usage in some areas and I semed to be experiencing more FPS drops than when I was just on the ultra preset.

    I was just curious what everyone else sets their game at and if they kind of experience the same thing when they let Nvidia auto-optimize their game or if they set it to ultra?


    PC Specs:

    GPU: MSI GTX 970 OC 4GB
    CPU: i7-4790K
    RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance
    HDD: WD Black 1TB
    Mobo: Asus z87-A
    OS: Windows 8.1
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    I play with a GeForce 980 SC and 4770 with 16GB of RAM and everything is set to Ultra and NVidia settings. It plays smooth, with no stuttering. However, I think NVidia has some work to do with driver optimization, especially for this game. I wish I had gotten an SSD instead of a regular hard drive when I built my latest computer, but when Win10 comes out I'm going full SSD. I think as far as the settings go in this game it might take a bit of tinkering to get things just right, but I'm the kind of person that cranks everything up even if it isn't totally smooth playing...
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    Ah so you dont get any dips below 60 at all? Even while driving a vehicle or during combat in certain areas? Also, what kind of temps are you getting when you have everything maxed?
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    When I first got the game I tried Nvidia settings and just got a white screen and I now use Ultra. I honestly don't bother measuring frame rates and the whole game runs sweetly with what I would call "fluid" movement.
    Only weird thing is some of the bushes render as flat objects.

    PC Specs

    GPU : GTX 690 x 2 total 8GB
    CPU : i7 4960X
    RAM : 32GB Gkill Trident
    HDD : 512GB OCZ Vector
    Mobo : MSI Big Bang Xpower II
    OS : Windows 7 Pro
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    Hey dude . Ive got a GTX 980 @ 1574/2000 + 4790k @ 4.8 Ghz . Iam playing with everything at max with exeption of the shadows , i set them to ultra because nvidia shadows look crap , Anti Aliasing i set to SSAA and most important fur to just "ON" not simulated . If you got fur set to "simulated" thats where your framerate drops can come from . A while ago i made a video that shows how much of an impact setting fur to "simulated" can have on the framerate of far cry 4 . In this situation there wasent even an animal on my screen but with fur set to "simulated" my framerate dropped to 45 in that particular situation . Same situation with fur to just "on" my frames was 70 + . In some other situations with fur enabled ive got even heavier drops to below 40 where at the same time when i set it to just on i stayed on 70 + . Hope this helps you a bit .

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    Thank you all for the replies!

    Originally Posted by clockner Go to original post
    Hey dude . Ive got a GTX 980 @ 1574/2000 + 4790k @ 4.8 Ghz . Iam playing with everything at max with exeption of the shadows , i set them to ultra because nvidia shadows look crap , Anti Aliasing i set to SSAA and most important fur to just "ON" not simulated . If you got fur set to "simulated" thats where your framerate drops can come from . A while ago i made a video that shows how much of an impact setting fur to "simulated" can have on the framerate of far cry 4 . In this situation there wasent even an animal on my screen but with fur set to "simulated" my framerate dropped to 45 in that particular situation . Same situation with fur to just "on" my frames was 70 + . In some other situations with fur enabled ive got even heavier drops to below 40 where at the same time when i set it to just on i stayed on 70 + . Hope this helps you a bit .

    Yeah I usually just keep the fur set to on when I play on Ultra. And my frames usually dont dip too low, I would say that the average FPS is around 70, which I think is normal for the GTX 970. When I get in a vehicle or in some areas, though, I will see some dips down to the fifties. I also have been keeping it at the very high preset lately because I don't like my GPU running around 70 celsius, but thats just me.

    I am curious, in your video your card seems to be at a constant 35 celsius. Do you have some insane cooling going on or is it just a bug with the program?
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    Originally Posted by MUDWUB Go to original post
    Thank you all for the replies!




    Yeah I usually just keep the fur set to on when I play on Ultra. And my frames usually dont dip too low, I would say that the average FPS is around 70, which I think is normal for the GTX 970. When I get in a vehicle or in some areas, though, I will see some dips down to the fifties. I also have been keeping it at the very high preset lately because I don't like my GPU running around 70 celsius, but thats just me.

    I am curious, in your video your card seems to be at a constant 35 celsius. Do you have some insane cooling going on or is it just a bug with the program?
    Watercooling . If you have a look at my cpu temps they are quite low too considering the 4790k runs @ 4.8 Ghz . By the way the gpu temps are with 1.275V with stock voltage the temps are even lower . Also in that video i dident run full fan speed and the room temperature was quite high . With full fan and pump speed and a bit lower room temperature i even can get my gpu to 28-32 degrees average while running far cry 4 .
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    Originally Posted by MUDWUB Go to original post
    Hey all!

    I recently just started playing this game and have been enjoying it quite a bit. The reason I started playing it is because I recently purhcased a GTX 970 and was able to get a free copy of the game. When I booted it up it automatically put the preset to ultra and made the game look amazing. Although, I did get some FPS drops here and there and the temp hovered around 70 celsius, everything else was great. Then I remembered that Nvidia has auto optimization settings through their geforce experience program and decided to give that a try. I pretty much left everything the same except that it set the shadows to soft and the ambient occlusion to HBAO+. It also set textures to very high instead of Ultra. Now even with the textures set to very high, I am guessing the shadows and HBAO+ must be pretty taxing because my GPU was at a solid 99% usage in some areas and I semed to be experiencing more FPS drops than when I was just on the ultra preset.

    I was just curious what everyone else sets their game at and if they kind of experience the same thing when they let Nvidia auto-optimize their game or if they set it to ultra?


    PC Specs:

    GPU: MSI GTX 970 OC 4GB
    CPU: i7-4790K
    RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance
    HDD: WD Black 1TB
    Mobo: Asus z87-A
    OS: Windows 8.1
    I play with max settings, apart from shadows (ultra) and fur (on).
    I use FC3 SLI bits with SMAA. This is the only way to reduce temporal aliasing.
    I play at 1620p.
    FPS never go below 60. However, when I'm driving, there's that game breaking stutter, hitching.

    My System:

    Case: CORSAIR 900D
    Processor (CPU): INTEL® CORE™i7 5930K (4.5 GHz)
    Motherboard: ASUS® RAMPAGE V EXTREME
    Memory (RAM): 16GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR PLATINUM DDR4 3000 MHz, X.M.P (4 x 4GB KIT)
    Graphics Card: 4GB EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 SC
    2nd Graphics Card: 4GB EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 SC
    Hard Disk: 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
    SSD: 20GB INTEL® SSD 313 SERIES
    SSD: 256GB SAMSUNG 840 PRO SSD
    Liquid Cooler: CORSAIR H100i
    DVD/Blue-Ray Drive: 10x LG BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW
    Power Supply: CORSAIR 1200W PROFESSIONAL SERIES™ AX1200 GOLD
    Operative System: WINDOWS 8.1 PRO
    Keyboard: RAZER BLACKWIDOW ULTIMATE STEALTH
    Mouse Mat: CORSAIR VENGEANCE MM600 DUAL SIDED GAMING MOUSE MAT
    Mouse: RAZER MAMBA
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    What's happened to my graphics?

    Originally Posted by clockner Go to original post
    Hey dude . Ive got a GTX 980 @ 1574/2000 + 4790k @ 4.8 Ghz . Iam playing with everything at max with exeption of the shadows , i set them to ultra because nvidia shadows look crap , Anti Aliasing i set to SSAA and most important fur to just "ON" not simulated . If you got fur set to "simulated" thats where your framerate drops can come from . A while ago i made a video that shows how much of an impact setting fur to "simulated" can have on the framerate of far cry 4 . In this situation there wasent even an animal on my screen but with fur set to "simulated" my framerate dropped to 45 in that particular situation . Same situation with fur to just "on" my frames was 70 + . In some other situations with fur enabled ive got even heavier drops to below 40 where at the same time when i set it to just on i stayed on 70 + . Hope this helps you a bit .


    Hi

    I'm running:

    GTX980 OC Strix
    Core i7 4790k Devils Canyon
    16GB 2400mhz
    Asus Maximus VII Ranger
    Win 7 64bit
    SSD's

    I've just upgraded from a GTX760 to the 980 - I loaded up Farcry 4 which installed the latest patch and now I've got blocky textures appearing on cars. glass and some other white or grey objects. I've tried so many settings, fixes and drivers but nothing sorts it out. I am starting to wonder if there is somethign wrong with my card but it seems fine in other games. The blocky/dissolving textures pop up for s couple of seconds then go.

    If you look at the car bumper it's blocky/dissolved and if you watch the car windscreen it dissolves as it renders and a photo pops up really badly!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8jn...ature=youtu.be

    I've tried running it at 1920x1080 (100+fps) and 2560x1440(70=fps) - No difference.

    Other than the above the game seems to run fine with all settings maxed out.

    Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone know what this is?

    I really wish I could play farcry before that patch instaleld so at least I would know if it was the patch or not!

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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