Far Cry single-player demo
Posted by Marcel Klum on 21 January 2004 - 16:08 · 46 comments & 2573 views
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#1 Posted by threetonesun on 21 Jan 2004 - 16:24
- anyone else having problems with this? I got it to load once, but then it crashed right away. Could be my old gfx card
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#1.1 Posted by nekrosoft13 on 21 Jan 2004 - 18:34
- how old?
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#2 Posted by Frost_311 on 21 Jan 2004 - 16:35
- I can't wait to get home and play this game! Finally, a next gen game coming out! After hearing so much about Doom 3, Half-Life 2, ect... Far Cry is the first to make true and come out with a single player demo! Kick Ass!
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#3 Posted by sonob on 21 Jan 2004 - 16:46
- whats the system requirements ? Aren't they pretty low?
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#3.1 Posted by Frost_311 on 21 Jan 2004 - 17:32
- I doubt they are low... Have you seen the trailers? The game looks amazing and has a huge draw distance. You can walk all over a huge island, the graphics are next gen Direct X 9 stuff, this is the first good game using this stuff and this is the first game using this new advanced engine. I'm sure you need at the least a Radeon 9xxx series card or GeForce Ti or better, along with 512mb of ram and at least a 1.2 GHz processor. The system requirements haven't been released yet, at least not on the offical game site.
BTW: If this is Ubi Softs way of responding to the leak of Far Cry (a alpha or beta version, not sure what it was) then they kick ass! Both Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 have been leaked and all those developers did was not talk to anyone from that point about the game (At least not giving any new info) Heck, we haven't even gotten that promised Half-Life 2 Non-interactive benchmark yet!
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#4 Posted by Suddenly_Dead on 21 Jan 2004 - 17:31
- It doesn't look bad at all. I got the, *ahem* leaked beta, and I'm starting to lean toward buying the game. But there's others I'd like too this year, and I likely can't get them all, like:
Tribes: Vengence (definately), Sim City 4, Soldner, Halflife 2, Halo 2, Doom 3 (this year?), and some others.
It's going to be a good year for games.
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#5 Posted by jacob_ on 21 Jan 2004 - 17:32
- ive had a lan only alpha playable game for bout 2 weeks it seems like the game is going to be sucessful
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#6 Posted by Frost_311 on 21 Jan 2004 - 17:35
- Update on the offical site:
SYSTEM REQUIRMENTS:
Minimum:
Computer: 1 Gb MHz CPU
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Operating System: Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP
Video Card: Geforce 4 MX, Geforce 3 or higher
Drive Space: 582Mb hard drive space
DirectX 9.0b must be installed
Nvidia based cards must have : ForceWare drivers 53.03
ATI based cards must have: Catalyst drivers 3.9
Recommended:
Computer: 2Gb MHz CPU
Memory: 512 MB RAM
DirectX 9.0b must be installed
Nvidia based cards must have : ForceWare drivers 53.03
ATI based cards must have: Catalyst drivers 3.9 -
#6.1 Posted by
Toxicfume on 21 Jan 2004 - 18:32
- Man..my system is just on the line. Atleast my CPU(1ghz thunderbird) and my RAM(256MB), but i need a new videocard.
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#6.5 Posted by Ji@nBing on 22 Jan 2004 - 00:09
- they're forcing us to use the 5x drivers for it? f*ck!! i hate them. i refuse to use them. guess i'll just give it a go with my 45.23's (best set of dets IMO)
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#7 Posted by badall on 21 Jan 2004 - 17:35
- oops!
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#8 Posted by mrk on 21 Jan 2004 - 18:36
- /me fondles fileplanet account
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#9 Posted by INFERNO2k on 21 Jan 2004 - 18:51
- Lame, another FPS.
Played it for a few min, uninstalled.
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#10 Posted by Skyfrog on 21 Jan 2004 - 19:03
- 465Mb
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#11 Posted by sodapop on 21 Jan 2004 - 20:03
- Well I'll get flamed but, I played it and don't think we'll see many folk besides us that'll buy this game.
Pretty much the same ol same ol. But I think it's ok. The graphics , well, Let's say I was expecting a little more. -
#11.1 Posted by Fanon on 22 Jan 2004 - 14:21
- Agreed. While it was downloading yesterday, I watched the videos they had on the site. One of the videos had a rocket launcher kill a group of people and leave a crater for their dead bodies to slide down into. I immediately thought: oooh, deformable terrain.
Bleh, the game is nothing like it. It has potential, but I can think of quite a few other games that are better.
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#12 Posted by Acid on 21 Jan 2004 - 21:06
- It won't run on my machine. Screen goes white .. but I can hear the sounds. I've got a 2.2ghz barton, 512pc3700 xms, radeon9800.
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#12.1 Posted by threetonesun on 21 Jan 2004 - 22:10
- same problem, but my screen goes black and I can hear the sounds. I'm on a 7500 with 3.10. I wonder if it needs 3.9 exactly to run
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#13 Posted by dacoolness15566 on 21 Jan 2004 - 21:51
- yeah i ahd problems with my new cat 4.1
i want ot use them, but i am using the 3.10s for now until the next release
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#14 Posted by X3M on 21 Jan 2004 - 22:02
- my machine restarts when I create a new game or click on Apply in the options menu.
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#15 Posted by LordHatrus on 21 Jan 2004 - 22:03
- dont swamp the already slow servers... bit torrent it....
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#15.1 Posted by g33kb0y on 21 Jan 2004 - 22:22
- Yup..wow...a record 4.6 kb/sec on BT for this download. I'll have this demo in two days! *yay*
BT sucks.
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#16 Posted by jeavis on 21 Jan 2004 - 22:25
- Runs great over here except for a sound bug
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#17 Posted by lardboy on 21 Jan 2004 - 23:24
- Well I thought the graphics were OK but I didn't feel like I was interacting with the environment just sort of moving through it.
I didn't get that feeling of being in the game kinda like pretty scenery but with no real substance.
Personally I'm looking forward to MOH:pacific assault on the fps front, I've given up waiting for HL2
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#18 Posted by Suddenly_Dead on 22 Jan 2004 - 01:25
- There are weird shadown problems. I see rocks in the distance and they're half black as if they were casting shadows on themselves. Most objects seem to do this =S
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#18.1 Posted by Frost_311 on 22 Jan 2004 - 13:46
- Anyone using an ATI card and getting corruption should go back to the 3.9 set of drivers as they are the only ones supported in this demo. ATI makes it very easy to go back to an old driver and move back up when you need to though. Just follow these steps:
1. Download the old 3.9 Catalyst http://www.ati.com/support/products/radeonwinxppreviousdrivers.html
2. Go to your Program FilesATI Technologies Folder, you should see another folder called Uninstall or something similar, in there double click and run the uninstall.exe file. This will remove all traces of the ATI drivers from you system and prompt you to reboot.
3. Once you've rebooted just install the 3.9's and you are golden.
For those saying this is just another FPS, well take a look around at the envrioments! Its amazing looking, the water reflections, swaying palm trees, the increadible draw distance. Also, the fact that you can go anywhere on this huge island is also very impressive. I spent time chasing a wild pig with my knife just to see if I could sneak up behind it and kill it. Granted other games have lots of interaction but this game is definately one of the better FPS games to come out in a while, remember they're still working on it so feedback they get from this demo might go into the game!
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#19 Posted by Acid on 22 Jan 2004 - 02:51
- I installed 3.9s and got that. Game looks good for basically being beta. I don't like how slow the player movement is [sensitivities, firing rate, etc]. I also dislike how you can't shoot someone while you have a clear shot from behind a bush, it shows leaves go flying [HOW? I had my crosshair pinned on his head].
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#20 Posted by Smufie on 22 Jan 2004 - 04:08
- Here's a superfast danish mirror for scandinavians and other eureopeans... enjoy!
http://files.dailyrush.dk/demos/farcry-sp-demo.zip
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#21 Posted by xerox on 22 Jan 2004 - 12:25
- Neat!
Waiting for nude patch
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#22 Posted by stncttr908 on 22 Jan 2004 - 17:05
- Oh boy...antialiasing and anisotropic filtering don't work at all.
BTW, Catalyst 4.1 and 9800 Pro 128MB.
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#23 Posted by thenay on 22 Jan 2004 - 18:03
- very hard to play on easy, i was killed in 5 minz! lol
any cheats?
works gr8 on my system, yay!
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#23.1 Posted by IGx89 on 23 Jan 2004 - 04:08
- Just hide behind cover, and try to get the enemy before they see you. Once you get past the first few guys in the island, you can get a good gun and the rest is easy. I completed the demo in about an hour (on medium), and I didn't even use a grenade
I was kind of put off at first by the checkpoint save system, but after playing it through I kind of like it. The checkpoints are placed close enough together, and it's actually enjoyable replaying a few minutes of the game once in a while.
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#24 Posted by GrymmWolf on 22 Jan 2004 - 18:11
- I have an ATI 9200 with the Cat 4.1 and to get the game to run I had to drop the graphics to Low...then it was pretty good, looked well and played ok. I hope that the final will be more fun/exciting than the demo. The buggy was fun to drive as well as the patrol boat.
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#25 Posted by fjv on 22 Jan 2004 - 19:45
- damn.. what happened to 30meg demos?
fjv
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#26 Posted by Smufie on 23 Jan 2004 - 00:47
- Just completed the demo, and I'm very much amazed by it.
I can only run it in 800x600 and everything on low(except the water, set to highest. Love cool looking water ), to be at a reasonable framereate, but it looks allright.
And already in the demo, there are several ways to complete it.
First, you can go to the nearest island with the few guys, or you can take the boat all around the island, either to west where the buggy is, or east where you can skip most of the bad guys.
When you get to the jungle up there, you can get to the higest level by walking on the paths, or you can take the underground walkway and then the elevator.
This game will be a must-have!
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#27 Posted by IGx89 on 23 Jan 2004 - 04:13
- Is it normal for new games to require ATI users to fall back a driver or two? It seems to be happening a lot recently, and makes me glad I have my good old GF4 Ti. I'm going to be upgrading my graphics card in less than a year, and if ATI continues having problems with their drivers, I probably will have to stick with nVidia.
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#28 Posted by virtorio on 23 Jan 2004 - 06:56
- The game is alight, but I don't care for the story, setting or the ultra-colourful graphics.
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