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AMD 64 And Far Cry
This is pretty cool.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/..._10543,00.html -- "Duct tape is a lot like the Force. It has a Dark side, a Light side, and it holds all the pieces of the Universe together" |
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I just bought the Athlon64 3200+ with 1GB of Mushkin Blue memory on a
Foxconn 755/760 board. Using my old components, hard drive, CDRW, sound, etc., and a 2 year old Geforce4 Ti 4400 - I am running the game with almost all settings on high @ 1024x768x32 and it is amazing - this is also with Antialiasing at 2x and AF @ 2x - and it is very playable - not laggy at all. Everything that I read about the game before I bought it said that everyone would have to wait for the Geforce 6800 to play it with all settings maxed, and at least have a high-end P4 or likewise AMD coupled with a high-end ATI or Geforce FX card. All benchmarks I saw with older vid cards such as mine were with all graphic settings on low - especially textures and the infamous water quality setting (said to really bog down machines). I am running both the texture quality and water quality at high with no slowdown. What amazes me is exactly what everyone has been saying about the 64bit AMD chip - that is, that it's good for gaming. Now, I'm not running the game in a real high res, but, this is farcry - I mean at 1024 and in 32 bit it still looks incredible. Comparitively, I am running the new Splinter Cell game @ 1280x1024x32 with all settings maxed and 4x AA flawlessly. So I am down a notch or two in the resolution department, but it is stunning nonetheless. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you do have the 64bit Athlon, I wouldn't be discouraged from going out and buying Farcry even if your video card is a couple years old...the water, foilage, physics engine, just everything about the game is incredible - graphically I have never seen better - it is well worth 40 bucks. The only thing about the link you posted ( 64bit Farcry version) is that I think this will require a 64bit operating system, such as Windows 64. I'm not a programmer, however I'm not sure how they will run 64bit dll's on 32bit OS's - so it's not like you can just buy the game, then download some patch that will greatly take advantage of your 64bit processor - at least I don't think so - as it is now, it seems as though the AMD64 already does wonders for the game. Better to invest $500 in a Gefore 6800 when they are available because I'm sure Windows 64 and 64 bit drivers for ALL your hardware is still a long, bug-laden way off. "Daniel P" wrote in message news:c_Gjc.11955$Qy.7231@fed1read04... This is pretty cool. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/..._10543,00.html -- "Duct tape is a lot like the Force. It has a Dark side, a Light side, and it holds all the pieces of the Universe together" |
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