Far Cry. Yep, I had to post this.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:43 am

EvoG wrote:Not to be intrusive...but whats the cost of living like in AUS. Is it proportional to your earnings vs. the US? What would a student earn at a part time jobbie?

Cheers mate

It's not as bad as I made it sound like :p

Part time jobs (ie, something like McDonalds) will net you around $8/per hour. Give or take 50 cents. I work once a blue moon doing data entry and get paid about twice as much as that.

EvoG · Post by **EvoG** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:12 am

Oh alright...16 bucks an hour is pretty decent, and CERTAINLY enough to upgrade your 'puter damnit!

Cheers

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 2:05 pm

What about the Far Cry multiplayer?

EvoG · Post by **EvoG** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:30 pm

Mulitplayer IS alot of fun.

Noob players ruin it but you can find a good server fairly easily.

Lag is noticeable at times, but not terrible for the most part. Averaged 100 - 140 ping, with 46 being a low, though dubious, it said 46.

Noob and Tech aside, the game IS a lot of fun, with assault mode being involved and most fun.

Cheers

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:31 pm

Any noteworthy servers yet?

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:32 pm

where's the c4 on the catacombs level?

EvoG · Post by **EvoG** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:27 pm

BsR guys ( I believe thats the clan name*snicker*) are cool.

Mega, don't recall.

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:45 pm

Funny story, I decided to beat the demo using only the knife. Good stealth challenge. I succeeded, but not nearly for the reason I expected. Maybe 1 of 10 enemies gets extremely disoriented when you attack with the knife, and will run around pointing in one direction or another. This guy ran around aiming straight up while I killed all his friends.

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Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:52 am

EvoG wrote:Oh alright...16 bucks an hour is pretty decent, and CERTAINLY enough to upgrade your 'puter damnit!

Cheers

Not when you work once a blue moon however

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 3:51 am

Can anyone out there tranlsate this:

WARNING: Error: CTexMan::LoadFromImage: Generate normal map from compressed texture: 'textures/red.dds', Loading of compressed bump-maps is not supported. If you want the engine to compress it please use _ddn_cct postfix in texture name

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:44 pm

in reference too...?

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:00 pm

He bought Far Cry several days ago, and though the demo ran fine when he tries to run the game the splash comes up and then a few seconds later just goes away, and a windows error with the above message is displayed.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:32 pm

Can't really help if we don't know his machine specs.

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:29 pm

I think he posted the earlier. Anyway, he runs:

AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73 gHz)
1024 megs of Corsair something or another RAM
Asus Ti4600 vid card
WinXP

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:04 am

Yeah. Sorry, I was vague on the "what that was" issue. And Cloud covered my system specs, unless there s something else you needed to know

EvoG · Post by **EvoG** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:10 am

Does it happen every time Jet? I can't know specifically what the error is since its their error reporting, but it sounds like the engine is tryign to do something with a texture file that it can't do on your vid card. DDS is a highly compressed format(I use it in phoenix) and I don't know why they're dynamically generating bumpmaps but there you go. You'd be best to upgrade your video card ANYWAY, so start there.

Cheers

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:12 am

Ha, thanks, that's kind of what I was figuring, but them newfangled vid cards are mighty expensive these days. And yes, it is every time. Haven't been able to get in the game yet.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:34 am

CloudNineGT wrote:He bought Far Cry several days ago, and though the demo ran fine when he tries to run the game the splash comes up and then a few seconds later just goes away, and a windows error with the above message is displayed.

You two are like an old married couple. Wow.

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:10 am

Say I have a medium-spec machine (1.3 P4, 512 RAM, Geforce4 4600ti). Does the patch make it so I can use better graphic quality settings than the unpatched game?

I know the patch boosts performance for high-end machines (says so in the documentation), but it doesn't say anything about us mediums. I suppose I could try it and find out myself, but if anyone else has tried it, I'd like to hear what happened.

EvoG · Post by **EvoG** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:23 am

Well what that means Max, is that on higher end machines that are taking full advantage of the high order pixel and vertex shaders, the patch improves the performance of those GPU calculations. Since you're playing it on lower settings, settings that use lower bit pixel shaders for example, aren't affected.

In other words, patch or no patch, lower settings are the same...it was the higher end shaders that were actually needing the optimizations. Still can't hurt to patch...could be some other things that benefit across the board.

Cheers