Can I run Far Cry 3 on ultra?

[User 10045]

Here are my specs:

AMD FX6300 6 core black edition

GTX 650 ti boost 3gb

4gb Corsair Ram DDR3

 

[lewisg743]

At what resolution is your monitor set to ?

 

[photonboy]

NO.
You can however, make the game run and look pretty good if you properly tweak it.

Far Cry 3 has a few issues.

1) don't enable anti-aliasing (it already has some enabled, and enabling the AA in the settings really drops the frame rates).

2) VSYNC and GPU buffering. I believe I set this to single buffer each. Higher settings can cause major stutter issues.

3) Screen Tearing: in some games you can disable VSYNC and have minimal tearing. On my PC at least, VSYNC OFF is unplayable with major tearing.

Optimizing:
With your PC, it's a difficult choice. Getting above 60FPS (to enable VSYNC at 60FPS and avoid screen tearing) can be difficult. The alternative is to tweak your frame rate to about 40FPS average, but enable VSYNC which would then be synching to 30FPS (despite what FRAPS reports; it's confusing).

So due to the performance, and tearing issues it may make sense to do THIS:

1) Start game, and FRAPS
2) VSYNC OFF
3) anti-aliasing off
4) Tweak resolution, shadows, etc for the best visual experience at 40FPS average
5) if screen tearing is minimal, leave VSYNC OFF
6) if screen tearing is bad, turn VSYNC ON

VSYNC introduces some lag so the game can feel a little sluggish. You will have to decide what's ideal for you as your main options are:
1) VSYNC at 60FPS
2) VSYNC at 30FPS (if can't maintain 60FPS)
3) VSYNC OFF

They all have Pros and Cons. Running at a solid 60FPS requires lower quality graphics. Running at 30FPS with VSYNC ON feels more sluggish. Running with VSYNC OFF causes screen tearing.

Cheers.

 

[lewisg743]

NO.
You can however, make the game run and look pretty good if you properly tweak it.

Far Cry 3 has a few issues.

1) don't enable anti-aliasing (it already has some enabled, and enabling the AA in the settings really drops the frame rates).

2) VSYNC and GPU buffering. I believe I set this to single buffer each. Higher settings can cause major stutter issues.

3) Screen Tearing: in some games you can disable VSYNC and have minimal tearing. On my PC at least, VSYNC OFF is unplayable with major tearing.

Optimizing:
With your PC, it's a difficult choice. Getting above 60FPS (to enable VSYNC at 60FPS and avoid screen tearing) can be difficult. The alternative is to tweak your frame rate to about 40FPS average, but enable VSYNC which would then be synching to 30FPS (despite what FRAPS reports; it's confusing).

So due to the performance, and tearing issues it may make sense to do THIS:

1) Start game, and FRAPS
2) VSYNC OFF
3) anti-aliasing off
4) Tweak resolution, shadows, etc for the best visual experience at 40FPS average
5) if screen tearing is minimal, leave VSYNC OFF
6) if screen tearing is bad, turn VSYNC ON

VSYNC introduces some lag so the game can feel a little sluggish. You will have to decide what's ideal for you as your main options are:
1) VSYNC at 60FPS
2) VSYNC at 30FPS (if can't maintain 60FPS)
3) VSYNC OFF

They all have Pros and Cons. Running at a solid 60FPS requires lower quality graphics. Running at 30FPS with VSYNC ON feels more sluggish. Running with VSYNC OFF causes screen tearing.

Cheers.

Well he COULD run it at ultra, but at a low resolution. Also having V-Sync off it doesn't always promote screen tearing, for example i just about never suffer from it.

 

[photonboy]

lewisg743,
I wouldn't personally call it "ULTRA" if I had to crank down the resolution to achieve that, especially if the frame rate is dropping well below 30FPS at times. Regardless, it's still all about the optimal BALANCE of resolution and other settings which is most important.

As for VSYNC and screen tearing, there is ALWAYS screen tearing with VSYNC OFF, it just varies on how much you can see it. In some conditions it's barely noticeable.

I did however tell him to leave it OFF anyway if it wasn't noticeable. In FC3 on my setup it was absolutely horrible.

UPDATE:
I should add there is a feature called something like "ADAPTIVE HALF VSYNC" in the NVidia Control Panel. Basically it will synch to half (i.e. 30FPS) at all times unless you drop below 30FPS and then VSYNC is turned off. It's another option to try. It goes like THIS:

1. Run FC3 and close it
2. NVidia Control Panel-> Manage 3D Settings-> "ADD" (FC3 should be at top of list so add it)
3. Vertical VSYNC-> Adaptive Half Refresh (then APPLY)

*Now you would have VSYNC OFF and tweak the game before doing this so that you get above 30FPS about 80% of the time. Then when you apply the Half Refresh it clamps down to run at 30FPS.

Again, this is all to avoid screen tearing, but keep the best visual experience and it may NOT be ideal for you. It's all a trade-off between lag, visual quality, frame rate etc.

 

[lewisg743]

lewisg743,
I wouldn't personally call it "ULTRA" if I had to crank down the resolution to achieve that. Regardless, it's still all about the optimal BALANCE of resolution and other settings which is most important.

As for VSYNC and screen tearing, there is ALWAYS screen tearing with VSYNC OFF, it just varies on how much you can see it. In some conditions it's barely noticeable.

I did however tell him to leave it OFF anyway if it wasn't noticeable. In FC3 on my setup it was absolutely horrible.

It actually isn't always there, i can't be bothered going too much into this but yeah; just google it or whatever.
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[photonboy]

lewisg743 is wrong on VSYNC above, but it's not important and I guess he disappeared.