Far Cry 3 massive framerate drops when looking out to the sea

xl-caliber

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Hey guys,

Far Cry 3 runs fine with my i5 2400 and Radeon 6870 except when I look out to the ocean. The frames immediately drop from around 30-50 to single digits. I have the latest drivers installed, 12.11 CAP 2 and the latest game patch. I tried lowering the settings but there is always that extremely annoying fps drop.

Any help will be greatly appreciated,
Thanks
 
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In video quality options turn "Post FX" to low. Made a massive overall difference in performance to me.

After much aggravation narrowed it down to that single option really messing up most peoples FPS issues. Not sure if it's a bug or not.

Hope this works!

rene13cross

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I think the water might be using DX11 Tessellation, which is usually pretty ok but this game isn't optimised too well so Tessellation can have a great effect on performance. Not much you can do except turn down the water quality.
 

Seann7656

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In video quality options turn "Post FX" to low. Made a massive overall difference in performance to me.

After much aggravation narrowed it down to that single option really messing up most peoples FPS issues. Not sure if it's a bug or not.

Hope this works!
 
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