Far Cry 4 FPS Increase?

[Chukanukah]

GTX 760 4gb Sc w/ ACX cooling
Asus Z97-A Mobo
Intel 4790k
8gb Hyper X ram
750w Power supply

I can run far cry 4 on high settings at around 40-50 fps, i've seen videos where people can run it on ultra with the same setup at 50fps+, i have my GPU overclocked as well, I'm looking to Increase performance without sacrificing graphics, any suggestions?

 

[danielbsipe]

I guess you could upgrade your video card. I mean, thats the only thing that could possibly be holding you back.

Also check your anti-aliasing setting. TXAA is broken in Far Cry 4. Use SMAA or force FXAA in the Nvidia Control panel.

Also use this to tweak your settings: http://www.geforce.com/sites/default/files-world/attachments/geforce-dot-com-far-cry-4-graphics-performance-and-tweaking-guide-optimal-playable-settings-table-gtx-900-and-700-series-3.png

 

[Guest]

I'm playing FC 4 now and I'm running an Asus GTX 980 and I can say that from playing around with the settings a lot the game is touchy. My FPS on Ultra is between 44 and 65 and V sync needs to be enabled to fix screen tearing. The game looks beautiful but it requires tweaking depending on your card. Google around for a tweak guide for your card.

 

[Guest]

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Here's something that may help a bit. I copy pasted it from another site.

Far Cry 4’s issues do not end here. There is also some annoying stutters whenever a region is being loaded. As we can see in the screenshots that accompany this article, we were never limited by our VRAM (so no, those stutters were not due to such a thing). A workaround for these stutters is to – once again – edit your XML file, and do the following tweaks. Do note that these tweaks lower the quality of the game’s textures:

Find DisableLoadingMip0 = “0” and change it to DisableLoadingMip0 = “1”
Find GPUMaxBufferedFrames=”0″ and change to GPUMaxBufferedFrames=”1″

 

[Frag Maniac]

The tweak to disable mip maps essentially drops the texture quality. If it's really needed though it's a very good way to minimize stuttering, as is adding at least 1 frame of buffering.

If you disable mip maps I highly recommend forcing 16x AF in your GPU control panel though. Otherwise rock textures and such will look noticeably blurred.

If you really need to you can bump texture quality down to High vs Ultra. Some even on higher end cards are running it at Medium for the smoothest possible gameplay. Going from Ultra to High isn't very noticeable visually though.

Note as well that Far Cry 4 has been shown to produce an enormous amount of page faults when benched for it, so using a fairly large page file can help.

Some put their page file on an SSD, but that can cause excessive wear and tear on it. What I did was create a 15GB partition on the edge of the platter of my new WD Black 1TB HDD.

My page file partition benches at about 180Mb/s, and now it's on a drive that can easily handle lots of writes and erases. A hybrid HDD/SSD would probably work even better.

Note if you already have a fair amount of files on your HDD, you can still use a partitioning tool to place the partition on the edge of the platter. I used Partition Wizard, it's a great tool.

Note that these tips are more for stability than FPS increase. The game can handle 40 or even dips to 35 FPS, as long as the stutter is dealt with.