This Is What You Need To Run Far Cry 4

[collieman]

I've got a 7770, what kinda graphics can I expect do ya think?

 

[collieman]

I got a 7770, wonder how far I'm gona have to turn down the settings. Still gona look awesom I'm sure

 

[Brogan]

Ubisoft lately has been covered by the console veil. They were told (by MS/Sony) to limit PC games fps to 30 to make consoles look better, now they are pushing minimum system specs to make it look like you need a very expensive PC to run their games while at a fraction of the price you can get a console. In my opinion consoles are ruining games, they are pushing exclusive titles making you buy 2 consoles if you want to play everything and all of this at lower graphic quality and resolution ... you`ll end up paying more for lower grade entertainment.

Quoted for the ugly, painful, embarrassing truth.

 

[a1r]

I disagree with the fact that the AMD specs are higher because the Dunia engine is based on Cry 1. They've known since at least 2011 that AMD was the GPU pick for PS4 and XB1, and that's a lot of potential customers and they know that. I'm sure the engine will run much better on AMD hardware. Yes I know the game is a PC install base, but there's no doubt Ubisoft is aiming at console gamers first; just look at this year's E3 showings from them.

Sure, disagree all you want. Programmers can and often will, when they don't care about the 'other hardware', specifically target a particular hardware set. If they specifically target Nvidia and optimize their code for running on Nvidia hardware the requirements are going to be much lower and utilize the resources much more efficiently than they would AMD or Intel GPUs. This comparison works for not only rendering graphics but CUDA/OpenCL as well. The hardware architecture structure is entirely different between Nvidia's kit and AMD's kit. Nvidia is generally less thread dependent and more about pumping through pipelines faster. AMD is much more multithreaded oriented so highly threaded rendering or computation loads are more efficient with theirs. It's the same with the CPUs. Intel targets single and low thread count programs. Their cores are designed to work in tandem while AMD's cores are independant and can take more independent threads, programs, processes.

Your post is self contradictory. First you say the specifications are higher because they are optimized heavily for Nvidia through the Cry engine, then turn around and say it will work 'better' on AMD hardware in the consoles. You can't have both. Either you optimize heavily for Nvidia's architecture or you optimize for AMD. You have to redesign and rewrite to change and that's far more difficult than non-programmers seem to believe. This is why most development houses either design for a single system, or if they design for multiple platforms, they only optimize as far as they practically can without overly damaging the results on either.

As for benchmarks like 3DMark and the like, Nvidia and AMD both have been caught optimizing for certain benchmarks so the results are skewed in their marketing favor and don't match the practical real world results. Take such benchmarks with much skepticism if at all.

 

[Novuake]

I disagree with the fact that the AMD specs are higher because the Dunia engine is based on Cry 1. They've known since at least 2011 that AMD was the GPU pick for PS4 and XB1, and that's a lot of potential customers and they know that. I'm sure the engine will run much better on AMD hardware. Yes I know the game is a PC install base, but there's no doubt Ubisoft is aiming at console gamers first; just look at this year's E3 showings from them.

Sure, disagree all you want. Programmers can and often will, when they don't care about the 'other hardware', specifically target a particular hardware set. If they specifically target Nvidia and optimize their code for running on Nvidia hardware the requirements are going to be much lower and utilize the resources much more efficiently than they would AMD or Intel GPUs. This comparison works for not only rendering graphics but CUDA/OpenCL as well. The hardware architecture structure is entirely different between Nvidia's kit and AMD's kit. Nvidia is generally less thread dependent and more about pumping through pipelines faster. AMD is much more multithreaded oriented so highly threaded rendering or computation loads are more efficient with theirs. It's the same with the CPUs. Intel targets single and low thread count programs. Their cores are designed to work in tandem while AMD's cores are independant and can take more independent threads, programs, processes.

Your post is self contradictory. First you say the specifications are higher because they are optimized heavily for Nvidia through the Cry engine, then turn around and say it will work 'better' on AMD hardware in the consoles. You can't have both. Either you optimize heavily for Nvidia's architecture or you optimize for AMD. You have to redesign and rewrite to change and that's far more difficult than non-programmers seem to believe. This is why most development houses either design for a single system, or if they design for multiple platforms, they only optimize as far as they practically can without overly damaging the results on either.

As for benchmarks like 3DMark and the like, Nvidia and AMD both have been caught optimizing for certain benchmarks so the results are skewed in their marketing favor and don't match the practical real world results. Take such benchmarks with much skepticism if at all.

Again, FC3 AKA Dunia DOES NOT run significantly better on Nvidia...

 

[anticeon]

ooh.. look... this game is well-optimized.

i think i know the reason... cuz Far Cry4 will using Denovo DRM lol

 

[soldier45]

4K support ftw.

 

[Christopher1]

Man...... computer games from the big vendors are getting seriously gluttony on what they need to run now.
BioShock 2 played well in 1280*800 on my PC with all the bells and whistles turned on and it only has a 9800M GTS in it, which gets less than 1/3rd of the graphical oomph of the minimum graphics card these games are asking for.
Have games gotten that much 'prettier'? Or are we seeing developers not properly coding and optimizing for PC's unless they are ONLY or first going to release on PC's?

 

[all stalked out]

I reckon it was just a mistake and it meant to say 280x just like it said FX-8340 instead of FX-8350.

 

[captaincharisma]

well i think its just the hardware vendors getting a deal with the game publishers. for years now you only needed a small upgrade if any to run the latest games at max settings and i have never seen any game yet that requires SLI/ crossfire to run at max settings

 

[xMxCxNinja777x]

now thats what 8GB of RAM usage im talking about!

 

[Novuake]

now thats what 8GB of RAM usage im talking about!

Keep telling yourself that.

 

[AdiiL]

These specs should've been AC Unity's

 

[runf_40]

will my i7 - 950 and gtx 660 be OK?

 

[TheAlphaMaleGamer]

When i read R9 290X, that just hit me.

 

[xMxCxNinja777x]

will a GTX 970/GTX 980 and a Core i5-4690K/Core i7-4790K core will work?

 

[TheAlphaMaleGamer]

will a GTX 970/GTX 980 and a Core i5-4690K/Core i7-4790K core will work?

Yeah, it should run well at 4K with High Settings

 

[yumri]

i personily think Ubisoft gave up optimizing code as the spike in PC requirements even when it can run on consoles ... admittly on medium or medium low with turned down settings slower fps and lower res but for PC either Ubisoft is thinking they have to put out requirements for the highest res with the highest settings for the recommended or something is just wack with their game engine's optimizing system.

 

[ModernBear]

Personally I can get around 45-60 fps on "Nvidia" settings with an Intel 4770k, 780 Ti, and 8GB of ram, this game is making me decide between anti aliasing and frames, AND I DON'T LIKE IT.

 

[Brian Blair]

BS Ubicrap! This junk is the same as far cry 3! And Unity is the same as 3 and Black Flag! You just think people are now idiots (however people today are idiots!) And they know they can get away with not spending the money to optimize it correctly!

 

[Brian Blair]

All you idiots have to do is show backbone and refuse to buy this crap! It is not hard! If you do not stop giving them money, They are going to get worse and worse! But you idiots will still buy from them! Because your brains are friggin mush!

 

[yumri]

All you idiots have to do is show backbone and refuse to buy this crap! It is not hard! If you do not stop giving them money, They are going to get worse and worse! But you idiots will still buy from them! Because your brains are friggin mush!

I bought Shadow of Mordor because it was and still is a good game ... do not like that Ubisoft is coming out with all this DLC for it but whatever they are cheap at like $0.99 each so that is nice of them still it is about the only optimized one out of the last 4 releases but requires 3GB of VRAM to play at 1080p without GPU lag now that is a disappointment

 

[ferwindjacks]

Actually a great game, I am thoroughly enjoying FC4 especially with the full single player co-op.

For the guy who said you can run this game at 4k with high settings and a 970 and i5, God bless your soul.