Far Cry

What works

Sound, Graphics, most of the game (haven't finished it yet), fullscreen

What does not

installation

Workarounds

What was not tested

multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

First off installation was a pain. The installer would run in wine, but would crash when it asked for the second cd. The workaround was to install it on a windows box or virtual machine and then copy everything over. I had to use a nocd crack to run it. Second off, sound works, but is laggy for me with Dopplar enabled. Third, graphics can be a bit tricky. On one machine, it ran almost perfectly with the opengl renderer out of the box. On my other machine, i had to do some steps to get opengl to work properly, but once i did, it was a big improvement over directx. steps i used: 1 use directx to set all graphics settings to low as possible. quit. 2 Change the system.cfg to use OpenGL as the renderer. 3 Start the game. BUT DONT CLICK OPTIONS. This will crash it. 4 start playing the game. This will initialize the renderer successfully. 5 pause and go to options to set graphics settings to whatever you like. 6 play 7 before quitting, set all graphics settings to as low as possible.

­Far Cry ­HOWTO­­

Installation:­­
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If ­you use the CD/DVD version run the setup program on the DVD or the first CD, and be sure it doesn't install Adobe Acrobat or DirectX.
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Patching:

Version 1.4 is required for multiplayer and contains many engine improvements. The version downloaded from Steam is also 1.40.

http://www.ubi.com/US/Downloads/DownloadFile.aspx?dfId=3429

The 1.6 community patch is available and contains many bug fixes and improvements, particularly for multiplayer.

http://www.farcrypatch16.de/

Optional OpenGL Renderer:­

There is an OpenGL renderer that has most of the visual effects present in the Direct3D one, but should run faster. To enable it, change "r_Driver" from "Direct3D9" to "OpenGL" in the 'system.cfg' file.

The older OpenGL renderer in version 1.0/1.1 exhibits less artifacts, whereas 1.33 and above have a problematic water shader, and portions of far-off terrain render incorrectly. Regardless of the game version, set the shadow quality to 'medium' and the lighting quality to 'high'.