Far Cry

What works

Tested 5 CD retail version, with official patch 1.4 and unofficial patch 1.6 installed.

What worked:

• The installer, with a workaround [1]
• The entire campaign, with 2 tweaks [2]
• Modifying controls, sound, video options
• The installer for the official patch 1.4
• The installer for the unofficial patch 1.6

What does not

Installing or launching the game directly from CD.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Unknown
• Driver: unknown

Additional Comments

[1] To get the installer to work, I had to extract all files from the 5 CDs and run the extract setup.exe. When run directly from CD 1, the installer would infinitely ask for CD 2 (even after mounting CD 2).

[2] To progress past the first level, "Training", I had to set r_Driver="OpenGL" in ../Ubisoft/Crytex/Far Cry/system.cfg. The game would frequently crash to a Crytex engine crash screen when trying to load the second level, "Carrier". According to Ubisoft and Steam forums, this is a pretty common random error but was supposedly fixed in one of the official patches. The official patch did not fix this error for me, but r_Driver="OpenGL" did seem to fix the problem.

I also required a no-cd patch to run. Launching with CD 1 mounted would not work.

­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'.