Far Cry 2/9800gx2 Drivers?

Lol, It's a known issue but its working for you.

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My pc isnt silent because i got molex fans.You got a really good airflow with many fans.By the way i live in holland

1 Blews the air away 120mm
2 200mm fan blews cold air against the GX2
3 140 MM fan is under the GX2 going to put another one
4 120mm fans blews cold air into the harddisk part
5 140 MM next to the GX2 blews the harddisk air made by fan 4
6 CPU cooler next to the fan that blews the air away

:banana:

 

I was having some serious issues too with DX10 running (using Vista 64) - getting minimum framerates below 10 / second. I tried installing the latest beta driver (180.43) yesterday and now everything is running fine. It even seems to have fixed Crysis Warhead which was performing even worse.

 

These drivers are awful when any sort of anti-aliasing is applied. Even without AA performance is still not where it should be with this card.

DX9 4xAA

Total Frames: 1244, Total Time: 51.03s
Average Framerate: 24.38
Max. Framerate: 45.54 (Frame:222, 6.18s)
Min. Framerate: 13.08 (Frame:448, 15.36s)

DX9 no AA

Total Frames: 2232, Total Time: 51.01s
Average Framerate: 43.76
Max. Framerate: 66.44 (Frame:326, 6.21s)
Min. Framerate: 35.30 (Frame:1731, 39.23s)

DX10 4xAA

Total Frames: 1223, Total Time: 51.02s
Average Framerate: 23.97
Max. Framerate: 56.99 (Frame:257, 6.46s)
Min. Framerate: 9.36 (Frame:705, 28.17s)

DX10 no AA

Total Frames: 2690, Total Time: 51.00s
Average Framerate: 52.74
Max. Framerate: 98.20 (Frame:456, 6.60s)
Min. Framerate: 30.38 (Frame:634, 9.40s

 

WoW, another "1 post wonder" telling us that everything is fine with the 180.xx drivers while anyone with even a limited history of posting here saying they have problems. I wonder who could be telling the truth /sarcasm off.

ROFL.

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Same deal here. Completely unstable framerates (AKA - LOW) and no consistency from pass 1 through 3.

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Oh I forgot to mention that, If I set it to loop the framerate drops 10fps from the first one. So if I get 52fps in DX10 without AA that goes down to about 42fps on the second run.

 

I have had no problems running Far Cry 2. Maxed out at 1360x768
I see that people that are having problems are running high resolutions like 1920x1080. Maybe Ubisoft haven't properly optimised the game for higher-end resolutions.
It also could be to do with the make of the card (e.g. BFG, PNY, etc).
Mine is made by ASUS which no-one has reported problems with.
Either a patch by Ubisoft or proper WHQL drivers from Nvidia will probably fix these problems.

 

My res is 1680x1050, not exactly HIGH res but not low res either and I still have a fair amount of issues with random framerate drops and so on.

 

Still no fix for the performance issue? Don't tell me I've actually gotta wait and HOPE that it's fixed when the WHQL drivers are out in 3 or so weeks? If so then this is my last dual PCB videocard. I'll wait until proper dual-gpu cards are out before wandering down this road again.

 

Every single game I had my hands on this past year my 9800GX2 (in my Intel rig) has eaten without ANY hickups. Now Far Cry 2 come's and all start b*tching about their 9800GX2 and how it sucks... get real - it's s****y programming in Far Cry 2, and also it's a game not even worth bothering playing. I wouldn't ever ditch my 9800GX2 for at GTX280 when it in most other games easily whipes GTX arse - my 9800GX2 is one of the best cards I have had through my hands since 96 (which then would count around 100 different graphicscards). I'm only switching my 9800GX2 out with new GT200 dual gpu card coming soon.:nerd:
I played Far Cry 2 on my AMD setup, but I sold the game... pretty graphics can't save a boring gameplay.:bang:

 

Another "one hit wonder" here to say that the latest drivers 180:43 sorted farcry out completely, I've not played others games with them yet as farcry has sucked me in (yeah, people moan about the driving but I like it, so far I've bagged me a couple of antelope, three zebras and uncounted humans. I love driving right through the middle of their camps .

So post a sarcastic reply if you want but before these drivers I had to turn everything down, now I have everything ramped up to 11 and it's not slowed down once.

 

OK so I finally got my fps back. Game was unplayable when I first installed it. Everything maxed out 1920/1200 dx10, 8x AA. I figured OC'ed 9800gx2 680/1080was up to the task... yeah not so much. Brothers in Arms HH, 1920X1200 everything maxed out with full on AA, no problem, but not far cry2...
So after much reading I installed 180.43 on my Vista 64bit (which btw didn't do ****!!!) and decided to play around with gamerprofile.xml.
Changed MaxDriverBufferedFrames="0" to MaxDriverBufferedFrames="1"
Changed something else, but don't remember what...
Now I can run with everything on max and 4x AA with 45-70fps. Yes I know it's not exactly breathtaking, but sure as hell beats microstutering I had and 10-15fps before. Here is what my file looks like:
<GamerProfile>
<SoundProfile MusicEnabled="1" MasterVolume="100" />
<RenderProfile MultiSampleMode="2" AlphaToCoverage="1" ResolutionX="1920" ResolutionY="1200" Quality="ultrahighd3d10" Fullscreen="1" Maximized="1" ForceWidescreen="0" AspectRatio="0" VSync="0" RefreshRate="60" DisableMip0Loading="0" MaxDriverBufferedFrames="1" Platform="d3d10a" ShowFPS="0" ClustersZPassMaxLOD="1" Brightness="1.22" Contrast="1.04" GammaRamp="1.37" GammaRampR="1" GammaRampG="1" GammaRampB="1" AllowAsynchShaderLoading="1">
<CustomQuality>
<quality ResolutionX="800" ResolutionY="600" EnvironmentQuality="ultrahigh" AntiPortalQuality="high" PostFxQuality="high" TextureQuality="ultrahigh" TextureResolutionQuality="ultrahigh" WaterQuality="ultrahigh" DepthPassQuality="d3d10" VegetationQuality="veryhigh" TerrainQuality="ultrahigh" GeometryQuality="ultrahigh" AmbientQuality="high" ShadowQuality="ultrahigh" Hdr="1" HdrFP32="0" Bloom="1" id="custom" />
<quality ResolutionX="800" ResolutionY="600" EnvironmentQuality="high" AntiPortalQuality="high" PostFxQuality="high" TextureQuality="high" TextureResolutionQuality="high" WaterQuality="high" DepthPassQuality="d3d10" VegetationQuality="high" TerrainQuality="high" GeometryQuality="high" AmbientQuality="high" ShadowQuality="high" Hdr="1" HdrFP32="1" Bloom="1" id="customd3d10" />
</CustomQuality>
</RenderProfile>
<NetworkProfile CustomMapMaxUploadRateOnline="10240" OnlineEnginePort="9000" OnlineServicePort="9001" FileTransferHostPort="9002" FileTransferClientPort="9003" LanBroadcastPort="9004" ScanFreePorts="1" ScanPortRange="1000" ScanPortStart="9000" SessionProvider="" DetectPublicAddress="1" MaxUploadOnline="768">
<Accounts />
</NetworkProfile>
<GameProfile Sensitivity="0.9" Invert_y="0" UseMouseSmooth="0" Smoothness="1" Smoothness_Ironsight="1" HelpCrosshair="0" UseCompassMiniMap="1" UseRoadSignHilight="1" UseSubtitles="1" UseAmbx="0" Autosave="1" Machete="0" DifficultyLevel="1">
<FireConfig QualitySetting="VeryHigh" />
</GameProfile>
<RealTreeProfile Quality="VeryHigh">
<CustomQuality />
</RealTreeProfile>
<EngineProfile>
<PhysicConfig QualitySetting="VeryHigh" />
<QcConfig GatherFPS="1" GatherAICnt="1" IsQcTester="0" />
<InputConfig />
</EngineProfile>
</GamerProfile>

Hope this helps you guys.

NVIDIA - please for a love of God fix SLI, or at least switch to crossfire.

I am sending my card to EVGA for step up to GTX 280, which compared to my 8800GTX still is a piece of ****, but step up is almost free for me, since my company bought teh GX2. So **** it.

 

You and me both, not even my brother wants to use the GX2 I have because of the problems I have with it. And he could use a videocard upgrade as he's still running a 1950XTX.

After this I couldn't even see myself getting anything that has to do with SLI ever again. Don't get me wrong when the card works it's amazing, that aside waiting for nVidia to HOPEFULLY fix the driver support is painful. I'd rather buy a new card than wait for new drivers constantly, and I'm not exactly made of money.

 

400MHz for tha RAM will be your RAMdacs or something like that. This has nothing to do with your Video Memory it self.

 

Nothing is wrong.
If you memory is DDR2 pc-6400 and runs @ 800mhz CPU-Z will show it as 400mhz, if your memory is DDR2 pc-8500 and runs @ 1066, CPU-Z will show 533.

CPU-Z shows you 400MHz, because DDR2 is running at twice the clock tick(400X2=800), hence the name Double Data Rate 2.

 

Thanks guys...

 

dude... you can't compare to the rest of the apple when you're talking about Orange.

first of all... 1280X1024? that's a very low resolution in today's gaming standard. at that resolution the game is less GPU dependent. most people today play at 1600+ resolution which is point where it becomes VERY GPU dependent.

and DX9?? you're kidding. DX10 is a lot more demanding than DX9.

i can run FC2 butter smooth at the same resolution and settings you ran yours at... but the fact of matter is... this card so far still cannot handle 1080P resolution at DX10 ultra high setting, which is the resolution and setting most of us purchased the 9800GX2 for. and that is some serious issue they need to address. if i wanna stay at 1280X1024 and DX9, i would've stuck with my old 8800gt, hell even the 9600gt can do it at that setting butter smooth.

and just for the record.... i am having issues too with this card for this game also... duahh.. averaging 29fps, min in the 16fps range, and max in the 55fps range. (DX10 1920X1080, ultra high).

if that's the way it's meant to be played... i want my money back.

 

Normally yes, but Far Cry 2 doesn't really include much for DX10. If anything DX10 will perform better but only when using Anti-Aliasing. See here for more details: http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...d_DX101_Official_developer_statement_at_PCGH/

 

Thats why I stepped up to my GTX 280 asap from my 9800GX2. I'd just rather keep ONE flagship model in my PC...no SLI. Even though Nvidia counts the GX2 as one card, its not we all know it. 2 PCB crammed together.