FarCry 4 Thread

Has anyone run into unfinishable side missions? I started a delivery mission where you pick up the items and then take them somewhere else....I get to where I am supposed to put the items and I think the person I am supposed to give them to is dead....I can hear a beeping noise as if it supposed to draw attention, but I can't find where it is coming from.

 

Had it happen with a hijacking quest.
I killed the driver of the truck, jumped in and start driving... but a few other guards drove up and threw a molotov at the truck.

It set everything on fire, and I jumped out... and the truck blew up.
But, the marker stayed at the camp for me to deliver the truck. Starting another side quest didn't stop it. Finally, I had to just restart the game.


I also had a case were Sabal ran off and I couldn't start a quest.
I walked up to the house he was at, say a propaganda poster... so I shot it with a fire arrow.
Only... it started burning the house. The grass. The tree... the field in front of the house...
And as the fire continued to spread, Sabal kept running further and further away.
By the time the fire completely burnt out, Sabal was about 300+ meters from the house and nowhere to be seen.
That one... I was too busy laughing at to get annoyed by. I just went off and did some other stuff for a while, and when I returned to the house... he was sitting on the porch... surrounded by burnt fields and trees like nothing had happened.

 

For those with heavy setup GTX 780+ here is a new profile I've put together and am still testing. It is based on the stock 'NVIDIA' profile in game with a few tweaks. It is working well for me, with an occasional stutter here and there which I can live with for now, until a patch comes out to address it or a driver update. I'm thinking stuttering issues are driver related, but you never really can tell.

What I find interesting that seems to work on my setup well is that in the profile there are two instances of "GPUMaxBufferedFrames' one at '0' and one at '3'. Please leave this as is and report on your results with this profile. For me, I get superior smoothness with this with no difference in quality. I'm curious how it affects others.

For those with more modest setups, I suggest you try what others have mentioned in the thread (i.e. set alpha coverage to "0" and disableloadingmip to '1' if you're not worried about texture quality.

I've set the following specific settings in my Nvidia Control Panel settings as follows:

Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames =3
Triple Buffering =ON
V-Sync = Adaptive

PHP:

<GamerProfile>
    <SoundProfile MusicEnabled="1" MasterVolume="100" Language="english" />
    <ProfileSpecificGameProfile Sensitivity="1" MouseAcceleration="1" MouseAccelerationOn="0" MouseInvert_y="0" MouseInvert_y_Flying="0" MouseLookSensitivity="4.17232" Invert_x="0" Invert_y="0" Invert_y_Flying="1" Swap_Triggers="0" Flip_Triggers="0" InvertSticks="0" DefaultFlickFireDirection_y="0" ControllerLayoutVehicle="0" ControllerLayoutBuzzer="0" UseMouseSmooth="0" Smoothness="1" Smoothness_Ironsight="1" HelpCrosshair="0" Gamepad_vibration="0" UseRoadSignHilight="1" SubtitlesLanguage="invalid_language" TaggingEnabled="0" WikiUpdatedEnabled="1" CollectibleUpdatedEnabled="0" TutorialUpdatedEnabled="0" ObjectiveReminderEnabled="0" CraftingTipsEnabled="0" DisplayXPEnabled="0" DetectionIndicatorEnabled="0" HitIndicatorEnabled="0" ExplosiveIndicatorEnabled="1" MapIndicatorEnabled="0" HealthIndicatorEnabled="0" CrouchIndicatorEnabled="0" KarmaIndicatorEnabled="0" AmmoIndicatorEnabled="0" MinimapOpacity="3" LootReadoutEnabled="0" CoopPartnerIndicatorEnabled="0" UseAmbx="0" GamepadFeedbackLayout="0" Autosave="1" Machete="0" DrivingAssistEnabled="0" DifficultyLevel="1" IronsightToggleMode="0" ShowPVPTips="0" ShowPVPTimer="0" ShowPVPScorebar="0" ShowPVPPlayerTags="0" ShowPVPObituaryMessages="0" ShowPVPNotifications="0" ShowPVPMasterVoiceToggle="0" ShowPVPFactionPowerUpIcons="0" ShowPVPPlayerNames="0" PlayPVPIntroVideo="0" HasVisitedCoopMenu="0" SelectedLanguage="english" Coop_Friends_Only="0" DrivingAutoAimEnabled="1">
        <FireConfig QualitySetting="VeryHigh" />
        <CompressedClasses />
        <Statistics>
            <Stat Value="0" />
            <Stat Value="0" />
            <Stat Value="0" />
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        </Statistics>
    </ProfileSpecificGameProfile>
    <RenderProfile AntiAliasingMode="0" MSAALevel="2" D3D11MultithreadedRendering="1" MaxDriverBufferedFrames="3" LodDitheringQuality="pc" GPUMaxBufferedFrames="3" SDSM="1" UseTrippleBuffering="1" VSyncMode="1" UseMotionBlur="1" SSAOLevel="3" EnableNvidiaPCSS="1" GodRaysLevel="2" FurLevel="2" TreeTessellationLevel="1" Version="1" AlphaToCoverage="1" ResolutionX="1920" ResolutionY="1080" Quality="nvidia" QualityEditor="editor_ps3" Fullscreen="1" Borderless="0" UseD3D11="1" WidescreenLetterbox="0" UseWidescreenFOV="1" FOVScaleFactor="0.997408" AspectRatio="0" VSync="0" VSyncWindow="0" RefreshRate="0" DisableLoadingMip0="0" GPUMaxBufferedFrames="0" ShowFPS="0" Brightness="1" Contrast="1" CalibrationScreensShown="0" GammaRamp="1" AllowAsynchShaderLoading="1" SafeFrameAreaWidth="0.85" SafeFrameAreaHeight="0.85">
        <CustomQuality>
            <quality ResolutionX="1280" ResolutionY="720" OtherQuality="high" EnvironmentQuality="ultrahigh" AntiPortalQuality="default" PortalQuality="default" PostFxQuality="ultrahigh" TextureQuality="ultrahigh" WaterQuality="ultrahigh" DepthPassQuality="high" VegetationQuality="ultrahigh" TerrainQuality="ultrahigh" GeometryQuality="ultrahigh" LightingQuality="high" ShadowQuality="softshadow" ShadowCinematicQuality="high" EditorQuality="default" Hdr="1" HdrFP32="1" ReflectionHdr="1" EnableVertexBinding="1" id="custom" />
        </CustomQuality>
    </RenderProfile>
    <NetworkProfile VoiceChatEnabled="1" CustomMapMaxUploadRateInBitsOnline="10240000" OnlineEnginePort="9000" OnlineServicePort="9001" FileTransferHostPort="9002" FileTransferClientPort="9003" LanHostBroadcastPort="9004" LanClientBroadcastPort="9005" ScanFreePorts="1" ScanPortRange="1000" ScanPortStart="9000" SessionProvider="" MaxUploadInbpsOnline="10240000">
        <Accounts />
    </NetworkProfile>
    <GameProfile />
    <RealTreeProfile Quality="Ultra" />
    <EngineProfile>
        <PhysicConfig QualitySetting="VeryHigh" />
        <QcConfig GatherFPS="1" GatherAICnt="1" GatherDialogs="0" IsQcTester="0" />
        <InputConfig />
        <ZoneConfig />
    </EngineProfile>
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What the hell ? I found a bug, if i choose NVIDIA preset, the shadows/lightning are going crazy.This bug doesn't occur with any other preset(Low/Medium/High etc).Choosing any other preset and changing the settings manually works flawlessly though.Damn, i thought it was a driver issue..

 

Hi, using the Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames =3 and Triple Buffering =ON setting plus changing the GPUMaxBufferedFrames setting to 3 seems to have eliminated the occasional stutter i have been getting especially when driving, still testing...

 

I figured it out, there was an extra bag of crap under some objects that were covering it. There is a notification at the top of the screen 1/2 or 0/2 for the items you need to retrieve and you always give them to one of those locked doors where the guy says you can't come in.

The outpost master side missions are bugged for everyone it seems; once completed the game freezes with a black and gray screen.

 

Here are my own tweaks that I have been playing with for the past week. This is the smoothest it's felt.

Everything is set to ultra except fur simulation which is bugged.

Hyper threading off...(this is the most important.changed the way the game felt and stopped the drops in framerate or at least the fluctuations)

Max pre rendered frames=3(1 in game)

prefer max performance + single display mode

Use all cuda in control panel

fur on not simulated

Alpha to coverage "0" this makes hardly any difference to image at all.

MSAA X 2. Ideally I would use SMAA but this is bugged with SLI.

Motion Blur off.

All smoothing options set to "0" in the profile.

Timer tool set to 0.500(1 or 2 fps more if that)

Vsync off.

These setting provide me with a minimum of 60fps(usually hovers around 80) at 1920 x 1080.

I use the SLI profile for far cry 4 and as yet havn't been to put out by the dark shadows but using the far cry 3 sli bits that don't scale as well do get rid of this.

 

Is anyone else not able to log in to Uplay client? I've even tried the reset password thing in case id just put in the wrong password, but they dont even send you the email to reset it.

Edit: Problem seems to be at my end.

 

you tits could make a much better game no doubt.

 

My problem is with the client.

But Im certainly not the only one to notice the lack of quality coming out of Ubisoft for the last 10 years. Though I suppose having common sense, logic and self control over my wallet to not impulse by everything the gaming industries marketing departments tell me to buy makes me a hater, right?

What is it with so many gamers these days. If myself and others who aren't so inept, blind and deluded refuse to buy poorly developed games, we're some how 'haters'.

There, I took the bait. Happy?

Now, can you or can you not log into Uplay?

 

I managed to remove stuttering completely.
Here is video

I blocked FPS on 30 just to show there is no FPS drop; and shadowplay takes few FPS, (like in AC: Unity, shadowplay takes cca 4 FPS only if running in backround and not recording :3eyes ...
I play on this setting and have cca 40 FPS. Before I had drops to around 20 FPS no matter what settings I use, especaliy while driving...

GamerProfile.xml:
GPUMaxBufferedFrames=3
UseTrippleBuffering="1"
AlphaToCoverage="0"

Nvidia control panel settings:


And, here is screenshot gallery

 

Offtopic but i think FC4 poor performance and sutter are nvidia issue mainly, looking at Dragon age Inquisition, it shows AGAIN bad performance on nvidia part. where the 280X best the GTX780, and 780ti are far behind the simple R9 290.

Something wrong with nvidia driver and those two titles.

 

Can anyone else log into uplay?

Also, does the command gfx_maxFps still work in this iteration of Dunia? I know in FC2 that some people had to cap the fps at 60 (for example) as the default value of 9999 caused stuttering and slight tearing even with vsync on.

 

Did you copy/paste that from your XML file?

Because "Triple" only has 1 p in the correct spelling, is it meant to have a double p ?

 

Animal encounters are just amazing. One moment you see an eagle snatching a goat or I saw tiger fighting a bear.

 

Maybe better, they will have more time to do it right.

 

It's Triple and the nVidia driver setting is only for OpenGL so it's useless. If you want Triple Buffering in DirectX games you have to use the ingame setting or D3DOverrider or RadeonPro.

 

Yea, I was wondering why the XML uses double PP in the word Triple
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Found this too, QualityEditor="editor_ps3"

Guess that's just for the map editor?

 

Look my control panel settings again.. I dont have triple enabled there...

And yes, in GamerProfile is UseTrippleBuffering

 

Hoping that 1.4 comes sooner than later, and actually brings some fixes rather than just hairworks....