GrayFox Posted July 21, 2004 Report Posted July 21, 2004 A patch for Far Cry, the popular cryengine powered shooter has been released and weighs in at 65 megs and adds Shader Model 3.0 support for GeForce 6-series of videocards. You can nab it here: http://www.farcry.ubi.com Many people have described stability issues with the patch, so you might want to be cautious. *edit* from shacknews: "Ubisoft let us know that the Far Cry 1.2 patch released a few days ago has been recalled. According to the publisher "Far Cry patch 1.2 has shown unexpected behaviour on specific hardware configurations. These matters are mainly due to incompatibilities with several optimisations brought lately to the code, with the intent to please a large number of users". CryTek is working on a fixed version of the update to be released "as soon as possible"."
KidDynamite Posted July 21, 2004 Report Posted July 21, 2004 Alittle bit of info on the patch itself: Ubisoft has released the Far Cry 1.2 patch, offering a slew of fixes and improvements for the Crytek first person shooter. And though not mentioned in the readme, the 65mb update adds Shader Model 3.0 support for GeForce 6-series of videocards. Here are some of the changes * Made the run speed about 15% faster * Made sprint last 30% longer * Adjusted damage to vehicles * Fixed a number of serious issues with headshot detection * Fixed some issues with ladder animations appearing odd to other players * Added quicksave support for single player (still in process) * Fixed a significant number of bugs relating to quicksave (~100 bugs) * Addressed a number of issues with the server list UI * Fixed a rendering issue with Radeon 9600 graphics cards (Thx Shacknews!)
zaphod Posted July 21, 2004 Report Posted July 21, 2004 too bad they chose to fix the 9600 issue now, I have long uninstalled this game becuase it would run like poo on my 9600.
GrayFox Posted July 22, 2004 Author Report Posted July 22, 2004 Ok, I've played the 1.2 version for about 30 mins and it seems to be very solid. I haven't had any problems what so ever...
KidDynamite Posted July 23, 2004 Report Posted July 23, 2004 Shacknews just posted an update on the patch. Far Cry Patch Recalled Ubisoft let us know that the Far Cry 1.2 patch released a few days ago has been recalled. According to the publisher "Far Cry patch 1.2 has shown unexpected behaviour on specific hardware configurations. These matters are mainly due to incompatibilities with several optimisations brought lately to the code, with the intent to please a large number of users". CryTek is working on a fixed version of the update to be released "as soon as possible".
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