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    Far Cry and RAM

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    Just been out to pick up a copy of Far Cry, the game I upgraded my system for, and I find it's stuttering like mad. I'm running a Thoroughbred at 2.4ghz, a softmodded 9500 to 9700 at 275/270 and 256mb cas3 PC3200 with Windows XP SP2RC2, DX9.0c and the OCFaq sofmodded drivers (4.24 I think). This system gets me 32000 Aquamark03 and 15000 3DMark01 scores, so there's nothing seriously broken by the looks of things.

    I used auto-detect to get medium quality settings, bumped the texture quality up to medium as well. The game will run fine and quite smoothly until I make a sharp about-turn, fire a shot or trigger a sound event when there'll be upto a four or five second pause before control is returned. Is this a RAM/paging issue? Will adding another 256mb or 512mb stick solve it?

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    Farcry eats ram like a frenchman eats frogs.

    Adding another stick should sort your problems out
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    I had 512 mb ram in my machine and upped it to 1gb ram due to having to run Farcry in medium detail. More ram the better basically, I can now run it in 1024x768 with all the detail set to high

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    Farcry uses 860mb of ram or something stupid like that. It stutters on my system with 512 3200 with a 9800pro. I really wants a gig.

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    lol 256mb ram for far cry lol. i have run it at just over medium on some settings with my sweet 512corsair xms3200 cas2 blah blah blah with 18LED monitor ontop of hs.tis v gd ram.ne how runs smooth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferral
    I had 512 mb ram in my machine and upped it to 1gb ram due to having to run Farcry in medium detail. More ram the better basically, I can now run it in 1024x768 with all the detail set to high
    "Ditto"
    I had 512mb and it was running poorly so I got another 512mb and it was sorted.I thought it was my 9800 pro that was borked at first.
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    With my continuing farcry addiction and doom3 on preorder, the time has come for another 512 mmm

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    Hmm, looks like a stick of 512mb may be picked up from Scan when I toddle down there either this aft or tomorrow. 768mb should just about cover it. My RAM's ending up costing more than my gfx card and CPU put together!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zathras
    Hmm, looks like a stick of 512mb may be picked up from Scan when I toddle down there either this aft or tomorrow. 768mb should just about cover it. My RAM's ending up costing more than my gfx card and CPU put together!
    Thats just it though 768 wont cover it it'l help considerably though

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    IM cover making it run far more smoothly at least! A gig of PC3200 is over a ton!

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    A gig of decent RAM will do the job, any less, and Far Cry will moan.

    I ran it on 512mb, with a 3200+ and a 9800XT, and there was still the odd stutter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaul
    A gig of decent RAM will do the job, any less, and Far Cry will moan.

    I ran it on 512mb, with a 3200+ and a 9800XT, and there was still the odd stutter.
    Same as me, I solved it by lowering the audio options, turn off eax and hardware mixing, reduce music to low/medium quality - really helps
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    I solved it by adding 512mb of RAM, and ordering an X800XT Platinum and a Athlon64 3500+. When the card arrives, I shall put Far Cry to the sword.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaul
    I solved it by adding 512mb of RAM, and ordering an X800XT Platinum and a Athlon64 3500+. When the card arrives, I shall put Far Cry to the sword.
    bah showoff

    Im getting another 512 TwinMos winbond 3200 when i get payed

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    Quote Originally Posted by mgh0
    Farcry eats ram like a frenchman eats frogs.

    Adding another stick should sort your problems out
    Err and that would be about once a month while drinking a red wine and having some French bread?
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    While we're on the subject of RAM, i get the odd stutter myself on Farcry, and have been planning to double my 512 for some time.

    is £53+p&p of probably about 3 quid for a 512Mb PC2700 184pin DDR DIMM Memory stick a good deal?

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