far cry..

[myth]

I just herd that it suports shader 3.0! But you need a patch.... Has anyone herd of this?

[Nomadd]

Yep, you need the 1.2 patch and the Nvidia 61.76 (plus a ini file hack) or the 61.77 drivers which already enable SM3 support. I think you might also need a 'devmode' switch on the command line to start FarCry. I had it running under SM3 with the 61.76 drivers and TBH it didn't make a huge difference - in fact it introduced a few texture flicker bugs.

A lot of the performance improvement comes from the now withdrawn 1.2 patch. I disabled SM3, but left the 1.2 patch installed and played the game all the way through without problems. Intel P4 and 6800GT based system.

Have a look on the HardOCP forums for a complete thread on how to get it working, as it's all changed since I did it (i.e. the 61.77 drivers came out) .

Nomadd

[Kezzer]

You also need DirectX 9.0c.

ATi cards don't support PS3.0 but the next patch that comes out along with the next load of ATi drivers will allow PS2.0b support on ATi's side.