Far Cry 64 Bit released today!!!

[McArra]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Have you tried 2gig? What facts have you based your opninion on.?

As you can probably already tell, none of the additions or enhancements have anything to do with 64-bit memory addressability. In fact, a fast GPU is all you really need to take advantage of most of these features - not a 64-bit CPU. The patched version of Far Cry doesn't even eat up more than 512MB of memory during normal gameplay, and supporting more insects and birds doesn't really depend on more architecture registers provided by AMD64 either.

From anandtech.


By the way, I can see all the 64bit version goodies in win XP SP2, is this suposed to happen¿?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: McArra

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Have you tried 2gig? What facts have you based your opninion on.?

As you can probably already tell, none of the additions or enhancements have anything to do with 64-bit memory addressability. In fact, a fast GPU is all you really need to take advantage of most of these features - not a 64-bit CPU. The patched version of Far Cry doesn't even eat up more than 512MB of memory during normal gameplay, and supporting more insects and birds doesn't really depend on more architecture registers provided by AMD64 either.

From anandtech.


By the way, I can see all the 64bit version goodies in win XP SP2, is this suposed to happen¿?

what u mean you arent running some version of 64bit windows?

 

[PrayForDeath]

Originally posted by: McArra

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Have you tried 2gig? What facts have you based your opninion on.?

As you can probably already tell, none of the additions or enhancements have anything to do with 64-bit memory addressability. In fact, a fast GPU is all you really need to take advantage of most of these features - not a 64-bit CPU. The patched version of Far Cry doesn't even eat up more than 512MB of memory during normal gameplay, and supporting more insects and birds doesn't really depend on more architecture registers provided by AMD64 either.

From anandtech.


By the way, I can see all the 64bit version goodies in win XP SP2, is this suposed to happen¿?

How do you know you are, if you're not comparing it with a 64bit OS?

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: McArra

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Have you tried 2gig? What facts have you based your opninion on.?

As you can probably already tell, none of the additions or enhancements have anything to do with 64-bit memory addressability. In fact, a fast GPU is all you really need to take advantage of most of these features - not a 64-bit CPU. The patched version of Far Cry doesn't even eat up more than 512MB of memory during normal gameplay, and supporting more insects and birds doesn't really depend on more architecture registers provided by AMD64 either.

From anandtech.


By the way, I can see all the 64bit version goodies in win XP SP2, is this suposed to happen¿?

what u mean you arent running some version of 64bit windows?

Exactly, I istalled the patch in win64, played the game etc. Then I installed a new driver for my audigy and the game would make my comp restart since then.
So I went to winXP and run Farcry, and surprise, all the new goodies where there.

If this isn't supposed to happen I'll tell how I did LOL

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: ddogg
i doubt there would be big performance difference....anyway i cant try it out since i dont have xp64

No need to guess... check out the review of it on the main page...

lmao..

to me forums.anandtech.com is the main page

havent been at www.anandtech.com for months

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: narcotic
this is the recommended system specs from AMD's website:

Recommended System Specs for 64-Bit Version:
Supported OS: Windows® XP, Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition
Processor: AMD Athlon? 64 processor 3400+
RAM: 2GB
Video Card: ATI Radeon x800 or NVIDIA GeForce 6800 family or better
Sound Card: Creative Labs or Turtle Beach add-in card
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 included with 64-bit OS

And I say, you gotta be sh!tting me...

?? so it will work with regular XP? non 64 version?? odd..

 

[Skotos]

Originally posted by: McArra

Originally posted by: Noob

Originally posted by: McArra
Screenies in my comp with HDR, 1280x1024 8xAF:

Screenshots!!!!!!!

HDR an AA enabled at the same time? WTH?

:roll:

AF is NOT AA

 

[vision33r]

I'm running XP64bit I like it a lot. The cool thing is the responsiveness of everything is so fast. Everything 32bits works so far except my Daemon Tools and few other I can dual boot.

What's important is that 64bits gives programmers more precision and bigger registers to work with to get more instructions calculated per clock than 32bits. This is a pretty big advantage.

We won't see this really exploited until games with native 64bit code shows up. Right now this is just a teaser of what more bits can give you right away.

 

[Bar81]

What I think FarCry 64 shows most impressively is that game detail can be upgraded with a resulting 0% performance loss over its less detailed 32-bit counterpart. That in and of itself is something gamers should be excited about.

 

[T9D]

Originally posted by: Bar81
What I think FarCry 64 shows most impressively is that game detail can be upgraded with a resulting 0% performance loss over its less detailed 32-bit counterpart. That in and of itself is something gamers should be excited about.

Unless they just used all that time optomizing the original game code. Can pretty much take any 32 bit game and optimize it to get the same preformance results. I'm not down talking 64 bit but it's something to consider as far as this game goes.

 

[gorcorps]

My comp. magazine did a review on this. They reviewed on Winxp and the 64bit version. Sounded to me they were a little disappointed in how little performance boost they got. Does everybody here say it's worth downloading the patch?

 

[BFG10K]

1Gb ram is more than enough for this game.

I'd suspect even the 32 bit version of FC can squeeze 1 GB systems at certain times.