What causes ripping in game? Is this is? (Far Cry 2)

[Iconate]

Hello, I am running a powerful rig, 4GB DDR2. Radeon 4850 (Slightly OCed), E8400 3.00 GHz,
and I have never experienced this issue in any other game, but when I try and play Far Cry 2, all setting maxed, resolution at 1680 x 1050, I experience an unpleasant gaming experience.

Essentially as I move around, it basically skips ahead, every second or so. I was adjusting some setting in the ATI CCC, and forced most of the setting to apply to quality rather than performance. Im not really sure if this has to do with anything. However all my other games like Crysis, CoD4, L4D etc... play perfectly fine at well over 100 FPS.

To be honest I really don't know where to begin with this issue. I have adjusted most of the settings in game, lowering res, graphics etc, but I still get the same "studdery-ness"

Any help would be great thanks

 

[jonks]

1. you're not getting over 100fps in crysis. And your rig is nice, but your card is not what I'd call "powerful", and ultimately that's the one component that matters in gaming the most

2. try enabling vsync for your far cry issues, and lower settings to medium, but it sounds like the problem may lie elsewhere

 

[RallyMaster]

FC2 is a crappy game. You shouldn't be playing it in the first place

 

[Iconate]

*sigh*, generalizing, clearly im not getting over 100FPS in crysis... and Im playing FC2 just because I haven't finished it up and I like to complete games like this... And I did try vsync

 

[Sam25]

You might want to try capping the frame rate a bit as is stated here and see if you can get past the in-game stuttering.

 

[Piuc2020]

There's a known issue with stuttering with Far Cry 2 on ATI Radeon cards, try lowering the settings a bit, it's not a very good game to begin with so you are not missing on much by skipping it, the FOV is nauseating.

Jonks, I'd call you an asshole but your post speaks for itself

 

[Sam25]

The re-spawning enemies in Far Cry 2 were annoying!

 

[nestlewater]

Possibilities

A: out of video memory, but that wouldn't be tearing, it would be small freezes, like shoot, 1 sec, stop shoot.
B: vsync is off so even if you have 999 frames, you'll see the horizontal tears