#Far cry 1 monster drivers
#Far cry 1 monster archive

What gives!? This is exactly the same capture, exactly the same sequence of D3D calls leading to a different result! What does that mean? ThatвЂ™s how a texture for water reflections displays when previewed in PIX on Windows XP:Д¬ompare it with the very same texture previewed on Windows 10: However, in this case it worked and revealed something bizarreвЂ¦

#Far cry 1 monster drivers

This didnвЂ™t have a very high chance of succeeding, since PIX frames are strictly bound to userвЂ™s current GPU and drivers вЂ“ so previewing captures from different PCs is not always possible. I attempted to capture a frame on a XP virtual machine, and then preview it on Windows 10.

However, one test proved this issue to be much weirder than anyone could have guessed. Nothing seemed out of place вЂ“ XP frames indeed display correctly, while Win10 frames display with a bug.

For starters, I captured several frames on both Windows 10 and Windows XP virtual machine. Of course, as with any graphical related issues, usage of PIX graphics debugger could not be overstated. However, it comes at a price вЂ“ performance can be lowered by as much as 75%! That can result in unacceptable framerates even on modern PCs. You can see trees and rocks are reflecting fine - but bigger chunks of land are not, so reflections look far less impressive than they do on XP!Д¬ommunity has since found a way to fix this issue - it is possible to use WineD3D, a Direct3D to OpenGL wrapper for Windows, and then everything looks fine. The main issue bothering people for years were broken water reflections - landmass would not reflect on water if the game is played on anything newer than Windows XP:

#Far cry 1 monster archive

Upon downloading, all you need to do is to extract the archive to gameвЂ™s directory and thatвЂ™s it! OverviewДЇar Cry (developed by Crytek) once a game considered an example of visual fidelity and de facto a benchmark of then-modern PCs, turns out not to be free of issues. TL DR - if you are not interested in an in-depth overview of what was wrong with the game and how it was fixed, just follow the link to check out a concise changelog and grab SilentPatch for Far Cry: