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Old 01-23-2006, 03:10 PM   #1
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FarCry ground is black!

can someone help me out, when i installed farcry and I started to play, the ground was black!!! is it something wrong with the software or is it my graphics card? could someone help me out thanks.
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Old 01-23-2006, 03:18 PM   #2
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What graphics card are you using?

What quality of graphics have you set the game to?

Have you installed patches?

Drivers fully updated?
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Old 01-23-2006, 04:15 PM   #3
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EVGA 7800GT

They're all on very high. Trillinear. 1024 res

No its at v.100. If i am to patch it, do I install the newest one, will it update throughout the old patches, or do I have to do certain ones?

Drivers are fully updated for the graphics card.
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You need to install all of the patches. The same thing happened with my 6600GT. It is an nVidia glitch that is fixed with the patches.
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haha okay, thanks.. man and I thought something was wrong with my graphics solution :P
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Old 01-23-2006, 07:47 PM   #6
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If you are still getting black like areas after patching, I would suggest turning down the graphics quality within the game. I just turned all the eye candy on and tried it out and even with patches and dual 6800s I experienced similar black patches, yet they went away after reducing AA and AF.
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If you are still getting black like areas after patching, I would suggest turning down the graphics quality within the game. I just turned all the eye candy on and tried it out and even with patches and dual 6800s I experienced similar black patches, yet they went away after reducing AA and AF.
The only settings I don't have maxxed out are the AA and AAF. I never turn those up too far anyway. If a 6600GT can run it smoothly at max settings, I certainly hope dual 6800 GT's or a 7800 GT doesn't have problems.
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Old 01-23-2006, 10:08 PM   #8
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Ah... thanks guys, your all the best

Updated the patches and all those stupid problems are gone. Thanks again.

maxed everything, no problems at all. thanks
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