Farcry 1.2 Patch
Farcry is the current popular game and the first to provide use for the new Shader Model 3.0. The new patch, v1.2 that allows the use of SM 3.0, does wonders with the Nvidia card. ATI fanboys should watch out for the NV40 now. Nvidia’s making a comeback. Driverheave has a good comparison and shows great depth of the new capabilities of SM 3.0.
“In a few hours Ubisoft/Crytek will be releasing the much anticipated patch for Farcry which upgrades the game to version 1.2. As per most game updates there are various performance tweaks and bug fixes however in FarCry 1.2 we have the addition of Shader Model 3.0 features for Geforce 6800 series cards. Today we are going to take a short look at what performance increases you can expect from the patch, and how IQ is impacted
if youre a Radeon user the IQ section especially makes for interesting reading.”
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