Sounds handy, but turns out almost no one ever needed it! However, user clip planes allow developers to further customize the shape of the view frustum. Normally, only front (near) and back (far) planes are used when rendering to cut off too close or too distant geometry: Turns out, Far Cry indeed uses something which I wasn’t even aware of, until now – Clip Planes. With this in mind, I could start looking through PIX capture looking for anything which I wasn’t familiar with. It hints that the feature which broke is so obscure and minor so very little applications (Far Cry could be one of the few, or even the only game to rely on it) Why? Since it was never noticed by Microsoft nor any game developers, This should not have happened, but for some reason it did.
FAR CRY 1 WINDOWS 10 DRIVER
It is very possible that it was introduced with Windows Vista display driver model (WDDM), a replacement for older Windows XP display driver model (XPDM). With almost absolute certainty, what is being observed here is a regression in D3D9 implementation – What gives!? This is exactly the same capture, exactly the same sequence of D3D calls leading to a different result! What does that mean? That’s how a texture for water reflections displays when previewed in PIX on Windows XP:Ĭompare it with the very same texture previewed on Windows 10: However, in this case it worked and revealed something bizarre…
FAR CRY 1 WINDOWS 10 DRIVERS
This didn’t have a very high chance of succeeding, since PIX frames are strictly bound to user’s current GPU and drivers – 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 – 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 – 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!Ĭommunity 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 WINDOWS 10 ARCHIVE
Upon downloading, all you need to do is to extract the archive to game’s directory and that’s it! Overviewįar 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:
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