Great collab and definitely my favorite era of PC gaming. It's interesting that the game came with a DX7 codepath but it ONLY worked with NVIDIA cards. The Radeon 8500 is a peculiar minimum requirement for the ATI side.

Always loved your calm, clear and smooth style Rik. The final result of your video turned out great. Thanks for having me on this colab, I'll always be open to participate in projects such as this one. It's great being a part of this community, count on me to stick around and contribute in anyway I can.

Ah,,the first FarCry :) That was such a great game. I wish modern games would be like this. Linear gameplay with alternative routes, stunning and interesting landscape to travel through.

Interesting to see where the highs and lows are between the two. Another really enjoyable video Rik.

Rik, this is too cool! Thank you for sharing it and detailing your observations. This was so interesting, as I would've never thought to test Far Cry on such a barebones system. This is really tapping into something I never see much of--"budget" class retro hardware or, rather, running games on the bare minimum hardware possible. I've always been curious as to how CryEngine scaled and it's cool to see that it runs so well, being Crysis before Crysis, as you mentioned. The Radeon 8500 is a really sweet card and outlasted its lifespan. I do think the Pentium III 933 provided greater performance in this game than I'd have expected; I'm even tempted to try my 1.0GHz system, just to see how it runs. I do agree that the game looked muted, but the fact that it ran so well--awesome work, Rik! Thank you for sharing, this was truly informative!

I remember when this came out! Of course, I have an original copy. Played it on my Pentium 4 1.6 GHz and GeForceTi4400. I found Crysis more enjoyable but this is a classic. Nice video Rik! Awesome collab with Sucra. Edit: That Abit BH6 is also a classic 😎

nice one! I played this couple of years ago with P4 3.2GHz, 2 gigs of RAM and X800 Pro. It was smooth except for one map with lava and lots of Fat Boys. My version needed tent AI bug fix since the AI could both see and shoot through tents

I remember playing a demo version on a machine that had an AMD Duron processor at 1 Ghz, 384 mb sd-ram and an nvidia TNT2 m64 with 32 mb ram

Farcry, my go to game to test on any retro build! I wonder what the fastest CPU and GPU was when the game came out? Great collap video 👌

Hey Rik, you got some neat content on your channel. I'll be sure to check out more of your videos :)

I remember running it on my old amd 2400xp with 1gig with ati radeon 9250 sapphire I thought i was great back then. in fact still have everything to rebuild that system. just need to recap it. great job

I tested far cry on P4 2.8 ghz and 128mb 9200se. And well it runs on low - medium, but i could swear it could run better on that card back in days. Maybe its 1.4 patch. That Slot 1 is beautifully machine, its great it runs at all.

Nice one Rik! Add a "Dream Build" comparison too? Put a link to the Discord please, as I've managed to lock myself out! :)

There was a 64bit version that added more details and such, was a promotion thing for the Athlon 64 Far Cry next week's live stream?

till you add the HDR patch that even the 6800GT hard rough time running

Speaking of low end. I ran Doom 3 not to long after it came out on a 1.1Ghz Celeron (coppermine), 512mb SDRAM, and a 64MB Geforce 4 MX 4000 (PCI). Low at like 800x600 but, I didn't care.

Run it again with a overclocked GTX 285 @ 720P using my shaders + the texture pack. You will however want to run a more potent CPU than the DX10 era card. You already ran it with a 1st gen DX10 chip Boss, so why not?