Far Cry 4 1.6.0 Series Very Closely

Ubisoft, like always, has come out with a few patches early after release and I wanted to wait a week or two before jumping to conclusions about the games optimization.

Far Cry 4 1.6.0 Series Very Closely

It resembles the previous games in the Far Cry series very closely with a larger open world plus a few additions in regards to weapons and wildlife interaction.

Its replicated when running into new terrains or driving a vehicle.

Theres mention of a quick fix on various forums but that doesnt fully remedy the problem and also lowers texture quality.

As usual I will be running single, SLI and Crossfire setups but, for now at least, only Nvidia have released an official multi-GPU supported driver.

AMD have Crossfire disabled in their FC4 compatible driver and are working with Ubisoft to iron out the bugs.

I mixed gunfights, grenade explosions and running in addition to driving so the results are representative of the actual game performance in different scenarios.

You can view the exact benchmark run I used below in the video.

Both, of course, over the 70fps mark on average frame rates and above 57fps on the minimums.

The Sli GTX970s system is over the 100fps mark but hits lower mins than its single counterpart.

You cant rely on the data to be accurate unless its patched so I will be leaving out frame times for the next resolutions.

Until and unless this is fixed you should take results with a grain of salt and, of course, your mileage might vary.

For those wanting to get better performance and hit that 60fps mark with one of our test cards, dropping AA should give a good boost.

This happens in all resolutions and presets on both the R9-290 and GTX970.

This has to do with bad port optimization from Ubisoft and hopefully will be fixed in the new patch release.

Similarly to Far Cry 3, we see usage of 8-threads meaning the game will scale well on anything up to a 4-core processor with hyperthreading.

As I used the Very High preset for the benchmark at 38402160 we see usage hitting roughly 3.5GB so people with 3GB VRAM will hit a limitation at this resolution.

At 1080p and 1440p Ultra preset we see usage of 2.3GB and 2.8GB respectively.

For those hitting any video ram wall, lowering AA will drop usage enough to get the game playable on most of the resolutions.

Its obvious how branded the game is and as a GameWorks The Way Its Meant To Be Played title, with additions of a unique preset and settings for its users.

AMD users will not find Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TXAA) in their settings as its an Nvidia only technology.

LOD this time around is a lot better than what we saw in Assassins Creed Unity.

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Far Cry 4 Update 1.6.0