Far Cry Minimum Requirements - Athlon XP & GeForce2
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- How well does Far Cry run on the minimum requirements specified on the game box?
✅ Timestamps
0:00 A game from 2004
1:10 Minimum requirements tests
4:00 Recommended requirements tests
5:30 Low settings
6:15 Medium
7:15 High
8:35 Very high
10:00 2004 Powerful PC
✅ Hardware
→ Athlon 1100
→ Athlon 2000+
→ Pentium 4 540
→ GeForce2 GTS
→ Radeon 9800 XL
→ GeForce 6800 GS
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As a 34 year old with older cousins who could afford gaming PCs it's my favourite era of tech as it always looked so bleeding edge compared with the PC we had at home.
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@MJ-mk8jg it's crazy that you're saying this, I also have some people that I listen to when trying to sleep, only that I fell asleep during the videos :))
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@@MJ-mk8jg Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire!
Interesting video, like! Many of my friends back then even played Far Cry on GF 2 MX cards :))
Thanks! I cut that part from the video, where I said that I've played Far Cry on Athlon XP 1700+ and GeForce2 MX 400 :)
Hard to believe the original far cry turns 20 in March.
You're right...20 years! :O :O :O I need to do a special :)
@@MidnightGeek99i cant get far cry to run to boot on my current computer ever since I upgraded to a amd rx 6800.
Duron 1300mhz and GF 440, i tried it on my rig back in the day
But i witnessed it running on 9700pro at my friends PC and was confused where all of my fancy effect went, didnt know jack shit about shaders i was stuck in Quake 3 era still.
Even friend with 9200se could turn some effects up
I waited didn't want to play it like that until i got 9600pro and athlon XP 3200+ Barton core.
Still have FarCry on my modern PC installed and its must try for any retro PC i got.
Radeon 9600 Pro and 3200+, very nice combo, well balanced!
I also remember being upset that I could not enable some effects in specific games, with my GF 2 MX 400.
Thanks
Thank you very much, it means a lot :)
Great video, reminds me of RandomGamingInHD's videos. Would love to see what it would've actually taken to get Doom 3 to run smoothly in 2004.
Thanks :D
I've done a video about Doom 3's requirements: ruclips.net/video/_wBTTnUq8iA/видео.html
Thanks for another great video what do u use to capture the benchmarks like a what type capture csrd or fraps?
Thanks! The entire footage is captured with an external capture card.
Sometimes I'm using the benchmarking feature from FRAPS, to gather info about the FPS (min, max, average, 1% lows).
Great video, some idea just try other big games of that era? I ran Far Cry on a Athlon 64 3400+ with a Geforce 6600 GT it was pretty good for the time and i still use that pc for retro games.
A64 and 6600 GT was an amazing combo, and it still is not, for early-mid 2000s games.
I have 3 more videos like this, with Doom 3, Oblivion and Battlefront 2, but I will do more in the future, for sure.
I'd like to see F.E.A.R. and Crysis 1 and 2 minimum recommended settings.
FEAR sounds really good, and it has some nice requirements, I have all the parts exactly.
The worst configuration I was playing FarCry on was Pentium III 550 MHz + GeForce FX5200, it was like 15 FPS on low in 800x600, but when you are 12 years old, you are happy that game actually really started on your old crap, later we had some Celeron D, 2.4 GHz, still with that FX5200, that was somehow playable (standards of that time were not 100+ FPS like today 😀) and I later finished Doom 3 on MX 440 because I accidentaly destroyed my GF 6800LE. 🙂
BTW 4:00 - MADE IN THE U.S.A. on the box, I love it. 😀
550 MHz? Wow...you're right, the standards back then were not 100+ FPS, I was happy with 20, I had a bad video card.
The MX 440 was able to run Doom 3 with decent frames because it did not support shaders.
@@MidnightGeek99 I was not really playing FC on it, it was unplayable, I just wanted to know if that computer can actually run the game and I think it was some demo, not full game. Maybe it was not even 15 FPS, I remember there were few second lags all the time because obviously that CPU was super weak for such game.
20 years ago, there was no FPS, there was - can run/can't run, nothing more. 😀
I played Farcry for the first time on my family's 2004 Dell desktop which had a P4 at 3.0ghz, 1gb RAM and disappointingly a nVidia fx5200 (the 256mb version at least). I was able to play at medium settings (one or two settings on high) at 1024x768 and get steady framerates above 30fps and was super happy with it. I had no idea what I was missing out on until I got a 6600GT with birthday and Christmas money in early 2006 lol.
The 6600 GT runs Far Cry like a champ.
Really cool videos ,i am also a retro pc lover and i found my way on this video ,your accent sounds like a mix of indian and romanian(more romanian).
I used having an 815gl chipset motherboard with sdram ,running on 478 socket ,i remember on Gta San Andreas it ran with 2 fps and i believed it had Intel Extreme Graphics,just scrambling in my backyard i found in the dirt the motherboard of my first ever pc (i was 12 when the pc didn’t worked well anymore and decided to experiment with the components 😜)
Nice mix :)) I'm Romanian. San Andreas on integrated chip...tough life :)
But, you could play GTA 3 or Vice City, so...
@@MidnightGeek99 mergeau bine pe extreme graphics.
HHaa nu ma asteptam sa fii roman.Abia acum am vazut la sectiunea despre
Great video. for some reason your "2004 Powerful PC" runs it better than my "dream build" I built a month ago with a bit more powerful CPU (P4 HT 3.6GHz) and my good old 8800GTS 640MB that I've pulled from earlier build. (wanted to buy a 7800/7900 but back then ebay findings were either expensive or no shipping)
I think it's either a CPU overheating issue (I am using a stock LGA775 cooler) or a driver issue since I'm using the latest Nvidia drivers for XP (340.52) and I heard that it can cause slowdowns on older games. It could also be a HT-related issue. Painkiller for example is a game that runs much better with HT disabled, even with the latest patch
Stock cooler for a 3.6 GHz P4...try to get better cooling :)
I don't like using the latest drivers for XP, I tend to use drivers that are maybe one year newer than the video card, and it always worked.
@@MidnightGeek99 Thanks for the driver tip. As for the cooler, I got kinda scammed by the cooler's manufacturer. I recently bought a new Antec C40 and the package says that the mounting have holes for 775/115X/1700 (the PC store's website claimed that's the only 775 supporting cooler). However when I opened the package I discovered that the mounting has holes only for 115X/1700. I'm not gonna return it, because I still have a Socket 1155-based build in the plan, but it sucks
@@CHAOSDixieMan I had the exact same issue with a recent cooler, on the website it said "775 compatibility", but no...
ce accent de roman :)) se aude de la o posta :)) mult succes
Care posta, ca le au închis astia pe toate! :))
Mc!
i remember lan party circa 2004, we played cod1 and tryed far cry but on most pcs it was unplayable
Try Witcher1
Yes, in 2004 most PCs were not prepared for Far Cry and Doom 3 :)
R300 was such an amazing architecture, I never got to see Farcry in potato mode. You should add god tier performance mode. What's the last card that runs the game without breaking the water reflections? and enable HDR even though it looks sus it was definitely a novel feature at the time.
R300 was a great architecture. The video card in the last part was a GeForce 6800 GS.
mega! :) cea mai puternica PV pe care o am e un Radeon 9550 pt ATi iar pt nV, FX 5500 :) in testele pe care le-am facut, 9550 e mai puternica decat 5500. mi-am luat sap. asta un skt 754, Asus K8N, cu 2800+. ce-mi place!
E clar ca 9550 e mult peste 5500, 5500 e doar un 5200 dupa 200g de zahar.
Socket 754 e ft misto, pt ca gasesti placi de baza cu AGP.
@@MidnightGeek99 da, imi place tot ce tine de era AGP, PCIeX... asa si asa, nu ma dau in vant dupa ele
In FarCry with Anisotropic filtering, the Radeon X800 XT RuLz!
Hehe, that's right, unfortunately my onbly X800 is DEAD right now!
Radeon were way better in Far Cry than GeForce, even than the 6000 series.
I ran Far Cry on an Athlon XP 2600+ and Radeon 9800SE. It was a good experience.
Yes, the 2600+ was a more capable CPU than this 2000+ I've tested.
Back then I had Athlon XP 1600+, 512mb ram and 9600 Pro 256mb from Sapphire and it still ran like crap :D
The CPU was too slow for Far Cry and the 9600 Pro.
@@MidnightGeek99 Yeah, but I was like 14 back than so I could get anything better :) Later I got 64 3500+ around 2007-08, so it was fine :)
Is Omega drivers compatible with ATI Xpress 1200X video cards? Just I want to roll these drivers on my DELL Latitude d631, is it worth it?
Maybe you could find omega drivers for that card, but for laptops I would stick to the ones from Dell :)
@@MidnightGeek99 Thanks for the advice!
Far cry had the same graphics issue for me with a 7800GT back in early 2006.
Maybe a driver issue.
What are the differences between Omega and Catalyst drivers? Where can I find them for Windows 2000?
Omega drivers were done by the community, and usually, they had better performance and compatibility.
@@MidnightGeek99 I shall search them out on the web. Thanks.
Far Cry definitely also works on 32MB Geforce cards. I played this game on my laptop with a GeForce4 420 Go and a Pentium 4 M 2Ghz back then. Maybe there is a problem with the driver.
Thanks for confirming!
Cool video. Why do i sense Romanian accent?
Because I'm Romanian? :)
I ran far cry with a Athlon 4000 939 socket , 2GB DDR and a 6600 GT
Nice setup, the A64 4000+ was a BEAST!
Can you do half life 2 on the minimum requirements ?
I can, but for now I have only the Steam version, which is more demanding. But I'm trying to find the cd version.
30fps is still all the fps you need in life (putting on my asbestos underwear).
:))))
That looked like GPU (or maybe GPU-RAM) overheating.
At what minute?
@@MidnightGeek99 I'm at work. Can't rewatch. First glitches.
I am flaming the comments in the section bellow.
I don't see the smoke!
@@MidnightGeek99 what am I, comanche medicine man? :D
his vids would be better with a clearer narrator
Just turn on captions lol. He's put in the effort to make them.
I don't have a clearer narrator :))
The Pentium 4 wasn't very good for games in its era. A Pentium 4 with a high clock speed of 3.2 Ghz is still not the ideal cpu for AAA games like Far Cry. Somehow I could play Far Cry with my Pentium 4 - 2.26 Ghz.
3.2 was decent, better than Athlon XP 3200+ anyway.