Far Cry 6 - The Digital Foundry Tech Review - PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Ray Tracing - The Lot!
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2021
- Join Alex Battaglia for the Far Cry 6 tech review! We take a look at the latest iteration of the Dunia Engine with its various strengths and weaknesses, compare PS5, Series X and Series S versions of the game then dive deeply into PC. You'll get optimised settings, quality comparisons with consoles, performance analysis plus everything you need to know about the ray tracing implementation.
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In current world scenario with GPU prices being sold for the price of a small car, Xbox SX and PS5 are doing a great job.
@Bryce Czirr That still costs more than a current gen console. Not worth it yet. The consoles are more affordable right now and they handle the new games quite well.
@Bryce Czirr damn bro that's crazy but who asked
@Bryce Czirr Yeah I got a 3070 online from best buy for $500. This was back when everyone was spamming for it during Christmas too. Could sell it for 1 grand right now if I wanted too.
@@dominant2576 I asked
@Bryce Czirr what a trade
I love when a sniper wears a grass suit and sits in a cement watch tower. 😆
I'd like to see the sniper wear a cement suit.
Vc é louco rapaz fale algo útil...
😄😄
haha i know i was laughing at that plus they just stand there and let you slash them lol
@@GENKI_INU Yeah, sniper wears a cement suit and sits in the grass :D
The amount of effort needed to make a video like this is just crazy
It would take ages but they chose to do this for a job and 1 have a team to work together and they get a head start on it by getting the code early. Not saying I don't appreciate what they do
@@mcsherlocks yeah but it still a lot of work that goes into these videos regardless, I applaud digital foundry for getting these videos out in quick succession
Imagine consuming this type of content and actually obsessing about these silly, minuscule details/pixels. DF and their entire fanbase are VIRGINS for life. Sad!
It’s especially brutal for this game as your have to get through so many starter missions before you can even really have the game open up for you…
@@fensoxx I'm sure they don't need to play those
I love how you're one of the few pointing stuttering problems in games, that's the first step to make devs more careful since it's a very boring thing.
And the worst part is that these stutter issues become an even bigger problem on lower spec machines.
I am only running a Ryzen 5 3600, 3200CL16 Ram overclocked to 3600 (with mediocre timings), a cheap Sata SSD, and the stutter in games such as Far Cry 5 and Jedi: Fallen Order was unbearable, way worse than what was shown here in the video.
Since most consumers have somewhat similar machines to my own, and don't all own a beastly 10900k, their experience will be somewhat similar to mine which is a serious issue.
@@denniswrede2130 a 3600, 3600Mhz cl16 and an SSD is hardly low-end
more like annoying rather than boring.
Stuttering in games is the absolute worst and is bonkers common and I’ve got a beefy rig + g-sync.
@@BlindBison Same, actually stuttering above 60 fps is like a punch in the eyes, sure everyone has a different tolerance but stutter from 144 or above to 40 completely ruin the experience and make useless building a new powerful pc. Sadly these days most games stutters to some degree, and thanks god someone big like Digital Foundry is starting to point out this problem which in my opinion is one of the biggest plague in modern gaming.
2:05
That alligator showing up from nowhere to see the effects represents DF junkies.
Crocodile!
He be like: yo, man, that ain't right. Where's my RT at??? gtfo with that cheapo screen space reflections or I'll bite your ass.
GUAPO*
I love how janky the animation of the alligator was. Full stop no slowing down before stopping. Typical Ubisoft level of quality.
We are Guapo!
The stuttering every few seconds on a 9900k and a 3090 is unacceptable. I'll be at 4k over 60 fps the entire time, but it'll still stutter randomly with an m2 ssd. They need to fix the CPU core bounding issues.
You’re telling me a Buggysoft game is running strange at launch? I’m shocked I tell you, shocked.
Windows 11 upgrade fixed most of it for me with 3090. It's still there but more subtle and easier to ignore
I’m using 3900x with 3080 ti and no stuttering issues. Vsync locked 4k60. Haven’t noticed any thread being worked alone.
Same here i play at 4k max settings with an rtx 3090 and i9 9900k. So far only high settings with RT off runs butter smooth and free of stutter, we just have to wait for patches.
I have a 3090 and a 10980XE. Huge stutter while driving. Unacceptable in 2021. I play the game at 4K maxed out with HD textures but no RTX (I am not a fan of it in general).
My biggest issue is no FOV slider on console. Definitely a must have setting in modern first person/third person games
yep i really hope it is on the first patch hey?
I’m sure it was going under 60s with the slider. Seems like that’s why they scrapped it.
@@FunKaYxxD1sCO I would rather have a high FOV with some minor frame drops than a small FOV with solid frame rate to be honest
@@FunKaYxxD1sCO at the end of the day tho… at least give us the option
@@mrpeanut1381 I definitely want the fov slider
Enjoying the game for the most part, but this graphics engine feels a bit crusty nowadays. Dunia needs a refresh.
Dunia is just a modded CryEngine
I think it looks amazing for game play it's the 30 fps cutscenes that's bugging me. Idk why they didn't just make it consistent across the board for next Gen consoles
Crusty?
@@FounderX9 The world is, but the characters look terrible, in the end it all works out because it gives it this cartoony/ celshaded look almost with the bright colour palette beeing used. but the engine needs a revamp and more realism.
Lol wtf game are you playing? It's fn beautiful!
Yeah, thats sounds like a great idea, putting in Ray Tracing and cutting it down until it's barely noticeable. I get quarter resolution stuff, performance reasons, of course, but not using rt on water and using rt shadows only for sun and without alpha. I mean what's even a point of this? At least give us Crytek style console variables to play around and remove all those restrictions..
AMD sponsored game so they were probably forced to cut down RT to make it actually playable on AMD gpus and removed the higher settings to make it less embarrassing.
It’s because Ray Tracing was developed from the perspective of AMD cards and not nvidia. Nvidia cards are capable of far better RT.
Just for the name sake.
AMD the company that every tech tuber bootlicks pushed for this
"far better RT" doubt
It's far from being much better, it only performs a bit better because nvidia is at its second generation of RT while AMD is at his first. RT performance of current AMD cards are equivalent of Turing, which is not bad at all.
Other AMD sponsored titles have great RT, stop sharing misinformation.
The guys at Digital Foundry have a lot on their plate during this time! Thanks for the uncompromising and hard work
It’s about time we can say that!
ubisoft needs to retire this generic, repetitive, mediocre of a franchise. Ai is atrocious 🤣
@@draco2xx then dont play it lol regardless its going to be played and whether or not you buy it and play it you are still talking about it
Vg tech > Digital foundry
@@draco2xx that's the main thing. The AI, even on hardest difficulty, is some of the worst I've seen lately.
Not a single comment on the most intriguing technical aspect of the game: there is a goddammit croc wearing jackets all the time!
His Mom doesn't want him to get cold.
lmfao I noticed that
@@Splathew Now if she would just give him a toothbrush so he wouldn't be angry.
@@SlyNine as long as no one steals his gold tooth
🤣
man but i can't, that water deformation looks so good, reminds me of snowrunner in a way, not as advanced but times better than a simple 2d ripple texture, this time it looks so busy and nice
Ubisoft titles have had amazing water since at least AC3.
I remember thinking back with the n64 that extremely realistic water physics was just a matter of time. Things haven’t advanced the way I expected.
@@andyward8430
Super Mario Sunshine blew my mind on GameCube with the water. Haven't really seen huge jumps since then...
Thanks for the thorough analysis once again!
I thought something was wrong with my rig with how bad the stutters were, so it's good to know it's just an issue with the engine and is consistent across all versions. I hope the developers start listening and begin to optimize more as we get further into this new generation of games.
The issue with stutters when you pan the camera on PS5 (and presumably on XBOX) is a bug. It happens after watching 3-4 cutscenes (where the framerate is capped at 30 fps). When game resumes after watching a small number of said cutscenes the in game framerate begins to show these tiny stutters. If you close the game and reload it, the fps during gameplay is once again buttery smooth without even a hitch of a stutter. So this thing is definitely a bug that is tied to cutscenes.
Thank you. I’m playing this now and was wondering what was causing it because I can play for long stretches with excellent performance and then all of a sudden bad and persistent tearing
Great video Alex. I’m playing it on the Series X and am absolutely loving it. Thanks for pointing out the stuttering when panning the camera. I have noticed it but haven’t thought anything of it. But now I now that it’s a problem and hope they address it. Thanks again.
My man Alex now doing full PC plus all current gen consoles. Respect.
ya... xbox series s got less than a minute of testing...
@@erokson9412 Maybe that means that there is no problem with FC6 on XSS?
@@meeloks.1013 This is a tech review. It barely talked about it..
The one Far Cry 6 video we've all been waiting for.
I was waiting for Hot Wheels running on xs
This ^ I am truly unsure which version to get and was waiting for this
@@TheAero36 looks great on xs but be careful don't buy the disk that says both because it isn't fucking stupid Microsoft. i loaded it and was wondering why it didn't say xs had to go return disc just ignorant
And the Series X destroys the PS5 version again and don’t forget which is something DF need to start factoring in and it’s a big mistake they currently don’t Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos
And just like all other channels, Xbox series X won, again.
This game can also be very CPU bound at times, so increasing graphics settings may not necessarily even have much of a performance hit.
And it uses only 4 out of 8 cores available on consoles. 8 cores on PC bring no increase in fps over 4 core CPUs like 12100F or 3300X.
@@Kynareth6 which causes funny things at 1080p, like a 2070S being barely slower than a 3090
Thanks Alex for explaining this stuff so detailed.
Many gamers think it's their hardware failing, but when you actually go after it you find it's the games software programmed wrong.
This guy cn count pixels!!!
so its not something wrong on my ps5 if it fps drops in far cry 6 and miles morales and cyberpunk 2077 it stutters too
Alex! Nooooo! I’ve been waiting all day for this and you didn’t talk about Fidelity FX. I messed with the damn benchmark for two hours this morn trying to see if DRS was better for hitting 60 or Fidelity. I cannot make heads or tails of the results I’m getting on my RTX2060.
I remember the Dunia stutter back on Far Cry 4! Had a great PC for the time, very high average frame rate but it stuttered horribly when driving. I think it has improved since, but sounds like it's still a bit of an issue across the board.
Yes, any wasd movement had some sort of animation stutter if it wasn’t locked at 30 or 60. Absolute pain in the ***. Primal and 5 fixed that but the driving stutter remained
It was most likely the VRAM buffer being maxed out and the game engine having to pull data files from your SSD to memory.
I started noticing the stutter in FC4. FC5 has it, and now FC6 is even worse in my opinion. 3090 and 10980XE.
I didn't have that issue on Dunia with my old I7 930 lol.
@@DEVILTAZ35 i had 3560k and 780ti 8gb ddr3
Putting this game in Spanish with Spanish UI helped me learning Spanish so much so far! Lol and having a real protagonist with a personality is great too. Definitely my fave Far Cry so far.
This game begs to be played with Spanish VA, much more immersive. Wonder if the English and Spanish main characters voice actor is the same 🤔
That's awesome I'm also enjoying the game
@@Jirizo1 I might play it in Spanish with English subtitles, if the voice acting is better in Spanish (which it probably is since it's set in 'Cuba').
Might play this way as well.
It’s the Castilian version of Spanish tho. Not the Latin America version which you should learn
I play on Series X and during the mission “Spur of the Moment" I had a massive fps drop during the cave portion when I threw a molotov in the cave while fighting the horde of roosters
A horde of roosters? Wait, whaaat? Like in Days Gone that you had the horde of freakers and whatnot?
Me who used a double barrel shotgun: What fps drop
I played that mission on the series S version and I didn't notice any framerate issues in that cave.
The blue halo effect with raytraced reflections on is so distracting and hideous!
Yes it does and this is the best they can do for there triple a game the best of the best looks like they should be demoted from the triple A list until they start to fix there engine or update it to a more newer and less buggier. Also you should only get the triple A status if you meet the standard of excellent that covers every thing down to optimization pushing the visuals to the limits with hardly no bugs and gameplay for me that's the gold standard but unfortunately game dev just get away with it all the time. Buy demoting company that fail to deliver what should be a triple A game should mean they cant charge triple A money for the title . If we do our job poorly we get completes,warnings, or even sacked or demoted these game devs are no different.
@@bioshock6935 Remember they are using an old ass engine that's had new features bolted on was never designed for most of the features that have been added.
@@TheSynrgy1987 So why put new feature in the old game engine in the first place if it wasn't designed to work properly you would of thought new features for a new and better engine would be the first and upmost thing to do and for the future for the far cry franchise and start to produce realistic looking graphics instead of this over the top cartoon style graphics with bright colours don't they know what natural colours and environment should look like. All i see in this game is another shadow of the tomb raider graphics boring and nothing new for a 2021 game that is not next gen even the trees and grass looks bad. Crytek is the only dev that knows what natural realistic environment should look like just take a look at hunt show down and that's an old game now least they update there engine for the time as well as the unreal engine.
So is this comment! Just enjoy the game!
@@bittyboogaming1653 I would enjoy the game if it was made right and fixed lol
Great to finally see a far cry game at 60FPS and a decent resolution on next gen. I’m disappointed FOV has been left out.
It looks fine on my series s, the only thing I don’t like is that there is major pop in especially when running around instead of walking.
Ubisoft doesnt have to hire bugtesters because they know after the initial release they can just watch the DF review and fix all the published bugs in an update.
lol except they don't fix major issues
This game desperately needs an FOV slider on consoles, even at the cost of resolution, this is one of the few games that gives me motion sickness.
Yeah same here, can't play more than a hour at a time, the begining going to the sewer, not a pleasant experiece, pun intended
Wow I played it 5 hours straight last night and didn't feel one thing haha
It's not terrible on foot, but driving and horses seem pretty bad.
No FOV slider, no buy.
That’s a you problem the FOV is perfect
On my 3080 the low res mipmaps were also an issue at 1440p, while vram usage never exceeded 8700 MB. I saw a tiny fps boost by disabling hyperthreading on my 10850k, really only 2-3 fps gain though.
@Geo M Er, why? At PS5 settings I get much, much higher FPS. I mainly play games I mod anyway, so PS5 doesn't really do anything I'd need.
Edit: Oh, never mind. I see you're one of those "PS5 wins" people. Enjoy your platform.
seriously? i thought it was only an issue at 4k? fk this game dude, time to pirate this trash, no way im buying it for ps5
That's very disappointing about the textures, it needs to be fixed. Also, Ubisoft's VRAM estimate meter needs to be tweaked to reflect reality.
@Geo M To the first part...OMG, why though. And to the second part, if that's where you prefer/can play it now, enjoy!
2:05 lol! the way the alligator pops in from the side like "Wha? What wuz that??"
Hahaha 😂 We are of one mind.
Been really enjoying the game on Ps5. Zero issues personally. I am digging the island setting. It is fun.
Yea...to bad everything else about the game was bad and bland
@@2genders-tk2ue typical Farcry. Nothing new. As expected.
Seems like a bit of a technical mess as is custom with most Ubisoft games.
Looks like a game from 2010
Its not, it feels great to play and +shadow booster, no its not just a reskin, almost everything has been changed/upgraded from 5
@@Shadowed007 literally what game from 2010 looks like this
@@Shadowed007 The game doesn't look like anything from 2010. Just the animation of the characters.
@@Shadowed007 I know it's cute to be hyperbolic.
But the best looking console games of 2010 feature a list that includes God of War 3 and the original Alan Wake.
Go Google photos of those games and come back and tell me this looks like that with a straight face.
Even going with the PC Version of original Alan Wake back then running at max spec, this game looks better on consoles.
Why do comments like this exist?
Doesn't look bad on the Xbox Serie S, at least compared to the previous Ubisoft games it is the best optimized game they did for the console so far.
And soon they will be better optimized
yeah, the breakpoint optimization and watch dogs legion ports are horrible, valhalla port was good tho
It does look good. It struggles a bit at times where perhaps they should just lower the amount of particle effects a bit so it hits the target 60 more when things get busy.
@@Will-pm6fq Yeah, i think its because Dunia engine is superior. Watch dogs, Valhalla and other Ubisoft titles use different game engine. I don't understand, why they keep using engines like anvil, when they have made Dunia Engine long time ago, and it has been clear that Far Cry's are allways best performers and has best graphics aswell.
@@Will-pm6fq Breakpoint runs great since they brought Vulkan API there.
The slow camera panning stutter on series x can be fixed by quiting the game and restarting.. Could be caused by quick resume or extended play session..worked fine for me.
I'm stunned that I can change the audio levels for things like music. Stunned. Seems like it took them decades to add this basic function
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@@asaviklund9414 ??????!
@@Snarfles_ ?
Great video as always. Curious to see how the last gen consoles handle this, hope you guys will cover it.
pffft
They don't care about last gen consoles, since all they want is clicks for there videos.
Xbox one x/ ps4 pro: 25-35fps, no raytracing, settings all turned way down (still counted as 4k somehow).
@@smittyvanjagermanjenson182 isn't there a 30 FPS cap?
@@kaidenkobani4190 probably, but a cap doesn't mean it won't dip lower occasionally.
In my opinion there’s little details to improve graphically but the game graphic presentation in general, is beautiful and accurate in lightning, shadows, colors, and textures. They did a very good artistic presentation for an old graphic engine. The shadows don’t hide the detail, you can actually see at night, the sea looks enjoyable, and the drawing distance and detail is very consistent so it adds to the inmersión just finish the game today and it’s been a long time since a game made want to look at what trophies I can get on ps
Great video ! Maybe an idea for a follow up is to point out the difference in RT reflections resolution/quality between RDNA and Nvidia on PC. It's the first time that it appears and it would be interesting to bring the quality on par and comp[are the performance impact
It's sad that Alex has seemingly dropped 2060 from the comparison/optimisation. 2060 super is good to have of course but there are many of us with stock 2060 or with mobile 2060 (115-130 W) that would like an advice on how to utilize 6 gb vram pool properly. Otherwise great job highlighting the issues as always 👍
I swear DF is looking at Xbox series s on a 4k screen and then say " it's not attractive" but I'm running it on a 1440p and it looks gorgeous. Yes I tried it on a 4k tv and it's not "pretty" but for a 1080p -1440p 300 dollar console... It's f-ing amazing !!!
lmao you love to see series s coping all over the internet.
@@spikepsych and why not .I got the series X in my living room and the S in my room... Like to find out more details for what I paid for.
@@erokson9412 ok well thats a special case then still I would probably never ever play the Series S if I had the same setup as you cause I would constantly think to myself "yo this would look better if I just got my ass into another room wtf am I doing?"
@@spikepsych haha I do use my x more cause I got the nicer tv out. But sometimes after a long ass day at work .I like to lay down and play. But still. It's an impressive machine for the price and I only use a monitor in my room instead of my 4k . And believe me it looks very identical to the X but in 1440. And many people might not be able to afford the X or can't get it from the shortage. And that is ok. People may feel like second class and that's not nice .
7:06 is where the console comparison starts
Couldn't care less about console wars
And these particular results are yet another example of why "world's greatest console!!!!!!" designation can turn on a dime.
Because it's software that makes the fundamental difference, and you can bring a powerhouse of any kind to a crawl with an optimised or buggy software. So every time the Console Wars drones proclaims superiority because of a single data point, it is absolutely ludicrous.
And also PC master race drones are just as bad. Coming into wave their virtual privates about to say "hahaha we have more powerful hardware!" is similarly ludicrous, because when you have no upper limit on how much you may spend, of course you will have higher hardware potential.
Thanks. I see they were way too lazy to put time stamps like virtually every other big channel does.
@@fatalmokrane and yet you are adding your input that no one asked for.
@@nervusbreakdown I asked for it
I appreciate Guapo being in many shots. Really added a lot to the video
Makes every one of those shots more handsome. ;)
I generally like RT reflections, RT lighting depends on the headroom with my GPU, RT shadows I have yet to leave enabled due to the cost and small change in visual fidelity.
I honestly can't tell the difference. Not worth it.
@@dnegel9546 PC mostly had good shadows anyway. Consoles shadows need to improve.
@@DEVILTAZ35 I dkn.. not sure it's worth it.
Unless it's side by side most ppl won't tell the difference.
@@dnegel9546 That makes me sad for most people
Series X doesn't automatically download the High Res texture pack either. You have to go into the store and download the 25gb add on.
No you don’t.
@@S197_GT_Gotti I did
My download was 68 GB on Xbox series X, I downloaded the HD texture pack and there was no difference at all.
Same here. I purchased the X/S version and yet still had to download the HD pack separately as an add on. Odd way of doing it.
@@ejs3589 the game looks pretty good without it still, but I noticed I pretty big step up with the texture pack. Especially when using photo mode. The character models look noticably better
Thank you, been waiting on this to see how it runs on PS5 before i buy it
Runs really well and looks really good. there's is no fov slider tho
@@RawWrath Great to have it somewhere else called $ of view.
If you are picky on resolution go for xsx over ps5 any day
@@williamcaesar4503 well if resolution the problem we can just play on PC i have a 3080 build but i bought it on PS5 to get the trophies lol
@@RawWrath lol my buddies tried too go PC but they miss the trophy's and achievements and I don't blame them you get rewarded on Xbox for them
I just got the msi delta 15 with a 5800h and 6700m, I found the HD textures caused the traversal stutter almost entirely. I'm at a mix of high and ultra settings, and at 1080p without HD textures, I get next to no stutters, but with it enabled, it absolutely was stuttering, honestly rather frequently.
Its weird how anything right on the edge of the screen is noticrably blurrier, I think it definitely contributes to the soft look that you mention.
Yeah, it's horrible, you can't even disable it on PC. Well, at least not the main cause of blurring which is the chromatic aberration. Terrible design choice. Chromatic aberration should always be a choice in video games, A plague tale also suffered from this too. The option had to be disabled in the config file but here you can't even do that. 😠
@@brewski535 I am sure there will be enough outrage they will add a toggle in a patch . I hope they add a FOV slider to Series X and PS5 in next update.
These games just putting rt reflection and shadows in their games can hardly be called representative of what rt is all about. Very few games go the extra mile, wish there were more like Metro, that push what can be done.
Metro is alot more visually interesting.
non-rt reflections ie. ssr or cubemaps are very distracting, when you get used RT reflections, so i would say dynamic reflections/GI are best candidate for RT cause otherwise they are very costly via rasterizer..
It's usually a case with AMD sponsored titles. This is like the fourth AMD title in a row that has had garbage ray tracing with quarter resolution. RE Village was bad. Godfall was bad. Dirt 5 was bad.
True but I think we are at least a pro generation away from consistent impressive ray tracing. A lot of people play games on consoles and the consoles are still super limited in this regard.
That's probably too demanding for next-gen consoles and anyone who doesn't have the mid-high end RTX cards. RT also is very costly on the CPU side too which is worrying imo since with the very capable Ryzen Zen 2 CPUs in the new consoles there was hope that developers would be pushing things like more advanced physics and AI but that's going to be difficult when devs use much of the CPU resources for RT for better graphics.
These game companies should pay Digital Foundry to test their games before release. Would save them so much time. I will wait until this game is better optimized before purchasing. It is a shame that with a game engine this far into its lifespan they still have the same issues as previous generations.
so wait for battledield 2042 after it releases as well. because it will also be filled with bugs and optimisation issues. but we all know everyone will still buy those games even if it releases in an unfinished state.
I'm sure they know about every one of the issues, however, they have deadlines and a release date to meet.
@@StrangerHappened I do not disagree with you at all. It is a strange thing that in these days Game companies will ship a game that is incomplete, such as Cyberpunk 2077, then just expect buyers to pay full price for a half finished game.
About the stutter... Back in th day when I played Far Cry Primal, I had an unplayable stutter (I do mean unplayable). After some investigation, it turned out that lowering mouse polling rate from 1000hz to 500hz solved the issue completely. Given that FC still runs on the same engine, I wonder if that might help?
did you not notice the extremely choppy cutscenes? It’s very smooth during gameplay for me, but many cutscenes seem to have severe stuttering issues on top of the 30 FPS cutscene lock it looks not consistent at all. It’s actually apparent pretty much right away for me on Xbox Series X in the opening cutscenes.
The cut scenes were terrible,on my Series X as well.I gave this game a 7/10,and that was being generous.
@@jakoidtonge yeah it can be fun to play but the overall package leaves some things to be desired, not to mention the at times super cringy characters and writing that can be veeery lame. Female dani was pretty good though I thought and Juan. Unfortunately way too little cutscene appearances overall of Giancarlo. I remember playing for hours and hours in between seeing him even though the marketing would make you think he is much more directly present in the game.
This basically looks like a first-person Just Cause. (not a bad thing, just sayin')
The series was Just Cause before Just Cause was a thing.
Except far cry has more random events and actually has wild animals
It is more like a just cause game :) . What i don't like though is even targeting anti aircraft guns with my back pack it fired at everything except that twice lol
This game has incredible sound; the audio is so good.
I almost don't notice when a game does environmental audio so well, I'm just immersed. When it's bad is when it really stands out.
It indeed is very good, especially in surround.
Does it support Atmos?
Have they fixed the atrocious npc speech quality? I had that in Far Cry 3, 4 and 5. I guess they are just low bitrate but I don't get the compromises the devs are making. The games all look blurry and the npc's sound horrible.
great video Alex! Helped a lot to optimize my PC settings for farcry!
Alex good job, pointed out every single issue I had personally found and experienced while playing the game. 'Dunia engine traversal stutter' in my opinion is the single biggest issue I have with the game and in my support ticket I submitted to Ubisoft days ago I had pointed out the exact same issue stating its been in the game ever since FC4 atleast. They really need to put more effort into QA and fix this issue once and for all in their engine, as its otherwise making a polished game rather not polished and really not fun to play.
It’s seriously not that noticeable. The bulk of gameplay is a flawless 60fps. To have slight loading stutters doesn’t break the game and hasn’t hardly impacted my experience with the PS5 version at all
@@thenoobperspective7588 I'd say its rather noticable and more horrible the higher your fps is
Really love the water in this game. It looks so realistic that I want to swim in there.
Mentioning the Series S looks soft on a 4k display is like saying oranges taste weird in an apple pie.
It was specifically designed for people who had yet to make the jump to 4k TVs and displays, and was praised for it, even on this channel, way back when.
Never invest in the lowest common denominator product, even when they praise it. You're only hindering your own experience.
@GamingNinja They said FS2020 looks really nice on S
The XSS is perfect for 1080p displays!
@@Hirnlego999 I'm not even talking about in a game breakdown.
Go back to their overview on the console as a whole.
They praised Microsoft for making a console to meet the needs of people who hadn't yet jumped to 4k displays, and get to pay less for it.
There was massive fanfare over the Series S being targeted towards those people.
It seems weird now to talk about how soft it looks on 4k displays.
@@brewski535 No the Series S is not perfect for 1080p simply because it typically runs below that resolution and that is on 8th generation games. People are so dumb and cheap they will trade value and performance for a machine that is only $100 less.
Also in Farcry 6 when you enable HD textures the Vram bar in video settings doesn't show Vram going over 10 GB with RTX 3080. The Vram usage bar in video settings shows far less than 10 GB usage with every setting maxed.
The stutter is definitely bad in some cases. I got a 3080ti, intel 8800k @5.0ghz, 16gb ram, m.2 nvme and most of the time I'll run between 90-110 depending on the area in 2k resolution with the HD Texture pack. In some instances I've seen my frames briefly drop to the 60s. Luckily it's very brief, but it does make the game feel like I'm struggling to run it. What's weird it's not just when I'm exploring. Sometimes it's when I'm going around picking up items at some of the small guerilla camps on the trails without much to process. It's dealable, but definitely annoying.
Definitely a bit rough around the edges even if it’s an improvement overall. Ubisoft needs to start giving the far cry teams another year in between titles to polish them up
It was already delayed 8 months for polish.
@@Phil_529 Dunno what to tell ya, it needed more time . Cyberpunk 2077 got delayed 3 times for polish and it still released a mess. Companies shouldn’t release products before they’re finished, it’s their upper management teams fault
@@itsalwaysdarkestbeforethes1198 I mean there are a few minor issues here and there but the game is enjoyable.
@@Phil_529 yeah it’s solid, it’s just not finished. The performance on PC alone shows cut corners
They really need a new engine.
For every game, I’m waiting for Alex’s optimized settings. : )
loved the nvidia optimized articles and missed them. Now Alex took over the hole
Thank you so much for comparing the Performance of the Pc version with console on the same Fps Analysis Tool that you Guys using for measuring console Fps. Looking forward to see a comparison with Battlefield 2042 that was definitely not perfect smooth on ps5.
thank you DF as usual. 5900x/3080ti here and I am also experiencing the world traversal stutters at 1440p. disabling DXR and enabling full performance mode in Samsung magician (SSD never sleeps) seem to help but only ever so slightly. makes me want to avoid horses and vehicles.
Thought it was just me but holy hell is the stutter/ screen tearing a big issue. Was doing a mission earlier and it got to the point where the whole game just locked up for a good 4-5 seconds then went back to normal.
You playing on ps5? Cause it’s noticeable there
Df the 4K dashboard update for series x on delta insiders gives extra clarity to dashboard and for some strange reason to games as well.
I was amazed by how much detail I was losing before the 4K dashboard update.
Give it a shot or even make a video for that people need to know.
Really?
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No it does not. I have an XSX and I don't see that difference.
Thanks for the video Alex. Do you think that running FSR on Ultra quality to lower real resolution on an rtx 3080 would allow use of the HD texture pack?
Yes!!! Finally someone explained why the game looks blurry at max settings. Really hope they fix this cause I strongly favour sharp images over what we are getting now from this game.
What's the best setting for HDR Peak Brightness & HDR Paper White overall, I have a LG CX
Jheez. The fact that the traversal game stutter is still a thing after 3 games and 7 years is not a good look.
I mean cyberpunk has been in development longer and its worse than far cry... Travel stutter is so minor compared to other failed games like cyberpunk.
@@ShinyMooTank I have a 3090 and a 10980XE. I haven’t noticed any traversal stutter in CP2077, but the stutter in the last 3 FC games is unbearable in my opinion.
The update on October 14th 2021 actually addressed the cutscene stutter. It’s much better now. Thankfully.
As a quick aside about Ubisoft, shock horror, not being great with PC ports:
Last Christmas I bought the splinter cell collection on PC. Conviction has improper mapping that cannot be changed when using an Xbox One controller (meanwhile Harry Potter Quidditch World Cup from 2003 works fine with it)
On top of that I can only play Blacklist for 30 minutes before being booted out, because the collection they retail for $70 thinks I have a pirated copy.
I play FC6 on PS5, noticed some stuttering in cutscenes or dialog too.
XSX and PS5 make an unbeatable price/performance.
Yes!
Consoles always had better price to performance and this current market doesn’t make things better at all.
I thought this video was in 21:9 but I was just scrolled down slightly.
Been playing on XB1X and it looks and feels great. Hardly any pop in and smooth gameplay. I am not getting the camera pan stutter or any other noticeable stutters. Very pleased so far.
Just enjoy , these guys in df are crazy , I have series s and I have zero problem with resolution but these guys earn money this way
It seems to hold to 30 most of the time on Xbox one X. It is the poor old Xbox One that truly suffers. I think it needs to be put out to pasture now lol.
DXR completely gimped because of the AMD 'sponsorship'... What a surprise. Load of rubbish
And of course 11GB vram and the game looks not so good, A lots of games without that high amount of vram usage looks sharper and better… meh
Citation needed.
The problem with you fanboys is that you jump to emotive and judgemental conclusions all the time, at the drop of a hat. Yes the facts are it's an AMD sponsored title, and the facts are that AMD hardware isn't as accomplished with ray tracing atm. But but is it a FACT that there was some kind of conspiracy or collusion between AMD and the developers to gimp the ray tracing for everybody else? Doing that would harm AMD in the long run, because any future improvements in ray tracing capability will be self-sabotaged. These are multi-billion dollar companies. They don't think RUclips commenters.
@@UberNoodle no need for fanboy accusations. Of course commenting is just like speculation and discussion. Maybe I’m not right I can accept that. There is no weight of a comment. People sometimes take comments too seriously and it’s bad. (AMD and nVidia fanboy fights). But yes it looks like AMD sponsored titles since RDNA2 has bad/low res RT implementation and high VRAM asking, this is maybe a coincidence, but I don’t think so… in the end regular people will play these games, most of them don’t have RX 6800 XT or RTX 3080. It is just the demonstration that “our card is cool in that game etc.” few months from now nobody will care about that. Or when next gen comes. In the end you can play through the game on a RTX 2060 or a RX 5600 XT in 1080p and have a great time.
Great video! Will there be a video on the Battlefield 2042 beta?
only at launch they said
@@ragnar3187 Didn't know that. Thanks
I knew something had to be up with RT! I never pay much attention to the RT shadows, but since they seem to be almost free when RT reflections are on I use them anyways. What I did notice though was that reflections still often times gave me the same SSR artifacts that I specifically wanted them to get rid of. Now I see that because reflections are almost always because of water they just aren't being ray traced, which to me basically defeats the whole purpose of RT reflections. I also noticed that in indirectly lit areas lighting looked disappointingly flat, like AO and GI just don't exist there, and that is something else I really wish had been fixed with RT.
Today I did a full restart of the game for the first time on Series X and the control stutter is gone. I instantly had a flashback to FC4 on PC that after a while of gaming needed a restart to get rid of stuttering
The game has serious streaming texture issues on pc that I hope Ubisoft addresses soon
What brand cpu?
Same here, they keep dropping in quality the more I play. That's on a rtx 3070 and an i7 9700k. It looks like ps2 textures after about 30 min of play :(
No problems on my pc. It's probably lack of vram
@@grahamt19781 Compare the car's speedometer & radio @16:18 on the left vs. the right. That's an RTX3080, 10GB VRAM. That's what the textures look like to many people with or without the HD Texture Pack installed or enabled.
@@Marsson90 no problem my PC is beautiful smooth :)
i suppose they pared back raytracing so it doesn't tank AMD gpu's, which this game clearly targets
Exactly. And the hd textures requiring 11g? What a strange specific odd number .. almost so it sits inbetween the 3080s 10g and the 6700xt and higher's 12g+
@@m0rianne I think it's just a consequence of the technical implementation of the HD textures, not a deliberate choice
the fact that nvidia skimped on vram on the 3080 is on them. the reason i didn't buy a 3080 is because I play at 5120x1440, 10gigs is just not enough for maxed out modern games. I was forced to get a 3090, then again in hindsight it was a good decision as 3080's are the same price i paid for this one at launch.
It just wasn't much of a focus. My guess is they have a patch in the works to improve it and it just wasn't ready for launch.
If you do a rebuild of the ps5 data base and clearer system update cache. The stutters are completely gone. I noticed it when I watched this video and wouldn’t if I hadn’t watched this but after I did two sub options after clicking option 5 in safe mode I can promise you when you now pan the camera like you did in this video the trees and world do not stutter.
Apparently the developers don't have more time to optimize the framepacing (due to complexity of games nowadays), which aggravates the game problems even more since the Consoles usually set at 60Hz, then getting choppy as PC games running at standard displays, it is not a problem for people with VRR displays.
I was wondering what was going on with this game (ps5) now I know it's a camera issue and not a performance issue, hope they fix it :(
HD textures on 4K resolution is giving me muddy textures. I turned it off and it ran and looked better 😅
Which console you playing ?
@@GeniusEliteZ im on PC with a 3080 :)
@@JustAaronJoshua wait 3080s exist? I thought they where myth....
@@_Chad_ThunderCock i just 3d printed one.. jk
Yeah this is a common issue happening to a lot of people, it seems to happen on both AMD and NVidia cards and turning off HD textures doesn't always fix it.
For me I get consistent textures that don't load in, like the speedometers on some vehicles are always so low res the numbers are just blurs. The player character textures are also consistently low for the clothing and body (yet not the face, that's always high res). Camila Montero is the same, low res clothes/body but high res face.
Looks like we'll have to wait for a patch. This definitely shouldn't be happening.
One year later with a 5800X3D + RTX 4080 this runs at native 4K , max settings, FSR off, ray tracing on, HD textures 120+ fps with zero stutters, technology is there for game engines that can leverage it.
The HD texture VRAM issues were something I noticed pratting around with my 3070 as well, it just straight up ignores 1 to 2 GB of VRAM in favour of not bothering to load textures, I tried fiddling with settings and dropping the VRAM usage as low as 5GB still ended up with the same issues.
Also, this is the first "ray-traced" game I've disabled it on... I'm happy to take a performance hit if it means getting rid of some of the distracting artifacts and whatnot, but this borderline makes things even more distracting, so I'll take the higher fps.
Either way, the game's fun (I'd never played a Far Cry game before, but since it came with the cpu I figured, why the hell not.)
On Pc the cutscenes are so jittery, looks like it goes far under 30fps even tho it says it’s locked. It’s so jarring.
Same on console. When I was playing the other day all the cutscenes were having major frame dips going on. Was making me nauseous.
@@spicydeath82 are you playing on xbox one ? That never happen to me and I never heard anyone complain about that
@@MrTurtle15 go on reddit. everyone is complaining about it...
@@user-ug7ed8ti2t on cutscenes ?
@@MrTurtle15 there are a lot of people complaining about it.
I beat the game on PS5 this past week and enjoyed the game for the most part, but it has some abysmal screen tearing even now three months after launch.
I had fun playing this on both current gen ps5 &series x with no issues in regards to any stutters, lag on frame drops.
I both versions in a sale for under £30 a piece.
If you like farcry games you'll definitely enjoy the gameplay regardless of which console you play on as it generally 4k 60fps with Drs. Enjoy ❤️👍👍👊🙏
On X there is screen tearing and micro stutters, I don't know how you managed to have a smooth experience, I have VRR as well, no issues like this with any other games.
@@JB.zero.zero.1 ye same on ps5 i stutter alot
do trophies/achievements pop with cross progression?
Honestly it runs great for me on my Ryzen1700 / 6gb 1060 @1440p ultrawide. Using FSR quality preset, sits on 55fps mostly and I haven't noticed stutter or screen tearing although my monitor is adaptive sync so maybe that helps. As long as its playable on my old hardware, doesn't look blurry and runs above 40fps I'm happy lol
I love the Far Cry series. This one is definitely my favorite and the visuals are just beautiful on my Series X. Can't get over it.
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Good amount of screen tearing on ps5 just like Valhalla and WD legion seems to be a Ubisoft tradition at this point
Exactly!!! I thought I was going crazy messing around with tv and consol settings. But it’s only the newest Ubisoft games that do this shit 😖
Screen tearing was far worse in Valhalla for me on Series X. Definitely noticeable at times in Far Cry 6. But I had to stop playing Valhalla until Ubisoft patched it... but hey, at least they're consistent lol
Yep I only have this problem on Ubisoft games
Yeah, sad for the ps5 players.
I had massive stuttering on FC3 until I went into the nvidia control panel and set the max fps to 61. I've read accounts of lowering to 59 or 58. But, that just exacerbated it.
I kept v-sync on and set the max frame buffer to 5. ...I mention these things because a lot of people have almost the exact same issues in FC4 and beyond.
Screen tear is bad, I think the camera stutter is causing me quite bad motion sickness it needs to be addressed! Playing on XSX.
It's an AMD sponsored title, of course, the Ray-tracing effects are low or not so good. They just can't handle Ray-tracing effects. This is the best what you can can get, from an AMD GPU, with reasonably high fps and Ray-tracing.
Ok sure... 🙄
Uhhh what are you even talking about??
It’s a known fact that AMD GPUs are not as good as nvidias. The comments above mine either are AMD fans or console users lol
I have a 3090 and the first thing I do on every game is turn off ray tracing, its just a gimmick at this point, the performance hit is not worth at all even when using DLSS.
Yes that's right Thomas, everything's a conspiracy. And hey, if you say things with enough technical jargon, it can definitely make wild speculation look factual, right?
What about VRR displays and Series X. Does that help with the FR and Screen Tearing problems?
Yes.
PS5 and PC getting the worst versions.
I haven’t experienced hardly any of the issues with stutter or frame rate issues that they speak of on this video, my series x runs this game damn near flawless, because of VRR I’d imagine.
Watch out, someone poor is coming to say that we don't have VRR screens
@@kiisseli1337 lol I definitely have one, and I’m very glad I do. Wouldn’t want to game without it these days.
@@glenmcl What are you talking about? PC has had VRR for much longer than the consoles. PC's can take advantage of G-sync or Free Sync to get rid of screen tearing. That's what my PC has and its great
Damn that camera pan stutter is rough. I can deal with traversal stutter, it doesn't bother me too much, but camera pan stutter is a no go. Glad I didn't buy this day one, will be waiting until that's fixed.
Wait, is camera stuttering what I experienced with Halo 2 anniversary instead of actual framedrops? That could actually explain a lot
They should do a low res raytracing with 40fps for xsx and ps5
No they should not.
RT here is very lame so no reason for that.