far cry

so i just got my 3850, e6750, 1 gb ram computer build, and i play far cry at 1280x1024 medium settings and it plays fine but every now and then there will be a slight lag between scenes or as i turn quickly. is that normal? i just don't know why it does it. if i play something like CS those problems never show.



is there a way i can watch my fps while playing far cry to see if i notice a big drop in fps whenever this happens?

You should be able to play it on ultra settings easily with that equipment i played it on ultra settings with a 7600gs, pentium d 805 and 1gb of ram with out any problems....

and you never got any small lags? i'm sure it can play it better settings...just didn't try them.



any reason why it would have those lags?

Use fraps to detect the FPS. And also, do you mean Far Cry or Crysis? It seems to make more sense if you get small lags in Crysis on medium settings.

no, far cry. it's nothing big, but it's like when a door opens and i turn it may lag a little bit as i turn. but it doesn't do it often, although i've noticed it only a few times.



i have it on the highest settings and it runs fine other than this. i tried fraps and got 59 min, 163 max, 84 avg, in dense jungle. that sound about right? i looked at my e6740 processor usage and it got to about 60% at the most...i wonder if my hard drive and cd rom (both connected via ide) could be causing the slow down. i don't even know the speed of the dvd/cd rom to be honest. could that be a factor?

Frames look fine. I forget how well Farcry runs on just 1Gb of RAM, but that stuttering is exactly what would occur if you were suffering for a mem bottleneck. Consider getting an extra gig.

1GB or ram should be good. On my old pc i was playing it on ultra settings with a Pentium D 805, 1gb ram, 7600gs without any problems at all.

it seems to happen right around when i start playing the game. after i play it for a while i don't see the stutters. maybe that has something to do with it.

Sounds like your experiencing a slight stutter as the textures are being loaded onto the VRAM. It go away after awhile, because all the textures have been addressed. Drivers all updated? I wouldn't know what else would be causing it. You said slight lag, less than second? If it's not that annoying, I'd just ignore it...

yeah, less than 1 second. it isn't that annoying, just doesn't seem like it should be happening at all with the setup i have (which makes me think something could be wrong since i'm paranoid like that). could it be the hdd or the cd rom causing it to lag? just wondering if having them both hooked up via ide could cause such a stutter.



the drivers are updated. the vram issue you speak of, does that mean i don't have good ram or maybe not enough? i thought 1gb would be enough.