Far Cry
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Developers | |
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Crytek | |
Publishers | |
Ubisoft | |
Engines | |
CryEngine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 23, 2004 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 89 |
IGDB | 88 |
Far Cry | |
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Far Cry | 2004 |
Far Cry 2 | 2008 |
Far Cry 3 | 2012 |
Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon | 2013 |
Far Cry 4 | 2014 |
Far Cry Primal | 2016 |
Far Cry 5 | 2018 |
Far Cry New Dawn | 2019 |
Far Cry 6 | 2021 |
Key points
- 64-bit version is available for separate download. See Patches.
- Water reflections are broken on Windows Vista and later. Use SilentPatch on modern systems.
General information
- Ubisoft Forums
- Far Cry Wiki
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
- Crymods - Active community website with extensive mod database.
- Far Cry Addon Mod (FCAM) - Various improvements to graphical and gameplay elements.
- Far Cry Multiplayer Community Patch LRv3 - Multiplayer network to fix online gaming after Ubisoft shutdown.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]. Not in every region[citation needed]. 5 CDs Or 1 DVD. | |||
Amazon.com | ||||
Epic Games Store | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | Not available in Germany. | |||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | ||||
Ubisoft Store | Included with Ubisoft+. |
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch v1.4 (32-bit only) - The latest patch available for the game (A bug you may encounter like the AI can see you through walls and kill you, use Unofficial 1.41 to fix it)
- 64-bit Upgrade Patch - Upgrades the game to take advantage of 64-bit architectures, allowing for higher frame rates and other optimizations.
- 64-bit Enhanced Content Patch - Adds exclusive features such as higher resolution textures and objects as well as increased viewing distances in some cases.
- Far Cry Multiplayer Community Patch LRv3 - Fixes Far Cry Multiplayer and enables a fully working in-game serverlist, it adds new panels such as the UserPanel and ServerAdmin-QuickPanel and offers an automatic Map-Downloader, also new gamemodes got added, and many new additions for Mappers. (ServerSideMod is also available for creating LRv3 Gameservers)
Skip intro videos
Instructions[3] |
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Notes
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Unofficial Patch 1.41
- Fixes issues with AI, bugs and other stuff founds within the 1.4 patch.
- Serve as a replacement to the official patch.
SilentPatch
- Fixes the water reflections for landmasses not working on Vista and newer systems
- Fixes the in-game Vsync option and common crashes
- Implements the
-64bit
command line argument to launch 64-bit version directly from Steam
How to install[4] |
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Extract the contents of |
Tent AI Bug Fix
- Fixes AI seeing through tents.
- Standalone version of GOG fix. (Does not required for the GOG version due to a hotfix added to the GOG version.)
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13520/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Profiles\player\<user-id>\savegames[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/13520/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud | ||
Ubisoft Connect |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Vert-. Use Far Cry Widescreen Fix or FarOut Widescreen. | ||
Multi-monitor | Vert-. Use Far Cry Widescreen Fix or FarOut Widescreen. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Vert-. Use Far Cry Widescreen Fix or FarOut Widescreen. | ||
4K Ultra HD | Vert-. Use Far Cry Widescreen Fix or FarOut Widescreen. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | Use FarOut Widescreen or Far Cry Widescreen Fix and set FOVFactor = 1.0 to desired value in the FarCry.WidescreenFix.ini |
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Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Use Far Cry Widescreen Fix while in windowed mode. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Up to 8 samples. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Up to 8x FSAA. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Use SilentPatch[4] | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | Both mouse acceleration and mouse smoothing. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | Options go up to 5.1, but outputs to up to 7.0 speaker configurations.[5] May require DirectSound 3D restoration software. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 2, EAX 3[6][7] |
- See the description of this video on how to reenable EAX 2 on non-Creative hardware for use with DSOAL; this allows OpenAL Soft HRTF to be used. May not work on some versions of Windows 10.
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | Only available in the retail version. See here for the Steam version translation. | |||
Russian | Retail only. Patch for digital release here. | |||
Spanish | Only available in the retail. Go to here to get the Steam version translation. | |||
Czech | ||||
Polish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 32 | |||
Online play | 32 | Official master serverlist has been shutdown at 2015 by Ubisoft, but it has been re-build by the multiplayer community patch LRv3 for show all available multiplayer gameservers and easy connect FarCry Multiplayer Community Patch LRv3. Direct IP connect is also possible to servers on versions < 1.33/1.40 with a modified CryNetwork.dll file on the server-side. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | A full guide on how to setup a dedicated server can be found at <path-to-game> | |
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP | Direct IP connect for versions < 1.4 requires a console command. Type \connect <ip address of server:port> . |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 40000-42999 |
UDP | 41005, 41006, 44000, 49001 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
VR support
3D modes | State | GG3D | Notes | |
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Nvidia 3D Vision | ||||
TriDef 3D | ||||
vorpX | G3D, DirectVR Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list. |
Issues unresolved
Blurry rock textures
- After applying the 64-bit Enhanced Content Patch, the mountain rock textures appear extremely blurry in-game.
Issues fixed
- TweakGuides has created a comprehensive guide for fixing issues in this game. It can be found here.
Mouse not working
Instructions |
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AI can see you through walls and kill you
- The patch 1.4 (32 bit only) introduces this bug.
- This has been fixed in the GOG.com version.
Use Tent AI Bug Fix[8] |
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Game crashes with very high lighting
- When setting the Lighting Quality option in-game to Very High you may experience a crash/freeze every time you launch the game. This is easily resolved:
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Broken water reflections
- Reflections on water are broken by default in Windows Vista and higher. Foliage and other objects are reflected, but landmasses are missing altogether.[9][10]
Install SilentPatch[4] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 | |
OpenGL | 2 | Experimental renderer. Cannot be selected via in-game options. See Enable the OpenGL renderer. |
Shader Model support | 1.1, 2, 3 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | 64-bit needs to be downloaded separately. See Patches. |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | FMOD | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video | |
Anti-cheat | PunkBuster |
Enable the OpenGL renderer
Modify the system.cfg file[11] |
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System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98SE | 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz |
AMD Athlon 2.0-3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.0-3.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512-1024 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0b compatible | Nvidia GeForce 4 Nvidia GeForce FX 5950 ATI Radeon 9500-9800 XT 128 MB of VRAM |
- Windows ME, while it can work with Far Cry, is not supported.
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (13520) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ TweakGuides.com - Far Cry Tweak Guide
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Verified by User:Blackbird on 2018-04-10
- Works.
- ↑ PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up
- ↑ EAX Featured Game: Far Cry - Creative.com (retrieved)
- ↑ EAX Showcase: Far Cry™ - SoundBlaster.com (retrieved)
- ↑ [citation needed]
- ↑ Far Cry - Missing Landmass Reflections on Water - YouTube
- ↑ VOGONS • View topic - Far Cry
- ↑ TweakGuides.com - Far Cry Tweak Guide