Far Cry Primal

Far Cry
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

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		Apex Edition also available.
GamersGate		Apex Edition also available.
		Apex Edition also available.
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store		Apex Edition also available.
Steam		Apex Edition also available.
Ubisoft Store		Apex Edition also available. The edition is included with Ubisoft+.
Amazon.com (unavailable)		Apex Edition
Origin (unavailable)

All versions require Ubisoft Connect and Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.^[1]

Version differences

The Apex Edition is a complete edition containing the base game and all DLC.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Wenja Pack

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use the `-skipintro` parameter^{[citation needed]}

This does not work on version 1.2.^[2]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Far Cry Primal\*.xml
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/371660/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

The main configuration file is GamerProfile.xml

Save game data location

System	Location
Ubisoft Connect	<Ubisoft-Connect-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\2010\
Steam	<Ubisoft-Connect-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\2029\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/371660/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Primal is the first Far Cry game since Far Cry 2 to feature manual saving. Making a manual save will save the most recent checkpoint as a permanent save file. Many such permanent save files may be created.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video

Video settings

Quality settings

Advanced settings

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Multiple G-Sync monitors users may experience screen tearing when accessing and dragging the map around.
Ultra-widescreen		Use RoseTheFlower's solution.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	FXAA, SMAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Disabling depth of field

Depth of field is tied to the "Post FX" graphics setting.

Edit GamerProfile.xml

Go to the configuration file location.
Open GamerProfile.xml with a text editor.

Search (Ctrl+F) for </CustomQuality> and paste the following to a new line after it:

   <Post>
     <quality GameDepthOfField="0" CinematicDepthOfField="0" id="x" />
   </Post>

Change the "0" to "1" for each effect as desired or leave it at "0" to keep the effect disabled.
Change the x in <id=x> within the newly added section to the same Post FX setting set in-game, for example <id=high>. The possible settings are low, normal, and high.
Save the file.

Notes

The file cannot be made read-only; doing so will cause the game to crash randomly, and the game will automatically remove any tweaks added to the file upon autosaving, therefore the process has to be done before every game launch.

Input

Controls settings

Keyboard and Mouse settings

Remap settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers
DualShock button prompts
Light bar support
Connection modes	V1, Wired

Generic/other controllers		Recognized but not compatible

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Xbox 360 control scheme
DualShock 4 control scheme

Audio

Audio settings

Interface settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Up to 5.1 output.^[3]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

The game uses a fictional language for voice audio.^[4]

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Swedish

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Far Cry Primal.
vorpX		G3D, Z3D, DirectVR Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Issues fixed

Mouse aiming deadzone

By default, the game has a mouse "deadzone" effect that ignores small mouse movements. This can make precision aiming with ranged weapons difficult to impossible. An option to disable this feature has been included with one of the patches.

Under "Mouse & Keyboard Settings", set "Mouse Deadzone" to "off"^{[citation needed]}

Game fails to launch

The game fails to launch with mirrored screens, disable mirrored screens in display settings.

FPS issues on 8/16 CPU

The game has FPS issues if you use more than 8 threads^[5]

Turn off logical threads (HT/SMT)^[6]

Open task manager and change affinity in the game process. Cores 0, 2, 4, 6 = Physical. Cores 1, 3, 5, 7 = Logical. Uncheck logical threads. For some Xeons it may differ (0, 1, 2, 8, 9, 10 and 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11^[7]).

At least on AMD, it may won't matter whether you pick even or uneven cores, since they both use the same logical core resource.^[8]

The option to enable HD Textures is absent

HD Textures option should be present in the Video settings menu between V-Sync and Graphics Quality items when HD Texture Pack DLC is installed. Without it texture quality can be set to Normal or High. If it's present and enabled texture quality becomes Very High.

The option is absent in Steam version of the game because HD Texture Pack DLC files are stored in the wrong folder.

Move texture files to the proper location^[9]^[10]
Move files `primal_main_hd_tex.dat` and `primal_main_hd_tex.fat` from `<path-to-game>\` to `<path-to-game>\data_win32\worlds\primal_main\`.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video	1.994e

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-550 AMD Phenom II X4 955	Intel Core i7-2600K AMD FX-8350
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 AMD Radeon HD 5770 1 GB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 AMD Radeon R9 280X

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/371660/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (371660) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT - last accessed on May 2023
↑ Guru3D.com Forums - View Single Post - Far Cry Primal Thread - last accessed on May 2023
↑ PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up - last accessed on May 2023
↑ Far Cry Primal Developers Talk About Uncovering History - GameSpot - last accessed on May 2023
↑ ithardware.pl - last accessed on May 2023
↑ https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/hyperthreading-and-task-manager.381225/#post-4651829
↑ https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/hyperthreading-and-task-manager.381225/#post-4651864
↑ Reddit - last accessed on May 2023
↑ The HD Texture pack not displayed and thus cannot be enabled in the Graphics settings, maximum resolution can only be set to High :: Far Cry Primal General Discussions - last accessed on 2023-04-17
↑ Verified by User:Mastan on 2023-04-17

[Proton_path_note-3] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/371660/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (371660) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT - last accessed on May 2023

[2] Guru3D.com Forums - View Single Post - Far Cry Primal Thread - last accessed on May 2023

[4] PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up - last accessed on May 2023

[5] Far Cry Primal Developers Talk About Uncovering History - GameSpot - last accessed on May 2023

[6] thardware.pl - last accessed on May 2023

[7] ttps://forums.guru3d.com/threads/hyperthreading-and-task-manager.381225/#post-4651829

[8] ttps://forums.guru3d.com/threads/hyperthreading-and-task-manager.381225/#post-4651864

[9] Reddit - last accessed on May 2023

[10] The HD Texture pack not displayed and thus cannot be enabled in the Graphics settings, maximum resolution can only be set to High :: Far Cry Primal General Discussions - last accessed on 2023-04-17

[11] Verified by User:Mastan on 2023-04-17

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Developers

	Ubisoft Montreal
	Ubisoft Toronto
	Ubisoft Shanghai
	Ubisoft Kiev
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Engines
	Dunia 2
Release dates
Windows	March 1, 2016
Reception
Metacritic	74
OpenCritic	77
IGDB	76
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Genres	FPS
Series	Far Cry