Five Elite Mercenaries are send to an Island in middle of the 1980'. The Task: Find and Eliminate a local Drug Baron. Features: new Physic, real Sunmovement, Day/Night Change, Hunger/Food system, realistic (!) Weather system, Light/Dark viewing system for AI, 5 different Fractions on the Island. Complete Realistic simulation of nearly all things, including Sleep. New weapons, new Vehicles. Vehicles driving system is now exact (!) like GTA IV , FireSystem,... this mod is Heavily inspired by GTA, IGI, FarCry.
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with ultra high texture quality and WITHOUT bumpmap textures, the videoram is filled with 575 MB, so, for maximum quality on a 64 bit OS a 1gb video ram graficcard is duty. however, it seems with texture quality set to low its also playable with a 256mb videoram card.
i will see if i can reduce the high quality texture without bummaps to 512 MB, but i fear throwing out ~66mb textures is not possible. i dont know exactly what happens if the GPU runs out of videomemory, it seems cryengine can then switch to some kind of texture streaming, but i can't test it due the lack of videocards (i have even no single one which is working :) (see latest news article! )
I have a GTX 560 Ti 1GB,so i am fine on all maxed out,even with my mod.
Your GPU is kinda hot,78c,cool it!
its a 6 year old gtx260 which i have borrowed for the time until i get a own one, and 78c is "normal" for this piece of old metal ;)
My mod on Ultra settings uses 790MB video memory.
and how much on low?
Around 290 on low.
hmm we really need someone with a 256mb card so we can do a test what happens in such cases. if i remember right, the PCIe bus was designed to be faster than AGP (2-8x) in swapping textures, so i think there is fallback which will then swap and stream textures at cost of heavy FPS decrease.
I have a 7600 GT with 256MB memory on my Multimedia PC,but i use Open Suse Linux on it.
the fastest way would be if you can insert the 7600 in your main PC, with a bit luck the GPU driver is the same, as i think nvidia use uniform drivers. but atleast open two PC's will result inclusive loading and testing the mod about 2 hours.
I can run FC on Open Suse fine,so could test there.
on linux farcry runs with open GL and not direct3d, so its posssible that there is a different handling for such situations, so the test would not very thrusthworthy.