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Although I purchased Far Cry<\/a> about a week ago, I haven’t played more than an hour of it, and it was not for lack of trying.<\/p>\n

So far, this game has been a lesson in patience and frustration.<\/p>\n

First mistake was to install the newly release patch. The game was out for less than a week when the patch was made available. I should have taken that as an hint. The patch was supposed to improve performance and get rid of some visual glitches. It turned out that it did not really like to coexist with an Nvidia GeForce FX 5900. Performance was so slow it reminded me of software rendering back in the days of Unreal wthout hardware acceleration. Some textures of trees or entire portions of sky turned into blinking noise reminiscent of glitches in the Matrix or on a bad Holodeck exercise. And at the first sign of gunshots, large polygons just came blazing through the screen and brought the whole game to a crawl. Not a good thing for an action title. <\/p>\n

I had to reinstall the game and not apply the patch to find satisfying performances. Now the game runs as expected, with only minor visual defects (mostly bright blue shadows in some areas… not too appealing but harmless for the rest of the game). <\/p>\n

That’s too bad because both demos of the game turned out great and I could not wait to sink my teeth into that title. So, after much frustration, what does the game have to offer ?<\/p>\n