the video card plays the biggest role in farcry,

I played at work on a 2.2 gig (windows xp) 512 ram and a 256 mrg 5200
ran like crap... had to set it to low video settings to run good

My home pc (3.4 gig) winxp ATI 128 meg 9600 gig of ram
ran the game awsome... 1024x768 all on medium...

yes cpu is higher but i'm telling ya.. the video card was 10 x better...

Check here to play without CD 1 needing to be in the drive:
http://spacetarget.com/games/pc_far_cry.shtml

Far Cry v1.0 & v1.1 [ENGLISH] No-CD/Fixed EXE

Of course, read the disclaimer first.

Just want to post my results for Farcry on Linux.

My specs:
2.56 Ghz, Pentium 4
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, 3.2.5 drivers Linux
512 MB PC2100 DDR RAM
Sound Blaster Audigy
Mandrake 9.1
Kernel 2.4.21 (I think)
WineX 3.2

I used the Loki Installer and it installed perfectly without a hitch

Ran the game using the shortcut created on my desktop

Graphics are set on Medium. Gameplay is a little choppier but still playable and enjoyable.

Cutscenes/movie scenes work just fine.

It crashes when I quit the game.


My conclusion:

Definitely playable in Linux, although graphics had to be lowered.

Let me know what you guys think.

here my comment about far cry :

down
down here
down again
dont worry u will reach it
keep going

ITS SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 THE WORST GAME OF THE HUMAN STORY FCK FAR CRY NO 1 HATE FAR CRY MORE THEN ME

I hope the moderators edit down your complete waste of space.

well i supose this mean i will get banned or no one will answer my questions cause i REALLY need help with my linux like to read .exe and .mp3 and to make my sound working cause i got no sound since i have fedora core 2 and i had fedora core 1 (my 1st linux os) 2 days ago so im kinnda new huh

Hey... No problem if you have linux questions. Just go to the appropriate forum and ask away.

But posts like yours above, 7 lines of text and about 50 lines of blank lines, are typically not tolerated here.

Regards...

right so u can asnwer ym quesitons plz?

Try posting in the software forum about those, but Ill answer one question for you about the exes:
.exes are Windows binaries, which Linux cant read without help from software called Wine:
http://winehq.org
But be careful, Wine is hard to setup, and it doesnt always work.

PS: There arent any rules against l33tspeak, but youll probably get a faster reply if you use regular English. Just a thought .

Guys, I must amend my previous post.

As I am playing more into the game, certain maps will NOT load (only happened twice so far and I'm about 2/3's into the game). It crashes and I get some kind of error and must abort. The only way I have gotten around this is by playing it in Windows, and then copying the *.sav game files back into Linux.

Maybe you could try a newer WineX and that would fix it? The latest version is 3.3.2

Why recommend Loki games when they are out of business? At least that's what I understand. Why pay for the game 2 times (once for the game and once for loki)?

I've now 5 dedicated linux boxes and am attempting to get everything setup under linux. Games are a big hindrance. I have tons of games I bought. It seems sort of grandious to claim loki will install your game under linux. I have seen games run under linux that were developed for windows but realistically the loki solutions are (or were being as I see they are defunct) rather wimpy choices for solving this problem.

Or could I be completely wrong and there are free installers that will run these games with little to no tradeoffs?

Use cvswinex, it works fine for me.

I may be mentioning the wrong one. I found a link and it has ?Loki? installers (continually being updated by some team). It was free to download. Apparently there are still people working on creating installers for Windows games to play on Linux, which is a great thing!

I am using the recent 3.3.2 WineX