Far Cry Primal – As good as Cyberpunk!

[mr_spongeworthy]

Has anyone tried Z-Normal with this title instead of G3D? Unfortunately for me, I find the shadow and lighting issues with this title in G3D to be unbearable (they literally make my eyes hurt). But Z-Normal is not producing results anything like it should. It’s kind of FO3 if you try to use Z-Normal; depth comes in and out, and random parts of the scene are rendered at seemingly random depths.

It’s probably a single game setting somewhere, although in my testing thus far I’ve just let vorpX ‘do it’s thing’ and avoided tweaking any settings manually.

[TheGreatGarbanzo]

I’d like to echo mr_spongeworthy. I’ve not been able to get a good result with this game, either with the default settings or with a couple hours of customizations.

G3D had lighting and shadow issues — turned shadows off, that helped some. But nothing’s been playable yet.

Jealous of however other people have their rigs set up :)

[mr_spongeworthy]

It looks like my Z-Normal issue was limited to the first section of the intro – once I fell over the cliff everything was fine. Try just playing that part flat, and then using vorpX once you are past that initial 5 minutes or so of play.

G3D is kinda ok with all shadows turned off (water still has some issues and I think lighting also), but Z-Normal looks pretty good in this title and performance (so far) seems excellent. I’m getting liquid-smooth performance at 4K 60fps with every quality setting maxed (in cinema mode.)

[TheGreatGarbanzo]

Thanks for the tips, mr_spongeworthy — I’ll give Far Cry another go!

[Boblekobold]

I just tried the official profile with V24 (I wanted to do it for years and someone just posted about it).

The beginning with the mammoths was very impressive, as expected :)

I played in Full VR G3D with 3840×2880 4:3 resolution and max graphics. 100° (/120°) FOV in the game’s settings (on Reverb G2) and I used this mod to set the weapon FOV to 110° :
https://www.nexusmods.com/farcryprimal/mods/21?tab=description

No problem to hook, even with Virtual Monitor. It worked instantly.

Z3D worked for me when I relaunched the game (not the first time). It’s not the best Z3D I have seen in Vorpx, neither the worse.
G3D is great, but I have indeed shadows glitches in a lot of areas and I agree it hurts eyes a bit sometimes (maybe I could get used to it but a fix would be great).
You can disable G3D shadows in VorpX’s menu (and lower gamma in this case), and it seems to work perfectly but it’s also a bit less beautiful.

Using the lowest shadow parameter (in game’s settings) doesn’t affect graphics a lot (trust me, I usually don’t lower graphics) and it solves most of the G3D shadows problems (at least they are a lot less noticeable). These are probably the most beautiful and impressive settings I tried (but it’s a bit less comfortable than perfect profiles like Bioshock, Metro 2033, etc.)
A G3D shadow fix would still be great (but I guess it’s hard to do).

I would recommand switching between options (you can do it instantly) depending on the area / situation.

I disabled most “auto” options and played with high resolution so maybe I broke something and it’s possible to get a better result.

I was able to resize HUD in both Z3D and G3D modes (at least after switching to Z3D one time). I used max ClarityFX, sharpness and texture enhancement (and low gamma) in VorpX.

Too bad I already finished this wonderful game years ago and I lack spare time, but it’s quite incredible in VR.

[Boblekobold]

And because it was the title of the topic : I think on my hardware (RTX4090) it’s more impressive than Cyberpunk 2077 (the last time I tried a few years ago at least), like a lot of other games.

It’s true G3D, with rich outdoors environments and detailed giant and hairy mammoths ! ;)

Not as beautiful as Frontier Of Pandora or Metro Exodus, but it’s still something to experience (if you like 3dof VR as I do)

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