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Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry (2018)


How water reflections revealed a regression in D3D9 - and how it was fixed!

TL;DR - if you are not interested in an in-depth overview of what was wrong with the game and how it was fixed, just follow the link to check out a concise changelog and grab SilentPatch for Far Cry: Download SilentPatch for Far Cry Upon downloading, all you need to do is to extract the archive to game’s directory and that’s it! Far Cry (developed by Crytek) once a game considered an example of visual fidelity and de facto a benchmark of then-modern PCs, turns out not to be free of issues. This didn’t have a very high chance of succeeding, since PIX frames are strictly bound to user’s current GPU and drivers – so previewing captures from different PCs is not always possible.

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