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SilentPatch for Far Cry (fixes water reflections not working on modern systems)

SilentPatch for Far Cry

Far Cry, 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.

The main reason for creating this patch were broken water reflections - landmass would not reflect on water if the game is played on anything newer than Windows XP. This patch aims to fix this issue without a need for any D3D wrappers.

Fixes featured in this plugin:

Crash and bug fixes

• Water reflections now work as expected on modern Windows versions
• Vertical Sync option now works as expected - it used to be ignored by the game completely, defaulting to VSync off
• Fixed a crash occuring when using a mouse scroll wheel during loading screens
• Fixed a crash/freeze on exit when using a 64-bit executable

Quality of life improvements

• -64bit commandline option has been added - when it's used, the game will always attempt to launch using a 64-bit executable. This is useful for getting a 64-bit version of the game to work via Steam, as previously it was required to swap files around.

silentpatchfarcry's Issues

Imagine adding instructions about how to install it

Simply Imagine

Crysis next perhaps...?

1. Huge fan of your work, especially on GTA!!

2. There's only one real issue i ever had in Crysis...Guess what, freaking censorship!
   In 1st version of game's .exe there were full body physics available (you can move bodies by shooting, vehicles etc etc), later with patches (which are really necessary it seems, since they fix a lot of stuff) they removed it due to some goddamn censorship and german laws! Although physics itself of course it still there, you can easily see it by shooting some explosive barrel near dead bodies...

Seems they removed some parts of code which affect any actions specifically between player and dead body..
More info on that https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/931665-crysis/52605922

I feel like you're the only man alive up for challenge 👍
It hugely affects realism of one of best games ever made..

Missing mods support

Works fine in vanilla mode, but doesn't in Mod mode, putting files to directory FarCry/Mods/<mod-name>/Bin32/ doesn't solve problem.

Missing Installation guide

Hi, first of all, I need thank you.

But how to install it? what asi file stands for?

version.dll prevents Intel GPA to work

When using Intel GPA this pack is impossible to capture frame, renaming version.dll solves the problem.

If this issue is not fixable please mention this ^ in readme

Feedback(QOL) I would like to see the FPS drop on BackGrounds removed.

I don't think I'm ready to touch the source code now, but I'd like a version that doesn't drop FPS when I move to BackGrounds.
When I'm playing FarCry in VR and try to share a scene with a friend on Discord or something from the overlay or look for strategy information, the FPS in SteamVR itself drops and it's very difficult.
In this day and age, I don't think it would be that much of a problem since the driver allows you to specify the background FPS.