Has anyone played Far Cry 2 yet? I have not had a scour of the other forums yet so I might be missing a thread on it!

I think the specs for the game are:

Minimum requirements:
CPU: Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better
RAM: 1 GB
Video card: NVidia 6800 or ATI X1650 or better, Shader Model 3 required, 256 Mb of graphic memory
Media reader: DVD-ROM
Hard drive space: ~12 Gig or HD space. (tbd)

Recommended:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD 64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: NVidia 8600 GTS or better, ATI X1900 or better, 512 Mb of graphic memory
Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended
Supported Video cards:
NVidia 6800, NVidia 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops. ATI X1650 – 1950 series, HD2000 series, HD3000 series, HD4000 series





My machine currently has:

AMD 64 x2 3800+
Nvidia 7800 GTX
2GB of RAM


I think the processor looks like the main thing that may hold it back. Does anyone have any experience with FC2 on a similarly specced machine?
My gf is talking about buying it for me for xmas, and i have started talking about needing new bits and bobs to play it well, which is putting her off

Also if I look again, my graphics card may be a bit below par. I was thinking maybe I could get a couple of news ones and have an SLi set up. If I do this I will speak to Macey to get some hints and tips on the best way to do it...

Any suggestions? Maybe overclock the CPU a bit? Never done it before so would probably end up making a hash of it!

With an SLi or Crossfire setup the CPU becomes even more of a bottleneck than in single card configuration. Id suggest looking into higher spec CPU and a mid range GPU rather than just shoving in two graphics cards.

As far as Farcry 2 goes, it runs extremely smooth on my system, much more so than Crysis ever did. Im running dual 3870x2 on a 4.5ghz OCed dual core but am on 1920x1080 8xaa/af on ultra. Im sure a 7800GTX and dual core AMD will run it on medium settings no problem. Bear in mind the Crytek engine is very scalable and even some minor tweaks like shader or shadow quality can provide huge peformance increases.

On a sidenote...Dead Space >> Farcry 2 :p

I would suggest taking a shit on the pavement and pushing it down the road with a stick. It would be more fun than playing the game with close to minimum spec.

I'm running FC2 with a Gainward ATI 4870 "golden sample" 512mb card.

If it helps the rest of my PC is system is Intel 2.83 q9550 quad, 4gb Corsair Dominator ram and 2 x 500gb (32mb cache) raid 0 drives. Not overclocked.

FC2 runs fine and looks very smooth I can't fault it to the point I haven't resubbed WAR and don't intend to until I have cleared FC2.

Ravs

Thanks all, I think I will just give it a try and if I need to upgrade it's a good excuse.

Oh and Beans, nice reply, but it's not clear from your pooh sticks analogy that you are saying it would be a good thing or a bad thing. Bad right?

It depends on the street, if it's cobbled then very bad.