Ok so I have the original Far Cry and have done for a while now. I used to play it on XP and it was fine. No problems. I now have a Acer laptop with 32-bit Vista (-.-) and I got an urge to play it again. However on loading it up with default settings, all the textures were turquoise. I couldn't see anything. I've changed all settings to low, so now just the ground and water etc is turquoise but this is still a major issue. I play CoD on this laptop and it runs fine. It's a 'gaming' laptop with an nVidia 8600M GT card, 3Gb DDR2 but I can't remember the rest of the specs. Can list them if needed. My question is - is this problem because it's a game designed to be run on XP as it's a couple of years old now, or is it something else? Because graphically it isn't challenging, or shouldn't be. I'm planning on getting W7 installed on the lappy so hopefully it should run more smoothly, but I've read articles about 32-bit Vista not letting all the memory be used. Help/advice please? Benji.
Have you patched Far Cry to at least version 1.33? This will tell it about newer graphics cards like yours.
I've had this issue. I don't know why it does it. I'd patched to the latest version when I had the issue. The answer was to turn one of the settings down. It may have been turn AA off. I can't remember exactly. It may have been shadows. Try turning things off and see what happens.
