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put down your high caliber weapons and throw away that armor it's time to get primal you have to hand it to yourself for trying something different and that's exactly what Far Cry primal is the game is said in 10000 BC during the beginning of the Mesolithic period it takes place in the fictional horas Valley in Central Europe an open world filled with iconic wildlife such as mammoths and saber-toothed Tigers the Bible is a daily challenge as tribes come into conflict with one another and nature the majestic land of our us is tall and due to the confrontation of the three dominant tribes who seek the same single objective to conquer it's two cars people the when your tribe is at risk they're being attacked both by the cannibals of uddham tribe led by the cruel warrior all and the fire worshippers of the Zillah tribe led by the high priest despot re immersed in the untamed world of our US land full of dangers to Cal have to unite and protect the when your people from the dangerous enemies you demand new Zillah peoples built using the aging Junior engines to game engine also used by far cry 4 and far cry 3 the game still promises amazing visuals initially thought to be a spinoff sized titles similar to Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon the primal campaigns instead ended up being as long as far cry 4 primal offers a fully fledged single-player experience without multiplayer mode as the developer wanted to focus on the game's core gameplay instead this is probably not a bad thing there I'm more than happy to frag friends with high powered machine guns but tapping holes into their skulls while they're still alive might have taken the land parties to another level dexter style so far the game seems to be receiving mostly positive reviews and from the little that I played it seems like an intriguing single-player experience something I'm already loving about the game is the excellent built-in benchmarks I know I probably don't get excited about the same things as most gamers still the inclusion of a built-in benchmark isn't something we expect to define so it was a pleasant surprise it also appears to do a great job of simulating the kind of performance games we'll see throughout the game benchmark runs for 50 seconds and spits out a number of results once complete I've recorded the minimum and average frame rates for testing we focused on the 10 P 1440p porque resolutions is the ultra quality preset there are also some results at 1080p using a very high preset as well finally the latest AMD and NVIDIA drivers were used and this includes the GeForce 360 - game ready driver which was released last night annoyingly I just finished filming and editing this video when Nvidia released a game ready driver for Far Cry primal it's been effectively having to start over again for the GeForce based graphics cards however it quickly became apparent that this new driver did nothing to improve single GPU performance in Primal and instead just enables SLI support primal is very demanding with the ultra quality settings in use even at 1080p and it seems the days of 60fps + @ 1080p are becoming prehistoric pun intended even the fury X dips down to 52 fps and it took a gtx 980ti to sustain over 60 F yes meanwhile owners of what were once considered mid-range offerings in the gtx 960 and r9 380 saw a sharp stick in the eye the 380 didn't tear too poorly but the 34 FPS drops were noticeable the smooth gameplay without noticeable frame drop-offs games require at least two gtx 970 or r9 390 at 1440p the gtx 960 may as well be from the Stone Age I can't imagine it providing playable performance of this resolution using anything higher than medium even the gtx 980ti couldn't average 60 FPS at 1440p and could be seen dropping down to 47 FPS personally I found under these conditions the GTX 980 or r9 390x were required given what we've seen at the previous resolution it comes as no surprise that a single 980ti or fury X can't really deliver players performance at 4k still if you reduce the quality settings a remove SMA it should be possible to achieve smooth playable performance lowering the quality preset from old roads are very high at 1080p allow for 12 performance boost when using the gtx 960 that wasn't enough for smooth gameplay the r9 380 received a 14% performance boost for the average framerate while the minimum went unchanged higher-end graphics cards such as the i9 390 you were able to boost their minimum frame rate by as much as 17% finally let's take a look at how the gtx 960 in i9 380 perform at 1080p using the various quality presets as you can see regardless of quality settings the 960 is currently well behind the 380 in primal that we're hoping video will be able to further optimize their cards processing of the game shortly with another driver update as they often do looking at the 380 we see a mild 14% performance boost when going from ultra to very high then a much larger 29% performance boost to seen when going from very high to just higher to hide a normal preset netted us just 3% more performance and finally from normal to load booster performance by 28% I've no doubt did a great many of you are going to be disappointed with the performance we're seeing from the current generation GPUs in this title to be fair the graphics are highly detailed and remember this is a large open environment game also if you back the quality settings down too high which still looks very good it found an average frame rates of boosted by almost 50% still those wanting to enjoy the prehistoric landscape in all of its high-definition 1080p glory will need to shell out for a Radeon r9 390 or faster 1440p gamers will need to pull out the big guns and we really recommend the gtx 980 or faster here as always for Kate gamers who require multiple high-end GPUs though turning the quality settings down to high should be enough to receive playable performance with the gtx 980ti or fury X I expect a few performance enhancements to come out over the next few weeks particularly in the form of an updated driver from Nvidia unfortunately while the GeForce game ready driver did deliver an SLI profiler did nothing to improve the weak single GPU performance their mid-range to lower end cards on that note we found that performance of the GeForce graphics cards very strange the 980ti can be consistently found at the top of our charts crashing everything or the 980 struggles nothing fails against the 390x the 970 also struggled against the 390 but it was the 960 that shocked the most what can I we described as horrible performance surely the gtx 960 shouldn't be that much slower than the r9 380 in Far Cry primal also keep in mind that the game launched the day one patch which did address a few stability and performance issues so it's possible there could be more to come performance aside the Far Cry primal looks like a lot of fun now hurt the enjoyment lasts throughout the entire campaign the Beastmaster elements of the game looked like a lot of fun and I bet Miley Cyrus's manager which is he or she had the ability to tame animals just like the car does be sure let me know what you think about the Far Cry primal single-player experience as well as the performance on your system in the comments and on our forum our Hardware on box comms good luck in the land of R Us and I'll see you guys next time