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Re: Far Cry 2 - Disable Video Driver Check at Start-Up?

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From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:28

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On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 03:25:03 +0100, "Trimble Bracegirdle"
<no-spam@never.spam> wrote:

>Far Cry 2 was 2008 & its specifies Win XP or Win Vista (no mention of Win 8 
>;)

Yes but in 2008 they weren't able to write code that would be able to
predict future behavior of video drivers,their installers and so
forth, so for that reason he is experiencing code rot symptoms.  

Google the term "Code Rot" Trimble...  go ahead and make a weekend of
it while you're researching about vsync.

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