Update: As expected, Far Cry 5 will now run at 60 frames-per-second on PS5, as part of a patch that optimises the PS4 game on Sony's new-gen console. The update is available to download now, and is deplying ahead of a free weekend for the release, scheduled to run 23rd March through 27th March.

Original Article: Ubisoft has been pretty good updating old games from its back catalogue to run better on PS5, and it’s looking like Far Cry 5 could be next. While the French publisher is yet to officially announce the news, it hinted at a “highly requested feature for next-gen consoles”, as the title prepares to celebrate its fifth anniversary. Looking at the updates it’s made to the likes of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and The Crew 2, we’re going to assume this will allow the release to run at 60 frames-per-second on modern hardware.
The firm will be sharing information over the next three weeks, so we won’t have to wait too long for confirmation. Assuming our assumption is accurate, however, you won’t even have to purchase a copy of the first-person shooter to take advantage, as Far Cry 5 has been part of PS Plus Extra since late last year.
We liked the game when it released on PS4, but felt it was a safe entry for a series that had been growing increasingly stale. “Ubisoft is clearly more interested in making an experience that appeals to everyone to satisfy the bottom line,” we remarked in our 7/10 review. “That's a real shame, because there are the makings of a highly entertaining sandbox survival adventure here.”
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oh wow i’m surprised this isn’t 60fps , i never played FC5 for the same reasons , but i really like how it takes place in montana and not some overused or typical locations . i’d like to play it just because of its location alone , montana is a unique state that nobody talks about .
@nomither6 It looks really pretty, too — even as an older PS4 game. Will be lovely and smooth at 60fps
Id rather a native upgrade than a patch but at least ubisoft are updating on the games anniversary lol
My favorite FC title even if the "boss battles" suck. Nothing like endlessly shooting religious zealots at 60fps
Nice, ill play this again ( Contrary to internet folklore some of us like getting lost in Ubi's open worlds)
Tightly crossing my fingers and hoping that a 60fps Far Cry New Dawn is also part of this celebration, that game looks stunning and would rock at the higher frame rate
I tried to play this but 30fps is just a game killer for me in an fps..will defo play this in 60fps.
There’s still hope for Ghost Recon Wildlands! 🤞
Hopefully, the PS Plus version will also be patched. Silly me traded my physical copy in last year, thinking a 60 fps patch won't ever come out any more. Here we are.
@dschons Patches are applied to all versions of a game, whether it be digital, disc, or PS+; they're all the same game. That's just how it works. No need to worry.
@frankmcma open the game as part of ps plus, walked forward like 5 steps, googled "does new dawn have a performance mode", deleted from my harddrive.
Wouldn't mind giving it a go if it gets a fix
Seems like a waste to invest time and resources into patching old games that play perfectly fine at 120+ on PC
@chucksneed Wrong site pal, see ya 😀
My most requested feature is the ability to skip the endless, miserable, repetitive, villain monologues. I doubt that’s what’s happening though.
One of the better Far Cry games. Had some great villains too.
@chucksneed
You all are the vegans of gaming. Can't stop coming out of nowhere to act like some smug elitist when literally nobody asked and when the topic is completely unrelated.
All I want is the option to skip the intro cutscene/walking sections at the start.
Hope they will do it for the new dawn or so. I haven't played that one yet.
Really the only FC adventure that was continued in a spin-off of sorts. A lot of philosophical arguments in both.
Rook, Peaches and Jess quietly murdering country folk in 60fps is glorious indeed.
Just a quick poll, as I'm genuinely curious that no one on here has mentioned this:
How many of you have played A significant number of hours of this game ON PS5 (pre this potential update) ?
(I only ask this because I actually bought this game along with like all of its bundles and such right after the PS5 released or at least 6 months into it I think is when I actually played it and it was freezing constantly. Freezing every 45-90 mins. So I looked it up and there were a bunch of people having the same problem and we're not talking about crashing like the PS5 does way too often years in... if we're going to be honest here; it was freezing to where the sound would just keep playing but the game was frozen. I hope that is or has been fixed, because it really was upsetting to see this having just paid for the game and all its dlc, and it have such an immersion breaking, repeating issue.)
Imo this is by far the best Far Cry game and the best open world ubisoft title, so i'm pretty hyped about this. 60fps os the excuse I need to play it again
@KundaliniRising333 i played it in its entirety on ps5, only issue i had was the jittery 30fps
@LordOfTurnips well damn I envy that for sure. Did you have physical/digital copy
Launch PS5? (or about when did you purchase your ps5)
Oh nice. How about 60fps for AC Unity as well Ubi?
@KundaliniRising333 I've only messed around in the open world on PS5 for a few hours but i've had zero issues. How were you playing it was it from the PS5's SSD or from an external HDD? I ask because some PS4 games have issues when played from the PS5 SSD and i know FC5 was one of them.
@WallyWest yah I'm pretty sure it was from the ps5 SSD at the time. Since then I have hooked up the WD sn850 and the WD P50 (for some ps4 games) for extra space.
Have some ps4 games run better on options other than the ps5 ssd? I was thinking it was issues with the launch SKU ps5 or just early firmware PS5. There were entire reddit and ubisoft forum threads about it. Playstation blamed ubisoft, and ubisoft blamed the ps5 and did nothing to address it.
One of my favourite games from the last generation, and easily my favourite Far Cry game.
KundaliniRising333 wrote:
I've told this story before, but one of DLC's for Far Cry 6 messed up for me and I couldn't get out of the first area. To cut a long story short, their response was, "Your PS5 is broken, send it to Sony". No joke. Their DLC had glitched in my save (worked on a new save) and they say my PS5 is broken. No words.
Side note, I played quite a lot of Far Cry 5 on the PS5 and had no issues.
@KundaliniRising333 i think Far Cry Primal also has issues when ran from the PS5 SSD as i recall many saying its playing up and crashing when ran from it. I have a 4TB External so i use that for PS4 games and use the PS5 SSD's exclusively for PS5 games, i think its why i've had no issues with PS4 games on PS5 as when ran from a HDD the console treats it like its playing on a PS4 Pro and nothing else.
@WallyWest interesting. I may have to give that a shot. I dont have an hdd i can use for the ps5 though, but I can try the slower p50 ssd. Actually, I may have a wd passport that not in use, but it's a years old hdd at this point.
Thanks for the info! regardless I'll give it a go if they do patch it, as I want to do with syndicate as ironically i purchased that around the same time if not at the exact same time as Far Cry 5.
@SoulChimera lol yah that's about the same response they were giving people regarding the freezing issue. I do wonder if in this case though, perhaps it was hardware related in the sense of it having backward compatibility issues. It's debatable whether or not that's a software or hardware maker responsibility to test and fix, but I DO think it must be fixed, otherwise it should not be for sale as playable on the ps5. As I remember at the time, after a few weeks of research and seeing the responses on ubisoft's end, feeling like i had just been ripped off.
I was having the typical ubisoft "squirrel!" like distraction fun playing around in the sandbox even with the freezing, but it got to the point where i just had to say F this, considering I had just bought this shiny a few months old ps5, and it didn't sit well to see it freezing up playing a last gen game. Especially after the dumpster fire that was Cyberpunk which I think I had recently played and felt ripped off by as well.
@nomither6
Man. Do it. You'll love it. Incredibly gorgeous open world. I have wandered and looked at undergrowth and mist in the mornings and and and. I really wanted to be there 😊
@KundaliniRising333 i've never had too many issues with ubisofts games on my ps4 or ps5 but on my pc 🙄. They went through a phase where after i purchased my gtx970 gpu they gave me free games and i got the crew,farcry 4 and for honor and none of them worked ever. They kept saying there was a problem with the ubisoft launcher and to uninstall and reinstall everything and that will solve the issues and then added "enjoy for honor as its an awesome experience on the pc." F**kers..still did not work so they told me maybe my gpu was faulty (everything else played brilliantly) so i gave up and never touched a ubisoft pc game ever again. Awful customer service.
@KundaliniRising333 They had it with Assassin’s Creed Syndicate too. It was a mess on PS5 and they ignored it (I think they even said they had no plans to fix it at all) until they finally patched it a few weeks ago.
If you’re having issues, I would bet it’s something Ubisoft can fix.
@KundaliniRising333 Syndicate is fine now, its 30fps still but the lighting issues have been resolved.
@PegasusActual93 Yes i know but Unity is a broken mess without those patches plus i own it digitally. I've been tempted to buy it for my Series S as its 60fps on that and always on sale its just i don't know if i want to replay it yet again after only finishing replaying it a couple of years back.
@WallyWest oh I thought it bumped it to 60 fps too no?
@Northern_munkey yah that was my decision pretty much too after this. I haven't bought another Ubisoft title since aside from a deep discount immortals. I had pretty much decided after Valhalla really, that I wasn't giving Ubisoft full retail for anything going forward. They seems to expect this and put their titles on sale and sub services constantly.
It seems like the bigger they grow the less 'Fs' many of these shareholder serving behemoths give to those that line their pockets until the endless growth wanes, then they throw us a few crumbs.
@KundaliniRising333 Nah it was just fixing the lighting issue on PS5.
@KundaliniRising333 its a launch disc ps5, had a bunch of ps4 discs so it made sense getting the disc version. But far cry 5 itself was a digital copy
@Nightcrawler71 In our dreams I guess hahaha
@chucksneed I'm always baffled at you PC elitist folk hanging around on Playstation sites and talking down on the consoles. Isn't there some PC site where you can complain.
Amazing game. Just an absolute blast to play
@WallyWest @KundaliniRising333 Xbox Series consoles use FPS Boost to get AC Unity to 60fps.
It did the same for FC5, albeit at 1080p - until this update came out.
Will it stay 60fps while flying the plane. My old ps4pro struggled to hit 5fps when it launched
The constant getting kidnapped in 5 put me off. Honestly they are all the same after 3.
Now do 4, Primal, and New Dawn
@chucksneed You are the reason Playstation gamers hate pc gamers.
@Flaming_Kaiser There are many they can hang around. Here one of many: pcgamer
@Northern_munkey Ubisoft likes to use 3 layers of drm on pc.
There own drm plus vm and Denuvo
@Flaming_Kaiser they always give me a chuckle - fairly obvious compensatory actions for other....issues...in their lives.
@XenonKnight Some of us own high end PC's and PS5's is that not allowed?
@chucksneed begone unwashed one ,back to the shadows.
@palmab of course it is ,but anyone who says yeah, but its 120fps on pc,or yeah but its free on gamepass ,on a ps site, is a bit of a nobhead.
@XenonKnight i'm not sure how making the games unplayable is a good thing. Your comment shed no light on why the games were unusable and why ubisofts responses were less than less than usefull..
My favourite Far Cry. I absolutely hated FC6.
All I can say is...WHY?!?! I did enjoy the game erm years ago but not sure why I would want to play it again???
It’s my favorite Far Cry game by a mile (being an American helps with how insane the game is; I dated a girl like Faith a long time ago), but I beat it years ago on PS4.
Got no desire to go back down the rabbit hole.
@palmab If your not a smug elitist about it.
@Northern_munkey Go ask Ubisoft why they are d***heads who use so much drm and they don't care how unplayable they make it for you. They are the only ones who uses both VMprotect+Denuvo.
@Toypop (Yeah FC5 on my XOX was only 30fps, but oh my god did it look good on my big HDR OLED TV rather than stuttering at 1440p on my 300nit IPS panel with grey blacks. I just put the disc in and off I went!)
The nits on OLED is too low I like mini-LED. Plus you could get burn-in on them.
@KundaliniRising333 also played through the whole game with none of the technical bugs you mentioned. My main problem was the game was dull, repetitive and too long.
I liked this one better than FC6, The cultists leader was a interesting villian, his family was lame but he was great. Also the coolest ending I encountered in a ubisoft game ever.
There was no good ending in it.
@XenonKnight i'm done with pc gaming as its too much of a chore..if you like it great 👍
@gingerfrog
I just tested it out for about an hour and there wasn't any frame drops to my eye no matter what I did including flight so you should be good.
Happy to see the 60 FPS patch was real!
@Northern_munkey Just dont let some pc smug elitist tell you to come back(and they will) only you choose for yourself.
Been thinking about going back and replaying Far Cry 5 the last few weeks, honestly Far Cry 5 was such a great game (I feel the same way about Far Cry New Dawn too), I don't entirely understand why people disliked it (Same goes for Far Cry New Dawn), I thought it had a pretty compelling story, four great villains and I really liked the supporting cast of characters, though I wish they got more screentime, and Dan Romer; the legend that created that incredible When the Morning Light Shines In theme that sometimes plays when viewing the map, that guy deserves his own special mention, I LOVE that music.
Though I HATED that they patched the Meat Bait exploit, you used to be able to buy Meat Bait, but Ubisoft patched it so people couldn't use it to farm easy money from Bison pelts.
This is nice 👌.
Far Cry 5 is favorite out of the franchise. So to see the game getting some love is nice.
Edit: My favorite.
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@XenonKnight it wont be happening any time soon 👍
Surely they have to patch New Dawn to accompany it, as it's kinda like a sequel of sorts. I'm glad they have patched 5 as i was needing an excuse to roam Montana again.
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