Gaming Crysis on very high

[Mewgia]

Umm... as much as I enjoy your discussion on how NASA is wasting their time or Crysis is racist, no one answered my question.
It couldn't just be a question of optimization. You get MASSIVE drops in performance from 40+ fps on high to 4 on very high..

Maybe for you, but I can run Crysis on very High no problems, no slowdowns. I have 2GBs ram, an 8800GT, and a Q6600. However the grass and leaves still look like shit, maybe I need to set the Anti-aliasing up more?

 

[ZeWarrior]

Umm... as much as I enjoy your discussion on how NASA is wasting their time or Crysis is racist, no one answered my question.
It couldn't just be a question of optimization. You get MASSIVE drops in performance from 40+ fps on high to 4 on very high..

Maybe for you, but I can run Crysis on very High no problems, no slowdowns. I have 2GBs ram, an 8800GT, and a Q6600. However the grass and leaves still look like shit, maybe I need to set the Anti-aliasing up more?

BS. An 8800GT can not do Crysis with everything on Very High, If you say your running it on very high, your implying your running everything on very high, which currently is not possible with an 8800GT. Not even with the 174.74 drivers.

 

[xcalibur]

Umm... as much as I enjoy your discussion on how NASA is wasting their time or Crysis is racist, no one answered my question.
It couldn't just be a question of optimization. You get MASSIVE drops in performance from 40+ fps on high to 4 on very high..

Maybe for you, but I can run Crysis on very High no problems, no slowdowns. I have 2GBs ram, an 8800GT, and a Q6600. However the grass and leaves still look like shit, maybe I need to set the Anti-aliasing up more?

BS. An 8800GT can not do Crysis with everything on Very High, If you say your running it on very high, your implying your running everything on very high, which currently is not possible with an 8800GT. Not even with the 174.74 drivers.

Since we've established that its impossible, I want to know why.

 

[ZeWarrior]

Umm... as much as I enjoy your discussion on how NASA is wasting their time or Crysis is racist, no one answered my question.
It couldn't just be a question of optimization. You get MASSIVE drops in performance from 40+ fps on high to 4 on very high..

Maybe for you, but I can run Crysis on very High no problems, no slowdowns. I have 2GBs ram, an 8800GT, and a Q6600. However the grass and leaves still look like shit, maybe I need to set the Anti-aliasing up more?

BS. An 8800GT can not do Crysis with everything on Very High, If you say your running it on very high, your implying your running everything on very high, which currently is not possible with an 8800GT. Not even with the 174.74 drivers.

Since we've established that its impossible, I want to know why.

Mostly due to Poor/Minimum Optimization by Crytek.

 

[fischju]

It is because of DX10. Swith to DX9, and use the Very High DX9 hack. Should play much better.

 

[fenthwick]

Well the reason crysis can't be run verywell is because of the number of objects(if you want maxed AA) and that the shadow quality has an enormous impact on the GPU. But the biggest thing is the Shaders and no GPU has enough power to do it and even tri/quad GPUs won't do a shit because the performance increase is shitty ATM.

I have a laptop with 2x8800GTX 512 MB, dual-core 2,4GHz and 4GB RAM running Win XP and I play it with a config which is supposed to unlock V.High settings on XP. I have no AA as I play in 1920x1200 and I get 23-45 FPS but on the later levels(damn snow) I get 18-28 fps. Still it's playable for me.

 

[ZeWarrior]

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=UXlR-Sjwg4w

 

[FrEEz902]

...graphics whores...

I run crysis at half medium half low and i'm more than fine with it. Also i usually higher the GFX of a game so that it's about 20FPS, which is always fine with me.

Anyhow, AFAIK there's a HUGE difference between High and Very High (according to gamespot screens), because of this huge diffrence, there's a huge drop. Anyhow DX10 is crap atm, no card can run a game properly with DX10 and have a big difference from DX9 at the same time. Also microsoft are gonna release DX10.1, which is incompatible with current DX10 cards, which is such phail. I'd like to see a game which has a HUGE difference between DX10 mode and DX9 mode (considering all the graphics are at highest etc.)

 

[Mewgia]

So I just ran the benchmarker for Crysis, all settings very high, DX10, 1024 x 768 res (its what I run all my games at by default).

I get an average of 25 FPS, so yeah it could be better, I might try doing the DX9 thing later, and I haven't OC'd my 8800 yet. But it is playable at very high on my rig.

 

[fischju]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2222414,00.asp

 

[Jokiz]

Im getting my new computer this week!

Wondering how well It'll play Crysis!

Intel Quad Core 2,4 Ghz
4GB Ram
8800GTS 512mb
Asus Striker II Formula, nForce-780i SLI ,Socket-775, DDR2, 3xPCI-Ex
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit

Im thinking High would be right?

 

[fischju]

Im getting my new computer this week!

Wondering how well It'll play Crysis!

Intel Quad Core 2,4 Ghz
4GB Ram
8800GTS 512mb
Asus Striker II Formula, nForce-780i SLI ,Socket-775, DDR2, 3xPCI-Ex

Im thinking High would be right?

If you use the hacks to run it in DX9 (even in Vista) you should be able to run it on Very High
(If at 1280x1024)

Here is another comparison of DX9 very high to DX10 very high
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6182140/index.html

 

[Twiffles]

Makes me wonder. How the heck did they even make this game. If it takes the newest most recent Nvidia card to play it really well, how the heck did they make it when that card didn't exist? Dumb question perhaps.

 

[fischju]

Makes me wonder. How the heck did they even make this game. If it takes the newest most recent Nvidia card to play it really well, how the heck did they make it when that card didn't exist? Dumb question perhaps.

They had 8000 series pre-production cards to test it on.
And my X1950XT can run it on a mixture of high/very high/medium at 25FPS (1280x1024)

 

[Jokiz]

What exactly IS this DX9 Hack?

 

[fischju]

What exactly IS this DX9 Hack?

Well, both Vista and DX10 actually hurt performance. With the DX9 hack, you can have all of the extra DX10 effects (sun rays, better particles, ect) but on XP and in DX9 (or on Vista in DX9). This means the game looks the same, but runs better.

 

[falcon64z8]

For those who have Crysis, get the natural mod if you haven't already:

http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=14195

Check out the HD vid they posted on there, looks sweet!


O I can't believe people will always throw that racist card, there are so many games that has people of a certain race killing another certain race... Its in our society and our lives deal with it.

One more thing, Crysis is an engine created to last for quite awhile not something that would be outdated in a couple of years...

 

[notnarb]

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=UXlR-Sjwg4w

no anti aliasing, fail imo

 

[Jokiz]

But the DX9 hack will make the performance better on Vista too right? Not just XP?

 

[fischju]

But the DX9 hack will make the performance better on Vista too right? Not just XP?

Yup. You have to launch DX9 specifically, by going to the Crysis program files folder and clicking the DX9 version.