Hey All,
I Have an EVGA GTX 260 and a Q9550 and i just bought Crysis Warhead. I put all the settings on Enthusiast and AA on 16x. So i played it and got like 10-25 FPS. I honestly expected more. Is it because i put AA on, or are the enthusiast setting too much. What would you recommend so that i could get 30-40 FPS or more?

wat resolution are u playing at and how can a gtx 260 play with 16aa and max settings

Unfortunately, at the highest settings Crysis is probably still the most graphically intensive game out and even a GTX 280 isn't really capable of providing a perfect game experience. You'll need to tweak your settings a bit, but at the minimum you should be able to run all High without antialiasing quite well.

well, im running 1680x1050, so i would like to run all enthusiast, so that i can get the most out of my game. I payed $300 for that card, so im not compromising on quality!! but yea i guess AA isnt that important. so would 2x be enough?

16x AA??!???! do you REALISE how useless, yet how performance taxing that is?

What do you all have against 1280x1024?

Oh, well i dont know, cause a lot of my friends run 1920x1200, so i thought thats what most of the gamers use. Maybe i overestimated the GTX 260, but i thought it was capable of playing the new crysis on Enthusiast, with frames to spare. i also happen to have my Q9550 Overcloced to 3.6 GHZ so it is SCREAMING fast, so i thought i could do it. But lets say i wanted to get smother frame rates for a better gameplay, would it be worth it to drop down to gamer settings? Because if the quality is way less, then i dont want to do it!

Try putting it on 1680x1050 with no AA and then all settings on gamer except Shader Quality, Texture Quality, Physics, Post Game Processing, Volumetric effect and sound quality. See how those settings work out for you. The most tasking settings are object quality and shader quality, but shader quality is the most responsible for the beautiful graphics that the game has. If the frames are good and you think that you have some to spare...try your luck with 2x AA.

Thats what I would do...just play with it until you get your balance, but know the shader quality will be the biggest image quality setting. Just get in the game and change it from Enthusiast to gamer and then back again and you will see what I am talking about.

Oh and P.S. The most widely used LCD monitor by a typical gamer is still around a 4:3 aspect ratio 19" LCD, which has a max res of 1280x1024 and that seems to be the most commonly used res. Just thought I would point it out for future reference. I just went to a LAN here at my university and there were 30 of us there. Only 1 other guy had a widescreen monitor and it was a 24" with the 1920x1200 res that you speed of, then there was my 20" with 1680x1050, 2 CRT monitors that were 17 - 19" and the rest were all 19" LCD's.

Best,

3Ball

I keep forgetting about 1440x90; that probably what i will run when i get bigger than my 17inch.

I want the best looking settings without causing FPS drops; that typically means AA/High resolutions are a luxury for me.

Of course, I've been competing in TWL/CAL for years now, so maybe its been drilled in that steady FPS = Good...

Whats the point of 19x16 if you get 15 FPS? I never understood that...

Well when you go to Lan parties and such, people sometimes arent even ALLOWED to bring 24 inch monitors because of the lack of space.

you're a plain idiot if you want to run crysis warhead with... " 1 6 x " antialiasing... Let me say it again: SIIIIIIIXTEEEEEN
By the way, that setting should even be available by how meaningless it is in terms of quality advantage and hyper performance loss compared to 4x.

Now lower that to 4 which will be more than enough, or 2 or nothing...

Maybeeee... you've mistaken AA with AF (anisotropic filtering) which can be raised up to 16x at little cost, even if not recommended because even the very distant sights will look pixelated or sharpened in excess. 8x should be maximum for that, if not just 4x for some games.

A tip: try playing without AA but at a higher resolution. Anyway, don't bother, don't sweat expecting very smooth performance at max detail, max resolution out of the most demanding engine released yet.