[Solved] Crysis 2 + Athlon II X2

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My brother surprised me today by telling me he's getting Crysis 2 for me this Xmas. It's the one game I've been wanting to upgrade my rig for. I'm buying an HD 6850 next week, and I know that will handle the game well at my res, but I won't be upgrading my dual-core CPU for another 8 months or so.

The CPU benchmarks I've found online seem to conflict. TechSpot and Tom's Hardware show very different average fps in their CPU benchmarks. Guru3D shows it runs fine in dx9 but not so well (still playable) in dx11. And a few YouTubers have claimed to run the game at 40+ fps with an Athlon II X2.

Does anyone have experience running Crysis 2 on a dual-core (not i3) rig? I don't want to be stuck playing at 20fps until I can scrape together ~$100 for a Phenom II X4.

Message edited by jessterman21 on 12-21-2011 at 08:28:01 PM

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I have a Athlon II x2 250, i play crysis on Advanced (Gamer,Advanced,Hardcore - those are the graphics settings in order from bad to good) I get about 30-50fps (on average its about 45fps) My dual core is overclocked to 3.51Ghz (with my motherboard i can't get more than this to be stable anyways i also play on 1920x1080 res I think Crysis 2 is more about the graphics

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Reply to johanvheerden

Thanks Johan - can you crank it to Ultra on a lower resolution (like 1280x720) and still get above 40 or so? That'll tell me if the CPU can handle the game at Ultra.

ok i put it on 1280x720 (looks crap :pt1cable: lol) also put the graphics on ultra, i got about 30-55fps, it was more 40-55fps but sometimes it dipped to between 30-39 :??: