The secret to putting Crysis on very high at 30fps+. (Vista FAQ)

Do you have Vista? Do you want to see Crysis in all its glory but it lags like hell when you try to put it on Very High settings? I have the answer to your question. Post-Processing, (some of you may already know this sorry, but to those who don't). I'm running a C2D E6750, 2gb of DDr2 ram and a 8800GT and crysis was running so slow it felt like having a 6800. Well by doing 3 things I can achieve maximum performance from crysis (this is with AA off). And im running it at 1600x1200 so this is actually pretty good. Put everything on Very high EXCEPT for Shadows put on high and PP on Low. (This may work with Shadows on Very high havnt tried it yet) And I do this at 1600x1200 and I get 28FPS+. All i notice PP does is the higher the setting the faster it laods Textures. Meaning if you load a game with it on Low for 2sec it looks like clay until the textures load. This DOES NOT affect the quality of the textuers! PP puts stress on the video card which causes a decrease in performance, why not put it on minimum to give u that boost and all your sacrificing is 2sec longer load?

The other 2 things which give u a lil FPS boost are in these directions (this is from the guide which you can go to by the link below)

1. Open the folder that holds you game application
2. Right click and go to properties on the game .exe (i.e crysis.exe)
3. go to compatibility mode
4. Check off "Disable visual themes" and Disable Desktop Composition"

Doing this does not affect the look of the game, but when you turn any game on it makes Vista's desktop like Aero and things liek the theme go to a lower state of memory consumption. Giving your CPU more space for the game you want.

I hope this helps all of you and I appreciate feedback, thanks.

EDIT: Pardon my spelling, typing fast.

EDIT2: Also for more tweaking go to http://redchaos.wordpress.com/2007 [...] or-gaming/ This is a good guide for squeezin out soem of the juice in Vista.

thanks

yes only for running it in DX10

Um, look at the nuke when you have post-processing on low. Then look at it on high/very high. There is alot more than just texture loading times. All extra effects, like motion blur, blurring when you wake up after being knocked out, fancy effects after explosions, glow from nukes, HDR and everything of this kind is PP (along with shaders, on low shaders, PP does basically nothing)

damn...

The entire point of Crysis on Vista is dx 10 aint it? Why force dx9 in Vista?

I'd say that is a pretty good point you got there.

I played it on vista x64. Textures hacked to very high, physics high, sound high, everything else low at 1680x1050 and no AA. I got an average framerate of about 35fps and except in a few places with lots of objects, it was very playable and alot of fun. I only looked at the graphics during cutscenes, so stop worrying about "playing the game the way it's meant to be played" and just play the game.

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You must have More, MORE, MORE !!

No, you must have more. I have enough

I have ATI's uber card

Satisfyingly playable is 28+fps for me. And I can live without AA, as long as I run at native res. Though with a CRT, it doesn't matter.

Yea, I prefer 35+, but I can go down to 28 if I have to.

aa for CRT's isn't worth the performance penalty, and AA isn't very neccesary if you run at full res like randomizer said. Mosdapwn, You're probably just mad becaue you can't run the game. The difference between very high and high isn't that bad, and the same goes with medium.

In short, what I meant was if you don't run an LCD at native resolution, it looks blurry (unless you do the whole black bar, smaller screen thing, but then why have a big monitor?), whereas a CRT won't. However, CRTs show up horizontal lines if the resolution is too low. On my 19", if I drop to 1024x768 I can see fine lines, as I drop to 800x600, the lines are more spaced and visible. At 640x480 I shut my eyes in agony.

I always try to run native resolution on an LCD, even if it means running everything else on low, it is the last thing I will drop. AA has a much larger performance hit than a moderate increase in resolution in most cases (especially crysis), and even on a CRT, the image is much nicer at 1600x1200 no AA vs 1024x768 4xAA.

I also prefer the higher framerates. Aliasing doesn't bother me in crysis, however in games like Battlefield it is horrid.

Shame crysis doesn't have the dense jungle they showed in the trailers, especially the DX9 vs DX10 ones. Crytek ~= EA.

w00t, sandbox jungle!

I want it in the part of the game I actually play.

hah, with my integrated graphics my standards are 15fps on fsx, and 5 fps in crysis