Crysis patch 1.1 out

Yeah, me too(waiting for this, not the cracks). I've seen mixed reviews so far, but with SLI I will definately try it.

Flipping tank level is annoying i ended up doing most of it on foot still you do get a cool gun when you get to the end(say no more)
Mactronix
Ps didnt realise it used that much ram best get me another Gig.

Yeah, hopefully they fixed it. I wonder just how much they actually fixed. I suffered from the bug where after blowing up the two tanks at the schoolhouse, my teammate and the hostage would just stay there and my mission wouldn't update. I had to just head toward the waterfall since I knew it already. On my FX-55 8800GTS, I didn't have this issue.

As far as performance I have to go out tonight but installed the patch and ran the GPU benchmark through the guru3d utility at the settings I play at. (1680x1050 all high 2xaa/16xaf) All stock speeds, with 1.0 I averaged 31.02 fps, with patch 1.1 it went up to a whopping 31.42 fps. I'll run through the complete set of benchies with dual and single cards again later tonight, but as it looks so far by a quick gpu bench run, this isn't going to add any performance for me.

BTW, as you know I buy all the games I play, but yeah I agree and like to use no CD patches when possible, even at home on my desktop. With your mobile setup I can see it's more important even. I now always install all steam games through steam too instead of the discs.

Paul, just something to check, the avg fps may only change a bit, but if it used to have moemntary but severe drops then getting rid of those and offering smooth game play might only add 1/2 a frame per second improved result/score but would mean a significant improvement in gameplay, hopefully that's what they did otherwise, yeah it doesn't sound like much of a boost.

Here's to hoping for the best.

hey guys,

Great day this patch came out and my new psu and twin 3870's came.

I get looping sounds and mini-freezes now which continue after I exit the game. Another fine piece of code from Crytek.

I havnt notice a single frame improvement with the patch. I spend about a half hour compairing and I am 100% sure there was no gain in FPS. However, like someone mentioned maybe it improved the smoothness. What I mean is even though I was running it 30-50fps (High) before It still felt choppy at times like little hiccups. I'll analyze it more tomarrow...

On a side note, The G92 GTS runs crysis perfectly on High (30-50). "playable" on very high (xp hack 20-30).

I've done both the gpu benchmark and just run fraps though gameplay. The Gpu benchmark gave me 35fps ave.

Here are some screens as proof.

1680x1050 No AA

High

High Overclocked 800/1800/1080

Very High Xp Hack

Very High Xp Hack 800/1800/1080

Very nice for that res. Bet you get <20FPS with AA though

OK, here are the results of the GPU benchmark before and after the patch:

Nothing OC'ed, system in sig (Q6600, 2GB, 2*8800GT, XP pro 32-bit, 169.21 drivers)
All tests run 1680x1050 everything High
Crysis GPU Bench using Guru3d benchmark utility (drops fist run, averages the other 3 runs)
Batch run at 0xaa, 2xaa, 4xaa @ 4 runs each. Did this at 0xAF and also forced 16xAF.

Crysis retail 1.0
0xaa/0xaf Single - 30.35 fps ave, SLI - 35.32 fps ave - 16.4% increase
2xaa/0xaf Single - 24.17 fps ave, SLI - 33.09 fps ave - 36.9% increase
4xaa/0xaf Single - 20.67 fps ave, SLI - 29.19 fps ave - 41.2% increase

0xaa/16xaf Single - 26.10 fps ave, SLI - 33.43 fps ave - 28.1% increase
2xaa/16xaf Single - 21.27 fps ave, SLI - 31.02 fps ave - 45.8% increase
4xaa/16xaf Single - 17.65 fps ave, SLI - 25.86 fps ave - 46.5% increase


Crysis retail patch 1.1
0xaa/0xaf Single - 30.64 fps ave, SLI - 35.03 fps ave
2xaa/0xaf Single - 25.09 fps ave, SLI - 33.29 fps ave
4xaa/0xaf Single - 20.72 fps ave, SLI - 28.23 fps ave

0xaa/16xaf Single - 26.30 fps ave, SLI - 32.73 fps ave
2xaa/16xaf Single - 21.97 fps ave, SLI - 31.30 fps ave
4xaa/16xaf Single - 17.66 fps ave, SLI - 25.45 fps ave



Well, as you can see little to no performance increase for me with the patch based on average fps in the GPU bench with either a single 8800GT or two in SLI.

I have yet to check FPS, but I run my settings @ 1680X1050 with no AA, all settings on High and it runs great. I can tell it is running better after the patch. From my understanding not only did the SLI improve, but they improved multi core usage as well. I could be wrong, but I am to assume that because of that and a few bug fixes is why my performance has improved. IDK...I love the game though. lol

Best,

3Ball

I wondered throughout the dumb tank level how in the future the US Military gets Nanosuits but the future tanks are worse at stopping an RPG then the 1982 M1 Abrams.

Crysis at Very High Settings under WINXP
http://www.extremetech.com/article [...] 704,00.asp
Crysis CPU and GPU benchmarks
http://www.extremetech.com/article [...] 415,00.asp

oh thanks for that.. sorry was'nt reading properly..

im concentrated on looking for a 22" lcd xD

crysis delta is so easy though.. the stealth mode is so easy to exploit, and AI is'nt so sharp after all these years..

i finished it in 20hrs with a 4hour sleep in-between, i expected more... xD

From what I've gathered, the crysis patch actually helps lower end machines MORE then it does high end. =\

No patch will magically make this game play at 60fps everything maxed.... We need them Geforce 10,000 GTX cards already lol!

That's possible. It's also possible that the speed improvements aren't there at the "High" details I used. Maybe very high and/or medium settings see more of a boost??

As for AA, I was surprised how little need there is for it. At no AA I see very little jagged lines, you almost have to look for them. At 2xAA it takes care of most of the jaggies to the point where you really have to look for it. I am just as happy without any AA. I mean where talking 3 way SLI here to get anything over 8xAA its ridiculous. The XP hack looks the same as running it vista at very high just with more fps, which is another Thing I do not understand about DX10.... I am interested in what 2 G92 GTS's could do though.

Oh and I think its funny how other people are experiencing the flipping tank too.

That it does say improved SLI/Crossfire and improved DX9/DX10 rendering, it doesn't seem that anything has changed.

I ran some benchmarks with the patch and compaired them to my pre patch (Vista) benchmarks. Only on Very High and high res does it make any difference. I was able to go from 15fps to 20fps on Very-High(DX10) @ 1680*1050. After all the driver updates, going from a G80 to a G92 and this patch the game is finally playable(with some occasional slowdowns) at max settings and native res.

That driver is meant for UT3 and only UT3

Omega drivers are custom modded forceware drivers with some image quality adjustments. There are 2 nice long threads in guru3d forums with people discussing their results on it. It was mainly for ATI cards before but this new forceware release is kl.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=249612
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=248770

But really guys this patch is mean tot be used on DX10 with all microsoft updates for SLI (3) and the newer drivers then you should see a FPS boost, I've seen it happen.. single gpu performance increase was never meant to be that.

Also has anyone compared IQ from before and after the patch?

Yea I read that, but I figured I'd give them a shot anyway. They didn't help, but they didn't hurt either.

These Omega drivers do seem to make a difference, although I can't quite put my finger on what that difference is. Thanks for the linkage.

For the GPU bench all increased however its mainly from the minimum smoothed out while the max FPS has actually gone down. Still enough to get a better average though. Maybe a trick to make us think it improved performance??

NVidia released a new beta Win XP 32-bit driver today that is aimed specifically at SLI performance in Crysis with patch 1.1.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.28.html