my 4870x2 performance with crysis!?!?

Hi, just put together a new computer

E8400 stock (at this stage)
620W Corsair
4Gb ram
Asus p45
4870x2 card
X-fi sound card
24 inch screen 1920x1200

My fps with HIGH setting, 19200X1200 AA on
can get as low as 15, often in the 18-20 range... goes up to 30 in some areas

Does that sound right to you guys or do I have a problem

Tom's hardware caps it at 30FPS but I dont know how that is averaged... because in reality it is mostly in th 18-20 range for me.

what could be the problem?

running in xp

both card and crysis are latest drivers off the net.

There's no problem, that's about right. Crysis was optimized for Nvidia cards, in fact it was used by Nvidia as its demo, and the 4850/70 performs below par in that game, though each driver release is improving it. For everything else the 4870s shine. Disable AA and overclock and you''l get it up 10fps or more.

that is about what i get, just built a comp yesterday and had to for some reason try out the crysis demo, i feel kinda dirty now.

still, will have to install it in vista and see how it plays there but in xp-32 using max settings 8x AA with adaptive AA and edge-detect set i get around 25-30FPS Constant with a few dips to about 15-20FPS.

With my setup, an E6750 @ 3.6 4GB of 800mhz DDR2 and a stock 4870 X2 I play Crysis at 1920x1200 no AA all on high and get a consistent 25-40 FPS, and it only dips to about 15 FPS. I'm running the latest drivers, but I don't think I have the latest patch. Try turning off AA, there will be no difference in visual quality. I run Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

I've seen plenty of benchmarks on the ati 4850/4870 telling otherwise... His card should be getting much higher fps, don't blame it because it's an ati card that' just baseless and ridiculous.

meh i don't play crysis but thought i would jump on the bandwagon and test it. gave up on it when it came out orginally and with good reason.

i will however be reading up to see what settings you have to turn down to get a more constant fps, as whenever npc's come on screen my fps halves.

as pretty as it looks i still think you don't get the performance the visual level warrants.

still, i don't play it, my main online game is red orchestra and with that i can get 100fps plus with everything maxed including adaptive AA which my crossfired x1900's could not do and get playable fps.

my advice: Go play other games ... wait a year or two, buy new card and
voila! you can play crysis 60 fps max settings....

I believe they said that its using the same engine but toned down. I might've heard wrong

All I can say is, play the game on medium, beat it and then put it to rest. Other than that you won't get much more happiness.

It will just leave you with a disappointed ending

"I believe they said that its using the same engine but toned down"

Nah its the same engine but better optimized. Turn all AA off and see if the results are better. No point using aa, and if you do, use r_useedgeAA = 4 or whatever

man i wish i could say that but my eyesight is fine.

Crysis kills AA. At 1980x though, does AA even have a reason to be on?

no ffs, when i run AA in crysis i hardly notice the difference except in frame rates.

INSTEAD - type con_restricted 0, then type r_useedgeAA = 4 (or whatever you want). This gives good AA on sharp edges without performance hit.

I also turned down my monitors sharpness lol and it looks much nicer now

AA is actually more necesary (and less effective) on a 24" 1920x1200 lcd screen than on a 20"1680x1050 screen! This is because the 24" screen has natively bigger physical pixels, making disguising stepped edges far harder. Increasing screen sizes on a LCD does not lessen the need for AA, Increasing the resolution on a CRT DOES because CRT's actually shrink the size of the pixels to allow for an increase of resolution rather than just having a bigger panel to allow more pixels.

Theres no increase image quality from a bigger LCD panel, just an increase in size... Sure you can sit further back to try to blur out the massive size of the pixels, but then you lose the whole point of a big screen, the further you get from the screen the "smaller" the screen appears, sadly for anyone with good eyesight they lose all advantage of a view filling screen before they lose the negative aspects of the large pixel size...

As I understand it a CRT DOES change the size of its pixels when changing resolution, as far as I know one pixel on a CRT screen does not necesarily equal one TRIAD, this is why they can change resolution so easily... A CRT's Triad size may never change but the number of triads involved in creating a pixel does, hence on the same 19" crt when running at 640x480 the pixels are larger than when running at 2048x1536.

F$$K me... I bought windows Vista 32 because everyone said the 64 version is no good.

I cant win with this bloody game.

I should be killing this game with a new high end dual graphics card.

Can the PC gaming medium be any more difficult. The one exclusive game to PC and I cant run it at full capacity.

Its embarrassing when I try to show this piece of metal garbage to my console buddies.

Or do what I did and run at 1280x1024; 50FPS almost constantly, even with 4x AA on.

I see as anything over 8x as overkill, I play CSS for instance at 2xs or 4xs If I increase it, I see nothing.

Here's the obvious solution no one's mentioned: CrossfireX

OP: goto www.crymod.com, download a very high quality optimizer config and most of your performance problems should go away.

The stock Crysis quality settings are anything but "badly coded" - the coding for Crysis is incredible compared to most other modern games - but by DEFAULT the game is optimized for a very long viewing distance and high level of detail on long distance objects; this greatly effects AA performance and does have an impact on non-AA performance.

Quality optimizer mods have LoD tricks in them to massively increase performance and even improve visuals in most cases at the same time.