Crysis runs horrible

I have installed crysis on my system recently with the 1.2v patch. Installation went fine wit no errors. Currently when I start the game there is a huge lag with the first intro and the nvidia screen but the second intro screen works fine. The game is very laggy at menu so I did not even bother trying to start a game.

Current Drivers:
catalyst 8.2, did not update to 8.3 because I heard of its issues and fps drops.

CPU specs:
e2160 OC to 3ghz
HIS 3850 256mb OC'd to 749/1026
2 gigs of Gskill ram at 5/5/5/12 running 1:1

All my other games work fine at full settings with no lag like cs:source, hl2, condemned...
Is there a specific driver fix? The last time I tried installing a hotfix it completely ruined my system and I had to reinstall everything.

I decided to load the game and I get an average of 30 fps with settings on high but the game crashed once I got to the docks. Ill try another run later tonight and see how it goes.

Computer struggling in the Entry screens = DRM very often. Your PC checks for a valid version of the game and while reading from your CD or DVD it slowns down performance dramatically.

Your PC crashes minutes later: could be an Overclocking and/or heat issues. Try to bring these back at stock speed and see what happens then.

Furthermore, it's hard to compare the performance between Crysis and CS:Source or similar simply because you are comparing 2 very difference engines; CryEngine is a next-gen engine whereas CS:Source is using a 5 year old engine and the technicallities are quite different. In any case, I hope this works out for you.

Im using a no cd patch and its still the same issue with entry screens. Its funny how the crytek and intel entry screens are smooth while nvidia and the first screen is horribly laggy. My computer passed prime95 and orthos for 8 hours each with my cpu at 50c max. Im up to the part with the tanks so that random crash might just be the game itself who knows.

Perhaps that IS the issue.

Same, 30" 2560x1600 panel here, hence 8800GTX Tri-SLi.

64bit vista should actually be better for crysis, I'm also running Vista Ultimate x64 with 8GB RAM

Crysis has a 64 bit executable which uses the extra RAM... or at least, doesn't swap to disk as much.

But yeah, even running at 1280x800 I couldn't play it the way I wanted.

Still, I haven't touched it since just after release.

Agreed. Played through it once. Some things are nice and such but in the end I was not as impressed as I was when I saw HL2. HL2 made more leaps and bounds in graphics than Crysis has. In fact some things in HL2 seem better, such as facial animations and at least HL2 has ragdolls without a mod.

darkstar, have you downloaded the Nvidia beta patch that gives better performance in Crysis in SLI when using the official Crysis patch?

Ok just for everyone here I reinstalled Crysis and patched to 1.2...

I have to say - MASSIVE improvement since release!!!

I had Textures and Object detail on Very High, Shadow detail on low (meh shadows...) and everything else on high.

Running at 2560x1600, the opening 10 mins or so of the game was perfectly smooth!

MUCH better

It seems like there were a lot of issues with Vista. Crysis ran like ass for me in Vista 64 bit with 2x 8800GTX SLI and 8gigs ram, but runs perfectly max everything in windows XP @ 1920x1200 (with the config fixes to give "DX10 effects" in DX9). I haven't tried updating to 1.2 yet, same thing happened to me where I basically just lost interest in it.