Crysis running poorly

I'm assuming you have the latest drivers for your video card as well. (If not, try that first) Anyway, you have discovered Crysis's main criticism, that it's too damn system hungry!

You might also want to make sure that you don't have any sort of software programs overriding Crysis's graphical settings. For example, you may inadvertently have AA enabled through NVIDIA control panel and not realize it.

Most importantly, you probably shouldn't expect to jack up the graphics in crysis all that far unless you have a really really beefy system!

thanx mate, forget to mention im using vista home premium 64bit and running the game from the 64bit folder. and yeh ive fully updated my system in every aspect, but i never really thought about that nvidia control panel tip, much appreciated! also, im not really expecting much since when i click on auto detect optimal settings in crysis itself, it chooses all high.

aaah, ive read in a few places not to use the 64bit executable, supposedly its a difference of a good 10fps or so. give the 32bit exe a try and see how it goes

I can't believe it. I looked forward to Vista so long for 64bit goodness. Build this S939 system around it with XP OEM, and waited for Vista to come out.

Well, needless to say, I will be using XP for quite a while, and no, won't be building another PC until Vista is sorted out or Win7 is out.

Downloading Ubuntu as we speak...

I just cannot believe that your ace system you built plays Crysis worse than my 2+ year old XP box. And I use the "very high" settings hack, and get 25ish FPS at 1440x900. Vista is a huge step backwards for Intel to sell chips and for DRM to thrive.

I am so dissappointed, my geeky ambitions are put on hold for 2+ years, bummer.

thanx alot for all the help i really apreciate it guys.

I had a lot of issues with Vista, so before you start pulling out all your hardware piece by piece and testing it, you might want to try it on XP (although obviously you won't be running it in DX10, but something to consider before you drive yourself crazy with the hardware aspect).

just to let you know, i installed vista sp1 last and gained 7fps on the gpu test. if that helps you at all XD

Vista knocked about 7FPS off for me on Crysis. XP FTW

hey,

I'm having the same problems. built a PC, and was hoping it would be able to handle Crysis, but the game runs very poorly

Specs:
Motherboard (if that helps?) Gigabyte EP45-DS4p
CPU: Intel Quad core Q6600 2.4GHz
Ram: 4 Gig
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 3870
OS: Vista 64bit, service Pack 1
HDD: 500gig

not sure if i need to give any more info. Is this system suitable to run the game or have i missed the mark?
I've tried dialling down all the settings ( it recommends i play on high) still no good. background objects flicker alot. I read elsewhere that dropping your Res to 1280 x 1024 would help but it made it so much worst.
have the latest drivers for graphics.
not sure where to go from here.

I'm having the same issues but I've figured it out!!!

My setup that I'm currently typing on right now does it to every game!!!

What I believe is our problem is that our 2 processor or 4 processor systems doesn't set the program's affinity to a single core and instead plays hot potato with it.

Heres my specs:
Intel Qx6700 @ 3200 MHz, 2 GB Corsair Dominator 1066MHz, 1KW BFG PSU, MSI P6N Diamond latest bios, cheap hard drive, cheap dvd burner....

I dont' know if I'm missing a driver or something but any time I load up any kind of graphically intense game it plays like *** until I alt tab out and set the program's affinity to a single core!!!

I got fed up with using that alt tab method each time I started the games etc.. so I found an easier solution. By running IMAGECFG.EXE -A 0X1 or 0X2 or OX4 or OX8 (each OXn representing a core on my quad core, followed by the exe path ie) "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left4dead.exe"

Now each time I start left4dead the program will only use a single core and stop that hot potatoe game. Because before each core would get a chance to service it and it would be a choppy and crashy game I tell you.

So here's a screenshot and a link to that imagecfg. I hope this helped.



ImageCFG.ZIP Link

Btw I just built a new machine with an i7 975 quad core with the Nahelem chipset and it doesn't require this stupid imagecfg thing to run things, it actually just works! Hurray, except I'm waiting for it to be RMA'd cuz it fried when I unplugged the stinking PS/2 keyboard....