Everything I've read points says I should be more than capable of running DX10 Crysis with a constant 30+ FPS. But, I can't. It constantly drops below 20, (especially when I'm zooming with binocs or turning fast,) and generally is unplayable.

I'm trying to run Crysis at 1440x900 in DX10 at high settings (recommended settings by Crysis.)

My hardware;

• ASUS P5Q Pro motherboard
• ASUS EAH4850 512 MB (Radeon 4850)
• 2 GB DDR2 800 (running in single channel mode according to my boot messages)
• Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00 GHz

I'm running Windows Vista 32 and the 8.501.1.0 driver for my graphics card. I was running 8.5 earlier with the same issues.

Help?! I'm very disappointed with the performance of this setup so far.

Turn it into DX9 mode... lower some stuff... drivers are currently mediorce

You think I should ditch this card and go with an older ATI? I don't want to stick with it and never get any good performance.

Wait which did you get better performance with? What is your PSU?

crysis stutters on most rigs

+1 db4s

run it in dx 9 mode then try it in both vista and windows xp and you will see why your having lag

ati has pretty crappy vista drivers and vista also has a performance hit due to how much of a resource hog it is

Dont wana steal the thread but do ati still have bad driver issues, as im looking at a hd 4870 and dont want a card that wont run some games.

I didn't see a difference in performance with either driver. My PSU is a Corsair 750W.

So which card is recommended to run DX10 Crysis at 1440 (or 1680) on my rig?

My specs again;

• ASUS P5Q Pro motherboard
• ASUS EAH4850 512 MB (Radeon 4850)
• 2 GB DDR2 800 (will be 4GB soon... running dual channel)
• Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00 GHz

(I'm thinking about ditching this card on the idle temps alone. When I reboot, without the fan control software running, it jumps to 75+ C.)

this card runs hot, but remember its a gpu not a cpu

my friend has that same card while he runs the game at 1280x1024

he gets no lag with the game maxed out in windows xp

he uses a core 2 e6600 overclocked to a little over 3GHz

and has 2GB memory

GPUs run hotter?

I saw a noticeable difference between DX9 and DX10 - enough to make me not want to play in DX9 anymore. And 1440x900 is the lowest 16x10 resolution my monitor will accept without displaying it as 4x3.

What you are experiencing is very common. Look at the performance graph below:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/v [...] html#sect0

The black numbers represent max FPS and the white numbers represents min FPS.


If you insist on playing at high quality and DX10 with 30+ fps, then put the game down and wait for at least the next generation of GPUs (ATI HD 5xxx [??] or nVidia 3xx [??] series).

Turn off AA, it makes minimal difference. Also lower the game to DX9 mode and get the "DX10 hacks". This gives most of the dx10 features while still running in DX9, giving a performance increase than compared to dx10.

Given my extended break from PC gaming, (the last time I had a capable rig was around 2003,) let me ask you this; If I'm having trouble playing Crysis, how is the remainder of the PC games market? Will I have trouble playing other games? Future games?

I'll check out the DX10 hacks.