Crysis SP Demo Performance - Page 5

Falk, I have hung around THG since they were ocing processors with pencil lead. I jump in every now and then and seem to piss people off, then i leave for a while. I had to jump in this time when one guy said Crysis was the game of the century...LOL

Well, the way I look at it is I saved the cash off of NOT getting Quake Wars (the demo was enough for me, got sick of "repair the MCP" "the MCP has been repaired" to last a lifetime) and the graphics were just a showcase of how a game company can maximize profits with a game engine that scales ALL versions to look like the game was made in 2002).

Also, I was pretty excited about UT3, well thought out game. I just got fed up of alien weaponry that shoots pink, blue, green and purple death all over the screen. But I give them a HUGE nod on HOW to build a clean game engine. Just the demo was fun enough, spared me yet another 60$.

But man, if I want to "use" my comp, heat the thing up, do some all-nighters with beer and chips and wake up at 3 in the afternoon the next day, Crysis is THE game to have.

I love the guns, the tritium night-sites, the flashlight effect, the physics. I really am impressed, about on par with Doom 3 when that came out, and we don't nearly have the hardware scaling issues with Crysis as we did with Doom 3. Remember people getting the 5500 series because of the free game coupon? People were playing that game 800x600 and it was a slideshow. Se we are doing really well with Crysis.

Can't wait till it hits the shelf, no buyer's remorse outta me. If I don't get it, I'll have 8800 buyers remorse though...

Why the remorse? Great cards. I am sure the finished product will be a very smooth product. Demo's just tease. I have had alot of all nighters over here. Built a dedicated server 2 yrs. ago and have never looked back. right now we have bf2, bf2142, bf1942 (forgotten hope), bf vietnam and ghost recon. Have a ball................

Ghost Recon 1, that was a GREAT game.

Hack, I wonder if Ultra Textures will be alot better that High Textures... Can't wait to see!!!

If they can cram the whole game on 1 DVD-9, we'll know HD-DVD and Blu-Ray needed in games won't take place for a LONG time.

anyone know of any site that's benchmarked the 8800gt 512mb with crysis???

I think Nvidia just needs to release a new video card that is at least 2x faster than the 8800GTX so we can play some of the more recent games at 1920x1200 with some high / very high settings and a decent frame rate. This is another example of a game that we just need a bigger, better video card for, the problem is, one doesn't exist.

After seeing my systems performance in Crysis, Dirt, UT3, WIC, COD4, and Bioshock (just to name a few) at 1920x1200 I want/need a new video card. SLI isn't going to get me to where I want to be I need Nvidia to release a new video card that is fast. DX10 anything runs like sh!t on all current video cards, ATI or Nvidia, SLI or Crossfire on any resolution over 1280x1024. Add Call of Juarez DX10 Bench and Lost Planet DX10 bench in as well.

I highly doubt any of the framerate issues we are experiencing can be corrected by video drivers, and all the games I listed above are definately GPU bound not CPU bound.

Nvidia I beg release a new kick ass card! We need it! If you build it, we will buy it!


My rig is Q6600 Oc'd to 3.2ghz (FSB 1424), 4gb PC28500 (ram at 1068), 8800GTX OC'd 652mhz/2018mhz, 24" Samsung LCD 1920x1200, Vista Ultimate 64, 169.01 nvidia beta driver, rivatuner 2.06 beta for video OCing.

I feel that this game is quite CPU bound, there are a ton of settings just in the Demo that call for a beefy CPU.

One thing that is nice, with the 8800 series, is if you have one with over 512MB, or the 640 or 768, you get to enjoy BIG textures and it doesn't seem to impact frames.

Well, I have played the demo ALOT at this point, and the more I play it the more I like it. I was pretty "closed minded" at first, but now that I am used to the gameplay and the control scheme, I love playing it. I am just a little tired of learning new gameplay at this point, maybe it is because I am getting older or something. Or I just started playing Splinter Cell: Double Agent and I just want to play and not LEARN.

I have one, and ONLY one complaint about Crysis at this point:

What the hell are North Koreans made out of that they can suck down 8 rounds of 7.62x39 and still run off??? I can SHOOT A FREAKING TREE IN HALF, BUT A KOREAN CAN GET A WHOLE CLIP IN THE LEGS AND STILL RUN AWAY. The guns need to feel more "real lifey" is all I am getting at.

I guess that's the game part. If it were any more real, I would be setting in an emergency room...LOL

Hack-

I "could" try XP, but honestly 10%-20% increase in DX9 games doesn't really do anything for me.

My comments are more directed towards DX10 gaming in general, which is obviously only a part of Vista for reasons out of our control. Dirt is DX9 as well as COD4 (at least the demo is DX9) but those games have some pretty good graphics but a not so great frame rate. Although COD4 isn't too bad, Dirt is only 30-35 FPS at 1920x1200 max settings. I doubt dual-booting XP is going to get me to 60 fps.

Also I really like Vista. I know a lot of people knock it/hate it but I don't think it's too bad. I am mainly trying to look forward and not back, and if DX10 is going to be the future of gaming, we need a damn video card to experience it!

If they ever designed gun physics into a game, with velocity and bullet drop, windage etc. that would be sweet. Would probably need an Octal system by then.

What IS nice in Crysis, is at least they account for velocity in the game. You "pull" the trigger at the water in the distance and the bullet ACTUALLY HAS FLIGHT TIME. It isn't "instant" (which is fake) like FarCry.

If they zoned off the enemies body into a few hundred "quadrants", accounted for penetration, and got a firearms expert to give them all the details (like, you CAN'T hide behind a garbage can from an AK-47 unless it is filled with sand or water) gaming would be amazing. Oh, and 1-2 bullets would make a REAL mess outta someone without a vest. They should have sucking chest wounds, limp arms, you shoot their pelvis and they just drop to the ground. A spine shot when they are running away (you center them up) and they crawl away with useless legs. Not for the sadistic effect, but to really let the player "know" what kind of hit they made as they were shooting.

Crysis has a real "spray and pray" feel, to the point that I line someone up and I really mash down on Mouse1 HARD. That isn't very realistic.

In GRAW 1, when you finally get used to the play control, you snap off a few shots with your CAR-15 and you feel like you are getting somewhere. And, the more accurate you get, you seem to NEVER run out of ammo in that game. That is far more realistic. 1 shot, 1 kill.

NOT mash down and spray out a whole clip, that's just silly.

I only knock stupidity. You have a great rig. WAIT!!! win 95 win 98 and xp were all the same the first year. Vista will be fine. People forget the past in computer hardware and software. I hated xp when it first came out. The main thing is to have fun. Be patient, Vista will get where you want it. I think I read some where that SP1 will be released in jan 08. Think about it...all that that code to go through to make it right......

Falk, now you know why I don't come around that often. It's the wana-be moderators, and gee why did you buy that people that turn me off.

later HACK

its good that crysis is this hungry. Since this game and others appeared, gpu companies are slacking off and releasing crap for gold money. Now they know that if they want to get your money, they have to deliver.

Thank God for crysis for if it wasnt for it, we will keep on hoping for the next big thing that will eventually be a disappointment.

I'm running it on a E6750 with a 1950pro and I can get around 20fps (720 res) with textures, post processing and shaders on high.

If I turn on 2xfsaa the frame rate plummets to about 2fps which seems insane. Why does even low level AA cause such an immense impact on this game?

"True" DirectX 10 or not, every game that I have played so far that had DX10 "features" enabled have ran like absolute sh!t. I honestly don't think the current video cards are ready for DirectX 10 anything or games that really utilize DX9c. I think they need to double the performance of the 8800GTX in order to have anything decent out there.

Again I am talking about gaming over 1280x1024 resolution and over 1680x1050 for that matter. There are a lot of 22" plus LCD monitors out there.

The 360 doesn't seem to do too bad at 1080P and I wish I could comment on the PS3 but every game I have for it is 720P (go figure).

Neither console supports Direct X10 and 360 games playing at 1080p like Halo 3 are actually being upscaled from lower resolutions.

Oh forgot one little niggle the birds don't make a splash when you shoot em down over the sea!

Do not use Very High settings folks .. its for future video cards not yet MADE!..
8800GTX only card and ATI equiv can run this game at high settings + 8 x AA , all those with GTS please set your Shader and Shadow setting to Medium with no or 2,4 X AA and your FPS will be ok .

I know a lot of screenshots were taken on medium to low settings, but does anyone else think that the lighting looks like someone took a dump on the screen and smeared it around? ...I think maybe they were running those uber-awesome lighting scenes on something better than a Core2/GTS...

I repeat..

Do not use Very High settings folks .. its for future video cards not yet MADE!..
8800GTX only card and ATI equiv can run this game at high settings + 8 x AA , all those with GTS please set your Shader and Shadow setting to Medium with no or 2,4 X AA and your FPS will be ok .

This is a serious game and wilst not very CPU intensive .. ie Quads arent fully utilised.. Its very very video card dependant.. use your graphics setting properly

falken, the very high settings is only available to those who have dx10 (and i mean vista)

Falk, go to the crysis forums and look. I am sure one of those guys has the same or close to your set up.

Falk, what res. are you running?

i dont get that but i do get the left of my gun vanishing for a while but it only happens on the gun you drop in with.

Cant wait to see this game on vista ))

4 gig of ram is worth it..... I got that box thing for like .5 of a split second when i jumped in the water by a pier once, but i generally just get flickering rocks in the distance. but i am using an ati.

i am moving from xp 32 to vista 64 so i expect a smallish drop in performance from high to v high, ane1 know how big a diff it will make? als o i am going to STRIP my vista to the core, all i want is kernel, dx, limited gui. VIVA Vlite!

The things i spend my money on....

Yeah, the difference between high and very high is huge, both in performance and IQ; seriously, it's like a different game.

What's interesting is that my 320MB GTS can run very high textures with little performance impact. You'd think that with all the VRAM available on today's high end cards they would opt to use it, but I'm not complaining

Anyways after some time playing/fooling with the demo I have found that the shader quality setting has BY FAR the most impact on performance. I would like to see what effect overclocking the shader domain on my GTS would have, but of course, the new drivers have broken overclocking with Rivatuner