The Crysis Warhead Thread

[EastCoasthandle]

Originally Posted by wolf2009

What is that ?

When you have a game that may lack driver support for alternate frame rendering (used for crossfire) you use that instead of the .exe that comes with the game. In most cases I've seen folk post noticeable frame rate improvements in such cases. What you do is keep that name change until AMD releases a cat that optimizes that game correctly.

That's my take on it.

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

Originally Posted by erocker

It's a sad state of affairs indeed... Illeagal mabye? It's kind of like a car company making friends with OPEC and creating a formula of gasoline that only works well with their cars while everyone with different brands of cars suffer.

Well put. gotta love a world where inferior tech can purchase its way to the top.

I hope that eventually Crytek will release a patch with better multi GPU support.

How do you record and playback timedemos ?

[EastCoasthandle]

Originally Posted by wolf2009

How do you record and playback timedemos ?

record timedemo <--That's the name. You can't use any other name for play back that I know of.
stop recording

location:
\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis WARHEAD\Game\Levels\(null)

How to play back? well the word play is a valid command in the console but it doesn't do anything.

In any case I found a post on how to create a benchmark for Crysis Warhead here

[pabloc74]

Originally Posted by EastCoasthandle

Based on a few correction what you do next is start the game go back to options, graphic tab then hit the optimization button. Once you do that look at your AA options. You should have an AA option of 4x and 4xMSAA. Choose 4xMSAA. The performance difference between the 2 are minimal but with MSAA it will work.

thanks man, i run the game and my max fps are 70, when the low are 30-35, 1920*1200 vsync on and gamer mode, in enthusiast decrease 10fps but i didn't note visual changes, so i play it in gamer

edit: mi pc it's all stock clocks, no oc at all

[EastCoasthandle]

Originally Posted by pabloc74

thanks man, i run the game and my max fps are 70, when the low are 30-35, 1920*1200 vsync on and gamer mode, in enthusiast decrease 10fps but i didn't note visual changes, so i play it in gamer

edit: mi pc it's all stock clocks, no oc at all

Np, glad to see everything working out for you...

[EastCoasthandle]

Update:

The autosave crashing is being looked at by the Crytek team. They are aware of the situation and are trying to fix it (post on their forum dated 9-22-08). It looks to me to be some sort of serious memory leak.

[TheMailMan78]

Well I tried everything in this thread and in the end I only got about 3 fps more. So something else is apparently holding me back. Ether it's my CPU or the fact my PCIe isnt 2.0. Or both but I'm about to give up.

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

Originally Posted by TheMailMan78

Well I tried everything in this thread and in the end I only got about 3 fps more. So something else is apparently holding me back. Ether it's my CPU or the fact my PCIe isnt 2.0. Or both but I'm about to give up.

I dont know what my config is exactly but best I can tell it's a mix of high/v-high but im getting 30-45 FPS @ 1680x1050. Could be the PCI-E but I would think the CPU is the major bottleneck. I just changed my CPU and saw a massive boost in avg and min FPS.

[EastCoasthandle]

Originally Posted by TheMailMan78

Well I tried everything in this thread and in the end I only got about 3 fps more. So something else is apparently holding me back. Ether it's my CPU or the fact my PCIe isnt 2.0. Or both but I'm about to give up.

How are you trying to play the game?
-resolution
-game mode

What command tweaks are you using?

What frame rates are you getting before the tweak? After the tweak?

Where are you in Crysis Warhead? Map/location?

[TheMailMan78]

Originally Posted by EastCoasthandle

How are you trying to play the game?
-resolution
-game mode

What command tweaks are you using?

What frame rates are you getting before the tweak? After the tweak?

Where are you in Crysis Warhead? Map/location?

Basicly what is shown below. The one screen that has 15fps is before the tweaks and the one after that shows 18fps is after the tweaks. As you can see something else is wrong.

[EastCoasthandle]

Did you ever add the 4850's profile into the AMD.txt file?
Have you tried OC'ing your 4850?
Also reduce the fov from cl_fov=60 to cl_fov=55
If glow is set to 0 re-able it as its less then 1.0 FPS hit (at least for me).
Delete your cache folders and set everything on gamer. See if that improves performance for you.
This game is a ram hog. Are you using the same make/model ram sticks?

[ntdouglas]

Awesome game. But it froze once on me after about 5 minutes of playing without ocing the cards. Oced my cards and played for about 45 minutes, then whole system rebooted. wtf Is anybody running vista64 with warhead?

[EastCoasthandle]

Originally Posted by ntdouglas

Awesome game. But it froze once on me after about 5 minutes of playing without ocing the cards. Oced my cards and played for about 45 minutes, then whole system rebooted. wtf Is anybody running vista64 with warhead?

You may want to run that game in 32-bit mode. From what I read (rumor) is that they are working on a 64-bit version. Currently, there is no 64-bit Cyrsis.exe for Warhead.

[ntdouglas]

How do I change it to 32 bit?

[Mussels]

there is no 64 bit version of warhead. that means you're automatically running it in 32 bit.

I completed the entire game on vista x64 with out a single crash or problem, on both my systems. (only got half way on the lan rig before moving to the main one)

[EastCoasthandle]

Originally Posted by ntdouglas

How do I change it to 32 bit?

You are already running 32-bit mode. What you want to do is also run it under dx9 by adding the -dx9 to the command line to get the game running under DX9.
I misunderstood your question to mean some sort of attempt to run it in 64-bit mode.

[ntdouglas]

Yeah, this is pissing me off. I played Crysis last night for 2 hours no problem. Why dx9 verses dx10?
lol Thats why I'm running vista64.

[Mussels]

i've seen some systems that only worked in DX9, and one laptop that only works in DX10 (ATI, the laptop)

I run teh game in DX9 on enthusiast for higher FPS than DX10 on gamer.

[ntdouglas]

Originally Posted by Mussels

i've seen some systems that only worked in DX9, and one laptop that only works in DX10 (ATI, the laptop)

I run teh game in DX9 on enthusiast for higher FPS than DX10 on gamer.

So how do I change it to dx9?

[Mussels]

it gives you an icon in games explorer, right click that and it gives you the option. if you click and drag from there, the shortcut you get will also have the right click menus.

[maudio3]

If you have steam you have to put -dx9 in the advanced mode or somthing like that.

[ntdouglas]

Where is games explorer?

[Mussels]

programs menu, games.

[ntdouglas]

In warhead itself? I did just play about 20 minutes no problem in xp compatibility mode.