Crysis at High Shaders, Whats the difference?

[RadeonProVega]

because i don't see it.........

High shaders, to high to medium settings.



Medium shaders, to medium to low settings.



? I don't see it. Do you have to set everything on high to see a difference?

 

[erocker]

You think that it's because your card doesn't support the shader model for high shaders?

 

[RadeonProVega]

lol i don't know. I am buying the 8400gs in a few days, so maybe i can play it at all high settings, but at high to medium, i really can't see the difference between shader at medium. I do have textures medium, and objects to low, maybe i need to change that.
The game is beautiful tho, but i can't tell the difference.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

That last pic reminds me of far cry.

 

[AphexDreamer]

High resolution textures makes a difference.

 

[RadeonProVega]

Yea i guess i have to set everything on high, well not everything because some things don't need to be on high such as water or sound or game effects, but i will put textures and object detail on high settings.

peace

 

[kiriakost]

You do not see shaders , because you do not know were to look.

shaders had to do with scene lighting & color toning.

 

[Flyordie]

Aka- HDR

 

[qamulek]

I found shaders makes the textures look more realistic. Going from medium to high made the textures go from feeling like a painting made with crayons(the colors don't meld) versus a painting made with paint(the colors can have more variations of color versus the box with 16 crayons). I found the difference to be very subtle but a huge improvement; such a huge improvement that I ran crysis:warhead on all medium settings except for shaders at high. I once tried very high just to see how it looks, and it made me almost sad seeing how beautiful the game can look at very high shaders

Oh another way to say it. By more realistic I also mean that it seemed that the game felt like it had more depth. Far off land actually looked like it was far away, while closer land felt closer. Overall the game felt less artificial with higher shader settings.

Oh don't use high textures unless you are tweaking your ini to also fix how ugly those mountain textures look. With high textures(no ini tweaks) those far off mountain textures look like junk, while with medium texture settings those textures look fine. I also honestly felt even with high textures that the close up textures didn't show an improvement, which is why I kept the texture settings at medium. The trade off wasn't worth it, and I didn't feel like messing around with ini tweaks.

 

[Kusimeka]

I found on my old graphics card that even if i put everything to max, it never looked as good as it does on my 8800GT because it never supported it well. I would really suggest a 8800gt, or by now there's prob an even better alternative, i dont think 8400GS is that great though?

Oh, and i guess your a huge fan of smallville?

 

[AphexDreamer]

This has everything you would want to and you can actually notice the difference between them all.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Crysis_5.html

 

[LifeOnMars]

I'm sorry but doesn't anyone else keep wondering how this guy can even run games like this with his hardware...a pentium 3 ffs!!!

 

[p_o_s_pc]

running Crysis on a PIII

can we get some benchmarks?(3dmark 05,03,06)

 

[OzzmanFloyd120]

I'm nearly 100% positive that the 8400GS you'll be getting won't be able to run it at high settings.
As for the shader quality I have no idea, it seems though that a PCI card like that won't have much grunt in the way of bandwidth to show a difference in any settings.

 

[farlex85]

Those pics look pretty terrible, I really wouldn't try Crysis w/ an 8400, much less a 2400. Get a good gaming card and you'll probably start noticing a difference when you change settings. But yeah many times simply changing one of them won't make a dramatic impact, more subtle differences. The bigger change is when more settings are turned up at once.

 

[r9]

i7 can eat dirt. PIII rules.

 

[OzzmanFloyd120]

i7 can eat dirt. PIII rules.

In it's glory days the PIII 1.4ghz Tulatin chip was my dream CPU.

 

[kiriakost]

In it's glory days the PIII 1.4ghz Tulatin chip was my dream CPU.

If it was , with out one TUSL2-C , it would had stay as a dream .

 

[RadeonProVega]

This has everything you would want to and you can actually notice the difference between them all.
http://www.tweakguides.com/Crysis_5.html

You know i was looking for that page again, thanks. What i am going to do is OC my card, set every important graphic option to high to medium and see how the game looks. Sound, Game effects, and physics i don't need to set at high levels, because they don't improved appearance. So i am going to keep shader at high, texture and objects on high, and the rest at medium to low.

I'm sorry but doesn't anyone else keep wondering how this guy can even run games like this with his hardware...a pentium 3 ffs!!!

Bottleneck free( read that thread i made about my external HD), using windows 2000/SP4, 2400HD card low end, but very good, and my IRQ's are fix, meaning separated, so nothing is shared anymore. Well the only thing that is shared is the Visiontek2400HD and the Standard PCI to PCI bridge. = Pretty good performance.

running Crysis on a PIII
can we get some benchmarks?(3dmark 05,03,06)

Haven't tried 3dmark yet, but in ATT i get a 1650 score. When i OC my card from 519/396 to 600/450 i get a 1800 score.

I'm nearly 100% positive that the 8400GS you'll be getting won't be able to run it at high settings.

Well not all high settings of course, but low to medium to high and i should be just fine.

Those pics look pretty terrible, I really wouldn't try Crysis w/ an 8400, much less a 2400.

I think the game looks good IMO. I am enjoying it

 

[spearman914]

Guys come on, of course he can't play at high settings w/ playable framerates. He's just asking what's the difference between med-high shaders. I noticed that the lightning effects were a bit different tho.

 

[RadeonProVega]

Hell no, i put the game on shaders high, textures and objects high, everything else on medium, sound low, game effects on low, and the game was moving so slow, i couldn't even take pictures with fraps hahahaha. It did look good tho, but very unplayable. The game level was slowly loading together like a puzzle or something haha, ugh, beautiful game, but too powerful at those settings.

So for a playable game, i have to leave the settings at 1280x1024, shader, texture , water, post and physics , volumetric at medium, everything else on low. So medium to low and i get an average of 14-30fps. I said playable to me guys, so calm down

Oh, and i guess your a huge fan of smallville?

Yes superman/smallville rocks. Make sure you watch , new episode this week!

peace

 

[KainXS]

i'd be suprised if it ran on low-medium with those system specs, but i noticed that in the first pic it says you get 16fps, with medium to high settings, and at that res it looks a little fishy for a HD2400 and a P3 to me.

 

[hat]

lol i don't know. I am buying the 8400gs in a few days, so maybe i can play it at all high settings

I lol'd
I couldn't play Crysis on all high settings with my 8600GTS dude. Good luck to you.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

I lol'd
I couldn't play Crysis on all high settings with my 8600GTS dude. Good luck to you.

I could play it on high with my 7900GS (after voltmod)

 

[spearman914]

I think he's gaming 640 x 480 or 320 x 240!!