Crysis, is it still the hardest game on your system?

[spearman914]

Did you say sound was a waste of time in the fact that you carn't tell the different from one setting to the other or that it kills performance?

he meant sound is a waste of time and performance, shadows is a waste of performance but not time.

 

[ste2425]

it just sound settings is how many sounds it will play at anyone time an in a big firefight how can you not notice the strange feeling that only one guy is groaning at a time, i wasn't being funny dont get me wrong lol just wondering what he meant

 

[spearman914]

it just sound settings is how many sounds it will play at anyone time an in a big firefight how can you not notice the strange feeling that only one guy is groaning at a time, i wasn't being funny dont get me wrong lol just wondering what he meant

uh crappy speakers maybe.

 

[ste2425]

haha aye true it amazes me tho the performance he gets out of his system lol. i gues all his componants must be best suited for each other if that makes sense

 

[KainXS]

I put this game on AAX4 and i lose no performance whatsoever, i average around 9-13fps at these settings, not bad for my rig. NO OC, all stock gpu settings.

why oh why do you do ThIS, you, you can't not lose performance turning on aa on crysis, I don't understand why you do this, unless God came from heaven and blessed your PC you cannot run crysis on your system period with AA with a 8400GS.

stop misleading people

 

[Frizz]

u2konline you must have a good amount of patience, I cannot wait to see what you will say about your next mid-high range video card...

 

[u2konline]

Did you say sound was a waste of time in the fact that you carn't tell the different from one setting to the other or that it kills performance?

I use headphones btw. But anyways, what i mean is, the sound in crysis or warhead sounds just fine on low. I just don't see any reason to increase it. Now, i have been testing out warhead for the past few days to see which visual option decreases performance and what does not.

In Crysis Warhead:

Water = Keep on minimum. If it bump up water to mainstream i lose about 10fps.
Sound = No effect, keep on minimum
Textures = I read from tweakguides that increasing textures will cause stutter, this is true, so i turn it up to mainstream.
Objects = Mainstream settings, doesn't seem to affect performance too much
Post Processing = Mainstream
particles = minimum
Game effects = mainstream
Volumetric effects = lminimum
Shader Level = Gamer
Physics Gamer
Shadows = Shadows seems to be the most demanding , i put it on mainstream and i lose about 20fps lol.

The bottom line: Warhead is clearly more demanding

BENCHMARKING AT THOSE SETTINGS. NO Overclocking, all stock i average 8-15fps

1280X1024 Resolution, NVCP( Transparency Anti aliasing Multisampling, Gamma Correction Anti-Aliasing), Gamer to mainstream to minimum settings, Anti aliasing X4 level. )

 

[DarkMatter]

I use headphones btw. But anyways, what i mean is, the sound in crysis or warhead sounds just fine on low. I just don't see any reason to increase it. Now, i have been testing out warhead for the past few days to see which visual option decreases performance and what does not.

In Crysis Warhead:

Water = Keep on minimum. If it bump up water to mainstream i lose about 10fps.
Sound = No effect, keep on minimum
Textures = I read from tweakguides that increasing textures will cause stutter, this is true, so i turn it up to mainstream.
Objects = Mainstream settings, doesn't seem to affect performance too much
Post Processing = Mainstream
particles = minimum
Game effects = mainstream
Volumetric effects = lminimum
Shader Level = Gamer
Physics Gamer
Shadows = Shadows seems to be the most demanding , i put it on mainstream and i lose about 20fps lol.

The bottom line: Warhead is clearly more demanding

BENCHMARKING AT THOSE SETTINGS. NO Overclocking, all stock i average 8-15fps

http://www.imagenerd.com/uploads/crysisbench-VncM5.jpg
http://www.imagenerd.com/uploads/crysisbench1-3bJDn.jpg

1280X1024 Resolution, NVCP( Transparency Anti aliasing Multisampling, Gamma Correction Anti-Aliasing), Gamer to mainstream to minimum settings, Anti aliasing X4 level. )

Those screenshots don't have 4x anti-aliasing, I even doubt they have 2x. I'm not saying you are doing it deliverately, but those SS just don't have it. They neither have more than 2-4x anisotropic filtering. Stop messing.

 

[D007]

I dunno what mods/skins were used in the screenies, but I'm trying this "natural" mod which changes ToD settings to make it look realistic. I also use an extreme quality config from here:
http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=31242

wish I would of known about this stuff when I started playing crysis..
dang those looks good..
Like I want to make a salad out of the foliage i see there and eat it.. XD

 

[DarkMatter]

wish I would of known about this stuff when I started playing crysis..
dang those looks good..
Like I want to make a salad out of the foliage i see there and eat it.. XD

Be careful, some tropical plants are poisonous.

 

[u2konline]

Those screenshots don't have 4x anti-aliasing, I even doubt they have 2x. I'm not saying you are doing it deliverately, but those SS just don't have it. They neither have more than 2-4x anisotropic filtering. Stop messing.

AF? There is no option to change AF in warhead. In NVCP its on application controlled. With AA in warhead options, i can use 16XQ or something like that, but i will never try that.

Anyways, take a peak:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P40TWDNa6M0

http://www.imagenerd.com/uploads/ingame-09sLt.jpg
http://www.imagenerd.com/uploads/ingame1-6BS5r.jpg
http://www.imagenerd.com/uploads/ingame2-nR9c6.jpg
http://www.imagenerd.com/uploads/gamein-0zw5d.jpg

 

[KainXS]

wow, you can run the menu lol

 

[DarkMatter]

wow, you can run the menu lol

But not without lag.

AF? There is no option to change AF in warhead. In NVCP its on application controlled. With AA in warhead options, i can use 16XQ or something like that, but i will never try that.

Anyways, take a peak:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P40TWDNa6M0

http://www.imagenerd.com/uploads/ingame-09sLt.jpg
http://www.imagenerd.com/uploads/ingame1-6BS5r.jpg
http://www.imagenerd.com/uploads/ingame2-nR9c6.jpg
http://www.imagenerd.com/uploads/gamein-0zw5d.jpg

TBH what are you trying to demostrate? Who cares if the game runs at 8 fps on mainstream settings. You are still 20 fps away from playable settings.

Anyway, I don't care what AA settings you choose in-game, those screenshots have no AA, which is the reason you get no performance hit when you enable it, it's just not doing it. Maybe the game detects the card (has a good laugh) and disables AA by default, maybe it's forced to no AA in the driver panel without you knowing it, or what I've come up to think it's the case: YOU have it dissabled in the driver panel, because you are always trying to demostrate what can't be demostrated. A 8400GS can't provide an acceptable Crysis experience. Period.

And maybe I'm wrong, but I think that AF goes hand in hand with the shaders setting and when you choose gamer/high 8x AF is used, 4x in mainstream and 0-2x in low, unless otherwise forced in the CP or when using parallax occlusion mapping which goes to 0x (only in Crysis, in WH it does work).

 

[RevengE]

U2 your Getting 8 Fps that is not playable, also why does it state that you have 923 Mb of Memory? or is that how much memory it is using? Because in your stats it says you only have 512mb.

 

[ste2425]

haha i used to game at 15fps with my old hd2600 and its perfectly playable i game at 25 fps in crysis at highest possible setting with my current rig and its perfectly playable its only when you have a fps increase or decrease that its not playable but a constant 15 fps if deffo playable not as nice as 40 but still playable

 

[u2konline]

U2 your Getting 8 Fps that is not playable, also why does it state that you have 923 Mb of Memory? or is that how much memory it is using? Because in your stats it says you only have 512mb.

I don't know. I know when playing at those settings which i mention above, i get a warning , about low virtual memory and it goes back to the desktop with the game still running, so i click ok on the virtual memory box and i go back into the game and i could play warhead for about 2-3 hours without the message appearing game. It only seems to appear once, and never shows up again, i guess my computer increase its paging file. I read it has something to do with the fact that i am using 512MB, but i don't believe this is true, because crysis is the only game that it does it in. But another thing, i only have 1.50GB left on my Internal HD, but i am running Warhead on my External 1.1 500gb drive. But i don't have my virtual memory config to point to the external HD, rather its being use on my C drive.

 

[hat]

yes, it IS because you are running out of memory. the pagefile is used when your memory buffer overflows (system RAM)

 

[ste2425]

my old p4 rig used to do that playing maelstrom very anoying

 

[oli_ramsay]

Why not get 2 or 4 GB of cheap RAM?

 

[DrPepper]

Why not get 2 or 4 GB of cheap RAM?

His pc uses rdram I think. although it should be ddr.

 

[ste2425]

i had that ram to in an old 423 or 432 socket mobo lol anyway

 

[Carrion]

GTA IV definitely. I lagged quite a bit and that's on my PC which is very high end.

 

[troyrae360]

are crytech gona put out any more games with the crysis engin?

 

[DrPepper]

are crytech gona put out any more games with the crysis engin?

aye

 

[Melvis]

Yes it is, i can run it on high, about 20FPS, thats as far as i can run Crysis at the moment.

FarCry 2 isnt as bad as it, i can run it 10+Frames more then Crysis. I thought FEAR 2 would hit hard but no i can run it flat out, max everything 1600*1200 res and get 45FPS.

World in conflict now thats another game that hits hard, but i think its just badly made IMO.