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This might be old news to everyone, but I hate waiting through/clicking through the start up videos. I found this to disable these vids:

To launch the game, the DVD is not required. But before you will see the menu, Warhead shows seven videos and that takes some time. We have a tip for you: Just rename, delete or relocate the files below to get directly to the menu when launching the new Crysis:

• CryTek.sfd
• Trailer_Crytek.sfd
• Trailer_CrytekC.sfd
• Trailer_EA.sfd
• Trailer_Intel.sfd
• Trailer_Nvidia.sfd
• Trailer_PEGI.sfd
• Trailer_Rating_Full.sfd

All those files are located in: \Crysis WARHEAD\Game\Localized\Video.

It may not work with DL versions, but can anyone confirm if this will work with other games? Thanks for the help, and great review Solaris! I didn't notice one spelling error :toast: Just kidding :p
 

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Nice job Solaris. The lighting and fog effects in the Enthusiast mode look a lot more realistic than in gamer mode. Performance mode is freaky...there is a serious lack of vegitation. Looks like they just take it out entirely and leave behind the terrain paint.
 
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This might be old news to everyone, but I hate waiting through/clicking through the start up videos. I found this to disable these vids:

To launch the game, the DVD is not required. But before you will see the menu, Warhead shows seven videos and that takes some time. We have a tip for you: Just rename, delete or relocate the files below to get directly to the menu when launching the new Crysis:

• CryTek.sfd
• Trailer_Crytek.sfd
• Trailer_CrytekC.sfd
• Trailer_EA.sfd
• Trailer_Intel.sfd
• Trailer_Nvidia.sfd
• Trailer_PEGI.sfd
• Trailer_Rating_Full.sfd

All those files are located in: \Crysis WARHEAD\Game\Localized\Video.

It may not work with DL versions, but can anyone confirm if this will work with other games? Thanks for the help, and great review Solaris! I didn't notice one spelling error :toast: Just kidding :p

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! I hated seeing those stupid intro clips every time. :respect:
Also, Solaris, thank you again! Awesome thread. :rockout:
 

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Deleting those files did work with my Steam copy. I just finished the game, it was brilliant!
 
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Glad I could help, it was kinda a stumble from Fud's review.
 

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kk here is a taskmanager report after getting into a firefight etc btw while playing vista task bar was gone im not a dork i dont use both at the same time :p

 
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kk here is a taskmanager report after getting into a firefight etc btw while playing vista task bar was gone im not a dork i dont use both at the same time :p


total 200% , optimized for duals .

be glad you have a quad, so that with 200% gone, you still have 200% of the cpu to run vista
 

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ya you guys with duals in might run into lower frames due to OS overhead Also i have 4GB of ram look at my ram usage id say while playing including used vid ram i had about 600mb-1GB left
 
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I've been playing it on Enthusiast settings and while in Crysis Very High wasnt smooth enough to be playable, in warhead I'd say it is with my card at 1680*1050. However, it is clear that they have reduced the graphical quality. The most noticeable setting is the draw distance. It is absolutely awful. You can see rocks on the road appearing out of nowhere 20m in front of you. The hills and cliffs look nowhere near as beautiful. I hope this is tweakable, because I know people with powerful systems (not me) will complain about this reduction in quality at the top end.

This isnt "optimisation", its simply a reduction in graphical quality.
 

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I've been playing it on Enthusiast settings and while in Crysis Very High wasnt smooth enough to be playable, in warhead I'd say it is with my card at 1680*1050. However, it is clear that they have reduced the graphical quality. The most noticeable setting is the draw distance. It is absolutely awful. You can see rocks on the road appearing out of nowhere 20m in front of you. The hills and cliffs look nowhere near as beautiful. I hope this is tweakable, because I know people with powerful systems (not me) will complain about this reduction in quality at the top end.

This isnt "optimisation", its simply a reduction in graphical quality.



go to

X:\Electronic arts\crysis warhead\games\config\CVarGroups\sys_spec_objectdetail.cfg change these lines in the first group

Code:
e_view_dist_ratio_detail=50
e_view_dist_ratio_vegetation=65
e_view_dist_ratio=60
e_max_view_dst_spec_lerp=1

to around 100 and try running in enthusiest mode. but change "e_max_view_dst_spec_lerp=1" to bout 3 or 4
 
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go to

X:\Electronic arts\crysis warhead\games\config\CVarGroups\sys_spec_objectdetail.cfg change these lines in the first group

Code:
e_view_dist_ratio_detail=50
e_view_dist_ratio_vegetation=65
e_view_dist_ratio=60
e_max_view_dst_spec_lerp=1

to around 100 and try running in enthusiest mode. but change "e_max_view_dst_spec_lerp=1" to bout 3 or 4

Thanks. Its nice to know draw distance can be corrected. I'll try 2 or 3 and see which will be best for my system. Obviously dont want to bring the game to a crawl.

edit: rendering is a lot better now
 
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Thanks. Its nice to know draw distance can be corrected. I'll try 2 or 3 and see which will be best for my system. Obviously dont want to bring the game to a crawl.

tell me how it goes i havent personally tested these settings but iv modded CFG's before so it shouldnt have a prob the one were i reccomended at like 3-4 those types of settings that start at a low number usually max at 5 anything over isnt recognized and it wont load the line or it defaults to lowest settings the others would probably top at 100
 
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tell me how it goes i havent personally tested these settings but iv modded CFG's before so it shouldnt have a prob the one were i reccomended at like 3-4 those types of settings that start at a low number usually max at 5 anything over isnt recognized and it wont load the line or it defaults to lowest settings the others would probably top at 100

Nope, they work very well and as expected theres a performance hit. How do these settings compare to the original crysis? I'd check but I don't have it installed at the moment.
 

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looks a tad bit more rough than it should (jpeg) but the PNG images were huge this is 16AAQ sli or xfire rigs oc'd could probably cope better



 

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Nope, they work very well and as expected theres a performance hit. How do these settings compare to the original crysis? I'd check but I don't have it installed at the moment.

um their a little diff ill leave the modding to jrob ill PM him later he knows the commands better im sure i could do it but their are alot to mod and i would need to go through them one at a time were he has a better idea of were to start and what needs to be done...i just tried them after you did and like you said they did improve it but im sure jrob can push the veiw distance further.

What console command gives the info on the top right?

same as crysis um

Code:
r_displayinfo=1
 

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i contacted jrob we'll see what happens.
 
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This might be old news to everyone, but I hate waiting through/clicking through the start up videos. I found this to disable these vids:

To launch the game, the DVD is not required. But before you will see the menu, Warhead shows seven videos and that takes some time. We have a tip for you: Just rename, delete or relocate the files below to get directly to the menu when launching the new Crysis:

• CryTek.sfd
• Trailer_Crytek.sfd
• Trailer_CrytekC.sfd
• Trailer_EA.sfd
• Trailer_Intel.sfd
• Trailer_Nvidia.sfd
• Trailer_PEGI.sfd
• Trailer_Rating_Full.sfd

All those files are located in: \Crysis WARHEAD\Game\Localized\Video.

It may not work with DL versions, but can anyone confirm if this will work with other games? Thanks for the help, and great review Solaris! I didn't notice one spelling error :toast: Just kidding :p

You can apply that same method to most games.
 
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it runs smooth on enthusiast for me (about 40-45 fps) all the way through... untill i get to the beach scene... then its like 20 fps no matter if the setting is enthusiast, gamer, or mainstream... :( anyone else had this?
 

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it runs smooth on enthusiast for me (about 40-45 fps) all the way through... untill i get to the beach scene... then its like 20 fps no matter if the setting is enthusiast, gamer, or mainstream... :( anyone else had this?

cant say i have can i have a screenshot of the place in question?
 
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nice review thanks for posting some vids, you gonna do some other games Solaris?
 
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cant say i have can i have a screenshot of the place in question?

I'm pretty sure he talking about the scene near the beginning where you have raid the beach bar to get the explosives. Once you get the rocket launcher there's a checkpoint and a well timed quote "here's a present from uncle sam"


@ phanbuey I noticed massive drops in performance there too. Specifically in 2 places here. One the beach with the view distance, water, and distance explosions my FPS too a hit, it wasnt too bad but still noticable. Once I got the explosives from the bar my performance hit the floor. I believe this was from the number of enemies being rendered and approaching your character. Kill them and get your FPS back. :wtf:
 
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Very nice review Solaris - very nice indeed.

Thanks

The game does look interesting and later on in the year i might do a bit of upgrading so i can actually play it.
 
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U should be able to run it now wl accodring to ya specs not supa but be able to run.
 
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U should be able to run it now wl accodring to ya specs not supa but be able to run.

Yea but it's the only reason i have given myself so i don't go out and buy it where i should be spending my free time learning about forensics!:D
 
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