Crysis Demo

[Redneck1089]

My 8800gts was gasping for air at 1680x1050 and 2xAA.

Wasn't really playable... but it looked beautiful. I didn't bother to get frame rates.

Turn off AA. It slows the game way down. You should have no problems getting close to 30 fps with that card. If you want to see what your framerate is, type this into the console (~) r_DisplayInfo 1

Are you running this game on a Mac Pro, or a gaming PC?

Remember, the demo is only using one core right now too. When the actual game is released people should get a lot better performance.

 

[exabytes18]

Turn off AA. It slows the game way down. You should have no problems getting close to 30 fps with that card. If you want to see what your framerate is, type this into the console (~) r_DisplayInfo 1

Are you running this game on a Mac Pro, or a gaming PC?

Remember, the demo is only using one core right now too. When the actual game is released people should get a lot better performance.

Awesome! I'll try that out tomorrow.

BTW, it's a gaming PC with a C2D E6300. I'll try overclocking more since it's only at a modest 2.4ghz.

 

[Maxime]

The problem is not the processor. It's the video card.

A 8800GTS is barely good enough to play that game.

You will need a 8800GTX and you might even need two of them in SLI.

 

[contoursvt]

Actually some benchmarks have already shown that the game does benefit from more cpu power. Also the demo is not multi-cpu aware or capable where as the full game will be so I believe that the final game will run better than this demo by quite a good margin.

 

[contoursvt]

I have no idea how to do any of that... I'm useless with Windows other than just doing really basic things.

Oh ok. Well hopefully this helps (again its only necessary if you're running vista. XP does not need this done)

Step 1, find the folder where the game got installed. I put mine on my 2nd hard drive but chances are yours is installed under C:\Program Files\. If you navigate in the game folder, you will see a folder called BIN32. Go in there and find crysis.exe. Right click on that and choose create shortcut

Step 2, Once you have the shortcut created, right click on the shortcut and click on properties

Step 3, The properties box will come up and it will have the path to the game. See where I have circled. You need to add the -dx9 to the path shown in yours. The -dx9 basically tells the game to start as dx9 mode. Once you've typed that, just click ok.

You should be able to launch the game now from this shortcut and have it start up in DX9 mode and you should feel it to be more peppy. Let me know if this helped.

 

[recoman3]

17" 2.4 MBP, game looks blurry unless I have it at 1920X1200 resolution, in which case I need to have all the settings in low and it still runs pretty slow... (didnt measure fps, but probably under 15).
Cool game though..

 

[Redneck1089]

The problem is not the processor. It's the video card.

A 8800GTS is barely good enough to play that game.

You will need a 8800GTX and you might even need two of them in SLI.

The game relies heavily on the CPU. It's one of the first games that can utilize up to 16 cores. Right now, because we only have the demo available which can only use one core, the faster the CPU the better.

Even though the game doesn't display huge fps numbers on any card or computer right now doesn't mean it is not playable. Almost everyone on the Crysis forums are saying the same thing as me: the game feels like we're getting much better fps than what is being displayed by either the in-game fps counter or by fraps.

Like I said before I can play the game on high everything at 1280x1024 and get 15-25 fps which feels much higher. It plays smooth with no lag.

 

[Erasmus]

Like I said before I can play the game on high everything at 1280x1024 and get 15-25 fps which feels much higher. It plays smooth with no lag.

That would be the motion blur doing that, wouldn't it?

 

[padré]

mac pro

played to the demo with everything on high (no AA, it start to act weird with aa turned on), standard screen resolution, twas verry playeble, nice graphics, i really enjoyed it

 

[Redneck1089]

That would be the motion blur doing that, wouldn't it?

If it's the motion blur, then I'll never play another graphically advanced game without it! However, I am not so sure... There's no lag when jumping, shooting, watching birds or planes fly overhead, or when vehicles drive down the road...

 

[Redneck1089]

Oh ok. Well hopefully this helps (again its only necessary if you're running vista. XP does not need this done)

Step 1, find the folder where the game got installed. I put mine on my 2nd hard drive but chances are yours is installed under C:\Program Files\. If you navigate in the game folder, you will see a folder called BIN32. Go in there and find crysis.exe. Right click on that and choose create shortcut

Step 2, Once you have the shortcut created, right click on the shortcut and click on properties

Step 3, The properties box will come up and it will have the path to the game. See where I have circled. You need to add the -dx9 to the path shown in yours. The -dx9 basically tells the game to start as dx9 mode. Once you've typed that, just click ok.

You should be able to launch the game now from this shortcut and have it start up in DX9 mode and you should feel it to be more peppy. Let me know if this helped.

Thanks for the instructions. I'll give this a shot later on!

 

[contoursvt]

Rats looks like my internet connection is down so my server is not going to be able to provide the images for my instructions... well at least until the connection comes back. Hmmm or maybe the server is hung. That would be weird.

 

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Does anyone notice a difference in quality at various levels of AA? I was messing with it, and even with 16xQ, jaggies were still obvious... performance hit was insane though. Do you have to restart the game for it to take effect?

 

[contoursvt]

Does anyone notice a difference in quality at various levels of AA? I was messing with it, and even with 16xQ, jaggies were still obvious... performance hit was insane though. Do you have to restart the game for it to take effect?

I couldnt even get AA to work I'd apply it and go back in the game but no change. I 'd exit and come back into the game and the AA was back to off. I really want to like Crysis but man its got so many bugs so far.

 

[Redneck1089]

I couldnt even get AA to work I'd apply it and go back in the game but no change. I 'd exit and come back into the game and the AA was back to off. I really want to like Crysis but man its got so many bugs so far.

AA works fine for me but it slows the game down to a slide show...

 

[exabytes18]

I couldnt even get AA to work I'd apply it and go back in the game but no change. I 'd exit and come back into the game and the AA was back to off. I really want to like Crysis but man its got so many bugs so far.

Is this possibly intentional? Not sure what they gain from disabling AA, but it seems like a relatively simple thing to ignore.

 

[MRU]

I'm playing with everything on high and at 1280X1024. The game to me is very, very, playable

I'm getting between 15-25 fps with no AA on. I

That's where we differ in opinion. 15-25fps to me is pretty crappy. At least if it was sustained 25-30, but those dips, well I feel them and I dont like them.

 

[bozs13]

all you guys that say it's not impressive must be kidding me

Every gamer knows that this is the best looking fps ever. I know that sounds kind of weird, but it's true. I have a PC sitting next to my mac at home with an 8800gtx and it barely runs in full settings. A friend of mine with the sli gtx's can play a little better but we'll have to wait a while until there's a card that can handle it at full settings. Turn everything up and it looks absolutely SICK!

 

[Redneck1089]

That's where we differ in opinion. 15-25fps to me is pretty crappy. At least if it was sustained 25-30, but those dips, well I feel them and I dont like them.

There should be a performance boost once the actual game is released. This game only uses a single core. People with four core and eight cores should see quite an improvement.

 

[mikee1979]

I've a quad 2.66 mac pro 2GB ram, x1900 car and it ran fine on medium settings and high physics detail, as soon as textures and AA is turned on or up it starts to really slow down. I ran the game at max resolution (1600x1000 or something similar) I think it looked pretty amazing running even on medium settings.

 

[recoman3]

I revoke what I said, with directX9 enabled (as opposed to 10), the game fast and smoothly all medium settings and the 3rd highest res (the one below 1600x1200 I think). 1920X1200 is smooth with low graphics. Game looks pretty damn good though, pity the demo is so short.

 

[Malte]

I've played the MP beta a lot on my Leopard version of Bootcamp with XP pro. I'm on the "small/cheap" MacBook Pro, and it runs perfectly (read 30 fps) in 1440x900 with everything on low details.
Just downloaded the SP demo, and let you guys know what it's like asap.

 

[teknishn]

Re: resolution issue with crysis demo

I'm trying to play it on my new 24" iMac, 2.8ghz rig and it won't give me any options for resolution except the native 1920x1200. Obviously that is a pipe dream to run at with the 2600 HD Pro card.

Current setup in Leopard Bootcamp is Vista with the lastest SP1 beta. Running the ATI 7.10 drivers. Every other game runs excellent, but for some reason Crysis won't let me kick the res down.

 

[Erasmus]

Oh well, I downloaded it and played it through a few times.

It's pretty fun, but it's sad that I have to drop the screen res down to the absolute minimum to get any playable framerates. The good news is, with that low res, I can bump most things up to High, although I'm undecided on whether that makes up for the loss of pixels.

If the full version with its multi-core support somehow means I can run Crysis on Med settings at 1440x900, I'll probably buy it. If the performance stays the same, I'll have to think about it a bit more.

EDIT: Played it again, made some more observations. It's strange, put the quality up to Med-High, and changing the screen res has very little impact on the framerate. It all seems to be 15-20, but I don't know exactly, shall try the framerate command in a minute. It's still playable (just), and looks great at 1440x900. Lower the screen res a bit, and the framerate might gain a few, but not much. Similarly, put the res at 1440x900, and knock down the quality, and the FPS is still 15-20. Of course, put everything on High, and it's suddenly unplayable, and put everything on low with a very small screen res, and it's pretty smooth. Another interesting thing is although it runs nice in game, the beginning and end scenes run very, very badly. I reckon I get 4 FPS in the final scripted scene, not the 20 or so in game. I can only hope this is proof that the game is CPU limited (I wouldn't have thought that the final scene would be very heavy on the GPU, I mean it's just a boat and some guys, not the whole bloody Island!) at Med-High res on the 2.2 MBP, and will therefore increase in performance with the multicore full version.

 

[Erasmus]

Well, for anyone else with a 2.2 GHz MBP who is wondering whether they should download the demo, or buy Crysis, and what settings to run it on, here they are:

Running at 1440x900, native res, set everything to high, except for Shadows, Shaders, and Volumetrics, which should be set to low. 15-20 FPS. Very pretty, quite smooth, very playable. It's unfortunate that the GPU can't handle the Shaders even at Medium at any decent res, let alone native (Turn it on and you're looking at 5-10fps) because that seems to be where the motion blur, depth of field, and decent rock textures are (For some reason, rocks look crap even when textures are set high. They look like marble, not sandstone. Turn the Shaders up, and you suddenly get sandstone). If you want those things, turn it to Medium, but you'll have to settle for a lower res.

Such a great, fun game.

EDIT: Stick Volumetrics on high as well, so the torches at the beginning of the game look like penlights, not shards of the sun.