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How to Optimize Crysis Guide (Mac Pro)

sturob said:
OK, total n00b followup question (and everyone feel free to pwn me):

What's the best way to determine framerates? I assume there's some little ditzel thingamabob that'll display the framerates.

I just loaded Crysis (full game), and running 1.0 in Vista-64 is awesome (with the 8800GT). It runs actually pretty smoothly on its own self-diagnosed optimal settings (which is everything on Very High). I manually downgraded everything to High, and it's now like buttah.

I downloaded and patched in CoolBits to see if it'll let me see how warm the GPU gets while playing Crysis.

I am so impressed with the MP, I have to tell you. This is fun!

Stuart
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Use this program:

http://www.fraps.com/
 
Siron said:
Great post Mercury Oxide. I got my MBP with the 8800GT (ordered it the day it was announced) and today I purchased Crysis and installed it. I can't wait to play it as I thought FarCry was (in my opinion - next to HalfLife) the best game to date.
Alan
BTW FarCry2 is due out this spring
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Yeah, FarCry was great, they're even making a movie.

Crysis probably doesn't have a story as good as FarCry's, but it's still better than most FPS's.
 
this really is a great thread on crysis. I never new how to measure fps until this thread, excited to see what i'm getting.
 
sturob said:
What's the best way to determine framerates? I assume there's some little ditzel thingamabob that'll display the framerates.
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IIRC, to show framerates, you can type this in the Crysis console:

r_displayinfo 1

You can also use Fraps, as suggested above.
 
Am I Doing Something Wrong

Hi there. I just got my mac and I downloaded WoW and was impressed with how great the computer ran it compared to my PC. I wanted to download Crysis so I searched and found one. I downloaded it and after I clicked the downloaded file it opened up a textedit thing and says at the top that it can only be run on Win 32. I know that crysis can run on Mac because I've seen videos of it. I also tried the link that the OP suggested and it did the same thing. Could someone please help me? I just want to play Crysis.
 
Do you use windows on your mac?

theflanneltiger said:
Hi there. I just got my mac and I downloaded WoW and was impressed with how great the computer ran it compared to my PC. I wanted to download Crysis so I searched and found one. I downloaded it and after I clicked the downloaded file it opened up a textedit thing and says at the top that it can only be run on Win 32. I know that crysis can run on Mac because I've seen videos of it. I also tried the link that the OP suggested and it did the same thing. Could someone please help me? I just want to play Crysis.
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Hi, I don't know if there is a mac version of crysis, I doubt it, but to play a windows games you need windows, either using bootcamp or virtualisation. But using bootcamp will give you the best performances.

But if you already use windows on your mac, wich one is it? If it is a 64 bit version of vista it sometimes as problem installing, so when windows says things like ... this program as known issues... whatever just go ahead and install it anyway and it should work fine.

Hope it helps
 
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