Official Crysis Demo thread

[Tombo]

there is a lot of conflicting info

will i be able to run this at 1680 at medium?

Definitely, you should be able to run all high too. (on XP 32)

 

[chrissss]

I have a weird problem though;

if I play on 1680*1050 I get 25-40fps.

if I play on 1280*720 I get 25-40fps.

all on high, no AA no CCC.

does this mean my cpu is the bottleneck?

 

[neocon]

Definitely, you should be able to run all high too. (on XP 32)

thx

winxp 32 f t w

 

[silversurfer]

I have a weird problem though;

if I play on 1680*1050 I get 25-40fps.

if I play on 1280*720 I get 25-40fps.

all on high, no AA no CCC.

does this mean my cpu is the bottleneck?

No the cpu is fine no doubt, the demo is a bit weird like the beta was. Try reading this http://www.tweakguides.com/Crysis_1.html

 

[krooton]

Just had a go:

X2 3800+ @ 2.7Ghz
1.5GB PC3200
2900 Pro @ stock

Ran the game perfectly fine at 1680x1050 all medium settings.

Stuttered a lot when I tried everything on high, but then I have little ram and not the best CPU

 

[geeza]

anyone tried the multiplayer?

 

[Borden]

After messing around with the normal settings and the CCC settings i have come it with the best ones that looks nice and give a very playable fps. For all the people who are not rich (or stupid) enough to own 8gb of ram, a gtx and god knows what else here are the settings im using on the following system.

X2 [email protected]
X1800XT@stock
2gb gskill

Standard in game settings, 1280x720, no AA

This means i no longer have to get a new 8800GT (which i cant afford anyway) and can play it whilst it still looks nice enough

I found that ccc on medium gave lower fps, the shadows looks rather crappy and objects popped up out of nowhere

Cheers for that, i have a similar system to you so will probably try this out with the retail game come friday. Don't really want to complete the demo and have to recap everything again in the final game.

Just to clear things up, you were using CCC on high right?

Cheers.

 

[Nymins]

anyone tried the multiplayer?

Not a good idea for those not so proper game holders

 

[geeza]

Cheers for that, i have a similar system to you so will probably try this out with the retail game come friday. Don't really want to complete the demo and have to recap everything again in the final game.

Just to clear things up, you were using CCC on high right?

Cheers.

nah. I just used the standard settings you get with the game. After using CCC and normal settings i think i prefer normal ones. Im sure CCC sets the draw distance to a lot lower. I think the darker shadows look better aswell in normal settings

On the GPU demo CCC medium gets 14.62fps

Using the settings as in the pic i posted it gets 24.91

Thats a lot more playable than ccc, sure you dont get sun rays and post processing but you do get the stuff that matters, like physics and decent textures. I find the textures really add to the game.

When (if) i upgrade i would want it to look like that video posted in dx10 mode with all the stuff on highest, not spend £150 and it look a bit better or look the same and get a few more fps

 

[Super]

anyone tried the multiplayer?

Played for a couple hours Steel Mill map TBH mp looks crap well that map did.

Its good though but nothing amazing.

 

[geeza]

Not a good idea for those not so proper game holders

what are game holders

 

[Hunders]

nah. I just used the standard settings you get with the game. After using CCC and normal settings i think i prefer normal ones. Im sure CCC sets the draw distance to a lot lower. I think the darker shadows look better aswell in normal settings

I prefer standard, too. The 'god rays' and other nifty effects that the CCC gives looks awesome but there were a few things that annoyed the hell out of me. Objects popped into view a lot more than standard, rocks particularly annoyed me because they sort of 'fizzled' into view. Some bushes and trees in the distance would flash lighter and darker and the screen would sometimes flash black for a split second.

Tweaking the standard settings to match what your system can handle is better for sure.

 

[mrk]

OMG, I take back the bored comments I made earlier, I bunged it in DX9 mode as DX10 was getting annoying with its random low FPS drops and sub 10fps when an alien made it snow ^_^ and now feel it actually looks better in DX9 "HIGH" with 2xFSAA compared to DX10 with a mix of high/very high and medium.

Will keep a hold of the game in this case now until new hardware is out then enjoy it again but with the monster DX10 effects

Happy for now!

http://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/games/crysis/DX9_Vista_high_2xFSAA/

 

[silversurfer]

Nukes are for wimps tbh

Nice shots mrk

 

[Samione]

Just completed it, 7/8 hrs- and wow, performance wasn't great - seemed to go downhill as the game progressed but hell even with that- this was pure awesome. All I can say is roll on Crysis 2

 

[Neil79]

7-8hrs... that all?

 

[Samione]

7-8hrs... that all?

Yeah was for me anyway... started at 2:30 finished at 11 with breaks in between ofc It's a good length though - it felt right, infact I thought it was going to end way before it did!

 

[z0mbi3]

How has the 2900 pro been doing in the demo then?

 

[silversurfer]

Yeah was for me anyway... started at 2:30 finished at 11 with breaks in between ofc It's a good length though - it felt right, infact I thought it was going to end way before it did!

Sounds much shorter then hl2 was, that to me was the right length for a game.
Crysis is hopefully going to be about the mods, just got to wait and see I guess

 

[Dingleberry88]

Crysis is hopefully going to be about the mods, just got to wait and see I guess

This game is crying out for a Predator mod.