Crysis 3 performance

Twirlywoos · 5 Mar 2013 at 12:54

Guest2 said:
I just recreated those settings with vsync off and right at the start of the game get 64fps.

I can only assume you only like gaming at very high fps or there is an issue with your machine. If a single 670 can do ~65 then I would have thought SLI could do in the region of 100

No, as I mentioned earlier it is just some scenes which drag the fps down, otherwise it plays fine.

At the start when you are handed the bow for the first time, look into the area through the top windows and the fps will grind down.

Guest2 · 5 Mar 2013 at 13:11

That scene has crap coding on tesselated moving ropes. 80fps to 28 reported on a site (with pics)

Tobes · 5 Mar 2013 at 15:46

Rusty0611 said:
What settings am I looking at with crossfire OC 7950s? Like above 60 FPS really (120 Hz monitor)

(1150/1600)

1920*1080

I'm using a couple of W3 7950s and have everything on very high and running at 720p till I get a new monitor. All going nicely. How high did you get your xfire OC and was that on air?

Rusty0611 · 5 Mar 2013 at 15:49

Tobes said:
I'm using a couple of W3 7950s and have everything on very high and running at 720p till I get a new monitor. All going nicely. How high did you get your xfire OC and was that on air?

Yeah on air.

Got a Gigabyte WF 3x in the top slot which does 1275/1700 on its own and a HIS IceQ in the bottom slot which does 1200/1650.

I just run 1100-1150/1600 as an everyday clock as it's often overkill at 1920*1080.

Tobes · 5 Mar 2013 at 15:55

What have you upped the voltage to? Do you OC them separately then or together at the same clock? I never thought about running separate clocks and like you I think my bottom card can't manage what my top card can.

RizGB · 5 Mar 2013 at 16:16

just got my card very pleased with how it runs on high settings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S44oFJQK5YM#!

sorry for the screen size lol

not sure if i should overclock it if i do should i use cc or trixx

Rusty0611 · 5 Mar 2013 at 17:08

Tobes said:
What have you upped the voltage to? Do you OC them separately then or together at the same clock? I never thought about running separate clocks and like you I think my bottom card can't manage what my top card can.

I run them at the same speed when CF is enabled but there's no reason not to run them at different speeds.

For 1150/1600 the voltage is set to 1.2V on both. Doesn't need to be this high but temps are fine so it's easier for me.

Deceptor · 5 Mar 2013 at 17:19

Guest2 said:
I just recreated those settings with vsync off and right at the start of the game get 64fps.

I can only assume you only like gaming at very high fps or there is an issue with your machine. If a single 670 can do ~65 then I would have thought SLI could do in the region of 100

Not sure with those settings, but my SLI 670's running at stock with everything maxed (except motion blur) @ 1080 can run the game on avg around 50-60 FPS (few dips here and there).

Tonester0011 · 5 Mar 2013 at 17:47

Rusty0611 said:
What settings am I looking at with crossfire OC 7950s? Like above 60 FPS really (120 Hz monitor)

(1150/1600)

1920*1080

I only had CF when Crysis was in beta, but i played with everything on high for 100+fps and V-high would set me about 60-70fps average but drops into mid 30s (was online with old drivers though)

If you're anything like me, this game wont really feel smooth up till around the 100+fps mark anyway. Take this with a pinch of salt though, i was playing in the beta so old drivers

Guest2 · 5 Mar 2013 at 18:51

majnu said:
No, as I mentioned earlier it is just some scenes which drag the fps down, otherwise it plays fine.

At the start when you are handed the bow for the first time, look into the area through the top windows and the fps will grind down.

This window? Just got the bow looked through and dropped to 40 at lowest

Twirlywoos · 5 Mar 2013 at 19:11

Guest2 said:
This window? Just got the bow looked through and dropped to 40 at lowest

That's the one. I'll replay back the mission and record cpu and gpu usage.

Guest2 · 5 Mar 2013 at 19:18

Suprised its only 71% really. Still, cpu usage is pretty high

Twirlywoos · 5 Mar 2013 at 20:13

There you are, I have no idea why it does that. I only did a fresh o/s install (Windows 8) and updated all my drivers last week so I can't imagine why the frames drop so much with the settings I use.

Guest2 · 5 Mar 2013 at 20:36

In game shots 1, 3 and 4 the usage is very low - 40% on each card instead of near 100% - that will explain the low fps. Now to work out why it does that. Are the cards overclocked and maybe throttling back? My card did that when i was playing half life 2 with cinematc mod when it was overclocked too much. it dropped to about 15fps

andybird123 · 5 Mar 2013 at 21:07

the ropes are bugged, big FPS / usage dips when there are moving ropes on the screen... get past the first level and the game becomes much smoother

Twirlywoos · 5 Mar 2013 at 21:29

andybird123 said:
the ropes are bugged, big FPS / usage dips when there are moving ropes on the screen... get past the first level and the game becomes much smoother

I think you're right, even Maldo mentioned it

http://maldotex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/performance-bug-in-crysis-3-first-level.html

Davanius · 7 Mar 2013 at 22:18

Crysis 3 had a patch today and it seems to have addressed the crashing for some.

My gpu's now have a higher usage reading at approx 98 percent each and a higher smoother framerate but while overclocked, the temps on the top cards hit 97c causing the card to pass out.

I have raised the fan profile and set the clocks to default so that the top card doesn't go over 88c.

This game is like a stress test just like furmark or something.

Guest2 · 7 Mar 2013 at 23:01

Davanius said:
Crysis 3 had a patch today and it seems to have addressed the crashing for some.

My gpu's now have a higher usage reading at approx 98 percent each and a higher smoother framerate but while overclocked, the temps on the top cards hit 97c causing the card to pass out.

I have raised the fan profile and set the clocks to default so that the top card doesn't go over 88c.

This game is like a stress test just like furmark or something.

Its way more hardcore than furmark. Try and keep below 70c otherwise kelper boost will drop by increments of 13mhz on the core (within about every few c more than 70)

opethdisciple · 8 Mar 2013 at 13:26

Most likely already posted, but I found these benchmarks very interesting.

It seems to suggest that at 1920x1080, Very high details, very high tex, motion blur medium, lens flair enabled, 2x smaa, 16x AF the minimum fps are the same for cards as low as the 7870/660ti all the way up too Titans/690's and 7970 xfires!

Also the frame variance results look strange. The 680 has terrible frame variance compared to the 670 for instance....

LtMatt · 8 Mar 2013 at 13:34

opethdisciple said:
Most likely already posted, but I found these benchmarks very interesting.

It seems to suggest that at 1920x1080, Very high details, very high tex, motion blur medium, lens flair enabled, 2x smaa, 16x AF the minimum fps are the same for cards as low as the 7870/660ti all the way up too Titans/690's and 7970 xfires!

Also the frame variance results look strange. The 680 has terrible frame variance compared to the 670 for instance....

Someone should send that to The Tech Report. I wonder if they will write another frame latency article on it. I'm guessing they won't.