Twin 1950's play Crysis?

Fuzz · 2 Sep 2007 at 10:12

Or am I looking at more money on new cards and Vista O/S...

Andy

stickroad · 2 Sep 2007 at 10:32

No Dual X1950 Pros wont play Crysis. Sorry.

Fuzz · 2 Sep 2007 at 10:33

Ahh rollox

stickroad · 2 Sep 2007 at 10:34

nokinidea said:
Ahh rollox

lol joking man.

How do we know, the game isnt even out.

But a rough guess and you will be able to play Crysis fine.

ergonomics · 2 Sep 2007 at 10:39

oh come one, im sure the game will run fine. it probably runs well in sli/xfire. however i notice you said you spending more money on a new os?

dont bother for crysis, as the cards are dx9 only. stick with xp with those 2

gareth170 · 2 Sep 2007 at 10:50

my guess is when the game is released crossfire won't work same as bioshock. but when new drivers are updated it will work

Fuzz · 2 Sep 2007 at 12:30

I was thinking the game was designed around DX10 and vista and hence not running on my XP Pro, crossfired 1950 rig...

So it's still a possibility then.. oh that's good.. well a good start anyway.

Andy

ergonomics · 2 Sep 2007 at 13:02

nokinidea said:
I was thinking the game was designed around DX10 and vista and hence not running on my XP Pro, crossfired 1950 rig...

So it's still a possibility then.. oh that's good.. well a good start anyway.

Andy

the engine theyre using can be scaled back very well (apperently), and i think the minimum requirements are something like a 7800 or x1800 (correct me if im wrong). so dualk x1950's should be good for decent settings

guess we will have to see when the demo is out in 23 days

LoadsaMoney · 2 Sep 2007 at 13:07

Works on Dx9, XP to, as will all Dx10 games for a long, long time yet, probably talking years.

LabR@t · 2 Sep 2007 at 14:56

x1800 - 1950 not a lot of difference tbh .

jaykay · 2 Sep 2007 at 15:01

ergonomics said:
the engine theyre using can be scaled back very well (apperently), and i think the minimum requirements are something like a 7800 or x1800 (correct me if im wrong). so dualk x1950's should be good for decent settings

guess we will have to see when the demo is out in 23 days

The minium requirements are way lower than that. The minium are an 6600GT or a x1600.

Cyber-Mav · 2 Sep 2007 at 15:04

how does the x1950pro perform when its in crossfire? does it scale well? or is there only a small speed benefit?

ergonomics · 2 Sep 2007 at 15:07

jaykay said:
The minium requirements are way lower than that. The minium are an 6600GT or a x1600.

sorry i meant to say recomended.

jaykay · 2 Sep 2007 at 15:08

Cyber-Mav said:
how does the x1950pro perform when its in crossfire? does it scale well? or is there only a small speed benefit?

Crossfire scales very well. It comes in between the 8800320mb and 640mb. ]
And the 1950pro dual (2 cores on one card) compares very well agaisnt the 8800GTX.

ergonomics · 2 Sep 2007 at 15:10

jaykay said:
Crossfire scales very well. It comes in between the 8800320mb and 640mb. ]
And the 1950pro dual (2 cores on one card) compares very well agaisnt the 8800GTX.

i guess it depends on how well the drivers are at the time, as well as the game itself being optimized for xfire/sli. games like et:qw are supposedly very good when you use xfire or sli, with some places reporting about 60-70% improvement (ill try to find the benchmarks for it)

Cyber-Mav · 2 Sep 2007 at 15:24

thats damn good if it can get 70% speed boost. would be great if it got up to around 80% ish.

Rroff · 2 Sep 2007 at 15:56

With both ET:QW and BioShock using SLI I get pretty close to double fps over a single card - using a timedemo graphed with fraps in etqw I see an overall performance increase of 96% and in BioShock I ran around quicksaving at several points and compared the numbers after quick loading that point and as an example I'd get 30fps with single card mode and 58-59fps with SLI enabled...

Can't comment for crossfire but as its default mode is AFR and both these games work well with AFR then it should be similiar... however in BioShock the nVidia SLI profile does have to set a few compatibility flags to get proper performance - I tried stock AFR and fps dropped to 20 so if ATI doesn't have a similiar tweak you might not see great performance in bioshock on crossfire if its a generic problem with "stock" AFR.

silversurfer · 2 Sep 2007 at 17:07

Any games developer wants to address the widest market possible, the average joe so he has the chance to sell as many games as possible.

x1950pro is going to work just fine in dx9, it wont be dx10, it wont be perfect & it wont do super high res but it'll play the game on average settings no problem.
Anything else and they'd be shooting themselves in the foot.

Its going to be donkeys years before we see a proper dx10 only game

gareth170 · 2 Sep 2007 at 17:35

Rroff said:
With both ET:QW and BioShock using SLI I get pretty close to double fps over a single card - using a timedemo graphed with fraps in etqw I see an overall performance increase of 96% and in BioShock I ran around quicksaving at several points and compared the numbers after quick loading that point and as an example I'd get 30fps with single card mode and 58-59fps with SLI enabled...

Can't comment for crossfire but as its default mode is AFR and both these games work well with AFR then it should be similiar... however in BioShock the nVidia SLI profile does have to set a few compatibility flags to get proper performance - I tried stock AFR and fps dropped to 20 so if ATI doesn't have a similiar tweak you might not see great performance in bioshock on crossfire if its a generic problem with "stock" AFR.

once ati get they drivers updated to support crossfire in bioshiock, i will benchmark it again. but as it is now it runs very good on 1 card..

Richdog · 2 Sep 2007 at 17:37

I really wish people would stop making "How will my system run on crysis" threads.