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Crysis Kills my 8800GTX

For all this purchasing there'd better be a few more games appearing on the horizon to compare to Crysis, and not kak thats finished in 3 - 4 hours of play!
 
Jazz said:
Maybe someone could help me with a few things. How much difference would another 8800gtx in sli make to my scores? I was also thinking of ditching this 8800gtx and going for a 9800gtx but seeing as my mobo doesn't have PCI-E 2.0 I am not gonna change that as well. Is this 9800 properly backwards compatible with the older mobos and I'm guessing this new slot will provide extra features so would it really make a big difference to use an older mobo? Also would the scores for this new 9800 be similar to two 8800gtx in sli?

Cost wise both would probably work out about the same. Say sell the 8800gtx for £250, I'd probably have to cough up another £275 for the 9800. I only bought this system last December so in an ideal world I'd rather not upgrade it but seeing as I will eventually get a 30" monitor I'm guessing I will need the extra power. Though I can't quite see this game working too well at 2560x1600 lol
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I'm afraid no one knows what the scores of the 9800GTX will be yet since there is new news of sign of this coming out yet.

Scores? Are you upgrading mainly for benchmarking at this moment in time?
 
Definitely not for benchmarking, this is quite a graphically demanding game so just used it as an example really. Like I said I am getting a bigger monitor around January/February time so I will want to play games at a higher res then I'm currently doing and just want to prepare for that really.

I'm not one to keep chopping and changing my computer as I'd rather keep this system until at least the end of next year but as I'm buying a new monitor I wouldn't mind spending a bit more to make sure the games I play will work fine on it at higher resolutions. I hear these 30" monitors don't like resolutions that are too low compared to their native resolutions. For example the resolution I benchmarked at is 1280x1024 which is around the same as 1440x900 and I've heard the quality of picture on these monitors deteriorates badly the lower you go. So am just looking for info at the moment.

should have made myself more clear in my original post :) Guess I should wait for the 9800 cards to come out first to see how they compare.
 
Instead of just playing it on the best settings you can, why dont you guys just waste another £500 on a video card you dont really need. I mean jeese some of you cant even kill the enemys in a couple of shots. " yeah looks really good, had to finish the game on easy cause i still can't kill them even with 100fps "

Theres people on here with very high end systems that are complaining. How much crap have you guys got running in the back ground ? when was the last time you checked your system performance without a million apps running that you dont need ?

a lot of you are already throwing money at the 9800 card even though it isnt out yet, and your still running XP. Did you know that with Vista you can pin point exactly where the bottle necks are in your system ? or are you just not using vista because your mates told you some bad things about it ?

The game runs good on my system, 5600x2, 1950 xtx crossfire card, 2 gig ram, Vista ultimate, all stock. But then again my first computer was a ZX spectrum, so i've had my fair share of gaming computers.
 
I might get another GTX on the cheap and a 680i board so I can see what this sli business is all about. If only Nvidia had some information about the 9800gtx
 
Runs very badly on my system, hopefully the patch next week + the new NV drivers due in a few days will fix the SLI issues.

I have to drop down to 1280 to get even 20fps with everything on very high, running at native res of 2560x1600 nets me 5-10fps, even on high its only 8-15.

Clean install of Vista too.

Q6600 @ 3.6
EVGA 680SLI
4gb OCZ 6400 @ 900
2x BFG 8800GTX SLI
Samsung 305T
Vista x64 Ultimate
 
[ui]ICEMAN;10378741 said:
Runs very badly on my system, hopefully the patch next week + the new NV drivers due in a few days will fix the SLI issues.

I have to drop down to 1280 to get even 20fps with everything on very high, running at native res of 2560x1600 nets me 5-10fps, even on high its only 8-15.

Clean install of Vista too.

Q6600 @ 3.6
EVGA 680SLI
4gb OCZ 6400 @ 900
2x BFG 8800GTX SLI
Samsung 305T
Vista x64 Ultimate
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We have a very similar spec. I play it on 1680x1250 with 4xaa everything on very high except shaders or maybe shadows which is on high. I get 20 to 40fps.

Sadly I don't think it will be possible for us to play the game at 2560x1600 on very high even with all the patches and stuff :(
 
Super said:
We have a very similar spec. I play it on 1680x1250 with 4xaa everything on very high except shaders or maybe shadows which is on high. I get 20 to 40fps.

Sadly I don't think it will be possible for us to play the game at 2560x1600 on very high even with all the patches and stuff :(
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What patches?
 
There's a patch due out this week for the Crysis demo that fixes the SLI issues that the game currently has. NV have also said they will release another driver set to coincide with this patch which may further help.
 
Ran the GPU benchmark

8800GTX @ 621/1512/2000
E6600 @ 3.6Ghz
2GB RAM

Everything HIGH apart from Post Process which is set to Medium, also have Sunshafts enabled via a Cvar (Light passing through leaves)
NO AA

Min 24
Avg 41
Max 49

Not bad at all :cool:
 
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