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Crysis Kills my 8800GTX

I just played thru the demo on my rig on medium settings....
P4 Prescott 3.2ghz
2gb ddr1
7800gtx at stock

It looked awesome and was totally playable and thoroughly enjoyable.
I played it on my m8's gtx sli rig yesterday and it looked a lot better, but it was no less enjoyable at all on my rig.

The game is very well coded and scales well to a wide range of machines.

My advice is just tweak the settings so it runs sweet on your rig and enjoy the awesome gameplay.
You dont have to go out and spend 800 quid to play this game

Albaba
 
Willis said:
Well the day has finaly come when my 8800GTX has had it first real kick in the teeth and yes it was crysis that has done it. So far its eaten everything i've thrown at it @ 1920 x 1200 but crysis makes it look like a FX5200 when i have it set to full details. Looks like its going to be a upgrade when the 9800 comes out ;).
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I just don't get posts like this. Where is it written in stone that a GTX should be able to run every game in a super high res on highest settings? It seem like peoples attitude is that they've spent the money on the GTX so they're not prepared to compromise any settings. The Crysis demo was perfectly playable on my GTS 320 so it must be playable on a GTX. Just make a few compromises.

Monitors don't look half as bad out of their native res as people make out (or else you all have monitor with rubbish scaling chips). I use 1280*800 regularly on my Dell 2007WFP and while it's not as sharp, it still looks great. It's no less sharp than say using a CRT for instance. So compromise on res - use 1680*1050, or compromise on settings - Crysis still looks awesome even on high, or turn AA down (barely needed in such a high res anyway).

Once you actually start playing and get immersed into the game (any game), you just don't notice a bit of aliasing, or lack of sharpness due to non-native res, or the few settings you've turned down. I played Halo 1 on PC last week and it was perfectly enjoyable despite looking not 1% as good as the Crysis demo. Just seems like a glass half full attitude.
 
Well as I said before it was unplayable for me at around 25 frames per second, all high 2x AA @1920x1200, yes I tried lowering the resolution, AA, even detail settings but it really didn't have much of an impact, also there seems to be serious mouse lag, it feels like mouse smoothing is on overdrive even though it's deselected in the menu.
 
just played the demo, awesome!!!! my 8800gtx had no problems with it at all, graphics were spot on and the videos were as smooth as a baby bum. The parachuting sequence was brilliant, i'm using xp 64bit and everything was standard settings that the game came with
 
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Crytek said that Crysis would not be maxed out for another year or so-why are you all getting so peed off? They have released a game that looks stunning, even at medium settings on my X1950pro, and will only get better and better as new GPUs come to the market. Surely it makes more sense for Crytek to have made a game that people wont ditch as soon as they buy a new GPU. Personally, I dont feel the need to run it at settings higher than I currently have it on-it looks great, and in my opinion any more graphical improvements on it is just overkill!
 
[ui]ICEMAN;10379116 said:
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.
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Oh come on, Nvidia's taking the wazz now, i was moaning about no drivers before, now after ive just put the latest on they release another set, i only put the 169.02's on last neet, and looks like they'll be coming off in a couple of days :D:D
 
Well the 169.01/169.02 are the same driver with a different inf as far as I can tell. They didn't fix the Nvvdlm.dll error that has plagued SLI and Vista in almost every other driver revision barring the last beta/official.

*If* Crysis actually loads on my system with the 169.01/2 then my fps is about 5-10 higher @ 2560x1600, however usually within 1-2s of any 3D in any game, the driver fails and dumps you to the desktop with a driver recovery message.

Not really sure how they can break something they had to work for months to fix but never mind... It doesn't seem to affect everyone with SLI but certainly a lot.
 
lowrider007 said:
Well as I said before it was unplayable for me at around 25 frames per second, all high 2x AA @1920x1200, yes I tried lowering the resolution, AA, even detail settings but it really didn't have much of an impact, also there seems to be serious mouse lag, it feels like mouse smoothing is on overdrive even though it's deselected in the menu.
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Well i'm only getting 23fps @ 1920x1200 2xAA and it's perfectly playable and smooth for me.
 
dr. sarf said:
Makes me wonder if all this buying very highly priced cards is worth it - we ought to just save our money and buy a 360 instead where all games that come out run fine without the worry. And you can plug them into a HD 42" without thinking "is it gonna stutter".
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Just got a 360 myself and im just ordering the XFS 360 *PRO* so i can use keyboard and mouse with adjustable sensitivity settings:D
 
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