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Crysis - DX9 vs DX10

DX10 and Vista is the future, get used to it. Hardware will soon emerge that is more than capable of delivering storming framerates in DX10 in the latest games.
 
I was saying just a month ago I bet crysis doesnt handle Quad core... the crytek team did say all there in-house pcs were Core2duos/dualcores.... so had a bad feeling it would be dual core optimised more if anything guess it was true.

I bet its another supreme commander type quad core support ;)

Need Alan Wake...
 
Robbie G said:
DX10 and Vista is the future, get used to it. Hardware will soon emerge that is more than capable of delivering storming framerates in DX10 in the latest games.
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And that same hardware will be able to deliver even better framerates in DX9 and look exactly the same as DX10.
 
There seems to be some minor differences going from either Very high setting to the high setting but certainly not enough to warrent the massive drop in framerate.

The problem I have with crysis is that a lot of the things that really hamper performance don't really seem to affect gameplay in any meaningful fashion. (IE differences between image detail is minor yet the performance hit is terrible)
 
oweneades said:
There seems to be some minor differences going from either Very high setting to the high setting but certainly not enough to warrent the massive drop in framerate.

The problem I have with crysis is that a lot of the things that really hamper performance don't really seem to affect gameplay in any meaningful fashion. (IE differences between image detail is minor yet the performance hit is terrible)
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There are some major visual differences between High and Very High, but some of the most important changes (realmaps & sunrays) cause very little performance drop.

I'm using this config file:

r_DepthOfField=2
r_sunshafts=1
e_obj_quality=4
e_vegetation_bending=2
r_UsePom=1
e_terrain_normal_map=1
r_WaterReflectionsQuality=4
q_ShaderWater=2
r_HDRRendering=2
r_colorgrading=1

which gives me the best of the "very high" settings at a cost of just 1~2 fps :).


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AmateurJimmy,
Your current sig is disgraceful. I hate to think what it was before they made you change it.
 
Robbie G said:
DX10 and Vista is the future, get used to it. Hardware will soon emerge that is more than capable of delivering storming framerates in DX10 in the latest games.
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windows millenium comes to mind.....yeah i skipped that even if it was the future back then.
 
Robbie G said:
Totally different, it was just a different version of 98.
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not really....it was a pretty buggy microsoft OS that i didnt buy.
they have atleast that much in common.
vista may become better but until it does it certainly isnt the near future.
 
RaidenGB said:
i have a Question how do you Put it in DX9 Mode on vista 64 bit ?
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Edit the shortcut, and add -DX9 at the end (outside the quotes):

"C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crysis\Bin32\Crysis.exe" -DX9


Or,

In the Crysis folder, make a text file called System.cfg, and put this line in it:

r_driver=dx9

That will force vista to use the DX9 render path.

You can also use this file to add some, or all, of the very high settings.
 
The whole DX10 thing is a farse, just Microsoft trying to force gamers to use Vista because at the moment it is the ONLY selling point.

Funny how every game "made for dx10 and Vista" works best and looks almost identical in XP and dx9 (and if not there are usually mods to enable the "extras" that supposedly only work on vista) :P
 
There are some dx10 effects even the config mods cannot do, those are proper dx10 effects like complete reflections of islands and trees etc on distant watery surfaces (unless there's a cfg line I've missed!)

Otherwise the differences are so small that the halved fps in dx10 very high is just not worth it :p
 
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