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ATI Crysis hotfix

Hey, cool. This hotfix gave me a 2FPS increase in Lightsmark.

X1650 Pro from 35 to 37FPS average. :p

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I can also now increase shaders, particles and physics from 'low' up to 'medium' with a very minimal loss in frame rate at 1024x768. Not too bad for a craptacular graphics card me thinks, this being in Crysis.
 
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Hmm do I have to keep the CCC on to gain on this hotfix?. I've not got Crysis installed just now so I can't test. I've never used the CCC either.

Edit: Nevermind, I seen the option in "advanced" whilst installing to take out CCC. :o
 
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Think ive found the best brightness, contrast, gamma settings for those who want to try it, makes the night and forest areas come to life.

In vista go to C:\Users\Your Username\Documents\My Games\Crysis\game.cfg

and change the original lines in game.cfg to:

See post with screenies below.
 
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These do seem to be an improvement.

One odd thing though, when playing on XPx64 1280x1024 all settings except physics and shadows set to high, they're on medium. I can be getting 40+FPS in an area, stick on x2 AA and it goes down to about 4fps !!

OK I was doing it mid game but it can't be that broken can it?

Do need to play with the settings a bit more though. But I can't believe how long I've waited for this game and I've hardly touched it :(

I think instead of starting on the highest settings and clocking them down until playable I should have started on the lowest and clocked them up until unplayable. As now I've seen it maxxed on DX10 I know what I'm missing. :(
 
There is a sizeable hit with 4x AA, maybe not to that effect but it definitely will be around 10-20fps i believe. I prefer to use r_useedgeaa 2 as it gets rid of all the jaggies on foilage and vegetation and makes them appear fuller for no change in fps.
 
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SS-89 said:
There is a sizeable hit with 4x AA, maybe not to that effect but it definitely will be around 10-20fps i believe. I prefer to use r_useedgeaa 2 as it gets rid off all the jaggies on foilage and vegetation and makes them appear fuller for no change in fps.
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x4 I could understand but I'm talking about going from 40+fps with no AA to single digits with x2 AA.

Maybe I just picked a bad spot to change it and shouldn't have done it mid game. I'll try again tomorrow setting the settings first and playing the same bit from a fresh load.

I'll give that edge aa setting a go though, cheers.
 
O sorry for some reason I thought you went to 4xaa it must be a bug as 40fps to 4fps shouldnt happen regardless.
 
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didn't see any difference, though i was getting even less fps and more laggy corners in Crysis, so I went back to old 11 oct. Drivers :/
 
I definately got a performance increase - now running very high/high at 25+fps with shadows on high and shaders on medium, post processing on medium 2xAA

looks stunning ;D
 
Running at 1280x1024 0xaa All High (Along with the Cheap Very high hack from tweakguides except r_usepom=0) and settings below

r_Gamma = 0.89
r_Brightness = 0.43
r_Contrast = 0.58
r_useedgeaa=2

Averaging around 30fps with these drivers :).

Some screenies below:

crysis13.jpg

crysis14.jpg

crysis16.jpg


Stunning game.
 
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I fixed it, I uninstalled the device in the device manager (the card's drivers itself) and told it to delete them, then installed the drivers before i restarted, else it would install vista basic drivers for it which also cause the problem. Basically, no drivers must be install for it. Took me a while.
 
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I fixed it, I uninstalled the device in the device manager (the card's drivers itself) and told it to delete them, then installed the drivers before i restarted, else it would install vista basic drivers for it which also cause the problem. Basically, no drivers must be install for it. Took me a while.
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Good tip, but I've just tried this and Vista keeps auto installing a driver as soon as I run the installer. :o

edit: if you install to a different folder (eg C:/ATI2/ ); it works. :cool:
 
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Stabhappy said:
oh nice will keep that in mind for when the 7.11's (?) come out.

Assuming that's the next drivers.
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yep, they'll go up to 7.12, then January next year will be the 8.1's.

Would it be possible for you to make an account here, and tell them of your install problems, please ? The more people that report it, the faster it will get fixed.
 
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Would be nice if somewhere'd done a 'before and after' style benchmark for these new drivers which seem to have worked some kind of amazing magic...
 
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