Why is my crysis fps so awful?

Baka^Ni · 9 Jan 2008 at 19:10

A friend asked me to bench my system for the crysis top list thread and casting my eye over the entries I should roughly fit between 7th and 4th place at around ~57fps

System is a E6600 @ 3.6ghz, 2gb pc8000 and twin gtxs in sli @ 621/1512/960.

Benching 1280x1024 @ high nets me 43fps :eek:

Turning off sli nets me 39fps...

Something is clearly very wrong, the only difference I can see is that I'm running vista 64, the only sli user under 64 on the toplist.
Is sli utterly screwed

Any ideas people? I want my top 10 place =)

mame · 9 Jan 2008 at 19:47

sounds ok to me. If there is a top-list for this on the net then you can bet that the people at the top are forcing just about every feature to 'performance' in the drivers and using other tricks aswell.

steve258 · 9 Jan 2008 at 19:51

Thought the top list runs XP + DX9? That could be the reason, have you tried the 1.1 patch?

Sasso · 9 Jan 2008 at 19:56

lol if ya think thats bad, check the post on the crysis dx9 benchmark thread. i think im gogint to get the lowest score

cos on the results site im currently in last place

hehe

Gashman · 10 Jan 2008 at 00:18

have you tried using a custom config with the CVAR 'r_MultiGPU=1' in it?

Cr0fty · 10 Jan 2008 at 00:30

Also...do you have the newest drivers?

Baka^Ni · 10 Jan 2008 at 16:33

Using the 169.28 drivers, set system.cfg to r_multigpu mode but still a 3.3ghz c2d 8800gts 512 manages much better performance then me, puzzling.

Unfortunately now my amazing, reliable, worth every penny 680i has blown yet another couple of gigs of ram and so now I can't test crysis until everything is RMA'ed

.

Thanks for your help anyway.

Gashman · 10 Jan 2008 at 20:08

Baka^Ni said:
Using the 169.28 drivers, set system.cfg to r_multigpu mode but still a 3.3ghz c2d 8800gts 512 manages much better performance then me, puzzling.

Unfortunately now my amazing, reliable, worth every penny 680i has blown yet another couple of gigs of ram and so now I can't test crysis until everything is RMA'ed .

Thanks for your help anyway.

the 8800GTS (G92) is potentially slightly faster than the 8800GTX, mine is running stable at 745Mhz (core) 1800Mhz (shader) 2100Mhz (memory), that and my C2D running at 3.8Ghz can't get beyond 50FPS at high settings at that resolution, SLI gives negligable performance boosts in crysis for some reason. editing the config of the game gave me best visual/performance, might be worth looking into

thecremeegg · 10 Jan 2008 at 20:30

At stock settings on my e6400 and 8800GTS 640 im only gettin 27fps average

Everyone else seems to be beating me, its depressing

setter · 10 Jan 2008 at 20:38

managed 53.73, with card clocked @795/1095/2000, core, memory, shader, if i push the core any higher the system just freezes up

willhub · 10 Jan 2008 at 20:51

In the crysis shortcut type in -dx9 so that it runs in DX9.

Is your ram by any chance ballistix aswell?

Baka^Ni · 10 Jan 2008 at 21:00

willhub said:
In the crysis shortcut type in -dx9 so that it runs in DX9.

Is your ram by any chance ballistix aswell?

Tried that, both DX9 & 10 appear to have practically the same performance for me.

I have cellshock pc8000, after the 680i blew the first 2gbs, I reduced the voltage to 2.2 but it seems where there is a will, there is a way.

willhub · 10 Jan 2008 at 21:02

680i's are awfull from the sound of it glad I never got one, get shot of it m8 get a rock solid intel mobo

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Wizardskills · 10 Jan 2008 at 21:22

willhub said:
680i's are awfull from the sound of it glad I never got one, get shot of it m8 get a rock solid intel mobo .

Thats what im going to do, my striker is awful....keeps freezing the cpu

Baka^Ni · 10 Jan 2008 at 22:10

willhub said:
680i's are awfull from the sound of it glad I never got one, get shot of it m8 get a rock solid intel mobo .

I was under the impression that only nForce boards supported SLi?

setter · 10 Jan 2008 at 22:28

Baka^Ni said:
I was under the impression that only nForce boards supported SLi?

thats correct nvidia chipset boards for sli, are you by any chance using the evga version of the 680i, if so, you may be eligible for an upgrade to the new 780i.

Voodle · 10 Jan 2008 at 22:31

Part of the problem is that you're running vista 64? I dualboot XP 32 and Vista 64 on my pc and with an 8800GTS 512MB I noticed a HUGE difference running it in XP and in Vista, it basically runs at probably twice the speed in XP32 than it does in vista.

Baka^Ni · 11 Jan 2008 at 07:39

setter said:
thats correct nvidia chipset boards for sli, are you by any chance using the evga version of the 680i, if so, you may be eligible for an upgrade to the new 780i.

Thank the maker that I am, I'm going to upgrade to a 780i this morning. Even though the 780i is basically a 680i with a chip for pci-e 2.0 and support for 45nm chips, hopefully they've fixed the ram killing and overheating of their boards.

Voodle said:
Part of the problem is that you're running vista 64? I dualboot XP 32 and Vista 64 on my pc and with an 8800GTS 512MB I noticed a HUGE difference running it in XP and in Vista, it basically runs at probably twice the speed in XP32 than it does in vista.

Twice? That seems a little unlikely me thinks but once the new board is here, I'll bench everything and see if I've been a muppet by using vista x64 all this time.

mal5 · 11 Jan 2008 at 11:39

Baka^Ni said:
Twice? That seems a little unlikely me thinks but once the new board is here, I'll bench everything and see if I've been a muppet by using vista x64 all this time.

Lots of bull about Vista as usual. I use both Vista 64bit and XP. XP is slightly faster for this dx9 bench - I get 43 fps in XP, 41 in Vista. Overall I prefer to play in Vista as it does look better imho.

Thebug · 11 Jan 2008 at 12:24

willhub said:
Is your ram by any chance ballistix aswell?

Please tell me more - is there a problem with ballistix and sli?