My 4870 sucks at Crysis on 1440x900 (??)

Banzai_Joe · 11 Aug 2008 at 08:38

Hi all,

was playing Crysis on my son's pc that i built months ago, based around, [email protected], 3870 512mb, 2Gb ram, Vista 32 HP.
Crysis running at 1440x900 (19" widescreen), no AA. All running fine until 'The Assault' chapter where it started to lag a little.
So, i decided to copy my saved games onto my newly built rig:
[email protected], 4870 512mb, 2Gb ram, Vista 32 ultimate (fresh install).
Running Crysis on same spec of 1440x900 no AA.....and it blows hard!
Blurry pics, stuttering big time, unplayable really. WTF????
Crysis is just about the only program on the freshly formatted hdd.
Catalyst 8.7 is installed, not the hotfix though, as i can't find it on the net :rolleyes:

Don't have Crysis patch 1.1 either.

Aside from these two possible patch fixes, does anybody have any idea why my experience with the 4870 sucks so hard with Crysis?

Love the game, i even bought a 22" tft for this baby, its not arrived yet, but looks like it wouldn't handle 1650x1050 anyways.
Although most people don't have the issue i'm having

Thanks for any advice offered.

HeX · 11 Aug 2008 at 08:42

1) Hotfix is on the 8.6 drivers not the 8.7's, that'll be why you can't find it

2) Patch Crysis up, 1.21 is the latest and it fixes a load of early bugs, no reason not to have it on there.

3) Stuttering will more than likely be down to the 2GB of mem, crysis loves memory

4) As for the 'blurryness' are you sure you arn't mistaking Depth of Field for poor graphics?

5) What settings are you running?

Banzai_Joe · 11 Aug 2008 at 08:50

Thanks Hex,

HeX said:
1) Hotfix is on the 8.6 drivers not the 8.7's, that'll be why you can't find it

Ahaaaaa, is it worth dropping down to 8.6 with hotfix?

2) Patch Crysis up, 1.21 is the latest and it fixes a load of early bugs, no reason not to have it on there.

Err, yeah, hope the patches work with *ahem* certain games

3) Stuttering will more than likely be down to the 2GB of mem, crysis loves memory

But on 32 bit, i'll only get another 1gb at most really.

4) As for the 'blurryness' are you sure you arn't mistaking Depth of Field for poor graphics?

Didn't blurr with the 3870

5) What settings are you running?

1440x900, AA is OFF, all advanced settings on high. Same settings for 3870 and 4870, yet 3870 runs better.

pieman109 · 11 Aug 2008 at 08:53

What in game settings have got and are you running with any AA? Try turning everything down to medium then start turning the various options up to high and see which one/s give the biggest performance hit. Will probably be shaders and shadows

edit: Hex beat me to it

HeX · 11 Aug 2008 at 08:56

TBH you should be able to run that res all High no fuss.

Patch it up to 1.21, and try the 8.6 hotfix instead.

pieman109 · 11 Aug 2008 at 08:57

HeX said:
TBH you should be able to run that res all High no fuss.

Patch it up to 1.21, and try the 8.6 hotfix instead.

Thats what I thought, deffo try the hotfix drivers. Incidentally, you haven't got any apps running in the background or maybe kicking in whilst playing the game?

Talrinys · 11 Aug 2008 at 09:05

I'm having the exact same problems on 1680x1050 with my 4870, stutters completely and is almost unplayable.

msaunders · 11 Aug 2008 at 09:24

k.Jacko said:
But on 32 bit, i'll only get another 1gb at most really.

An extra 1GB will make a big difference on a 2GB system.

msaunders · 11 Aug 2008 at 09:26

Wasnt there an issue with Crysis saved games and playing them from a previously installed version or moving them between installations ?

beefybarn · 11 Aug 2008 at 09:43

Had a similar problem when moving my saved games, only way i got over it was a fresh start of the game.

fastwunz · 11 Aug 2008 at 09:54

beefybarn said:
Had a similar problem when moving my saved games, only way i got over it was a fresh start of the game.

I think there may lie your problem - i would look into this

HeX · 11 Aug 2008 at 10:14

If you do have to restart, you can unlock the console commands by creating a config file called 'autoexec.cfg' and adding:

con_restricted=0

Inside it.

Put it in your Crysis dir, then when you load the game all console commands will be available.

Then you can just type 'map whatever' to jump through the game to where you were.

Assault would be 'map harbour' if I remember correctly.

Banzai_Joe · 11 Aug 2008 at 10:15

beefybarn said:
Had a similar problem when moving my saved games, only way i got over it was a fresh start of the game.

Lol, with the greatest of respect.....you know where you can stick that!

I aint battling through that lot again, i'm sure i'm near the end now. I'm at the chapter after The Assault i think, after the tanks and the railroad, at a bit where a great big gust of wind goes past you as you're about to enter a guarded compound.

I can't start again, surely!

HeX · 11 Aug 2008 at 10:21

map mine

Take you to right where you are

FrenchTart · 11 Aug 2008 at 10:34

With just 2GB of ram I'd seriously consider going back to XP for your gaming. I tried out Vista recently with 4GB, 3GB, 2GB and 1GB of ram whilst error-checking some dodgy crucial ram and the 4GB and 3GB setups were much more responsive than the 2GB one. Don't even ask about the 1GB :S

eyetrip · 11 Aug 2008 at 10:35

k.Jacko said:
Err, yeah, hope the patches work with *ahem* certain games

Well, if that means what I think it does, go buy the retail version apply patches, and if you then still have problems come back.

The Asgard · 11 Aug 2008 at 10:43

With 2GB of ram Vista will page to disk. If you can max out your memory or swap to XP.

FrenchTart · 11 Aug 2008 at 10:46

ffallic said:
Well, if that means what I think it does, go buy the retail version apply patches, and if you then still have problems come back.

Whilst I'm not the type to drone on about piracy, I do think that making it obvious that you're pirating on a forum where that sort of thing is frowned upon is a bit silly.

Banzai_Joe · 11 Aug 2008 at 11:46

Aekeron said:
Whilst I'm not the type to drone on about piracy, I do think that making it obvious that you're pirating on a forum where that sort of thing is frowned upon is a bit silly.

That's fair comment, and in my defence, i bought it last week, it just hasn't arrived yet. I had this copy lying around and the boys wanted to play it, so i installed it for them, then got hooked myself.
I've even bought a new 22" tft to play with these kind of games, but that's yet to arrive as well. so its not like i'm scrimping on the £16 it cost me to buy.
FWIW i do buy all of my games and when it arrives, i'll patch it up and hope it cures the problem. On occasion i have used 'other' versions until i've got my legit and paid for copy. Kind of, if i like it enough to play it till the end, i'll always buy it.

Banzai_Joe · 11 Aug 2008 at 11:47

HeX said:
If you do have to restart, you can unlock the console commands by creating a config file called 'autoexec.cfg' and adding:

con_restricted=0

Inside it.

Put it in your Crysis dir, then when you load the game all console commands will be available.

Then you can just type 'map whatever' to jump through the game to where you were.

Assault would be 'map harbour' if I remember correctly.

Thanks HeX, thats a great piece of advice, i'll do that when i get it.