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4850 - Crysis

BoB3rt

BoB3rt

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Installed a 4850 yestaday in a mates comp, i expected when i installed crysis for its optimal settlings to be very high but it was high.

i have a 8800GTS that runs on High and it copes very well with it.

i would expect the 4850 to blow that out the water as it is a much later card.

anyone shed some light?
 
am sure i read somewhere that ati cards are not that good on crysis :) and i think crysis is more optimized for nvidia cards not rly sure about that ;)
 
BoB3rt said:
Installed a 4850 yestaday in a mates comp, i expected when i installed crysis for its optimal settlings to be very high but it was high.

i have a 8800GTS that runs on High and it copes very well with it.

i would expect the 4850 to blow that out the water as it is a much later card.

anyone shed some light?
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Rest of the system spec for a start :)
 
spec:
wolfdale core 2
2gb 800mhz

res : 1280 x 1024 goes bit west at maxed (as in cursor is not acurate?)
i leave AA off as i know crysis has its own form of it so better off.
 
Problem with crysis is its very easy for a lot of hardwre out there to run it high, but not very high.

and 8800gt can run it mostly high around 1680x1050, but then you go to something like a 4870 and you are still stuck on mostly high, though you can add 4xAA without much penalty. Go up to 4850 crossfire, and you still can't really go any higher with settings.

Its usually when there are a few koreans around, or around buildings that the frame rate plummets with my spec. Typically I can have it all on very high, but as soon as I get around a bunch of KPA, it plummets, and so can't keep it on very high.

It's just that DX10 performance sucks overall. Not sure if its a DX10 problem itself, or crysis implementation of DX10.

Lets see how Warhead turns out - don't judge your card based on Crysis performance.
 
ok i have never really tested a card some give me an idea how to

u say with half life 2 that mean just run a stress test?
 
HD4850 is about on par with a 8800GT/8800GTS in most stuff, so not suprising really.
 
BoB3rt said:
Installed a 4850 yestaday in a mates comp, i expected when i installed crysis for its optimal settlings to be very high but it was high.

i have a 8800GTS that runs on High and it copes very well with it.

i would expect the 4850 to blow that out the water as it is a much later card.

anyone shed some light?
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because crysis is a game released purely so people would upgrade PC's so they make it inefficient so no GPU can play it, they favour nvidia and thats that
 
HeX said:
HD4850 is about on par with a 8800GT/8800GTS in most stuff, so not suprising really.
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+1 one that :) can't rly get why everyone is saying that 4850 is actualy faster that 8800gtx :/ maybe it's faster when aa applied? :confused::confused:
 
They are saying its faster because it is faster. It beats a 9800gtx and competes well with a 9800gtx+ which has 738 core clock. With aa it kicks the pants off all 8 series and 9 series. 8800 series stock v 4850 stock theres no comparison reviews show the 4850 to be around 20 percent faster than 8800gt then add in some aa this gap grows. Also remember ati really have not added in much if any performance drivers just mainly bug fixes the gap will grow when this happens. Check out the review below to see the gaps in not 1 games does a gt win and a lot of the benches are done with low aa and some none. Even in crysis the 4850 beats a 8800gt/gtx and is only 1 frame away from the 9800gtx/+.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3341&p=19
 
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Mate, if you want to vastly improve your crysis performance and have it still look the muts nutts then download this custom config program...

http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=23117

I've installed it and get incredibly smooth frame rates (after installing "Level 5" and tweaking the autoexec.cfg myself a little further) in DX9c with pretty much all the eye candy of the "DX10 only" features. Trust me, it really improves the experience.
 
Another thing to consider is does the system have vista or XP installed? Vista performance is lower when using DX10 and even when DX9 is used in vista (by modifying the desktop shortcut with "-dx9") I still find although the framerate is deffo higher, gameplay is no where nearly as smooth and the fps drops far more than in XP.
If using XP at 1680 x 1050, no AA, you should be able run crysis basically at medium, but you might be able to have shaders on high (which really makes a big difference as to how the game looks, ie: really nice!):)
Also I found having the cpu overclocked above 3.2ghz made sod all difference to performance, but overclocking the gpu did.
 
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