Crysis performance is starting to worry me

roderz88 · 20 Feb 2011 at 19:22

Hi all.

Ive been playing some crysis and have noticed that in scenes where there are a lot of combat, the frame-rate seems to drop dramatically to the 20's and rarely even lower than that. Some of the levels run fine, around 40-50 fps, but the ones where there is a lot of combat or a lot going on, the fps is quite low. My other games, such as bad company 2, dragon age and oblivion seem to run fine.

Im aware that crysis is a very demanding game, but I dont think I should be struggling to run it like i have been. I play the game at 1440x900 res with 4xaa although ive tried it with 0xaa and didnt notice a difference in frame-rates. The game is patched to 1.2 and im using the latest nvidia drivers. My specs are in sig but if you cant see them, il write them down anyway. For a period, I had my CPU at 3.6GHz, but lowered it back after my system decided to crash the other day. the 3,6GHz didnt really improve the performance in any noticable way.

AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHz CPU
4GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM
Gigabyte GTX570 with 266.58 drivers
Asus M4A80GTD Pro/USB3 Motherboard
500GB 7200RPM SATA II HDD
Windows 7 X64 Professional
750TX Corsair PSU.

My max temps for CPU are 48oC and GPU gets to 81oC under Furmark. I know the GPU temp is fairly high but its still within safe range.

anuraj · 20 Feb 2011 at 19:26

That should be running much better.

Ch3m1c4L · 20 Feb 2011 at 19:27

try turning the sound effects level down one or two levels. Cant remember hwy but that causing my system to rage at crysis constantly.

roderz88 · 20 Feb 2011 at 21:00

I think i tried lowering sound. Ill lower it down to medium and see if that fixes anything. My other games seem to run fine however, infact they run really well.

Ch3m1c4L · 20 Feb 2011 at 21:31

for me i think the sound was some weird thing to do with a combination of hardware I have, and that whenever it loads a new sound it lags. Other options are if your graphics card is lowering its clocks for some reason. I have noticed that since I installed the 260+ drivers I have had mine have little driver crashes (as in screen pauses for like a second then carries on) and it would get it stuck in low 3d clock levels, turned up voltage on cards and now its fixed.

Are we talking warhead or original crysis btw?

SupermotoMX · 20 Feb 2011 at 22:01

just something to try,

mute the ingame sound, if its improving its the onboard sound stealing CPU cycles

roderz88 · 20 Feb 2011 at 23:32

Ch3m1c4L said:
for me i think the sound was some weird thing to do with a combination of hardware I have, and that whenever it loads a new sound it lags. Other options are if your graphics card is lowering its clocks for some reason. I have noticed that since I installed the 260+ drivers I have had mine have little driver crashes (as in screen pauses for like a second then carries on) and it would get it stuck in low 3d clock levels, turned up voltage on cards and now its fixed.

Are we talking warhead or original crysis btw?

Original Crysis, i suppose it could be clocking down, but that wouldnt explain why my other games run well, and crysis doesnt.

Is there a way of monitoring the GPU usage over the period of running a game ?