Soldato
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Hi guys,
Over the weekend, I'll be testing out a few Crysis mods/tweaks. This is for me to tweak my game to make it look as good as possible, and also I'll give a quick verdict on each mod as to whether it's worth getting or not.
Verdict
Note: Make sure you have the latest version of Crysis (patch 1.2) You'll know if you have it because there'll be a 'mods' tab in your main menu
I'm finally done
I've tried a whole load of different mods. The first number represents the visual benefit, 5 being highest, 1 no change. 2nd number represents the performance impact, 5 being a big performance increase, 1 being a huge decrease, 3 being no change.
Vanilla Crysis looks great. But if you're going to be playing it, please sacrifice 15-20 mins of your life to make it look amazing! Vanilla crysis simply doesn't fulfill the potential of the engine. There's 3 main places that the game falls down.
1. Lighting - realistic lighting is something that is distinctly lacking in crysis, yet when it's done correctly it can make it look so real. There's loads of different TOD configs (TimeOfDay), so just go out and try them! I would recommend real lifesis, it's just stunning.
2. Textures Certain textures in the game just aren't up to scratch. Need to grab the hi res foliage mod. If you have lots of Ram and/or GPU ram, then also get Rygel's texture mod, which adds some really great hi res textures.
3. Optimisation Let's face it: Crysis runs like a dog. Just grab yourself a config and it'll boost your framerates nicely. Should also improve visuals too. If you can run very high with reasonable fps, just grab yourself the extreme quality config. If you simply can't run very high, then there's plenty of other configs out there for lower spec systems.
If you've got the above, and still have a bit of system power to play with, then consider getting other mods as well.
I would recommend the extreme quality mod, but it changes gameplay very significantly, it's something that you'd probably want to play with after you've completed the game. I'll certainly be playing the whole game again with this mod as it's unlike anything I've ever experienced before.
I'm signing off now, my target is to make the best crysis screenshots I can
Here's a list of the mods I'll be trying out:
Rygel's Texture pack 4 2
Hi def foliage 5 3
Hi res grass 2 3
Custom Nano suit 3 3
Global ambient lighting 3 3
Extreme Quality Mod 4 2
Extreme quality config 3 4
Natural Mod 3 3
CCC Config 5 2
Real Lifesis 5 3
Xtreme particle chaos 4 3
It won't be very in depth or anything as I've just got the weekend, but I'll load each mod individually and play around on Contact for a while. Then I'll load up the best mods together and see how they turn out.
If anyone wants me to try a few more, just post them here and I'll see what I can do
Over the weekend, I'll be testing out a few Crysis mods/tweaks. This is for me to tweak my game to make it look as good as possible, and also I'll give a quick verdict on each mod as to whether it's worth getting or not.
Verdict
Note: Make sure you have the latest version of Crysis (patch 1.2) You'll know if you have it because there'll be a 'mods' tab in your main menu
I'm finally done
I've tried a whole load of different mods. The first number represents the visual benefit, 5 being highest, 1 no change. 2nd number represents the performance impact, 5 being a big performance increase, 1 being a huge decrease, 3 being no change.
Vanilla Crysis looks great. But if you're going to be playing it, please sacrifice 15-20 mins of your life to make it look amazing! Vanilla crysis simply doesn't fulfill the potential of the engine. There's 3 main places that the game falls down.
1. Lighting - realistic lighting is something that is distinctly lacking in crysis, yet when it's done correctly it can make it look so real. There's loads of different TOD configs (TimeOfDay), so just go out and try them! I would recommend real lifesis, it's just stunning.
2. Textures Certain textures in the game just aren't up to scratch. Need to grab the hi res foliage mod. If you have lots of Ram and/or GPU ram, then also get Rygel's texture mod, which adds some really great hi res textures.
3. Optimisation Let's face it: Crysis runs like a dog
. Just grab yourself a config and it'll boost your framerates nicely. Should also improve visuals too. If you can run very high with reasonable fps, just grab yourself the extreme quality config. If you simply can't run very high, then there's plenty of other configs out there for lower spec systems. If you've got the above, and still have a bit of system power to play with, then consider getting other mods as well.
I would recommend the extreme quality mod, but it changes gameplay very significantly, it's something that you'd probably want to play with after you've completed the game. I'll certainly be playing the whole game again with this mod as it's unlike anything I've ever experienced before.
I'm signing off now, my target is to make the best crysis screenshots I can
Here's a list of the mods I'll be trying out:
Rygel's Texture pack 4 2
Hi def foliage 5 3
Hi res grass 2 3
Custom Nano suit 3 3
Global ambient lighting 3 3
Extreme Quality Mod 4 2
Extreme quality config 3 4
Natural Mod 3 3
CCC Config 5 2
Real Lifesis 5 3
Xtreme particle chaos 4 3
It won't be very in depth or anything as I've just got the weekend, but I'll load each mod individually and play around on Contact for a while. Then I'll load up the best mods together and see how they turn out.
If anyone wants me to try a few more, just post them here and I'll see what I can do
Hi res foliage
Great little mod, I would absolutely recommended. Really improves on the vanilla foliage, making it thoroughly much more visually pleasant. And comes with no fps drop at all. Not the best screenshot though I admit.
Hi res grass
From my quick use of this texture, doesn't really seem to add much. Will update if I see a change
Extreme Quality Mod
Undecided on this one. It's great visually, and changes gameplay significantly. For me, the gameplay change makes the game rather unplayable, due to disabling the suit and the use of hitbox. However, I will certainly be looking into the maps that have been made that have this mod preloaded on them (eg: Amazonia). The best part is the TOD change it makes, it's stunning imo. The natural mod will have to do a lot to compete with this! The first pic is vanilla, the second is the full eqm mod, and the third is just the colour correction part of the mod, which looks better than vanilla, but not as good as the whole thing. The pictures are a tad lacking in quality, but that's because I had to resize them
CCC Config with Ultima Rage TOD
In my opinion, this is a great config for crysis. I used the ultra high end config, and whilst it resulted in a performance drop from vanilla, it just looks a lot better. However, for some reason Crysis isn't letting me take high res screens of the lighting, so I have to use lower res screens here. The TOD mod so far is a little red But I'll probably continue with it to see whether it looks different later on.
Real Lifesis
This rocks! Amazing TOD config. I just love it, you can't argue with this can you?
Extreme Quality Config
This is another great config. Looks better than vanilla. Switching to very high makes an immediately noticeable fps drop. Also a drop in visuals. To be honest, the performance drop is more noticeable than the visual drop. Still an amazing config, great for anyone who wants higher fps and better visuals than very high.
Xtreme particle chaos
This is quite a cool mod. Adds particles, makes smoke more prominent etc. It's quite difficult to screenshot most of this, so I've only been able to get the blood effect. It is called 'extreme' and so the particles are slightly exaggerated. It's not realistic, but it's a cool mod that you have to try.
Rygel's Texture Pack
Nice textures, however, I didn't use the foliage ones, as the high res foliage is much superior. As it's an extra gig of textures, there is a noticeable performance drop.
Nano Suit Ultra Customizable
Loads of options, nice and hi res, looks great
Natural Mod
It's nice. Doesn't change the standard TOD substantially, but it does contain a few lighting fixes .
Great little mod, I would absolutely recommended. Really improves on the vanilla foliage, making it thoroughly much more visually pleasant. And comes with no fps drop at all. Not the best screenshot though I admit.
Hi res grass
From my quick use of this texture, doesn't really seem to add much. Will update if I see a change
Extreme Quality Mod
Undecided on this one. It's great visually, and changes gameplay significantly. For me, the gameplay change makes the game rather unplayable, due to disabling the suit and the use of hitbox. However, I will certainly be looking into the maps that have been made that have this mod preloaded on them (eg: Amazonia). The best part is the TOD change it makes, it's stunning imo. The natural mod will have to do a lot to compete with this!
The first pic is vanilla, the second is the full eqm mod, and the third is just the colour correction part of the mod, which looks better than vanilla, but not as good as the whole thing. The pictures are a tad lacking in quality, but that's because I had to resize them
CCC Config with Ultima Rage TOD
In my opinion, this is a great config for crysis. I used the ultra high end config, and whilst it resulted in a performance drop from vanilla, it just looks a lot better. However, for some reason Crysis isn't letting me take high res screens of the lighting, so I have to use lower res screens here. The TOD mod so far is a little red
But I'll probably continue with it to see whether it looks different later on.
Real Lifesis
This rocks! Amazing TOD config. I just love it, you can't argue with this can you?
Extreme Quality Config
This is another great config. Looks better than vanilla. Switching to very high makes an immediately noticeable fps drop. Also a drop in visuals. To be honest, the performance drop is more noticeable than the visual drop. Still an amazing config, great for anyone who wants higher fps and better visuals than very high.
Xtreme particle chaos
This is quite a cool mod. Adds particles, makes smoke more prominent etc. It's quite difficult to screenshot most of this, so I've only been able to get the blood effect. It is called 'extreme' and so the particles are slightly exaggerated. It's not realistic, but it's a cool mod that you have to try.
Rygel's Texture Pack
Nice textures, however, I didn't use the foliage ones, as the high res foliage is much superior. As it's an extra gig of textures, there is a noticeable performance drop.
Nano Suit Ultra Customizable
Loads of options, nice and hi res, looks great
Natural Mod
It's nice. Doesn't change the standard TOD substantially, but it does contain a few lighting fixes .
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