Crysis experimentings

Done!

Here's the conclusion for anyone who can't be bothered to look onto the 1st page:




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 :p

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 :p. 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 :D

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
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Great thread for someone returning to Crysis with new hardware :)

Edit: Going to install real lifesis, Rygel's texture mod and the extreme quality config.
 
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Which mod is recommended on a first playthough and where do you get them? thanks

I tried google but there are thousands of mods.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Once installed, do these work for Warhead also?
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I know that some of them do, certainly the autoexe configs (ie: extreme quality config) will work for warhead. Real lifesis might do too, but I'm not sure, I only have the original crysis.

cosmos55 said:
Which mod is recommended on a first playthough and where do you get them? thanks

I tried google but there are thousands of mods.
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Hi mate. you should try

www.crymod.com

Unfortunately they're renovating the website at the moment so the mod database is offline.

For a beginner, I'd recommend real lifesis, some sort of config (like extreme quality config) and hi res foliage.
 
For a beginner, I wouldn't recommend real lifesis, because it's tricky to install manually and there's no automated install anymore.

The extreme quality config, hi-res foliage, and rygel texture mod are good, easy starters.
 
MeMeMeMe said:
For a beginner, I wouldn't recommend real lifesis, because it's tricky to install manually and there's no automated install anymore.
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I suppose you're right mate. If someone was really struggling to install RealLifesis, then its sequel (RELI2) comes with an installer and that would be my next recommendation.

maximusmi2 said:
Thanks for your time and efforts OP, been looking for a good rundown of Crysis mods for a while.
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No problem mate. It's aimed at many people such as yourself :D
 
reallifesis didnt work for me on warhead, in the end i just set every thing to max and pld it. enjoyed it a lot more than crysis.
 
Yaka said:
reallifesis didnt work for me on warhead, in the end i just set every thing to max and pld it. enjoyed it a lot more than crysis.
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something to do with the sdk not being able to access warhead content or something, that mod apparently directly effects the crysis maps.
 
I have been playing Warhead. It is very good, but it seems a bit buggy in places. Only in cutscenes though. I am using Rigels Warhead pack and the Crysis Extreme quality config and it looks absolutely stunning.

I struggled a bit with reallifesis and didn't bother in the end as i didn't really know what i was doing;) An installer would be nice
 
TheCenturion said:
I've tried slicer91's pack. Tbh I much prefer rygel's
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At the moment I've decided on High Res Foliage, High Res grass, and Slicer's rocks and that's it.

Many of the terrain textures become pixelly or blurry when you get up close to them whether you're using Rygel's or vanilla, so I'll stick with vanilla and save some fps!
 
Anyone know where the high resolution foliage mod can be obtained?

Not quite sure what is going on with crymod but all the links are down, so if anyone has the mod and wouldn't mind uploading it, or knows where else I can get it your help would be appreciated!:)
 
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