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Crysis - GTX680

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In this scene in Crysis, on all settings 'Very High', I was only clocking in 27FPS on a stock clocked GTX680.

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The rest of my system is an AMD Phenom II X6 3.4ghz and 4GB of DDR2 800mhz RAM
 
I see an average of 36 and a minimum of 29fps in that area with a radeon 6970 and phenom II X4 @ 3.7GHz (with 12GB of DDR3) This is at 1920x1200 4xAA. Definitely suggests it is a cpu limitation, as a 680 should get a clear 50% lead over a 6970.
 
Same scene on my machine with crossfire 7950's ( Very High, 4xMSAA and full of texture mods )

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I'm CPU limited as both GPU's load around 45% each!! And that's with a 4.7Ghz 2600k :eek:

You NEED a 4.8Ghz Haswell to max GPU load out in Crysis 1!
 
6 years after release and GPU's still struggle to give a solid 60FPS with max detail setting...:D

That game was so ahead of it time it unreal....:)
 
And i personally think it looks better than the recent crysis 3, despite being released in 2007.
 
chaparral said:
That game was so ahead of it time it unreal....:)
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It was idd. I had just treated myself to a gaming laptop the year before Crysis was released. Top of the line Core2Duo, 2GB ram, X1800 256GB and a nice 17" screen. I was feeling pretty pleased with it until I tried to play Crysis ahahaha. The thing literally melted in front of me :(
 
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chaparral said:
6 years after release and GPU's still struggle to give a solid 60FPS with max detail setting...:D

That game was so ahead of it time it unreal....:)
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A single 7950 could max the game out at 60fps with no problems at all at 1080p

The problem is getting a CPU that can maintain a solid 60fps no matter what is happening in screen.

Crysis also uses the CPU to handle the geometry instancing and such which is why when you look at areas of the game with loads of trees and such the frame rate dives....
 
Never knew that Crysis only used 2 cores. I'm planning on playing it soon, is there anything that unlocks all the cores or will I just have to make do? Have a 2700K at 4.8Ghz so it looks like a bit of a waste of all the power.
 
MrMarvelous said:
Never knew that Crysis only used 2 cores. I'm planning on playing it soon, is there anything that unlocks all the cores or will I just have to make do? Have a 2700K at 4.8Ghz so it looks like a bit of a waste of all the power.
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It's not a CPU!
Unlocking cores would involve re-writting the code, which is probably a bit much to ask from a mod! :)
 
setter said:
And i personally think it looks better than the recent crysis 3, despite being released in 2007.
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Only if you modd it seriously and play in 64 bit. Crysis 3 is more like CGI movie, while Crysis 1 shows it's age, quite obvious at times.

Still, a great example (both) of how PC games should look like by default. :)

PS: You really need a strong CPU in scenes like that one in order to avoid heavy bottlenecks even at very high and 4xAA.
 
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