Crysis Warhead - Buying advice

1kiwi · 24 Sep 2008 at 15:50

Hi Guys,

Just saw that Crysis Warhead can be had for as low as £14 on a well known gaming retailer. I can also get it on stream but apparently the benchmark doesn't work or something.

Am i missing something? I paid almost £40 for COD4!

Typhoon · 24 Sep 2008 at 16:07

£40! ouch! I've never paid more than £29 for any PC game.

Sh3rlock · 24 Sep 2008 at 16:09

Its a fairly good game for the price, runs much better than the original.

paradigm · 24 Sep 2008 at 16:11

Damien. said:
Its a fairly good game for the price, runs much better than the original.

See, I keep hearing this banded around. At least the original would run for me, warhead runs like a slideshow

Nymins · 24 Sep 2008 at 16:14

paradigm said:
See, I keep hearing this banded around. At least the original would run for me, warhead runs like a slideshow

Make sure if your using Vista to run it in DX9 mode. I tried it in DX10 and it ran very badly. Runs pretty decent for me on "Gamer" now in DX9 on Vista x64.

bee · 24 Sep 2008 at 16:17

get it, great game and £14 is nothing

Strife212 · 24 Sep 2008 at 16:23

It's cheap as its the same engine as Crysis 1, not a full sequel, but you don't need the first game to play

Get it, its good.

bushmins · 24 Sep 2008 at 16:29

beh* said:
Hi Guys,

Just saw that Crysis Warhead can be had for as low as £14 on a well known gaming retailer. I can also get it on stream but apparently the benchmark doesn't work or something.

Am i missing something? I paid almost £40 for COD4!

I got mine for £14 from the purples on their price match. I had and am still having a lot of fun with the game.

paradigm · 24 Sep 2008 at 16:53

Nymins said:
Make sure if your using Vista to run it in DX9 mode. I tried it in DX10 and it ran very badly. Runs pretty decent for me on "Gamer" now in DX9 on Vista x64.

How do I force DX9 rendering? (I have it through steam if it makes any difference)

manic111 · 24 Sep 2008 at 16:55

I'm not sure how or if it can be done in Steam; with the on disc game you just right click and hit "Play DX9". Is it possible to do this with Steam itself (ie when you load Steam, rather than inside Steam)?

Nymins · 24 Sep 2008 at 16:57

paradigm said:
How do I force DX9 rendering? (I have it through steam if it makes any difference)

Not sure with Steam. I used the method above. You could just adding the line -dx9 to Warhead in Steam.

ins0mn1ac · 24 Sep 2008 at 19:54

paradigm said:
How do I force DX9 rendering? (I have it through steam if it makes any difference)

Just add -dx9 in the launch options in steam.

KNiVES · 24 Sep 2008 at 19:58

paradigm said:
How do I force DX9 rendering? (I have it through steam if it makes any difference)

Right click Crysis Warhead on your Steam games list. Then click 'set launch options';

KNiVES · 24 Sep 2008 at 19:59

Differences in performance between DX9 and DX10, graphics settings identical, downsized from 1680x1050:

DX9

DX10

A difference of 10 frames per second. That's a 50% performance boost right there.

1kiwi · 24 Sep 2008 at 20:44

Knives - i'm tempted to get it via stream as i won't have to wait for postage costs - although i want to be able to run the benchmark. Any idea how to do this through stream?

KNiVES · 24 Sep 2008 at 20:46

What benchmark? First I've heard of it. There's nothing to separate the retail and steam versions of Warhead except for it being in a different folder in Program Files, the directories and structures are all the same.

edit: could it be this one? Says it has Steam support but apparently not 100% yet.

1kiwi · 24 Sep 2008 at 20:51

KNiVES said:
What benchmark? First I've heard of it. There's nothing to separate the retail and steam versions of Warhead except for it being in a different folder in Program Files, the directories and structures are all the same.

edit: could it be this one? Says it has Steam support but apparently not 100% yet.

This one. Hopefully they will make it stream compatible. Can you remind me how much it was on stream? I'm on my work comp atm.

uv · 24 Sep 2008 at 20:55

including VAT, it cost me ~£21 on Steam iirc

KNiVES · 24 Sep 2008 at 20:58

It cost me about 20-22 quid. The dollar-sterling exchange is a little volatile right now.

1kiwi · 24 Sep 2008 at 20:58

So £6 more than online stores. I guess thats not too bad for the convenience.