Crysis warhead

Trilogy · 28 Sep 2008 at 14:29

can sombody please talk me through how to get crysis to run in direct x9 mode as its running like a dog in 10 thanks.

Pilky01 · 28 Sep 2008 at 14:30

right click, play dx9

Trilogy · 28 Sep 2008 at 15:00

?

on what? because i dont have desktop icons for the game

Pilky01 · 28 Sep 2008 at 15:00

Vista or xp?

konam4 · 28 Sep 2008 at 15:03

If you have vista then go to the games option in the startup, right click on the crysis wh logo and click on "PlayDX9"

KNiVES · 28 Sep 2008 at 15:25

Make a shortcut of Crysis.exe, right click on it and go to properties. In the line where it says where it's located (c:\program files\EA\Crysis\etc etc) add -dx9 to the end of it.

Vista or xp?

Well considering XP doesn't have DX10, which do you think?

It's also in his sig.

Trilogy · 28 Sep 2008 at 15:28

cheers

thankyou KNiVES

Gashman · 28 Sep 2008 at 15:30

weird thing is, it runs nicely in DX10 for me if you disable streaming (e_stream=0, r_texturesstreaming=0, etc) and disable superfetch, feels nice and smooth, plus it loads a LOT faster in DX10 than DX9, for some reason during level loading theres a huge pause in DX9 mode whereas DX10 mode simply says 'press any key to continue'

KNiVES · 28 Sep 2008 at 15:33

Gashman said:
weird thing is, it runs nicely in DX10 for me if you disable streaming (e_stream=0, r_texturesstreaming=0, etc) and disable superfetch, feels nice and smooth, plus it loads a LOT faster in DX10 than DX9, for some reason during level loading theres a huge pause in DX9 mode whereas DX10 mode simply says 'press any key to continue'

You'll notice that most levels require 500-600mb less memory on DX10. What does e_stream do, first time I've seen that command!

Trilogy · 28 Sep 2008 at 15:36

well i've had to go down to medium settings with no aa because it just runs bad when the action gets going

Gashman · 28 Sep 2008 at 15:43

KNiVES said:
You'll notice that most levels require 500-600mb less memory on DX10. What does e_stream do, first time I've seen that command!

its the CVAR responsable for cryengine2 streaming, streaming uses less system memory but can sometimes cause greater stuttering in-game, also with e_stream=1 level load times are lower, but if you disable streaming it uses more system memory (disabling superfetch seems to use less memory) but increases load times slightly and decrease in-game stuttering. did this last night, DX10 mode with superfetch and streaming on, runs fair enough but occational stuttering, disabled superfetch and streaming, enabled HDR, SSAO (and SSAO blurring) and ran in DX10, was getting around 35FPS average at 1280*1024 but very little to no stuttering, might be worth a try

Edit: and by the way i think cryengine2 is hugely memory dependant, found this out when one of memory modules died leaving me with 2Gb, it became much more stuttery during the game without the extra 2Gb memory

Trilogy · 28 Sep 2008 at 15:48

funny thing is the first crysis runs better on my system

CREATIVE!11 · 28 Sep 2008 at 16:20

isn't there option in settings? then again im running on XP so maybe its automatic dx9