crysis

[Big.Wayne]

Average FPS is far more important than minimum FPS

they are both important to a great gaming experience IMO.

I would prefere to have no in game 'stutter' as it detracts from my 'in the zone' experience.

 

[TheRealDeal]

Yea but the minimum could be 1 frame and 1 stutter so average is still the one i would go by.

 

[Wizardskills]

I go by the rules that both the min and max fps are extremes so are unlikly to happen. The average is to general and wont pic up the bad or good values. The best values to use are the two which define the interquartile range (Time the bring back the GCSE maths)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interquartile_range

 

[willhub]

question is, what is your minimum FPS?

games are meant to be played, so average FPS means nothing if minimum FPS is something like 5.

im currently tweaking Crysis. i was able to get Vista 64bit, 1680x1050, no FSAA. edgeAA=2, all Dx10 exclusive effects (ones can be enabled without editing CFG) on Very High (including shader, water and PP) minimum of 20FPS, average of 26FPS.
by goal is to have all Dx10 exclusive effects enabled without using Dx9 hacks (very high for shaders, post processing and waters) and try to get 25FPS minimum @ 1680x1050.

My minimum fps was around 12 I think, but only once and was due to loading me thinks, apart from that time lowest was about 28-29.

I normally run with a CFG which looks quite abit better than very high to me, at 1680x1050, the CFG has edge AA at 2 in infact, here is the config:

con_restricted=0
r_displayinfo=1

r_VSync=0
d3d9_TripleBuffering=0
r_ssao_quality=1
r_ssao_amount=0.2
r_SSAO_darkening=3.6
r_TerrainAO_FadeDist=1
r_HDRlevel=0.5
r_TexturesStreaming=0
r_sunshafts=1
r_ColorGradingDOF=0
r_ShadowJittering=1
r_ShadowBlur=0
r_GetScreenshot=1
r_GeomInstancing=1
r_UsePOM=1
r_MotionBlur=2

e_hw_occlusion_culling_object=1
e_gsm_lods_num=4
e_shadows_from_terrain_in_all_lods=0
r_UseEdgeAA=2
e_shadows_max_texture_size=512
e_view_dist_ratio=45
e_water_ocean_fft=1
e_particles_lod=0.7
e_vegetation_min_size=1.5
e_view_dist_ratio_vegetation=50

q_ShaderShadow=1
r_EyeAdaptationBase=0.2

With the following CFG @ 1680x1050, no AA, Vista 64 DX9 I get: 32fps average, 26fps minimum and 41fps max, this was in benchmark though, normally I like to run with medium shadows to give extra performance and also no noticable difference to the shadows, its playable for the most part in Vista but I still like to use XP for Crysis.

 

[wuyanxu]

With the following CFG @ 1680x1050, no AA, Vista 64 DX9 I get: 32fps average, 26fps minimum and 41fps max, this was in benchmark though, normally I like to run with medium shadows to give extra performance and also no noticable difference to the shadows, its playable for the most part in Vista but I still like to use XP for Crysis.

that's some very good results i'd be happy with that kind of results! overclocked GT??

Crysis' minimum works differently, eg, with the benchmark tool, you can set it to take screenshots every 200 frames, and while it takes screenshot, the FPS range will dip down under 10's. But the final read out says minimum is still ~20.

that's why i take Crysis' minimum FPS as my general performance FPS, because the benchmark Crytek gave us is just too light, if only it were as heavy as World in Conflict, i may take the average.

fluent gameplay is the key, no one likes stutter.

 

[willhub]

that's some very good results i'd be happy with that kind of results! overclocked GT??

Crysis' minimum works differently, eg, with the benchmark tool, you can set it to take screenshots every 200 frames, and while it takes screenshot, the FPS range will dip down under 10's. But the final read out says minimum is still ~20.

that's why i take Crysis' minimum FPS as my general performance FPS, because the benchmark Crytek gave us is just too light, if only it were as heavy as World in Conflict, i may take the average.

fluent gameplay is the key, no one likes stutter.

I had no stuttering, well, I had 1, dunno why.