crysis

willhub · 21 Dec 2007 at 12:48

RavenXXX2 said:
Maybe hes looking at the ground when hes playing the simple fact is you wont get an average of 32-34 fps at those settings, unless it was on a very non GFX intensive part in the game, which very rarely occurs.

When I tried it I was at the start were you walk past a washing machine and see a man on the rocks, just before the red flare, was getting -20fps Vista DX10, and I cant see even in XP with very high hack and 2xaa at 1280x1024 getting 32fps average, almost certainly will dip to 10fps and below.

I guess he does not really have AA on, I mean getting 10fps higher at those settings would mean a considerably higher speced machine possible with 2 8800GT's in SLi.

RavenXXX2 · 21 Dec 2007 at 12:52

^^ Yeah i agree, DX10 all very high is currently a no go, even for SLI setup's, we need more shader power to push up the fps.

willhub · 21 Dec 2007 at 13:45

RavenXXX2 said:
^^ Yeah i agree, DX10 all very high is currently a no go, even for SLI setup's, we need more shader power to push up the fps.

I just tried 1280x1024 all high in DX10, and I got around 20-30 with 2xAA, I then turned AA off and loaded a more intensive part at the end with the alient flying around, it was out of the sphere and I was getting about 20-30fps.

zytok · 21 Dec 2007 at 14:00

antonusklesk said:
I have a GT and run 'Very High' settings with 2xAA at 1280 x 1024 and my Average FPS is around 32-34, so imo it's not worth getting a GTX for the minimal gain you might get over an overclocked GT.

yeah, gotta call bull here. Very high everything in DX10 with AA is a no-go on any card unless you like watching slide shows. Might get the odd area of 30ish but almost certainly gonna dropping into the teens regularly.

Heatsinked · 21 Dec 2007 at 14:01

I had an Asus 8800GTS 640MB card. Crysis performed well at 1280x1024 on High but some scenes did slow down quite a bit at times. This is with NO AA.

The GTS is not the best card to get for Crysis but it all depends on the resolution you use. 1024x768 runs a lot smoother but obviously is no where near as sharp.

antonusklesk · 21 Dec 2007 at 14:15

OK, I've ran the GPU Benchmark with my settings and I'm getting average of 31.5 I admit it's not the 32-34 I thought but not far off.

And yes I do have 2xAA on.....I hate jaggies but 4xAA is nowhere near playable, running the 169.25 drivers.

-EDIT-

Just to clarify before people start saying 'He mustn't have the Very high settings activated properly': I do have the modified CVars.

zytok · 21 Dec 2007 at 14:19

the GPU benchmark is not a good reflection of in-game fps.

oh and modified cvar's do not mean you're running in very high mode.

antonusklesk · 21 Dec 2007 at 14:23

Ok I'll accept that about the bench.

However, I normally get wound-up when a game drops below 50 as it annoys me while playing, I havn't had this trouble with Crysis until the Ice scenes when the FPS did drop a bit but not by an aweful lot.

My whole point of posting was to tell Mattymax that IMO a GT was the best path to follow based on my experience with Crysis.

It is running in VHQ, the light rays, water and whatnot are all the quality they should be when in VHQ.

zytok · 21 Dec 2007 at 14:27

ok, but the OP asked what card he should buy to run it maxed in DX10. Such a card does not exist currently. (well not one that will run it at a playable framerate).

willhub · 21 Dec 2007 at 14:30

antonusklesk said:
Ok I'll accept that about the bench.

However, I normally get wound-up when a game drops below 50 as it annoys me while playing, I havn't had this trouble with Crysis until the Ice scenes when the FPS did drop a bit but not by an aweful lot.

My whole point of posting was to tell Mattymax that IMO a GT was the best path to follow based on my experience with Crysis.

It is running in VHQ, the light rays, water and whatnot are all the quality they should be when in VHQ.

You are in XP.

antonusklesk · 21 Dec 2007 at 14:30

zytok said:
ok, but the OP asked what card he should buy to run it maxed in DX10. Such a card does not exist currently. (well not one that will run it at a playable framerate).

Touche'

Valid point , and like has already been said, gotta wait for the top of the range successor for it to run perfectly

Yup Willhub I'm in XP. I've no doubt at all that if I were in vista I'd struggle to get over 20fps, I concede that I forgot that this was with regards running in DX10, not DX10 'emulation'.

willhub · 21 Dec 2007 at 15:19

In Vista 64,dx9,very high, 1280x1024, set to very high, 2xAA I get 34.89fps average in the crysis benchmark tool, I'm surprised.

Dunno if the benchmark tool is doing it right tho.

Neal · 21 Dec 2007 at 15:24

Vista 64, 1280x1024 all setting very high except shaders on high and post processing on med. No AA

Getting an average of 31.26 - some slow down in battles, not unplayable though, good enough for me (for now)

Neal

zytok · 21 Dec 2007 at 15:33

willhub said:
In Vista 64,dx9,very high, 1280x1024, set to very high, 2xAA I get 34.89fps average in the crysis benchmark tool, I'm surprised.

Dunno if the benchmark tool is doing it right tho.

surely very high is not available in DX9?

bliss · 21 Dec 2007 at 15:35

zytok said:
surely very high is not available in DX9?

It sure is, you just need to edit a few files.

willhub · 21 Dec 2007 at 15:35

zytok said:
surely very high is not available in DX9?

Its not unless you mess with the config files then it is, but I did not do that, I used crysis benchmark tools and it seems very high works with dx9 in vista. I havent compared though to see the difference, but it did say very high.

zytok · 21 Dec 2007 at 15:38

bliss said:
It sure is, you just need to edit a few files.

no, that's high with some config tweaks. Very high is only available under DX10. I'm not saying that DX9 can't look nice but it is not running very high.

wuyanxu · 21 Dec 2007 at 15:54

willhub said:
In Vista 64,dx9,very high, 1280x1024, set to very high, 2xAA I get 34.89fps average in the crysis benchmark tool, I'm surprised.

Dunno if the benchmark tool is doing it right tho.

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.

Gashman · 21 Dec 2007 at 15:59

AA is no biggy in crysis, to be honest it looks better with higher texture and post processing settings than it does with AA

Darkwave · 21 Dec 2007 at 16:50

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

Average FPS is far more important than minimum FPS since the minimum FPS value could be something like 5 and it only has to drop to that for literally a fraction of a second to generate that result, same reason maximum FPS isn't the best value to go by.

Average FPS is what it says on the tin, the average of all FPS readings taken.