crysis2...to run dx11 or not?

lee20010 · 2 Aug 2011 at 22:22

Firstly I'll admit, I'm a noob. But this noob has just got Crysis 2. I know it's gunna strain my CPU as task manager says it's using 100%. My gfx card isn't too bad, but wondering what kind of settings I should be going for. I have windows 7 ofc and DX11...but should I run dx11 ingame, or does it demand more? specs are in sig

IIDeathCubeKII · 2 Aug 2011 at 22:25

I see nothing

Sunbed · 2 Aug 2011 at 22:39

with that spec I doubt you can run anything

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 2 Aug 2011 at 22:42

What spec you got

lee20010 · 2 Aug 2011 at 23:49

no idea why it isn't showing

AMD Athlon X2 240 @ 3.1GHZ - 4GB OCZ 1333MHZ 9-9-9-20 - MSI 460GTX 768MB @ 890MHZ/2105 - 640GB WD SATA2 - Coolermaster 460w PSU - Windows 7 Ultimate

Dea924 · 3 Aug 2011 at 00:13

no idea if ur cpu will be a bottleneck on higher settings or not.

im runnin a 460 768mb aswell with dx11 and the texture packs on extreme settings n its playing really well, but i have a i5 2500k to your athlon. .. might be fine, you should just run it and find out

WingZero30 · 3 Aug 2011 at 00:18

Dea924 said:
no idea if ur cpu will be a bottleneck on higher settings or not.

im runnin a 460 768mb aswell with dx11 and the texture packs on extreme settings n its playing really well, but i have a i5 2500k to your athlon. .. might be fine, you should just run it and find out

That's strange.

Wasn't it reported that DX11 consumed around 1GB vram?

Is ultra after extreme or is extreme the highest setting?

chaparral · 3 Aug 2011 at 00:27

WingZero30 said:
Is ultra after extreme or is extreme the highest setting?

Yes ultra is the highest setting..

Think you need to choose the ultra settings for the DX11 stuff as well...

lee20010 · 3 Aug 2011 at 00:31

well ive done something to my game because everytime it trys to load my save, it stops resonding

Jono8 · 3 Aug 2011 at 00:42

lee20010 said:
well ive done something to my game because everytime it trys to load my save, it stops resonding

yep, you've definitely done something.

IIDeathCubeKII · 3 Aug 2011 at 04:13

lee20010 said:
well ive done something to my game because everytime it trys to load my save, it stops resonding

Try and revert back to start of level?

Chris. · 5 Aug 2011 at 13:51

Dea924 said:
no idea if ur cpu will be a bottleneck on higher settings or not.

im runnin a 460 768mb aswell with dx11 and the texture packs on extreme settings n its playing really well, but i have a i5 2500k to your athlon. .. might be fine, you should just run it and find out

How? lol

My FPS is crap on ultra, DX11 and High res particles (everything!)

I get full possible Fps on full with no DX11 or added graphics packs.

Dutch Guy · 5 Aug 2011 at 13:56

It depends, are you happy playing Crysis 2 at a low framerate then DX11 might be fine, if you hate a low framerate dx9 might suit you better.