just got my gtx 280. crysis warhead settings.

Nodiggidy123 · 20 Oct 2008 at 18:17

what are realistic settings i can apply to this game runnig at 1650x1050

i dont seem to be getting great performance at all. quite often fps drops sub 20 and im trying to get a good mix of quality without sacrificing to many frames.

is there any custom configs i can use?

rest of pc spec in sig

Winnter · 20 Oct 2008 at 18:25

without any mods i don't think crysis will ever run great on high end cards!

Tombo · 20 Oct 2008 at 18:34

Are you using AA?

Pilky01 · 20 Oct 2008 at 18:36

AA will make any card die a horrible death.

Adrianr · 20 Oct 2008 at 18:44

With my 8800gt SLI setup I ran no AA all gamer at 1920 x 1200 and frequently got tearing. Allowed for astonishingly smooth gameplay from beggining to end though.

At your res you, depending on what you believe to be acceptable performance, you should be running a mix of mostly enthusiast with some gamer for best results

reflux · 20 Oct 2008 at 18:57

Overclock that CPU!!!!

Strife212 · 20 Oct 2008 at 19:12

2.4Ghz CPU is a bit low for Crysis

Teki187 · 20 Oct 2008 at 19:17

reflux said:
Overclock that CPU!!!!

Agreed, on air you can get EASY 3.2ghz overclock.

Nodiggidy123 · 20 Oct 2008 at 19:43

oops double post.

Nodiggidy123 · 20 Oct 2008 at 19:43

i cant oc at the mo. im using a packard bell gaming pc and the bios is locked.

my next upgrade will be a new mobo but unsure as to when thats gonna happen atm.

im currently running all settings at gamer. no aa

eyetrip · 20 Oct 2008 at 19:49

Yeah, Crysis is horrible with a Q660 at stock. People keep saying the game is GPU limited, but it's both CPU and GPU limited.

Perhaps if they patched the engine to use multiple cores a little better it would help - considering this is a new engine which they would like people to use, their multi-core suppport is unforgiveably bad.

PS - this is form someone who enjoys the games. Am not dissing it for the hell of it.

Nodiggidy123 · 20 Oct 2008 at 19:53

do u think an extra gig of ram would help? another problem i have with this mobo is the thing wont boot with 4 sticks and i cant up the vdimm cos the bios is locked. the motherboard is atually a asus p5ne so im very tempted to try and flash it with a proper asus one.

i want my old ds4 back

reflux · 20 Oct 2008 at 20:46

Flash it to a proper BIOS.

Although that said, I heard the Asus P5N-Es are rubbish at overclocking quads. Maybe you should just save for a new motherboard.

Xez · 20 Oct 2008 at 21:10

I play Crysis warhead on all max settings with 2xAA. I do get slow downs when theres lots of blowing up going on and the first ice/snow section it drops badly but its perfectly playable for me the rest of the time and thats with a GTX 260

and only 2GB of ram on Vista.

Hedge · 20 Oct 2008 at 21:24

Is my e4300 at 3.0ghz quicker in games than one of these q6600 jobbies?

Happy · 20 Oct 2008 at 22:02

If both are at 3.0GHz then no, it'll be a tad quicker if the Q6600 is at stock.

Hedge · 20 Oct 2008 at 22:08

Happy said:
If both are at 3.0GHz then no, it'll be a tad quicker if the Q6600s is at stock.

I forgot how well this little cheap chip still stands up! had it over a year now

Happy · 20 Oct 2008 at 22:31

Hedge said:
I forgot how well this little cheap chip still stands up! had it over a year now

Obviously the Q6600 would be a lot faster in games are multithreaded

Flamers · 20 Oct 2008 at 22:41

or u could use Cuban Custom Config, check mycrysis.com in fourms in config bit

Flamers

Xez · 20 Oct 2008 at 22:45

Warhead ran like a complete dog for me when my E6600 was on stock clocks but now it's at 3.2ghz it plays it all fine in the settings i have said above