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nVidia Drivers & Crysis

Hungryjoey

Hungryjoey

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Well reading all these latest crysis threads I want to know simply what is the best nVidia driver I should use for crysis and my SLI setup. Like everybody else I'm disapointed with the performance off this system in Crysis especially with 2 x 8800's. Bearing in mind I only game at 1280x1024 (until I get my 22" samsung soon) what drivers should I use and also does Crysis support SLI ?

Hj
 
I had lockups with the 169.09 drivers in XP, went back to the 169.04 drivers and it runs fine in both XP and vista, performance also seems marginally better using the 169.04 too. Thats at 1680 x 1050 with no AA with surprisingly reasonable framerates (low to mid forties).
 
Hungryjoey said:
Like everybody else I'm disapointed with the performance off this system in Crysis especially with 2 x 8800's. Bearing in mind I only game at 1280x1024
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Hi Hungryjoey,

indeed it may be the case that the 320MB of Vram on your SLI set-up is holding you back? Out of interest what frame rates do you get at 1280x1024 with your current kit?

It may be worth considering selling both your 320MB 8800GTS's and re-invest in some new cards?

I would say that 320MB 8800GTS SLI is nothing to sniff at but if you want to get a better gaming experience with CRYSIS then perhaps an upgrade would be worthwhile?
 
Meh i use a 320mb 8800gts and tbh it flies along in crysis with all at high cept shaders and shadows at medium, i very rarely get less than 45fps on the demo, and with drivers to come that will increase performance, and patches that will do the same, i think ill be able to put shaders on high and get the same fps
 
When i had my 320mb GTS i had to play it in 1280x960, with post processing medium, and shadows medium, otherwise it would have been a lag fest when i got into the camps and started shotting the places up, if i tried at my native res 1280x1024 i had to drop shaders down to medium as well, which made it look even more like FarCry.:p
 
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Greenboi said:
Meh i use a 320mb 8800gts and tbh it flies along in crysis with all at high cept shaders and shadows at medium, i very rarely get less than 45fps on the demo, and with drivers to come that will increase performance, and patches that will do the same, i think ill be able to put shaders on high and get the same fps
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that's a hell of a 3D Mark score on your hardware!!!!:eek:
 
I just ran a few little benchmarks on Crysis using the 169.04' drivers/Vista 32 and ran it stock and then overclocked my card to 590/900Mhz.

Here are the 2 scores (top 2 runs are stock, bottom 2 are OC'd) I seemed to have gotten a fairly good boost in FPS when I overclocked. I didn't think it would impact performance much but when running, it visually ran a lot smoother.

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Thats running @ 1280x1024 all high accept textures set to medium.
Do them scores seem normal??

Hj
 
Just ran it there again same settings and overclocked accept I turned post processing to medium and also noticed it ran a lot smoother no "lag" issues. Runns without any small stalls as they say.. Here's the score.
crysisbench2ca4.jpg




Hj
 
ive only got the crysis demo at the mo, and at 1920x1200 i set shaders shadows and post processing on medium, all else on high, using xp plays at round 40 fps max but still quite playable, this is with an 8800gts 640 @630/1500/2000, even if i turn everything to medium it still looks great, this is with the 169.04 drivers
 
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