Official Crysis Demo thread

ChrisJSY · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:00

silversurfer said:
Play it on high settings, fps isnt everything in fact this game seems more like MGS then CSS to me so frame rate is not so important.
Also do it on delta difficulty and take your time

Frame rate is not so important?
Frame rate is important in -every game-.

Ofcourse I'm talking if you're getting sub 24-30's then you start to notice, well to be frank you can notice up to about 60 or so but playability isn't really hindered.

Perfect_Chaos · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:01

Thing is, in full screen mode the game looks kinda grainy in places on my lcd monitor.. anybody else got this problem?

games sure looked smoother on my old crt.. oh well

Undesirable · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:07

What a surprise. They said this game would be better optimised than most other new games, yet it runs at less than quarter of the framerate. Crank it up to very high settings and I get ~5 FPS. Looks like they're in league with some graphics card manufacturers in order to force us to buy the next gen, AGAIN!

I won't be buying Crysis unless there are MAJOR improvements for the final release. And I mean MAJOR ones.

vincent1989 · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:08

just how big is this demo

been playing for an hour and a quater and still not done it, to much playing around i guess

, oh well, off to work, role on 5.30PM

ChrisJSY · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:19

bringerofdecay said:
off to work, role on 5.30PM

This gave me a nano-second panic attack, thinking it was not saturday and I thought I was late for work ¬_¬.

*Phew*

mohawk · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:20

playing on 1280x1024 everything on high 4xaa spec in sig, everything runs smoothly no problems at all

mrk · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:23

Oh BTW, on Vista can anyone tell me where it creates the shortcut files to the game after install? I had to manually drag the shortcuts from program files to a folder I created in the start menu called "games"

I must have deleted the original games folder and cannot remember what it used to be called!

Sean_UK · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:26

Runs well for me, enjoyed the demo appart from 5mins worth of adverts before i could even play it! Looking forward to this one very much so.

SS-89 · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:26

Dx10 lighting and shadows + textures are definitely apparent. I strongly recommend messing around with the contrast brightness and gamma settings really brings the forest areas of the game to life.

Dx10 High

Standard:

Fiddled gamma, brightness contrast:

The Old Man · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:34

Wow! 600KB/sec on Gamershell! The fastest download I've ever seen! That's only allowing 1 part out of 5 through the DownThemAll plug-in for Firefox too! I have an 8Mbps Pipex connection but usually connect at about 6.8Mbps.

Ice Rich · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:37

Just finished my D/L, got 2500kb!

http://na.llnet.cdn.ea.com/u/demos/Crysis_SP_Demo.exe

The Old Man · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:40

So do you need a key to activate this demo?

http://www.gamershell.com/news/42876.html

Apparently this is the whole first level about 45mins gameplay according to Gamershell.

Very generous and handy to see how it plays on my 2 rigs!

Gerard · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:42

Anyone else noticed that the dx9 performance in vista is woeful? Im getting a better framerate using dx10 mode. :eek:

geeza · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:42

^ WOW. Somehow i dont think itll look like that on my X2 3800+ , 2gb and 1800XT!

SS-89 · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:46

geeza said:
^ WOW. Somehow i dont think itll look like that on my X2 3800+ , 2gb and 1800XT!

, honestly fiddling with the contrast settings etc really does improve the forest areas 100%.

Does anyone else think multithreading isnt enabled in the demo still.

Andrew_McP · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:49

Gerard said:
Anyone else noticed that the dx9 performance in vista is woeful? Im getting a better framerate using dx10 mode.

I've seen a report from a user that it seems to be running in software mode if you have a dx9 card in Vista or a dx10 card in XP.

I imagine a small patch ought to be able to sort that out if it's the case.

Andrew McP... waiting impatiently for the public release

Bald-Eagle22 · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:50

Gerard said:
Anyone else noticed that the dx9 performance in vista is woeful? Im getting a better framerate using dx10 mode.

Hope so , XP was really slow for me ..8800GTX 4gb of ram 6600C2D

SS-89 · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:51

Andrew_McP said:
I've seen a report from a user that it seems to be running in software mode if you have a dx9 card in Vista or a dx10 card in XP.

I imagine a small patch ought to be able to sort that out if it's the case.

Andrew McP... waiting impatiently for the public release

Public release? It was released last night.

http://www.gamershell.com/download_21700.shtml

There is also an EA link which i dloaded off in this thread further back.

Andrew_McP · 27 Oct 2007 at 09:55

SS-89 said:
Public release? It was released last night.

B*gger. I was looking at this... http://www.crysisdemo.com/ and assumed people were playing the pre-order version. I suppose I'd better start downloading then. :-)

Thanks for putting me straight.

Andrew McP

SS-89 · 27 Oct 2007 at 10:01

lol np enjoy