Official Crysis Demo thread

I dont get it, 1680x1050, high settings, enable 4xAA, its a slideshow of about 6fps or less, even on medium settings, 4xAA or even 2, its a slideshow, whats wrong? Driver problem I can see my card not been able to do AA in crysis :confused:.
 
deadsquirrel said:
That is strange. The funny thing is that i read on another forum of someone saying the exact same thing. I wish i left mine on Very High which was the recomended setting and trying to play it that way instead of staright away lowering everything to high.

Always thought it was strange that it recommends very high while in reality High is stretching the PC.
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Same happened to me, the way around it is getting Crysis to rescan for optium(sp) settings and apply. Hope this helps.
 
Looks like a Penryn Quad Core and 9800GTX will be on the list next, my Mobo and my ram + PSU should do the job fine for some time yet.
 
it has always been said that Crysis will be running full throttle on next-gen hardware. it should be no surprise to anybody that Crysis is not running at decent frame rates on your quad-core and GTX on very high...you'll have to spend another £1000 when the next gen hardware is released to have silky framerates :?!
 
I've settled on the following configuration which gives me a solid average fps just shy of 40fps (with a min of 25fps). I would have liked to get to my TFT's native res of 1920x1200, but the only way to compromise would be to adjust the shaders setting from high which I found unacceptable, forcing the engine to look more like Far Cry on high settings.

1680x1050 0xAA
All HIGH
autoexec.cfg used for

r_motionblur 0 (I found with my own testing that motionblur at level 1 cost about 7-10fps, the difference between making the game a playable 38fps to <30fps)

r_sunshafts 1 (I have fell in love with the effect after testing extra high settings on XP, so decided to force it on, taking away motionblur enabled me enough of a buffer to use this effect')

r_useedgeaa 0 (This is automatically set at 1 when you turn shaders HIGH, but I found the combination of this with the Dell 2405 interpolation made the scene too blurry, this effect only gives back about 1-2fps though)

The game is really playable with these settings. Hopefully between now and then we might see more optimisations (particularly from NVidia drivers!) that might allow me to go to 1920x1200, but I fear the fillrate performance and raw power of the GTX is not enough to power this resolution at high settings.

You can see though how well optimised this game is now. I am sad to hear so many reports from people exclaiming that this is unoptimised, and "what has Crytek been doing for the past few months!". If you consider that at around 30fps this game plays very well indeed, with hardly any large deviations from this average framerate that the game is well coded.

If you look back at some of the earlier Crysis gameplay videos you can see lots of stuttering and pausing, particularly with the physics system. This (ok I am using dual core) has now been completely resolved, at least on my rig. Ok I haven't tried the nuke or the tornado yet, but I would expect some real slowdown then!

Amazing game and cannot wait for it to arrive in just over a weeks time !
 
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J0hnb0y said:
it has always been said that Crysis will be running full throttle on next-gen hardware. it should be no surprise to anybody that Crysis is not running at decent frame rates on your quad-core and GTX on very high...you'll have to spend another £1000 when the next gen hardware is released to have silky framerates :?!
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Another £1000 you say? You talk about £1000 like it's growing on the trees outside :D I've just spent £350 on my rig (new Mobo, CPU, RAM & GFX card - see signature) and Crysis runs like a dream for me with everything set to MEDIUM. I reckon I might even get away with upping some of the settings to HIGH whilst still maintaining excellent performance.

The point is it still looks pretty amazing even on MEDIUM so I'm happy. Spending loads of dosh with one game currently in mind just seems obsurd to me. Imagine if we could all wait 1 year until after a game was released before buying it & the hardware needed to run it? We'd all be a whole let better off financially for sure :p I've just bought an ATi 1950Pro 512MB for about £70! How much were they selling for a year ago?
 
J0hnb0y said:
it has always been said that Crysis will be running full throttle on next-gen hardware. it should be no surprise to anybody that Crysis is not running at decent frame rates on your quad-core and GTX on very high...you'll have to spend another £1000 when the next gen hardware is released to have silky framerates :?!
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Why do peeps keep saying that when its untrue, there is links to the Crysis CEO's interviews all over the Forums by now (mostly by me).

You should Google them ALL and read them right up to Oct 2007's and then tell me the game is not meant to run well on todays hardware.

So is he talking BS or is Full game far more optimised as this Demo seems as bad as the MP Beta and rumours are its a older build.

There is even a split screen photo going about, showing you what Crysis was supposed to look like and what it actually does look like.
 
Mansize_tissue said:
Dogboy73: I wondered that myself. Whenever I play the game those boats seem to rape me from every direction.
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Exactly. The only time I've managed to get near one before is to use maximum speed to dive into the water, swim towards the boat, whilst the gunner is still shooting into the water at me, Then pop up next to it. But when you do this you don't seem to be able to get into the boat from the water. The guys pretty much just sit there though. It would be cool if the AI went a step further so that when you were close the guys stood up & shot you.

The AI on the whole doesn't seem any better or worse than Far Cry, which is a real shame after all that bull we've seen in previous demonstrations about it. I saw one where I guy reckons enemy soldiers could be alerted to your presence if you brushed past some foliage! The guy doing the demonstartion then went on to say that that's why he was taking the road as opposed to running through the undergrowth - Because, even though he was more exposed, it was quieter this way!! Yeah right! He was taking the road because A) you can't see a damn thing when running through foliage & B) The enemies can see you!! Like Far Cry enemies seem be alerted whenever your near them. You could be completed shrouded in foliage & not be able to see a thing. But sure as eggs are eggs they know exactly where you are :)
 
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I think the Q9450 (I think thats the one, the one thats gonna be £200 or under) is the one I'll get, that alone should boost performance with my 8800GT so Crysis may even be more playable just with the new CPU! :D.
 
If they fix the CPU issues, for a game their CEO claims is more CPU dependant, it hardly uses any % of 1 of my Cores nevermind both Cores, and even less on Quads.
 
helmutcheese said:
Why do peeps keep saying that when its untrue, there is links to the Crysis CEO's interviews all over the Forums by now (mostly by me).
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So you are favouring the optimistic promises of the guy who owns Crytek over the hard / semi-hard evidence gleaned from running the demo.

[Excluding of course the evidence from the lucky few who are reporting excellent frame playing the game on a Sinclair ZX80]

The cynic in me says "Of course he would say that...he's trying to sell his bleeding games!!". My guess is that if he said "Actually its going to be pretty pants on today's stuff...better wait a while and spend a load of cash" it would be pretty bad for Crytek cashflow.

Anyway, I hope you're right Helmutcheese
 
Runs playable on my 7800GT on medium settings 1680x1050 just :D 20fps average... Not really interested in computers now but after playing this demo im deffinatly going to have to fork out for a new graphics card!
 
Gregster6 said:
So you are favouring the optimistic promises of the guy who owns Crytek over the hard / semi-hard evidence gleaned from running the demo.

[Excluding of course the evidence from the lucky few who are reporting excellent frame playing the game on a Sinclair ZX80]

The cynic in me says "Of course he would say that...he's trying to sell his bleeding games!!". My guess is that if he said "Actually its going to be pretty pants on today's stuff...better wait a while and spend a load of cash" it would be pretty bad for Crytek cashflow.

Anyway, I hope you're right Helmutcheese
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Im saying if he was talking BS, then he is a liar and should be help accountable, many have canceled their preorders of it now.

He would have been better telling the truth IMO if it cant run on todays hardware at settings he claimed.

The above is ofcoarse if the Final Game runs as bad, I refer total judgment till then.
 
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helmutcheese said:
If they fix the CPU issues, for a game their CEO claims is more CPU dependant, it hardly uses any % of 1 of my Cores nevermind both Cores, and even less on Quads.
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Yup, I run my CPU at stock speed (q6600) and overclocked to 3ghz and notice virtually no fps difference.

The CPU usage remains at an all time low for all cores too.


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Im all for games taking advantage of futeut hardware and having maybe mega settings that cant be used yet, the problem with this is that on medium at around 1024 it looks utterly shocking, like a cartoon, its not worth playing it like that, i would rather wait.
 
schnipps said:
Im all for games taking advantage of futeut hardware and having maybe mega settings that cant be used yet, the problem with this is that on medium at around 1024 it looks utterly shocking, like a cartoon, its not worth playing it like that, i would rather wait.
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Your running at 1024? On a Dell 24? With everything on medium? And it looks bad?

Im so confused. But then your on a X1800, so i dont have a clue how well that can handle Crysis. I imagine its struggling?
 
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