Reqest: Can someone with a 290X run the Crysis 1 benchmark maxed out?

almighty15 · 2 Nov 2013 at 08:32

As above guys

Cheers

Kaapstad · 2 Nov 2013 at 08:36

Panos · 2 Nov 2013 at 13:04

6 years later we are still on "but can it play Crysis?"

chaparral · 2 Nov 2013 at 13:06

Panos said:
6 years later we are still on "but can it play Crysis?"

At 4K..................

Marine-RX179 · 2 Nov 2013 at 13:19

Panos said:
6 years later we are still on "but can it play Crysis?"

Not only that, it STILL looks better than a lot of the games today.

LtMatt · 2 Nov 2013 at 13:29

Shame it doesn't have better cpu optimization than a lot of the games today. Cpu bottleneck central.

Marine-RX179 · 2 Nov 2013 at 14:30

LtMatt said:
Shame it doesn't have better cpu optimization than a lot of the games today. Cpu bottleneck central.

Give it another 6 years...we might finally can play it properly on 120Hz monitor

chaparral · 2 Nov 2013 at 14:34

LtMatt said:
Shame it doesn't have better cpu optimization than a lot of the games today. Cpu bottleneck central.

How many CPU cores does crysis use ?

Crysis is so old now I can remember...

and I haven't got my G19 LCD software installed at the moment so I can't check this for myself

LtMatt · 2 Nov 2013 at 14:40

chaparral said:
How many CPU cores does crysis use ?

Crysis is so old now I can remember... and I haven't got my G19 LCD software installed at the moment so I can't check this for myself

Two.

Don't make the mistake i did a month or two back when i replayed it on DX10. Apparently the bottleneck is not so bad if you stick to DX9.

thefogo · 2 Nov 2013 at 15:07

LtMatt said:
Shame it doesn't have better cpu optimization than a lot of the games today. Cpu bottleneck central.

Yeah it really does bottleneck badly. I remember being bottlenecked on my 480 SLI & i7 860 system. I'd overclock the GPUs and the FPS would stay the same

Kaapstad · 2 Nov 2013 at 15:18

Plays lovely on a single Titan, even though the fps are not as high as more demanding games. IIRC maxed it was always above min of 60 fps.

It is not a bottleneck you are dealing with though, it is a rubbish piece of software. Overclocking the CPU or GPU or both does not change much and lets be honest the graphics by modern standards are not that great.

Crysis is a bit like running DOS @the C prompt, it does not matter what GPU/CPU setup you run.

Darujhistan · 2 Nov 2013 at 15:25

Marine-RX179 said:
Not only that, it STILL looks better than a lot of the games today.

Yes it does, a truly exceptional graphical experience for its time and it still looks great today.

And a very good game to boot.

A classic IMO.

LtMatt · 2 Nov 2013 at 15:30

thefogo said:
Yeah it really does bottleneck badly. I remember being bottlenecked on my 480 SLI & i7 860 system. I'd overclock the GPUs and the FPS would stay the same

It starts off fine, but it gets worse as the game goes on. I was fighting the last boss at 35fps on DX10. Gpu usage plummeting and two threads locked at 100% on the cpu.

Warhead was no better either. In parts that weren't cpu limited though it ran and looked great. I do wonder now looking back whether it might have been wise to turn hyper threading off.

Kaapstad · 2 Nov 2013 at 15:33

LtMatt said:
I do wonder now looking back whether it might have been wise to turn hyper threading off.

It is not that good with it turned on with a 3930k

Martini1991 · 2 Nov 2013 at 15:38

DX10 was more bugged than anything to be honest.

LtMatt · 2 Nov 2013 at 15:42

Kaapstad said:
It is not that good with it turned on with a 3930k

I'll take your word for it. Although i enjoyed playing it, the graphics were lovely, even without mods. I won't be going back to test it again though. Once bitten twice shy.

MeMeMeMe · 3 Nov 2013 at 01:59

LtMatt said:
It starts off fine, but it gets worse as the game goes on. I was fighting the last boss at 35fps on DX10. Gpu usage plummeting and two threads locked at 100% on the cpu. Warhead was no better either. In parts that weren't cpu limited though it ran and looked great. I do wonder now looking back whether it might have been wise to turn hyper threading off.

The final boss fight is a buggy mess on dx10. Works fine on dx9 though. The various mods available make dx9 look just as good as dx10 without the bugs.

arc@css · 3 Nov 2013 at 02:21

Marine-RX179 said:
Give it another 6 years...we might finally can play it properly on 120Hz monitor

Hehe.

RichardH754 · 3 Nov 2013 at 07:55

I did wonder why my frames in Crysis started at 60fps then went down to lower 40s at the end!

LtMatt · 3 Nov 2013 at 09:05

MeMeMeMe said:
The final boss fight is a buggy mess on dx10. Works fine on dx9 though. The various mods available make dx9 look just as good as dx10 without the bugs.

Yeah it was during those moments that i thought why didn't i just pick DX9.