***** The Crysis 2 Thread *****

PaddyMC89 said:
I'm not sure what the PC community think Crytek owes them. They've made a game, one which people without an agenda seem to be loving on the whole, but many are feeling totally let down because it's shipping without certain graphics settings, or a few technical bugs?
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I think the problem is that because the first one set such a high standard graphically, people had their expectations set far, far too high for this sequel.

The config makers for Crysis proved that Dx9 is capable of some superb visuals, which is what we got & are getting again in C2.

Ok, it would have been nice to have dx11 support (whatever that may bring other than tessellation & lower fps ) from the beginning, but it's not exactly something worth throwing the toys out of the pram over is it...


If you were the CEO of Crytek what would you have done ?

1. Program a game that bring the Gtx 580 to it's knees to have the web brought to a standstill with fanboys whining that their hardware can't run it, and get, possibly, a million sales.

Or

2. Program a title that runs on 3 different platforms, looks pretty damm good on all 3 & means your company & workers have a future thanks to financial stability due to the combined sales from 3 platforms rather than just 1 ?

It's not a hard choice really, given the current financial state of the world...
 
PinkFloyd said:
From the sounds of things it will be a matter of days before a 3rd party configuration tool is made for it. Pretty sure there was one even for the demo :)
Will end up being like those games where you set the graphical settings in the game launcher app.
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Fingers crossed

I loved crysis 1 and i just can't help comparing it to that..for me it was the graphics and switching of the suit modes being so quick..mouse 5+ cursor move.. Combined with the open play which made it the game I've played through most times..ever!!

Its a tough benchmark to follow

More than the graphics what will kill it for me is if the game play feels console and the missions aren't open..human nature makes not comparing it to the first hard..its like swapping my i7 for a pentium 4
 
I'm having a few issues with performance, I get horrible flickering (the lines across the screen) - It seems to be caused by the lighting effects.

I've used my phone camera to get these screenshots as I could not get the problem to show up when taking screenshots with Fraps.

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5914/crysis22.jpg
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5306/crysis2m.jpg

Here are screenshots taken using Fraps, it does not show up on these for some reason:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/5765/crysis22011032323160643.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2061/crysis22011032323164759.jpg

2560x1400 Resolution
5970 running at 400/1010 - AMD Catalyst 11.4
All settings on Extreme, if I turn the graphic settings down the problem gets worse.

Any advice?
 
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rwm24 said:
I'm having a few issues with performance, I get horrible flickering (the lines across the screen) - It seems to be caused by the lighting effects.

I've used my phone camera to get these screenshots as I could not get the problem to show up when taking screenshots with Fraps.

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5914/crysis22.jpg
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5306/crysis2m.jpg

Here are screenshots taken using Fraps, it does not show up on these for some reason:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/5765/crysis22011032323160643.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2061/crysis22011032323164759.jpg

2560x1400 Resolution
5970 running at 400/1010 - AMD Catalyst 11.4
All settings on Extreme, if I turn the graphic settings down the problem gets worse.

Any advice?
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hey dude, i saw your post at nforce nl p2p forums, you need to switch on V sync
 
rwm24 said:
I'm having a few issues with performance, I get horrible flickering (the lines across the screen) - It seems to be caused by the lighting effects.

I've used my phone camera to get these screenshots as I could not get the problem to show up when taking screenshots with Fraps.

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5914/crysis22.jpg
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5306/crysis2m.jpg

Here are screenshots taken using Fraps, it does not show up on these for some reason:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/5765/crysis22011032323160643.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2061/crysis22011032323164759.jpg

2560x1400 Resolution
5970 running at 400/1010 - AMD Catalyst 11.4
All settings on Extreme, if I turn the graphic settings down the problem gets worse.

Any advice?
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Crossfire and sli systems are having issues with lines and weird blooming effects. If you have the option to disable catalyst ai it should disable crossfire and let the game run on one gpu for the time being.
 
Muzy said:
hey dude, i saw your post at nforce nl p2p forums, you need to switch on V sync
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I've tried that, it didn't help :(

Gerard said:
Crossfire and sli systems are having issues with lines and weird blooming effects. If you have the option to disable catalyst ai it should disable crossfire and let the game run on one gpu for the time being.
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I'm running a single 5970 at standard clocks so I don't think it's anything to do with crossfire.
 
Gerard said:
5970 has 2 gpu's on board which run in crossfire.
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On further investigation it looks like Crossfire is hard coded enabled on the 5970. There is no crossfire tab in Catalyst Control Center to disable or enable it.

Tweaking the Catalyst AI slider which is meant to disable the second GPU makes no difference.

Running Crysis 2 in windowed mode does fix the problem (and reduces my fps to ~20 :() but it's not ideal.
 
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rwm24 said:
I'm having a few issues with performance, I get horrible flickering (the lines across the screen) - It seems to be caused by the lighting effects.

I've used my phone camera to get these screenshots as I could not get the problem to show up when taking screenshots with Fraps.

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5914/crysis22.jpg
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5306/crysis2m.jpg

Here are screenshots taken using Fraps, it does not show up on these for some reason:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/5765/crysis22011032323160643.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2061/crysis22011032323164759.jpg

2560x1400 Resolution
5970 running at 400/1010 - AMD Catalyst 11.4
All settings on Extreme, if I turn the graphic settings down the problem gets worse.

Any advice?
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Did you install the latest CAP on the AMD website? It mentions Crysis 2 crossfire as one of its optimisations.
 
opethdisciple said:
Did you install the latest CAP on the AMD website? It mentions Crysis 2 crossfire as one of its optimisations.
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Just installed them and it didn't make any difference.

It's only playable if I run it in windowed mode at the moment.

Update:

I've fixed the problem by renaming the Crysis2.exe within the bin32 folder to Bioshock.exe
 
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rwm24 said:
On further investigation it looks like Crossfire is hard coded enabled on the 5970. There is no crossfire tab in Catalyst Control Center to disable or enable it.

Tweaking the Catalyst AI slider which is meant to disable the second GPU makes no difference.
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Download RadeonPro which will let you disable crossfire on a per game basis with the use of profiles - 'Force Single GPU' is the setting you'd want in the tweaks tab iirc.

It'll also do the renaming of .exe's on the fly as you can force various different crossfire profiles for a game that doesn't have a decent one yet.
 
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