Bought Metro 2033 on a steam sale........runs like Crysis?

Ok so i just finished downloading Metro 2033 and i couldn't help but notice the low FPS in the game.

I turned on fraps and was baffled to see my fps in the 30's meanwhile my system is more than capable of running games.

This game doesnt appear to look like crysis, so why does it run so dam poorly? Is this normal.

Its from Russia, therefore it is poorly optimized.

It's the most demanding game avaiable on the market in this moment. And it's not well optimized. I get 15 FPS average on DX11 max settings :/

It's superior to Crysis in many ways. Textures, lightning and particles, especially.

With that card, run it in DX9 and High settings.

It's the most demanding game avaiable on the market in this moment. And it's not well optimized. I get 15 FPS average on DX11 max settings :/

KillerJuan77

Wow what a giant piece of crap. Are there any mods(like Crysis CCC)?

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It's the most demanding game avaiable on the market in this moment. And it's not well optimized. I get 15 FPS average on DX11 max settings :/

Crypt_mx

Wow what a giant piece of crap. Are there any mods(like Crysis CCC)?

Nope, just tone down the settings and enjoy the game.

It's the most demanding game avaiable on the market in this moment. And it's not well optimized. I get 15 FPS average on DX11 max settings :/

KillerJuan77

Drop the DOF... With a 470 I can play it just fine in 3D and DX11. The engine is capable of more than today's hardware can handle.

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It's the most demanding game avaiable on the market in this moment. And it's not well optimized. I get 15 FPS average on DX11 max settings :/

Baranga

Drop the DOF... With a 470 I can play it just fine in 3D and DX11. The engine is capable of more than today's hardware can handle.

I did, only got 4 FPS more.

Its from Russia, therefore it is poorly optimized.

JangoWuzHere

My 8800GT can max it out at Dirext-X 10, 1280x1024, and it gives an average FPS of 20.

My 8800GT can max it out at Dirext-X 10, 1280x1024, and it gives an average FPS of 20.

The_Capitalist

My 8800GT can max it out at Dirext-X 10, 1280x1024, and it gives an average FPS of 20.

The_Capitalist

Turn off advanced DoF, if you have it enabled.

I played on max settings 1280x1024 DX9 on my 8800gt 512 Athlon X2 4400 2,2 GHZ XP SP3 2 GB RAM and i didnt have any problems. I dont think the game is poorly optimized. It is a Russian game after all and all Rusian games lead platform is the pc and most russian games are pc exculsives

The main thing is to drop the resolution and the AA as well as the AF. I played through it at 1280 x 720 DX11 with AAA anti aliasing setting and x16 AF on my GTX 460 1 GB equipped machine. Ran pretty well configured as such. The poor performance probably can be attributed to the sheer amount of ambient occlusion, motion blur, lighting, extremely high resolution shadows in DX11 and probably all the transparency effects used in the game which themselves will cause slow downs in the z-buffer phase of rendering (this I think is the biggest cause of slowdown) hence why the game runs so much better at 720p as compared to 1080p.

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Its from Russia, therefore it is poorly optimized.

dakan45

crysis is optimzed. its just a game that was and still might be significantly ahead of its time.

lol, people go and turn every bell and whistle on and say it isnt optimized. Sad, the game is optimized just fine. if you cant tell that its the best looking game out I bet you cant tell that you have it on normal or high vs very high. The game is extremely scalable, and having all the features turned on makes a huge difference.

fraps only hinders fps when recording with fraps.TheMistique

Runs just fine on my computer. I have everything on HIGH DX10 no AA and 16x AF at 1920x1080 and it runs smooth. Constantly 45-60 FPS.

Generally speaking however, I found metro 2033 far less taxing than Crysis at DX10 settings and 1680x1050. Granted, I had turned off AA and vsync, but everything else was on high.

lol, people go and turn every bell and whistle on and say it isnt optimized. Sad, the game is optimized just fine. if you cant tell that its the best looking game out I bet you cant tell that you have it on normal or high vs very high. The game is extremely scalable, and having all the features turned on makes a huge difference.

TerrorRizzing

It's superior to Crysis in many ways. Textures, lightning and particles, especially.

With that card, run it in DX9 and High settings.

Baranga

runs flawlessly for me on dx10 maxed out on:

core 2 duo e6600 2.4ghz

4gb ram

ati 4870 1gb

vista 32

1680x1050

It runs worse than Crysis. At least in SLI.

Advanced DoF in DX11 might be your problem. That one feature makes my fps go all the way down to 25 in a few instances. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.. I probably am. Vanilla Crysis at very high with texture updates is a stable 50'ish.

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Its from Russia, therefore it is poorly optimized.

ironman388

crysis is optimzed. its just a game that was and still might be significantly ahead of its time.

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[QUOTE="dakan45"] What he said. Anyway this runs far worse than crysis in terms of comparison. Seriously games nowadays make crysis look optimized.dakan45

crysis is optimzed. its just a game that was and still might be significantly ahead of its time.

[QUOTE="dakan45"][QUOTE="ironman388"]

crysis is optimzed. its just a game that was and still might be significantly ahead of its time.

TerrorRizzing

Take your pick.

[QUOTE="TerrorRizzing"][QUOTE="dakan45"] Yeah i agree:P I ws just using it as a comparison means. Back in the day everyone was like "oh crysis is too demanding and unoptimized" Now almost everything makes crysis look super optimized. Its sad really. I hope cryengine 3 ends up like unreal engine.dakan45

Take your pick.

Hey i did not generalize the argument by saying "because every game you cant max must be unoptimized" If you wanna play this way, then ok, this game is an exception to the rule. Since most multiplats look more or less the same on pc and not night and day like this one. I run this game with barelly 30 fps at all maxed out (since i couldnt choose which options i wanna keep on and which off, nice scalability by the way :roll: ) at 1280x1024 with no aa or physx at dx9 on xp. On my rig thats pretty much an insult and unoptimized crap since it cant run like that when i run crysis on very high (high replacement config) with 50fps. Also the pc version has problems too. Many people have found out that the game crashes at a random level and they cant get past it. That happen to me too. I had to use a savegame to get past it.

HOLY HELL THIS GAME IS SO AWESOME WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO PLAY IT?!

*ahem* Now that that's out of the way... not sure if this is one of the most optimized games, but I don't think it's terrible. It has literally the best smoke effects I have ever seen, and some really cool lighting effects. On my system (Phenom II X3 720 @ 3.4 GHz, 8 GB DDR2, 1 GB 4870), and using the following settings - 1080p, "high" settings, AAA anti-aliasing, 4x AF, DX 10 mode, I'm getting generally 40-60 fps.

I've cranked the graphics detail just to see what the game looks like, and it is quite stunning.. but I can't keep a consistent framerate in outdoor areas like that, so I had to turn everything down a little bit.