Crysis Optimisation

ive heard a lot of people moaning about how poorly they think crysis is optimised -

my specs core 2 duo@2.2ghz with 2gig ram and 8600M GT (thats a laptopGPU)but with a bit of cheeky tweeking im playing it at:

1280x768 - shaders, game effectsand texture quality at medium - obv no AA :P

postprocessing, water + object quality, particle detailand physics all at high

shadows and volumetrics on low and getting solid 25fps even in intense firefights - not bad going for only medium spec system

i say well done crytek :]

considering the amount of stuff going on behind the scenes, crysis is one of the best optimised games ever imo.

u playing it on dx10 eyeflngpoo? that rele lowers your fps. jemimah666

Nope, running XP with the newest drivers

if u get Nividia tray and enable active overclocking like i did that may help..i didnt even realise til recently u can overclock laptop graphics. wot res. u playin at and how many fps?wots the difference betwen 8600m gt and 8700m gt?

considering the amount of stuff going on behind the scenes, crysis is one of the best optimised games ever imo.

HaloEleven

Some people don't understand that there are 2 options (Texture Quality & Shadows (in dx10 Object Quality as weel I think); but those and low and medium (you need shadows :D); the game looks absolutely fantastic and you don't need th most expencive hardware (I play with those settings with an AMD 4200+; 2gigs of ram and the 8600 GTS (OC edition)

And none of those things cost over 200$ so you have to invest max 1000$ if you have to start from scratch and you can play Crysis on real real nice settings

[QUOTE="HaloEleven"]

considering the amount of stuff going on behind the scenes, crysis is one of the best optimised games ever imo.

sasjebus

Some people don't understand that there are 2 options (Texture Quality & Shadows (in dx10 Object Quality as weel I think); but those and low and medium (you need shadows :D); the game looks absolutely fantastic and you don't need th most expencive hardware (I play with those settings with an AMD 4200+; 2gigs of ram and the 8600 GTS (OC edition)

And none of those things cost over 200$ so you have to invest max 1000$ if you have to start from scratch and you can play Crysis on real real nice settings

argh i avoid the shadows they rele bog your framerate down :p but in games like FEAR its crucial to have them on max. something well worth doing is setting post processing at high and it enables some sort of in game AA which rele smoothes out some rough edges.

[QUOTE="sasjebus"][QUOTE="HaloEleven"]

considering the amount of stuff going on behind the scenes, crysis is one of the best optimised games ever imo.

jemimah666

Some people don't understand that there are 2 options (Texture Quality & Shadows (in dx10 Object Quality as weel I think); but those and low and medium (you need shadows :D); the game looks absolutely fantastic and you don't need th most expencive hardware (I play with those settings with an AMD 4200+; 2gigs of ram and the 8600 GTS (OC edition)

And none of those things cost over 200$ so you have to invest max 1000$ if you have to start from scratch and you can play Crysis on real real nice settings

argh i avoid the shadows they rele bog your framerate down :p but in games like FEAR its crucial to have them on max. something well worth doing is setting post processing at high and it enables some sort of in game AA which rele smoothes out some rough edges.

I know, but I just need shadows :D

Crysis is optimized pretty well, some people dont realize it cause they think its not optimized well when high end pcs cant run it well on very high. But yet with a few settings toned down old PCs which have trouble running other games can run crysis? The key is SCALABILITY, something thats been said ever since crysis was announced. It scales 2 years foward and 2 years back, what does that mean? It means u can run it on a older PC, but it also means that right now we dont have the technology out to run it well at its highest possible settings. In 2 years we will have the hardware and what not to run crysis on very high at high res' with good frame rates. So ya, crysis is optimized well, and people who are whining about their high end PCs, remember crysis has been made scalable.

considering the amount of stuff going on behind the scenes, crysis is one of the best optimised games ever imo.

HaloEleven

^^^^^ exactly, i always said that

Im not complaining, but i've seen the max settings on my system and they look great, so it is hard to lower settings to get a good FPS, but oh well. At max, I get 10 FPS, right now im playing at high with two of the settings to medium (shadows and postprosessing i think). Game is cool, hopefully a patch will give more FPS, cus even if I lower the setting further I get not much increase.

BTW, im playing at 1680x1050, definately not complaining :)

Crysis is very well optimized... i know a guy running it on a 9600pro. you just won't get the full effect the game has to offer.

with an 8600 GT you will probably be able to play on medium.

this is what I got. intel C2D E6750 @2.66 GHZ, 2 gigs DDR2 ram, geforce 8800 GTS. I run the game on medium settings and get a good framerate.

the game is amazing. by far the best pc shooter available. and don't say COD 4 is better cuz it ain't. I have both games and Crysis looks better. it has just about everything you could want in a game. lush jungle setting with lots of action. the game has so much I could spend all day talking about it. one thing i like is the big explosions, giant alien creatures from hell, good lighting and effects. you will like it alot. i highly recommend it.

People just complain when they can't get what they were expecting to get. The game's optimized extremely well, but people moan and groan because their computers can't handle it at the settings they think it should. More often then not, their computers are bogged down by dozens of eroneous processes running in the background that they don't bother to notice or get rid of. People do so many things on their computer and load so much software that the machine just can't perform the way it should. I'm lucky enough to have two computers, one for doing random crap on and one specifically for gaming. The computer in my sig has absolutely nothing on it except drivers and games, and it runs amazingly.

It seems many gamers believe every single game made by every single company out there should be aimed at their level of computer. God forbid somebody make a game that allows people with high-end machines to actually put all that hardware to use. I have tremendous respect for Crytek for having the balls not to make a console game when just about every single developer out there is either jumping ship to the 360, or porting their 360 titles to the PC. Not only did they avoid the "console-craze", but they took a chance in creating a game with such advanced graphics that even the most powerful computers out there today can't take full advantage of the game's superb graphics. If it wasn't for companies like Crytek, we'd be seeing nothing but the Unreal Engine.

ive heard a lot of people moaning about how poorly they think crysis is optimised -

my specs core 2 duo@2.2ghz with 2gig ram and 8600M GT (thats a laptopGPU)but with a bit of cheeky tweeking im playing it at:

1280x768 - shaders, game effectsand texture quality at medium - obv no AA :P

postprocessing, water + object quality, particle detailand physics all at high

shadows and volumetrics on low and getting solid 25fps even in intense firefights - not bad going for only medium spec system

i say well done crytek :]

jemimah666

Well some people are tying to play at crazy resolutions...1920x ****

They do have pretty good graphics cards, but a game like Crysis can't run on such high resolutions with everything high at the present moment.

Once I upgrade, I am definetly purchasing this game, mainly due to the excitement of the modding community.

Plus, a patch is supposed to release pretty soon.

I think Crysis is optimized rather well-people are just complaining that they can't get a constant 60 FPS totally maxed-out with today's high-end hardware on a game that does so much more than any game before it. I see it as really being designed to utilize the high-end gaming PCs of next year or so, but able to scale back to today's hardware. (In contrast, most games today are only made with today's hardware in mind, and tend to be forgotten one year after unless it truly is a great game.) I just hope that a Q6600, 2 GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 OC'd to DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 or DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15, and a MSI 8800 GT will be able to run it on Very High DX10 at 1280x720, no AA or AF, with average framerates of 30 FPS or so. (Maybe I'm asking a bit much there, but the low resolution and lack of AA or AF should help things a bit.)NamelessPlayer

You make me want to purchase a new computer now... :(

[QUOTE="NamelessPlayer"]I think Crysis is optimized rather well-people are just complaining that they can't get a constant 60 FPS totally maxed-out with today's high-end hardware on a game that does so much more than any game before it. I see it as really being designed to utilize the high-end gaming PCs of next year or so, but able to scale back to today's hardware. (In contrast, most games today are only made with today's hardware in mind, and tend to be forgotten one year after unless it truly is a great game.) I just hope that a Q6600, 2 GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 OC'd to DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 or DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15, and a MSI 8800 GT will be able to run it on Very High DX10 at 1280x720, no AA or AF, with average framerates of 30 FPS or so. (Maybe I'm asking a bit much there, but the low resolution and lack of AA or AF should help things a bit.)bigmit37

You make me want to purchase a new computer now... :(

Yay! More banter about Crysis optimization! I think it's evenly split between "It is the worst optimized game of the entire Holiday season" and "It is one of the best optimized games ever." There is really no in between. Basically if you have a 7800, it's the former. If you have an 8800, it's the latter. They clearly had a target hardware market, and really optimized it well for that hardware. Below that, yohau just can't even expect a playable experience. This seems to launch a tyrade from people who have different definitions of what optimized means (scalable to different hardware) or (runs well on the hardware it's designed for) Myself, I haven't played the game, but if I had mediocre hardware, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.Srinivassa

what if you have a ati 9600 card, my friend has that nad he is able to run crysis but not ut 3 or bioshock. c

c2d 6750, 8800gt, 2gb ram,

I am getting about 30fps playing this game at 1680x1050 with very high settings, no aa.

what if you have a ati 9600 card, my friend has that nad he is able to run crysis but not ut 3 or bioshock. c

naval

[QUOTE="Srinivassa"]Yay! More banter about Crysis optimization! I think it's evenly split between "It is the worst optimized game of the entire Holiday season" and "It is one of the best optimized games ever." There is really no in between. Basically if you have a 7800, it's the former. If you have an 8800, it's the latter. They clearly had a target hardware market, and really optimized it well for that hardware. Below that, yohau just can't even expect a playable experience. This seems to launch a tyrade from people who have different definitions of what optimized means (scalable to different hardware) or (runs well on the hardware it's designed for) Myself, I haven't played the game, but if I had mediocre hardware, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.naval

what if you have a ati 9600 card, my friend has that nad he is able to run crysis but not ut 3 or bioshock. c

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