Is It Just Me or Does Crysis Warhead Look Better Than Crysis?

When I built my PC, I bought Crysis: Maximum Edition. It includes both Crysis and CrysisWarhead. I've played both games multiple times and it seems to me that Crysis Warhead is the better looking of the two. The color saturation and texture work seem better, in my opinion. The colors seem a bit more vivid and the textures seem more crisp and detailed. Warhead also uses the blur filter much more effectively than Crysis. Does anyone else agree? Or, am I spewing nonsense because both games look exactly the same?

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I agree, Warhead has sligthly better lighting & textures.

Warhead does have slightly improved graphics, also its more optimised so it runs a bit better.

It does look better because crytek set out to make it look better and run smoother.

It does look better because crytek set out to make it look better and run smoother.

mattuk69

Well, they should have gone back and done the same for the original Crysis.

It does look better but it is a much more confined experiance. Warhead does not have that whole open island thing. Thats why I think they were able to improve graphics and performance.

[QUOTE="mattuk69"]

It does look better because crytek set out to make it look better and run smoother.

BluRayHiDef

Well, they should have gone back and done the same for the original Crysis.

It does look better but it is a much more confined experiance. Warhead does not have that whole open island thing. Thats why I think they were able to improve graphics and performance.

rzepak

Warhead is much more linear compared to the original Crysis.

[QUOTE="rzepak"]

It does look better but it is a much more confined experiance. Warhead does not have that whole open island thing. Thats why I think they were able to improve graphics and performance.

mattuk69

Speaking of CCC, does anyone know why I get "Crysis has stopped working" msg when I try to run the game? This doesn't happen when the mod is not installed.

Crysis Warhead has:

-Better particle effects (explosions).

-A more warm color filter.

-Better performance.

-Much better alien A.I.

But lacks compared to Crysis in some areas:

-Much short rendering distance (aka: poping in front of your face).

-Worse shaders used in the frozen maps.

-More linear and smaller maps.

Anyway: you can edit the configuration to reduce the poping, but can't enhance the shaders or the size of the maps in the same way.

I wasn't too fond of the swamp either. It also gave a frame rate hit while looking worse than either forests or ice levels. I also liked the times of day/night in Crysis better than Warhead.

To be honest it just looks like warhead has more color saturation, the original looks more real IMO.

Yeah warhead looks better than crysis vanilla. Crysis with mods looks best though. Here are some pics i took yesterday:

Can anyone answer my question please? =\

I really want better fps, but when I install CCC I get a "Crysis has stopped working" message, when I uninstall it the game runs fine.

Any help is highly appreiated.

I dunno. Both games run fine on my PC, but for some reason Warhead has some serious issues with the draw distance. Especially small plants and grass may pop up when I'm just 5 meters away from them. Apparently this is a fairly common issue that can be solved by typing something into the console, but I have yet to try it.

Yeah warhead looks better than crysis vanilla. Crysis with mods looks best though. Here are some pics i took yesterday:HeavenIceDay

^ What he said.

If you compare the two unmodded, Warhead wins. But Warhead isn't moddable like Crysis, so you can make Crysis look a lot better with mods.

[QUOTE="BluRayHiDef"]

[QUOTE="mattuk69"]

It does look better because crytek set out to make it look better and run smoother.

Daytona_178

Well, they should have gone back and done the same for the original Crysis.

Well, most people say that it performs worse than Warhead.

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"][QUOTE="BluRayHiDef"]

Well, they should have gone back and done the same for the original Crysis.

BluRayHiDef

Well, most people say that it performs worse than Warhead.

This was the case for me.

Can anyone answer my question please? =\

I really want better fps, but when I install CCC I get a "Crysis has stopped working" message, when I uninstall it the game runs fine.

Any help is highly appreiated.

coreybg

Yeah warhead looks better than crysis vanilla. Crysis with mods looks best though. Here are some pics i took yesterday:

HeavenIceDay

What mod are you using? I just started playing crysis a few days ago. What are some good mods to make it looks better? What are some good mods to improve performance? What are some good mods to do both? lol

[QUOTE="HeavenIceDay"]

Yeah warhead looks better than crysis vanilla. Crysis with mods looks best though. Here are some pics i took yesterday:

What mod are you using? I just started playing crysis a few days ago. What are some good mods to make it looks better? What are some good mods to improve performance? What are some good mods to do both? lol

[QUOTE="coreybg"]

Can anyone answer my question please? =\

I really want better fps, but when I install CCC I get a "Crysis has stopped working" message, when I uninstall it the game runs fine.

Any help is highly appreiated.

mattuk69

Turns out it was the patch :D

Thanks a lot :)

One more thing about Crysis that I liked better than Warhead were the last bosses. When the last boss exploded in Warhead, my frame rates dipped down into the low teens, perhaps into single digits. I never had that problem with Crysis. Worst case maybe mid 20's with the majority of the time in the mid 30's and low 40's.

Hmmm. Did I say low teens and single digits? Not today though. It's still in the teens though :lol:

[QUOTE="HeavenIceDay"]

Yeah warhead looks better than crysis vanilla. Crysis with mods looks best though. Here are some pics i took yesterday:

Jermone123

What mod are you using? I just started playing crysis a few days ago. What are some good mods to make it looks better? What are some good mods to improve performance? What are some good mods to do both? lol

I used the maximum immersion mods. It runs and looks great on my rig. ^_^

IIRC EA wouldnt let Crytek return to optimise Crysis. They made their money.bonafidetk

I think it's amazing that so many people bought the game even though most of them couldn't run it.