Squeeking performance out of the Crysis Demo

The thing to know about Cryis is that it's all about the shadows. Shadow calculations is very CPU intensive and your video card is almost rendering everything twice. The fact that almost everything is casting a shadow is amazing in itself and that the game runs at all. We'll appreciate it more when we upgrade out hardware.

For mid range systems, turn shadows to low. It may say low, but the shadows are off. Yeah, it doesn't look as good but now the game is very playable.

For high end systems, you may need to leave shadows to medium. I'm not sure there's a system right now that can have shadows set to hi and have an acceptable frame rate. If your can, good for you.

To squeeze out a few more fps, turn pixel shaders to low. From medium to low, I don't see any real difference.

Setting any of the other settings to low may squeeze an additional frame but for me it hasn't been worth it.

ive been blessed with a gtx, core2duo e4400 and 3 gigs of ram and i can run everything on very high with shadows on high @ 1680x1050 in the mid to high 30's.....its quite breathtaking....31337r4v3n

I have similar speac.... 8800gtx, e6600 c2d and 2 gig ram. On the exact same settings as you, i average 23fps :(

My pc ran better when i oc'd the gtx but since i got those new beta drivers my rivatuner wwont work properly :(

core 2 duo 6300

8800 gtx

2 gig ram

have everything set to as high as you can.... frame rate... not so good.. living up to the graphics of the hype videos? not even close. (for me at least)