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General Category => Technology and Programming => Topic started by: something bizarre and impractical on September 26, 2008, 12:49:26 am
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I've been trying to play Crysis Warhead and I have to run it on minimal/mainstream or it's really annoying to play with frames that dip down to 15 or 20 quite frequently. I have an 8800GT and am running it without AA at 1024x960 (I think?) and in -dx9. I don't understand how some people are saying they can play it on high with, for example, a 9500GS (see: computer thread (http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=5129.msg1395299#msg1395299)). Is this normal, or is something wrong?
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I play the standard Crysis. I don't have Warhead at this time, so I couldn't help you much here like I wish. Even though I can play Crysis on high on my 9500GS (which is probably considered inferior to 8800), the frame rating still isn't perfect, but it's tolerable at least for me, and I am not very picky on frames. Most of the time it's very smooth but at times, it can dip down. The next gamer might not accept the performance very well, I'll have to admit, but I can stand it.
What I think, your bottlenecks could be your CPU or RAM.
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I play the standard Crysis. I don't have Warhead at this time, so I couldn't help you much here like I wish. Even though I can play Crysis on high on my 9500GS (which is probably considered inferior to 8800), the frame rating still isn't perfect, but it's tolerable at least for me, and I am not very picky on frames. Most of the time it's very smooth but at times, it can dip down. The next gamer might not accept the performance very well, I'll have to admit, but I can stand it.
What I think, your bottlenecks could be your CPU or RAM.
CPU is e8200, and I have 2GB of DDR2-800 running Vista.
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Well, at stock clock speed, the E8200 might still be bottlenecking you. Remember that most of the game's rendering power comes from the processor.
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I think it my be the Warhead expansion. With a 9600gt, 2 gig of ram, and two 2.2ghz cpu I could run regular Crysis on all High settings and 1280x720 resolution with fairly constant smooth frame rate.
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Yeah, I've been looking to bump it up from 2.66 to 3.0 but I still need a better fan.
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Try turning down less noticable effects like shadows or sky detail (volumetric effects). Do you have very latest drivers from nvidia's website?
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Try downloading this and extracting it into your Crysis WARHEAD folder: http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/37386/CrysisWarheadConfig.rar
The RAR contains one file (autoexec.cfg) which apply custom settings when you start the game. To check if it's working you'll see CUSTOM on all or most of the settings in the video section. If you don't like the changes, just delete the autoexec.cfg file.
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Those sound really low. I got an E6600 (OC'd to 3.0 GHz) and 8800 GTX and I play in 1680x1050 in -dx9 with constant 30-35 FPS with all mainstream except few settings on gamer/enthusiastic. No AA though.
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I played with the settings a bit and got it to run fairly smoothly. Anyways I beat this game so I don't really care about anything to do with it!
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Has anyone else experienced frequent crashes with this? I can't seem to play more than a half hour without it fucking up in some way.
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Apparently there's some bug which makes the game crash in checkpoints. I'm not sure what's causing it since it didn't happen for rami or me. Try checking http://www.incrysis.com/forums/index.php for help.
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Mine crashed about 2-6 times each level. Checkpoints, loading, and twice at the end-level cutscenes which forced me to finish the level again.
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I know that you have a legitimate tech problem but when I read the topic "Crysis Low FPS" I was like "well duh" and for a second I thought you were a moron :mad:
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Crysis is much like Farcry (hold the flames). They made something that can be pretty but its got some seriously sloppy programing and varies a ton from system to system. I wouldn't worry to much about whether or not your system can run it smoothly as most of the fault lies with Crytek. Sadly this lack of testing/optimization is becoming par for the industry :(
On a happy note load up COD4 and watch as even the lowliest of systems makes pretty textures and explosions!
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Well at the very least WARHEAD works much more smoothly than the original Crysis (at least for me). I get rarely any major FPS drops for Warhead, and the gameplay is smooth overall, while with original Crysis there are still times when the game suddenly starts performing well under how it usually does.