Crysis brings my PC to knees... lol...

[Magnum50]

Only a 2 week old PC with state of the art gear and Crysis is the first game to bring it to it's knee's... lol...

Every other game I have gives me 50 to 100 fps, everything maxed, 1600x1200x32... even CoD4, Hellgate London, ArmA, VBS2... all ave around 80 fps...

Installed and played Crysis this AM... maxed out at 1600x1200x32 with an average of 20 fps, so lowered all the settings to medium (still looks damn good), now I get 35 to 40... which is manageable, but still...what the heck do you need to run this game in all it's glory? a PC not made yest or what?

just wondering, not really looking for answers. lol

[Red]

At higher resolution and using very high everything you need a SLI rig with Ultras and then you still only get 20-30 fps.

Most performance seem to go to Shadows and Post Processing, Try lowering those two first. I get good performance with a 8800GT , DX10 Mode. 2xAA, Very High on all but Shadows and Post Processing which I lowered to High. I do run at 1280*800 (I do wish I could do 1920*1200 but it still looks real good at 1280*800). If you want to play at the higher resolutions you have to turn things down or get SLI / Crossfire. Try finding lower resolutions with same scaling as your monitor it looks better than you think.

[Anospa]

The made it scalable backwards and forwards, so if you really want everything at high res, you're gonna have to wait sadly. Thats just the way new tech/games is/are.

[DirtyLude]

This has been talked about here as well.
http://www.tacticalgamer.com/crysis/...-says-all.html

Somebody mentioned in another thread, after playing for a while and realizing the scope of everything the game is trying to do, it's a wonder we don't need super computers.

[Zoopy_T]

I rather lower everything and keep my resolution then lower my resolution and keep everything very high.

I can run everything very high except post processing and shadowing at 1920X1200 and get ~30FPS, I am happy with this (although you loose the colour definition and the cool motion blur effects).

[UnDeaD77]

I tried post processing on high, and it was just annoying. I think thats an optional effect setting imo. I turned it back to medium.

[stickyjeans69]

post processing adds alot of cool things better colors and lighting effects the reason it performs bad is it adds AA to all the leaves. Adjust your cvars

[UnDeaD77]

Yeah adds a kinda false AA, that just blurs out the edges, I'm going to tweak a few things around, hell already lowered my res to 1440x900, so it runs better just by doing that.

[VegaBond]

So SLI 2x is working for Crysis yes?

[Magnum50]

so just wondering... for games with these little problems... is it better to lower the resolution or lower the game settings?

[Red]

I found that lowering the resolution was better as you wont really have less graphics just smaller versions of it. If you remove setting you loose graphics.

An important factor is how your monitor scales, if you have an LCD Screen you have a couple of resolutions that will work, usually the best is a factor 2 but my montior works good with 1.5 as well.

So 1920 becomes 1280 and 1200 becomes 800. So I run 1280 * 800. For me to get best picture I would have to go 960 * 600 which was a little to small. This is the drawback of LCDs.

I did also find that Nvidia handles scaling better.