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[Barack Lesnar]

Some guy over at the inCrysis forums just released this pretty nice tool, im about to try it out right now.

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/4553/appbeta2.png

Link

Doesn't look like this works for the retail version? Tried it and it didn't skip the intro or anything. He mentions in the readme it's for the Steam version. I'm guessing because the retail ver is in a different folder?

 

[-bakalhau-]

I am currently uploading comparison screenshots of the specs (default settings) in uncompressed BMP captured by FRAPS Hope someone's interested

It's a shame you don't notice the pop ups in screenshots =/ Apart from that it looks virtually the same. Shadows look a tad worse too.

Edit: I mean VH/Extreme above.

It's working for me Heavy.

 

[JoeBoy101]

Huge bug. Lots of others in this thread with the same bug.

I got hit by it too.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

He downscales from a higher resolution but that's it. He just makes sure take lossless screens.



You're exactly where the game picked up for me. It gets a ton better from there.

ok, I sure hope so.

 

[Dennis]

Crysis 2, TAA disabled, 4xMSAA, downsampled from 1600p.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

Whoa, wait, what the fuck did you do to Crysis 2 Dennis??!!

Shit looks super hawt.

 

[Nekrono]

Doesn't look like this works for the retail version? Tried it and it didn't skip the intro or anything. He mentions in the readme it's for the Steam version. I'm guessing because the retail ver is in a different folder?

Were you running an autoexe.cfg before this? If you did you need to delete it, also restore your system.cfg back to default too.

 

[JoeBoy101]

Alright, that utility is awesome and I recommend it.

 

[Kyaw]

I need to get me some of those 1600p monitors... or supersample in realtime [?].

 

[derFeef]

Played the first two levels. I tried the highest difficulty but I do not like it - the game relies too heavy on stealth there I think. On the second hardest it is fine, a bit easier like I remember Delta from C1. I still die fucking fast when I screw up (and I do that often).

Game looks great - don't get the complains, the lighting is superb.

 

[The Antitype]

I cannot believe that a shooter with such a good single-player campaign has such trashy multiplayer.

And maybe Crytek should send the online coder back to special ed classes. I have a 50 down, 5 up connection and in two days have NEVER been in a game with more than two bars. Ever.

Combine lag with the trashy spray-and-pray gameplay, and it's nothing but a fucking clusterfuck of random kills and deaths.

I have NEVER felt like I earned a kill or deserved to die. It just happens.

So disappointing.

 

[TheExodu5]

Whoa, wait, what the fuck did you do to Crysis 2 Dennis??!!

Shit looks super hawt.

Denis has superhuman screenshot powers. It's quite ridiculous.

 

[Nekrono]

Alright, that utility is awesome and I recommend it.

Yes it is, it's pretty much got everything you could need/want.

 

[bhlaab]

The fuck is this shit? The gun takes up half the screen!!

How do I turn off HUD?

r_DrawNearFoV=XX should make the guns smaller.

Does the pistol design bother anyone else? There are probably pistols with this design IRL but it just looks constantly unloaded to me.

 

[Revolutionary]

I got a crash I've never got before while using that options application...

Guess I'll have to live with Motion Blur for now.

 

[Nekrono]

Crysis 2, TAA disabled, 4xMSAA, downsampled from 1600p.

http://www.abload.de/img/crysis22011-03-2423-02q72k.jpg[img][/url][/QUOTE]

Are you using the utility Dennis? if so, what settings are you using?

 

[bhlaab]

Crysis 2, TAA disabled, 4xMSAA, downsampled from 1600p.

Wow, pretty nice looking game if you turn off all the bullshit.

r_PostMSAA
r_FSAA

Which is the good one which is the bad one?

 

[Sethos]

What's the option to remove that stupid looking blur on weapons etc. when moving, is that radial or motion blur? Just want world blur, not object blur.

 

[eso76]

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img]http://www.abload.de/img/anag3d3v70x.jpg[/img]

img]http://www.abload.de/img/anag3d2s79d.jpg[/img]

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http://www.digitalfoundry.org/crysis3d.rar

yep.
basically it's 3 flat 2D layers: the HUD, your character's weapon, everything else.
I was expecting more from Crytek's 3d effect.

 

[DieH@rd]

Game works and looks glorious on my PC. Quad Phenom II, 3gb ram, Radeon 6870 and 32" Samsung HDTV [as my monitor].

SO AWESOME. Even more awesome with fov 80.

 

[Kyaw]

The pistol in the game actually looks too shiny imo.

 

[TheExodu5]

How do I turn off HUD?

I don't know the answer to that, but I at least suggest you go in Game and reduce the HUD shake.

 

[DieH@rd]

yep.
basically it's 3 flat 2D layers: the HUD, your character's weapon, everything else.
I was expecting more from Crytek's 3d effect.

Its shame that this game doesn't support anaglyph glasses [like Batman AA with Trioviz].

 

[Always-honest]

wow, really like the gameplay. It's open enough to try out different things and it's lineair enough to not walk around clueless. So far so good.

 

[burgerdog]

How did you see disable TAA?

 

[Enosh]

r_DrawNearFoV=XX should make the guns smaller.

Does the pistol design bother anyone else? There are probably pistols with this design IRL but it just looks constantly unloaded to me.

that's beacose it is empty, look at the ammo counter it's 0/0 ^^

 

[KKRT00]

Crysis 2, TAA disabled, 4xMSAA, downsampled from 1600p.

http://www.abload.de/img/crysis22011-03-2423-02q72k.jpg

Post some other info. TAA You mean EdgeAA = 0? and 4x MSAA You mean forced in driver or FSAA cvar?

Can You also post some pics with distant view?

 

[Insayne]

I uploaded Screenshots (1680x1050) illustrating the difference between High, Very High and Extreme. As you all know, this does not alter the pop-up/in effect (to a huge degree) but visually, a few things do change.

Look at the Models in the first screenshot of the coffee machine, the plant on the left, and the chair on the left. Even between Very High and Extreme will you find differences.

Another one that jumped my eye was the vanishing side-lights in the parking house.
Then on the 6th, you can also see the writing on some walls vanish, the texture finesse being different across all 3.

Anyhow, its uncompressed BMP - so all JPG nazi's can breath easy.

(And yes, imho, extreme is blurrier - The game is still good)

http:///www.insayne.net/Crysis2

 

[BeeDog]

Alright, just finished the level where you command a vehicle for the first time in that lengthy tunnel section. So far, the game's pretty good albeit a bit plain. Graphically, it's ridiculously good-looking (PC); personally I find this game to look better than Crysis 1 by far, in large thanks to the much-improved image quality and general performance. The gunplay is decent, but I would've hoped it'd be a bit better.

Too many impressions say that the first half of the game is somewhat boring/plain; if that's the case, I look forward to seeing the later portions of the game.

 

[Dennis]

Post some other info. TAA You mean EdgeAA = 0? and 4x MSAA You mean forced in driver or FSAA cvar?

Can You also post some pics with distant view?

All forms of AA turned off, except 4xMSAA. FoV is set to 80 which gives the slight fish-lens effect.

 

[TheExodu5]

Turning on 4x MSAA breaks SLI for me. Everything flashes like crazy in the game.

 

[derFeef]

So much better, I need to do this. Would be nice to know how

 

[Sethos]

Turning on 4x MSAA breaks SLI for me. Everything flashes like crazy in the game.

Yup, breaks CF too. Was using Bioshock CF profile to fix it previously but turning on 4xMSAA breaks it again - Was able to have it working briefly but it didn't last.

 

[RebornYeti]

Man, too bad you guys are too busy posting screenshots and talking about graphics. I would really love to discuss the actual game.

 

[TheExodu5]

There isn't much to discuss.

 

[Tom Penny]

Why did they waste their time with the City Sections. The other ones blow it away.

 

[DeadRockstar]

Man, too bad you guys are too busy posting screenshots and talking about graphics. I would really love to discuss the actual game.

If you posted about the game instead of whining, somebody might reply to you and start that discussion you're looking for!

 

[Spookie]

Is the multiplayer flat out broken on the PC? Games never start. :/

 

[derFeef]

So... am I the only one having problems with survivability on Veteran? I really need to take out enemies one by one and stealth is the only viable option it seems.

 

[RebornYeti]

If you posted about the game instead of whining, somebody might reply to you and start that discussion you're looking for!

I would start a discussion, but I would get like 1 or 2 replies, and then it would go back to posting screenshots.

But you're right. Instead of whining I could be playing the game right now. Welp, back to playing Crysis 2.

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

just threw the disc in my PS3,

installing.....


the music makes installing awesome

 

[Mr. Spinnington]

been playing this on 360, while there was a lot of eye candy within the first two hours the gameplay was pretty vanilla. i like crysis' fiction tho so i kept going and once the aliens/suit powerups started to become introduced things picked up

i can see why people would cry about it being more linear but so far they've donea fine job of making it an enjoyable linear experience with enough play in each situation about how you're going to approach a conflict. still, there's no reason to be a bitch about what crysis 2 took away from the more or less average crysis-- game is fine


shame about the vehicles tho

 

[Barack Lesnar]

I uploaded Screenshots (1680x1050) illustrating the difference between High, Very High and Extreme. As you all know, this does not alter the pop-up/in effect (to a huge degree) but visually, a few things do change.

Look at the Models in the first screenshot of the coffee machine, the plant on the left, and the chair on the left. Even between Very High and Extreme will you find differences.

Another one that jumped my eye was the vanishing side-lights in the parking house.
Then on the 6th, you can also see the writing on some walls vanish, the texture finesse being different across all 3.

Anyhow, its uncompressed BMP - so all JPG nazi's can breath easy.

(And yes, imho, extreme is blurrier - The game is still good)

http:///www.insayne.net/Crysis2

GREAT pics, thanks.

Big differences in this set:

http://www.insayne.net/Crysis2/6-high.bmp
http://www.insayne.net/Crysis2/6-veryhigh.bmp
http://www.insayne.net/Crysis2/6-extreme.bmp

(I put it in code in case you don't want direct links to you site)

So why does Very high seem sharper than Extreme in that set (compare blue building in the background and the trees/bushes)? I've noticed it in other peoples pics too

 

[Sethos]

I turned off Radial and Motion blur but there's still this crappy, ugly ass looking ghost trail blur when moving the gun - How do I get rid of it?!

 

[Ikuu]

Still no key from EA...

 

[Sh1ner]

I turned off Radial and Motion blur but there's still this crappy, ugly ass looking ghost trail blur when moving the gun - How do I get rid of it?!

Isnt that TSAA as in temporal something something?

 

[plagiarize]

yep.
basically it's 3 flat 2D layers: the HUD, your character's weapon, everything else.
I was expecting more from Crytek's 3d effect.

this is selling their not so good 3D a little short (though only a little).

'everything else' isn't all at the same depth. it uses depth projection and adds a little bit of depth to everything else, but they keep it locked at a really small amount in order to cut down on occlusion artifacts... which are still evident unfortunately.

 

[Sethos]

Isnt that TSAA as in temporal something something?

All that edge AA mah-thingy is also off, everything else is set to "High" and 4xMSAA.

 

[Marshmellow]

So... am I the only one having problems with survivability on Veteran? I really need to take out enemies one by one and stealth is the only viable option it seems.

Im playing on Post-Human and not having much difficulty at all....little bit dissapointed at the challenge TBH

 

[derFeef]

Im playing on Post-Human and not having much difficulty at all....little bit dissapointed at the challenge TBH

Tell me your secrets, then. Is it really Cloak - pop enemy, cloak, pop enemy... ?