Not narrative impact per se. I'm critiquing the lack of a setpiece for the final level. Crysis 1 had a beautiful set piece on the deck of a naval carrier. And MW2, though its plot was a mess, had a beautiful QTE styled setpiece that knocks the pants off of Crysis 2's final QTE.MickeyKnox said:
Crysis 2 |OT| This is what happens Larry...
- Thread starter MickeyKnox
- Start date
MikeHaggar
Member
so, i have the xbox 360 version of this game, but haven't played it yet. all of the sexy pics of the pc version in this thread have me wanting to give it a go, but i'm not sure if my pc can handle it. i just downloaded the demo only to find out that there are no servers up any longer... can someone give me an idea of what kind of performance i can expect on my laptop? my specs are:
windows 7 64-bit
intel core i3 @ 2.27 GHz
intel integrated hd graphics (probably the biggest drawback...)
4GB of ram
if it's going to run well (30fps or more) and look as good (or almost as good) as some of the pics in here then i'll double-dip and play it on my laptop with an xbox controller.
oh, and i guess i should explain that i am not a pc gamer. this would be my first time playing something on a pc. that's why i'm unsure of the performance i would get...
windows 7 64-bit
intel core i3 @ 2.27 GHz
intel integrated hd graphics (probably the biggest drawback...)
4GB of ram
if it's going to run well (30fps or more) and look as good (or almost as good) as some of the pics in here then i'll double-dip and play it on my laptop with an xbox controller.
oh, and i guess i should explain that i am not a pc gamer. this would be my first time playing something on a pc. that's why i'm unsure of the performance i would get...
Krauser Kat
Member
MikeHaggar said:
if you have a pcie slot? a 100-150 dollar card will run crysis pretty well or any game better than it does on consoles. 5770 comes to mind and 450gts come to mind.
MadOdorMachine
No additional functions
Just got to the Grand Central Station section shown in the E3 previews. This game is really starting to grow on me. Unlike the first two games, this one starts off slow and then picks up. The aliens in this game are a lot more fun than the other ones. I also like the new art direction as well as the silent protagonist. It makes me want an HD Metroid Prime. I'd also love Crytek to pick up the Turok license. I would settle for a bow and arrow in the next Crysis though.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
This might sound weird but I'm loving tweaking settings. The only other game I messed around with config tweaks was Crysis 1 and in that I just copy/pasted a list and never touched it again. With Crysis 2 I'm having fun with it (I think it's fun, not sure?)... maybe some sort of OCD tendency, but I don't think so because I actually get interested and a little excited to try it out. God I'm a nerd.
Heavy said:
Bu...bu..bu I thought preset settings were cool and PC gamers who wanted to tweak should just get over. (Note: Not really directed at you).
The DX11 patch doesn't bother me so much as the bugs in the game. Those need patching within a couple of weeks for pity's sake.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
I've been PC gaming since Wolfenstein 3D, just never got into tweaking settings for some reason. Probably got a little smarter as I got older (doubtful) so they make more sense now. It's also fun having control over the game like that.JoeBoy101 said:
Winterblink
Member
Oh, Crytek...
http://www.mycrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=16662
Gosh thanks. There was actually NO warning whatsoever when I used that feature to try to fix the issues I've been having with logging in to the game, and a lot of other folks did as well. I guess Crytek's solution to a fucked authentication system is to force people to create new accounts with names they don't want, using entirely different email addresses, and have an account database full of dead data.
http://www.mycrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=16662
Gosh thanks. There was actually NO warning whatsoever when I used that feature to try to fix the issues I've been having with logging in to the game, and a lot of other folks did as well. I guess Crytek's solution to a fucked authentication system is to force people to create new accounts with names they don't want, using entirely different email addresses, and have an account database full of dead data.
MickeyKnox
Member
They sped up the default shutter speed for the object blur and set the default max distance for it way too close to the player as such there's far less object blur going on at any one time than in the first, unless you tweak it of course.dark10x said:
More combat photography:
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I think +r_PostMSAA=0 in the shortcut will do it. You can also add r_PostMSAA=0 to the config file.Omiee said:
Lostconfused
Member
You kind of have to judge the quality of the blur in motion. Screenshots are fun but you can't really tell how good it is just by looking at them. Either way I much prefer the implementation in Crysis.dark10x said:
Oh and what PS3 games are you talking about?
Lostconfused
Member
Yeah I am pretty sure motion blur only works in DX10 version of Crysis.jackdoe said:
Edit: damn it, now I want to play some more Crysis.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Is this some kind of visual glitch with armor mode (look at the gun) or an epic reflection I luckily caught in a screen? I've got other pics with armor mode on and the guns don't have that.
Lostconfused
Member
Don't know about vehicles but it has very little effect on weapons that Nomad is actually holding.TheExodu5 said:
MickeyKnox
Member
There's a huge difference between the hacked DX9 object blur and the proper DX10 implementation in C1, it was far less accurate and glitched out on the alien and nanosuit arms.Nekrono said:
Lostconfused
Member
Hahaha, yes it does. Guess that's another bug that never got fixed.TheExodu5 said:
Neuromancer said:
I finished the game yesterday and I can't even remember what it was about.
blah blah blah nanosuit blah blah blah aliens
Then there was the skips between some missions that felt like half the game was missing which didn't help
also the dialogue and voice acting are atrocious. I think that has a lot to do with it because I just spent my time mashing buttons trying to skip it instead of concentrating on what they were saying (not that it would've mattered because you have no input)
MickeyKnox
Member
It's a frame from the transitional animation for going into cloak.Heavy said:
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Cooool, good eye!MickeyKnox said:
bluedeviltron
Member
God damn, I need to replay Crysis.
Also, I'm about 5 hours into Crysis 2 and it floors me technically every 20 seconds.
Also, I'm about 5 hours into Crysis 2 and it floors me technically every 20 seconds.
Winterblink
Member
If you liked that one, check this one out. It's like halfway between cloaked and uncloaked, with some of that refracting happening.Heavy said:
Also, awesome environment.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Niiice, you can see the arm in yours. Mine has cooler lighting though 
Johnlenham said:
The only time I've seen this game look good was when dennis or w/e with the ME2 avatar posted his screenshots which were customized by removing the ghosting and awful Vaseline filter on everything amongst other things.
As for the large guns, it makes sense since it allows people to identify weapons from a distance (say your couch) easier than if they scaled to PC high resolutions like say in Crysis 1 or even a typical PC FPS.
I really wish they'd do something with the matchmaking (360, living in Asia).
Having a good game when a bunch of locals last night when suddenly a whole party of Austrian gamers fill up the room and as always, the westerners get host. My entire side was stuck with a 1 bar connection while the entire opposition was 3 bars for the next few games, that is until suddenly everyone gets dropped out.
*SIGH*
Having a good game when a bunch of locals last night when suddenly a whole party of Austrian gamers fill up the room and as always, the westerners get host. My entire side was stuck with a 1 bar connection while the entire opposition was 3 bars for the next few games, that is until suddenly everyone gets dropped out.
*SIGH*
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Mickey/anyone else still up... I put r_PostMSAA=0 into my config file and the blur was gone but now there's a very fine grain filter taking its place. What's up with this? See the 1st screen for the grain then compare with the 2nd screen which has r_PostMSAA=2 on and no grain but slightly blurrier.
Also, some of the shinier objects/models you see with msaa=0 have this shimmery outline to them. I don't think this is sharpness. Looks like some weird type of jaggies. See the dead aliens in the third screen for this.
Also, some of the shinier objects/models you see with msaa=0 have this shimmery outline to them. I don't think this is sharpness. Looks like some weird type of jaggies. See the dead aliens in the third screen for this.
Heavy said:Mickey/anyone else still up... I put r_PostMSAA=0 into my config file and the blur was gone but now there's a very fine grain filter taking its place. What's up with this? See the 1st screen for the grain then compare with the 2nd screen which has r_PostMSAA=2 on and no grain but slightly blurrier.
Also, some of the shinier objects/models you see with msaa=0 have this shimmery outline to them. I don't think this is sharpness. Looks like some weird type of jaggies. See the dead aliens in the third screen for this.
The grain is just the way the engine looks no way to get around that (yet at least) it's just the blurry image that hides it a little bit but you can still see it if you pay close attention.
Using r_PostMSAA=2 will get you to a middle ground between jaggies and vaseline.
The AA will not be as good as r_PostMSAA=3 (full vaseline on) but the image will not be as blurry but it won't be completely crisp and clear either.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I don't think there is a 3. It's 0 1 or 2.Nekrono said:
The grain looks like some type of bad texture filtering. I would double check those settings Heavy. Make sure it's not using bilinear or something.
MickeyKnox
Member
That looks like some kind of artifacting not the engine grain, what config are you using?Heavy said:Mickey/anyone else still up... I put r_PostMSAA=0 into my config file and the blur was gone but now there's a very fine grain filter taking its place. What's up with this? See the 1st screen for the grain then compare with the 2nd screen which has r_PostMSAA=2 on and no grain but slightly blurrier.
Also, some of the shinier objects/models you see with msaa=0 have this shimmery outline to them. I don't think this is sharpness. Looks like some weird type of jaggies. See the dead aliens in the third screen for this.
nextgeneration
Member
Just got the game today for pc. I know that this has been talked about, but I don't feel like scouring through all the posts. Does crossfire work properly? I keep reading how people are getting better performance out of this game with lesser hardware, but I'm not finding that to be the case. I'm getting absolutely unacceptable performance with my fairly powerful setup. I'm on a i7-975 @ 4.0 GHz with a Radeon 5970. I'm just starting up the game and at 1920 x 1080, my fps is hovering between 40 - 60 fps, with vsynch on. The game doesn't maintain 60 fps most of the time. I know that the flicker is a known issue but is crossfire still not working correctly? I have the latest drivers with the latest caps and am not impressed with the fps on this game.
Similar threads
- Locked