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Crysis |OT| Big Screens, Comfy Couches and 5.1 surround sound

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NameGenerated

Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Here are 2 more screens I took that I thought were pretty cool. :)

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Chopper getting owned with collapsing mountain in the background.

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Just blowin' up a train with 4 C4s :p
 
B

Borys

Banned
Patch 1.2 coming soon says Crytek:

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/36437/Crysis-Patch-1-2-Details

Patch 1.2 Details said:
1. Optimizations and Stability

# Fixed potential server exploit that could cause servers to crash.

2. General Fixes/tweaks

# Added mouse wheel scrolling support for server browser.
# Fixed an issue where in unarmed mode, the character's arms will suddenly reappear and disappear when picking up and dropping an object.
# Added new effects for vehicle shattering after being frozen.

3.Weapons

# C4 will now stick to doors correctly.
# Added new grenade indicator icon.
# Adjusted explosion radius of grenade launcher to be more efficient vs. players.

4. Vehicles

# Added check for players riding on vehicles while not seated to prevent them being killed.
# Tweaked damage for players hit by vehicles at lower speeds.
# Adjusted wall collision damage for civilian car.

5. Singleplayer

# Improved AI machinegun handling (both stationary and mounted machineguns on vehicles).
# Fixed an issue with "Escort Prophet out of sphere" objective failure causing reloading issues.

6. Multiplayer

# Added team colors to kill/death messages.
# Fixed some game states not properly resetting after game restart.
# Fixed issue where VOIP doesn't work properly on non-dedicated servers.

7. New Features

# Added auto team balance. Players will now be moved from full teams to the opposing side when dead if the numbers are unbalanced. (Can be disabled/enabled via cvar)

Screenshots of some of the new UI features can be seen below:
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T

traveler

Not Wario
So, I've played through the first few levels so far and I have nothing but praise for the game. Easily one of the best FPS campaigns of last year. (and that is saying something) I'm having to go through on Easy as this is the first FPS I've ever played with a kb/m, but I'm getting used to it.

Weirdly enough, the game it reminds me most of is Splinter Cell. The sense of experimentation and of wanting to reload the same encounter over and over again to try it differently is very similar. I even spent 4 hours on the first mission alone. :lol

As far as performance goes, I've been running this on a 1280 x 1000(?) res with all settings on High and getting an average of around 30 - 40 FPS, which is perfectly acceptable and quite beautiful looking. I'm sure I could get it looking even better with some tweaking though. How do I, for one, enable edge AA and motion blur in DX9? (I tried DX10 but it ran a bit too slow for my liking; I'd like to grab some of the effects and simply use them in DX9 instead) Also, is there any way to reduce pop-in? I'd gladly sacrifice a few frames to make it less noticeable.
 
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AltogetherAndrews

Member
traveler said:
Weirdly enough, the game it reminds me most of is Splinter Cell. The sense of experimentation and of wanting to reload the same encounter over and over again to try it differently is very similar. I even spent 4 hours on the first mission alone. :lol
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Of course, in Splinter Cell the reloads were mostly the result of the trial and error design.
 
D

Darkflight

Member
traveler said:
So, I've played through the first few levels so far and I have nothing but praises for the game. Easily one of the best FPS campaigns of last year. (and that is saying something) I'm having to go through on Easy as this is the first FPS I've ever played with a kb/m, but I'm getting used to it.

Weirdly enough, the game it reminds me most of is Splinter Cell. The sense of experimentation and of wanting to reload the same encounter over and over again to try it differently is very similar. I even spent 4 hours on the first mission alone. :lol

As far as performance goes, I've been running this on a 1280 x 1000(?) res with all settings on High and getting an average of around 30 - 40 FPS, which is perfectly acceptable and quite beautiful looking. I'm sure I could get it looking even better with some tweaking though. How do I, for one, enable edge AA and motion blur in DX9? (I tried DX10 but it ran a bit too slow for my liking; I'd like to grab some of the effects and simply use them in DX9 instead) Also, is there any way to reduce pop-in? I'd gladly sacrifice a few frames to make it less noticeable.
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What card have you got? I'm thinking of getting a 3870x2, but I'm wondering if my CPU (FX-62 - 2.8) will be a bottleneck, I hope not as I hate changing CPUs, as It'll probably make me buy a new motherboard, which I hate changing even more ;), I have a 530W PSU, so I think that should be ok? There's no way I'm playing the full game till I upgrade, I have a X1900XTX 512MB at the minute.
 
T

traveler

Not Wario
Darkflight said:
What card have you got? I'm thinking of getting a 3870x2, but I'm wondering if my CPU (FX-62 - 2.8) will be a bottleneck, I hope not as I hate changing CPUs, as It'll probably make me buy a new motherboard, which I hate changing even more ;), I have a 530W PSU, so I think that should be ok? There's no way I'm playing the full game till I upgrade, I have a X1900XTX 512MB at the minute.
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8800GTX (Had a certain amount available specifically for the comp, so the extra cost over the GT wasn't a big deal- especially since it was on sale)
 
S

Solideliquid

Member
traveler said:
So, I've played through the first few levels so far and I have nothing but praise for the game. Easily one of the best FPS campaigns of last year. (and that is saying something) I'm having to go through on Easy as this is the first FPS I've ever played with a kb/m, but I'm getting used to it.

Weirdly enough, the game it reminds me most of is Splinter Cell. The sense of experimentation and of wanting to reload the same encounter over and over again to try it differently is very similar. I even spent 4 hours on the first mission alone. :lol

As far as performance goes, I've been running this on a 1280 x 1000(?) res with all settings on High and getting an average of around 30 - 40 FPS, which is perfectly acceptable and quite beautiful looking. I'm sure I could get it looking even better with some tweaking though. How do I, for one, enable edge AA and motion blur in DX9? (I tried DX10 but it ran a bit too slow for my liking; I'd like to grab some of the effects and simply use them in DX9 instead) Also, is there any way to reduce pop-in? I'd gladly sacrifice a few frames to make it less noticeable.
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Great setup you've got there. I guess you have flat panel 4:3, but that is a good video card to run Crysis on. I think as long as you have everything set to High motion blur should be on and also edge AA should be on.

If you want to experiment download the Cvargroup file with very high spec settings and follow the instructions to run the game in very high (in DX 9). However watch your FPS drop to about 20 average.
 
S

Spoit

Member
Darkflight said:
What card have you got? I'm thinking of getting a 3870x2, but I'm wondering if my CPU (FX-62 - 2.8) will be a bottleneck, I hope not as I hate changing CPUs, as It'll probably make me buy a new motherboard, which I hate changing even more ;), I have a 530W PSU, so I think that should be ok? There's no way I'm playing the full game till I upgrade, I have a X1900XTX 512MB at the minute.
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Really, It's not scaled that poorly. A 1950 should be well able to play it fine with a mix of medium and high settings. The CPU might bottleneck it a little bit, but as long as you have a modern CPU (like anything newer than the P4 or AMD equivalent (Athalon XP?)), it only maxes out CPU when doing rediculous physics stuff
 
T

traveler

Not Wario
Solideliquid said:
Great setup you've got there. I guess you have flat panel 4:3, but that is a good video card to run Crysis on. I think as long as you have everything set to High motion blur should be on and also edge AA should be on.

If you want to experiment download the Cvargroup file with very high spec settings and follow the instructions to run the game in very high (in DX 9). However watch your FPS drop to about 20 average.
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Where is this?
 
T

traveler

Not Wario
Just played through that Strange Island map- holy crap! Totally bizarre, yet amazingly beautiful. There were a ton of WTF moments in there.
Guy exploding on the toilet from his own crap :lol

Also, the config provided in that link is great. I am, however, encountering some weird visual glitch that keeps making my hands glow with a whitish aura. I think the creator mentions it in the thread, but I have yet to see a solution. Has anyone else had this problem and/or figured out a way around it?
 
S

-SD-

Banned
traveler said:
Just played through that Strange Island map- holy crap! Totally bizarre, yet amazingly beautiful. There were a ton of WTF moments in there.
Guy exploding on the toilet from his own crap :lol
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Yeah. That part was hilarious :lol
 
P

purg3

slept with Malkin
traveler said:
Just played through that Strange Island map- holy crap! Totally bizarre, yet amazingly beautiful. There were a ton of WTF moments in there.
Guy exploding on the toilet from his own crap :lol

Also, the config provided in that link is great. I am, however, encountering some weird visual glitch that keeps making my hands glow with a whitish aura. I think the creator mentions it in the thread, but I have yet to see a solution. Has anyone else had this problem and/or figured out a way around it?
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updates**

someone found using my tweak there is a white glow around gun/hand in the dark area and i will a way to get rid of it and improve the lighting even further

change two commands
r_ssao_amount=0.2
r_SSAO_darkening=3.6

this will lighten up a bit for the darkest area and darken the light shadow a bit and imo it is more realistic and it get rid of the white glow effect as well...so, give it a try and let me know how you gets on
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Try this out. Not a bad custom config.
 
D

dark10x

Digital Foundry pixel pusher
Draft said:
PC Gaming :bow

King of Anti Aliasing :bow
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Yes, but not with Crysis. As far as I know, it isn't possible to achieve the kind of IQ in those shots in realtime right now. For one, even 16xQ AA is unable to produce such a clean image (downsizing a large shot simply looks better), but even if it were close, the edge AA in Crysis disables itself when using regular AA (which has a huge impact on foliage). So, basically, you can't achieve such a perfect image in game right now. Furthermore, regular AA is SO demanding that it absolutely destroys the framerate on every rig (making it completely useless). The game looks fine without regular AA (using edge AA on foliage).

AF doesn't really work either. Some surfaces are fine, but it will not handle POM surfaces.
 
bee

bee

Member
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that pic to me looks like edgeAA is disabled meaning the shot was taken with extremely high in game levels of anti aliasing rather than downscaling a really high resolution screenshot, maybe im wrong though
 
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dark10x

Digital Foundry pixel pusher
that pic to me looks like edgeAA is disabled meaning the shot was taken with extremely high in game levels of anti aliasing rather than downscaling a really high resolution screenshot, maybe im wrong though
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You're probably right. I'm sure that the framerate was very poor, however. I've never seen AA have such a huge imapct on performance as it does in Crysis. I prefer using just edge AA, though. There is so much foliage in the game that it really helps.
 
S

-SD-

Banned
1280x800/16QxAA/16xAF, DX9 "Very High" CVars. I took this screen on my non-WS monitor, so it's a bit stretched despite the resolution being the same as in the pic below.

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I'm guessing this "reference pic" was taken on DX10 Very High since the rendering quality is a bit better i.e. sharper/clearer textures + overall better quality. This pic is also a bit darker than mine and has less bloom.

zdyu3vkktn51nd5sw0op.jpg
 
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Gattsu25

Banned
urk said:
You can only play on medium settings unless you have a $4,000 majestic computer, so I'm going to go ahead and assume the framerate being better then you expected means you squeaked out an average of just over 10fps.

I'll also note that you had to spend hours patching and tweaking the "config" files so you could enjoy this 60fps placeholder technology, motion blur, and even then you mistook the lower settings for Ultra Super High. I call your senses into question. At 10fps and medium with the screen all smeared up from motion blur, then game looks worse then Far Cry.

The suit? It brings nothing. The gameplay you experienced must have been brought on by some sort of fatigue due to the grappling you endured with your ultra fine-tuned custom game files. I have no other explanation. Perhaps you're just doing it wrong. It really adds nothing at all.

And the shotgun is terrible. The ability to switch out the ammunition, allowing two types of buck spread for either increased accuracy or a wider pattern? Yeah, dumb idea Crytek. Your options serve only to confuse me. And players don't like being confused.

After reading through your post, I have to assume that even your opening words are false. You don't even have a job, do you?
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I'll bite. Took me two minutes to apply dark10x's config. Game runs at ~45fps though it has dipped into the mid 20s.
 
U

urk

butthole fishhooking yes
Gattsu25 said:
I'll bite. Took me two minutes to apply dark10x's config. Game runs at ~45fps though it has dipped into the mid 20s.
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Yeah, but you can't play from your couch, so...
 
bee

bee

Member
wowfactor said:
http://shackpics.com/files/8gx9xror9nbgv56jmo0p.jpg

You guys are crazy. Look at the pic, it has a crazy amount of AA. It is obviously doctored. Show me a pic with HUD that is as that good.
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-SD- said:
1280x800/16QxAA/16xAF, DX9 "Very High" CVars. I took this screen on my non-WS monitor, so it's a bit stretched despite the resolution being the same as in the pic below.

http://shackpics.com/files/28xnpgmejdpnenvy8mqn.jpg

I'm guessing this "reference pic" was taken on DX10 Very High since the rendering quality is a bit better i.e. sharper/clearer textures + overall better quality. This pic is also a bit darker than mine and has less bloom.

http://shackpics.com/files/zdyu3vkktn51nd5sw0op.jpg
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LOL
 
T

traveler

Not Wario
Gattsu25 said:
I'll bite. Took me two minutes to apply dark10x's config. Game runs at ~45fps though it has dipped into the mid 20s.
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Can I get a link to this? I tried the Ultra High/DX9 config from that other thread posted and liked it, but I'd like to compare other configs people have been having success with. (Assuming dark10x's setup is different from the one listed in that thread.)
 
Chiggs

Chiggs

Gold Member
Everytime I see Crysis running on a decent rig, I not only realize that it's the most amazing-looking game ever made, but if I could somehow go back in time and show my past self some screenshots, I would die...thus making the whole endeavor impossible.
 
G

Gattsu25

Banned
Nah, it's cool. I'm still learning this :b

Believe it or not, I'm an avid PC gamer and have been gaming on PC since Wolf3D, yet I've never altered Cfg files for performance before*...nor have I ever overclocked hardware


*Then again...this is the first PC game that I've played that has suffered from the DX10 curse (DX10 exclusive game or DX10 exclusive features that are perfectly capable of running under DX9 or XP)
 
U

urk

butthole fishhooking yes
DX10 looks nicer in a few places, but it's not worth the performance hit in my opinion. Hopefully some better drivers, some title updates, and a dash of MinWin might help out. I mean, I've got this copy of Vista just sitting here collecting dust.

Also, anyone interested in configuration modifications, a few of the more notable tweakers from incrysis.com have gotten together to come up with a build that utilizes system.cfg, cvar, and TOD tweaks to create a build that looks stunning and runs extremely well. They think they'll be done in the next couple of days and some of the screens and videos of it looks pretty damn nice.
 
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traveler

Not Wario
urk said:
DX10 looks nicer in a few places, but it's not worth the performance hit in my opinion. Hopefully some better drivers, some title updates, and a dash of MinWin might help out. I mean, I've got this copy of Vista just sitting here collecting dust.

Also, anyone interested in configuration modifications, a few of the more notable tweakers from incrysis.com have gotten together to come up with a build that utilizes system.cfg, cvar, and TOD tweaks to create a build that looks stunning and runs extremely well. They think they'll be done in the next couple of days and some of the screens and videos of it looks pretty damn nice.
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Thanks for the info. I'll be sure to check that out. I should probably start frequenting incrysis and crymod anyway.
 
S

-SD-

Banned
antiloop said:
Oh... and is there a way to make corpses react to bullets?
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You'll first need to "right click > save as..." these two files:

With this modified SinglePlayer.lua the dead enemies will react when hit.
- Download SinglePlayer.lua

This modified BasicActor.lua (v1.1) enables bullet decals and ragdoll physics on dead enemies.
- Download BasicActor.lua

Follow these instructions to install the modifications:

- Go to \Crysis\Game\ folder.
- Make a backup copy of GameData.pak
- Open GameData.pak with a program like WinRAR, for example.
- Inside the GameData.pak go to \Scripts\Entities\actor\
- Replace BasicActor.lua with the downloaded one (you can just drag and drop the file).
- Still inside the GameData.pak go to \Scripts\GameRules\
- Replace SinglePlayer.lua with the downloaded one.
- Exit WinRAR and start the game.

Note for multiplayer: If you use modified object files, scripts, textures the cheat protection won't let you play. Therefore make sure that you first make a backup copy of GameData.pak so that you can always go back to the unmodified settings.
 
K

Kadey

Mrs. Harvey
Okay guys. How can I tell which ram is better? Timings? Lower is better?

How well would I run with these components?

1- EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
2- OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2N800SR4GK
3- EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
4- Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model bx

The gpu is just a placeholder, I'll get rid of it once the new ones come out in a couple of months. I just need something to run Crysis with high at least 1280x1024.

Or should I wait?

Oh yeah, I noticed the CE version of the game is only $2 more than the regular at newegg. $46 is a steal.
 
C

Cheeto

Member
That'd be a pretty nice machine for Crysis Kadey, although I would get better RAM for the same $ in 2x 1GB sticks. It'll run better that way.
 
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