I downloaded and tried the demo for this game. Played through it twice. It plays fine and looks great, but I can't shake the feeling that it's a fancier, more-advanced (graphically and gameplay-wise) Far Cry. The demo makes the game just sorta look and feel like Far Cry (island setting, sea shantys, gunboats patrolling the harbor, enemies take too many shots to drop, etc. etc. ). Is the demo a bad indication of the rest of the game, or if you got sick of Far Cry should you look elsewhere?
Not hatin' on the game, just wondering if the full game is for me or not since I didn't care for Far Cry that much.
Demo is the first level in in basically all it's entirety.
That said, the first level feels as tiny and on rails as HL2 or COD when compared to even the very next level, shit just opens up to be so free form and fun, way beyond Far Cry.
So I finally got a PC good enough for Crysis.. or so I had thought
I was absolutely loving the game. It looks gorgeous on High settings. Framerate on High was very playable (with vsync + 2xAA). Was 30+ most of the time, dipping slightly now and then. This was, until, I saw some ice. This has now occurred in 2 places.
Spoiler tags, though I'm only like an hour or so into the game
first time was the boat. My framerate dipped to 8 any time it was on screen (starting with the little cutscene). This happened again when I was in some bunker and there was a machine down there, again, covered in Ice. Framerate more than halved again. It just seems off that I can hit as high as 60FPS indoors, right down to 8FPS when there is ice.
I'm worried in case there is a whole level with this kind of scenery. Any ideas what's causing this?
Weird. Where is there ice on a bunker when you're only an hour into the game? I'm completely drawing a blank where you see that in the early parts of the game.
I was playing at a lower resolution, but my only trouble spots tended to be when something was knocked over and the physics engine went wanky and an object just wouldn't stop. It was sucking CPU cycles on the physics and the object would just clank-clank-clank in the background while it ate cycles.
Demo is the first level in in basically all it's entirety.
That said, the first level feels as tiny and on rails as HL2 or COD when compared to even the very next level, shit just opens up to be so free form and fun, way beyond Far Cry.
Is that Cuban Ultimate Doom thing the thing that's supposed to greatly improve performance or was it something else that people were tweaking to help their framerate? I tried install the cuban thing but it just makes a small black box when I go to run Crysis and I don't see anything but there's sound. :/ I can't punch either for some reason...
just bought 4850, its getting good benchmark on high setting but low res. since my monitor only goes to 1440x900 i think I'll get around 30 to 40fps?
so should i get Crysis or wait for Warhead?
Well the whole game takes place on an island, but the scenery is actually quite varied. It's much less uniform than far cry was in terms of what you're doing and the environments you are in.
just bought 4850, its getting good benchmark on high setting but low res. since my monitor only goes to 1440x900 i think I'll get around 30 to 40fps?
so should i get Crysis or wait for Warhead?
Warhead is a standalone "sidequel" to Crysis. You don't need Crysis to play it, and it's a full single player campaign following another character from the original game. Hopefully, it'll be released at a discounted price.
Can someone please explain to me exactly just wtf this final boss is? BAH! Everyone is yelling at me and stuff: "Get them off of our asses" "Get them off of our asses" "Get them off of our asses" "Use the tac gun" "Use the tac gun" "Use the tac gun""Use the tac gun""Use the tac gun""Use the tac gun""Get them off of our asses""Get them off of our asses""Use the tac gun""Use the tac gun"
I'm sorry I'm not moving fast enough, jesus. -_-
I had put this game down for a while, and picked up on save where I had zero ammo left and a bunch of aliens to fight. I ended up grabbing each one of them and beating the hell out of them while prophet recharged his suit. I dunno, I wasn't to find of piloting the Vtol. Aside from that, they really did a grand job of making you feel like you were in a movie. <3 this game.
There's 4 turret guns on it, 2 on each side. Hide behind the crates/weapon cache in front of it and take them out. If I remember correctly it takes 2 hits to take each one out. After that the gunships move in on it and it starts to moving to hover above the boat you are on. Some of them squid thingies come at you so you have to take them out, and then there are (I think, my memory is a little hazy) a couple more turrets on the underside of the boss and a weak point right in the middle that you have to shoot at. It definitely took me a good couple tries, but once you know where to shoot it comes down pretty fast.
There's 4 turret guns on it, 2 on each side. Hide behind the crates/weapon cache in front of it and take them out. If I remember correctly it takes 2 hits to take each one out. After that the gunships move in on it and it starts to moving to hover above the boat you are on. Some of them squid thingies come at you so you have to take them out, and then there are (I think, my memory is a little hazy) a couple more turrets on the underside of the boss and a weak point right in the middle that you have to shoot at. It definitely took me a good couple tries, but once you know where to shoot it comes down pretty fast.
Thank you! I emerge VICTORIOUS! I died like three times on the underside part, and that's because I ignored like all of the aliens while I was fighting that thing. They were like, "lets rush this mother fucker" and I kept getting destroyed. I took out out like four of them right before it opened up and fired the cannon into.
Now...
WTF IS THIS ENDING?! D:
How can you DO that to someone. D:
At any rate, this game owned to hell and back. Its easily one of the best fps I have played. Makes you feel like you are in a movie more than CoD4 and HL2 does.
Thank you! I emerge VICTORIOUS! I died like three times on the underside part, and that's because I ignored like all of the aliens while I was fighting that thing. They were like, "lets rush this mother fucker" and I kept getting destroyed. I took out out like four of them right before it opened up and fired the cannon into.
Now...
WTF IS THIS ENDING?! D:
How can you DO that to someone. D:
At any rate, this game owned to hell and back. Its easily one of the best fps I have played. Makes you feel like you are in a movie more than CoD4 and HL2 does.
I skipped the next difficulty level and went straight to Delta. I didn't have to worry this much about getting caught when I played MGS3 on European Extreme mode. They really don't fuck around this time.
I skipped the next difficulty level and went straight to Delta. I didn't have to worry this much about getting caught when I played MGS3 on European Extreme mode. They really don't fuck around this time.
Wow, they really scaled down the game for retail release from that first e3 demo. When will we ever be able to do that on our home systems?
*tear goes down one eye*
Wow, they really scaled down the game for retail release from that first e3 demo. When will we ever be able to do that on our home systems?
*tear goes down one eye*
Wow, they really scaled down the game for retail release from that first e3 demo. When will we ever be able to do that on our home systems?
*tear goes down one eye*
Well, now i play on 1900x1200, with most on high and some on medium. Im getting a a "decent" fps now, about 30-40 too, but i still get drops if i look at a little town from afar, or just in the open.
The reason why i play on such a high res is because i have a 24 inch monitor, and if i go lower it doesnt look so good.
Damn, I was looking through the first few pages of this thread just for the hell of it, and it reminded me of just how fucking phenomenal this game is. It's a tragedy how the classic internet backlash convinced so many people that Crysis is nothing but a pretty tech demo, and that even more chose to avoid playing it altogether just because of the false perception that it needs a computer from the future to make it look and play incredible.
I finally got my new pc a few weeks ago, but i had to move so now just got around to finally playing crysis! This game is so awesome, i cannot even describe to you how happy i am that i am able to run at all HIGH settings with one or two at VERY HIGH. I am happy too that i was able to get this with a price match from best buy for 20 bucks, it is a shame this game didnt sell really really well, then again it does take a horse of a pc to play this game at good settings.
I finally got my new pc a few weeks ago, but i had to move so now just got around to finally playing crysis! This game is so awesome, i cannot even describe to you how happy i am that i am able to run at all HIGH settings with one or two at VERY HIGH. I am happy too that i was able to get this with a price match from best buy for 20 bucks, it is a shame this game didnt sell really really well, then again it does take a horse of a pc to play this game at good settings.
It's a tragedy how the classic internet backlash convinced so many people that Crysis is nothing but a pretty tech demo, and that even more chose to avoid playing it altogether just because of the false perception that it needs a computer from the future to make it look and play incredible.
However large you can while still maintaining a playable framerate. TBH, I knocked the resolution down a couple pegs in order to have things like motion blur and the godrays and didn't notice that big a difference between the different resolutions, at least compared to other games.
However large you can while still maintaining a playable framerate. TBH, I knocked the resolution down a couple pegs in order to have things like motion blur and the godrays and didn't notice that big a difference between the different resolutions, at least compared to other games.
Ok, I went ahead and bought the game yesterday....opened it up and popped the disk in.....nadda! Umm, no auto install. Ok, so I hit explorer and try to manually install the fucker. No go. Every time I try to explore the disk it locks up my computer. I tried to rip the disk to the HD....nope! It locks up DVD Decrypter! I figure its a bad disk.
So I run to BB and exchange it, get home....SAME SHIT! I figure my DVD drive is fucked. Nope! All other DVD's work fine.
Fired up Crysis, and cranked everything up to max settings at 16x10 with no AA. To my surprise it ran great. Didn't have the info on but the framerate seemed like a solid 30fps, maybe 25. I played up until you came across the first Humvee. When I got into the humvee and tried to drive the framerate took a dive down to 8 or so fps. I think it had something to do with the wide open water area that surrounded me. Any idea which setting I can dial back to keep the framerate around 30?
