My experience with Crysis so far
So I decided to check out Crysis myself. A demo for a non-gamer like me would be perfect, I thought.
It’s probably three frames per second. In the menu!
I did not see the game itself yet, got bored while waiting for the after-menu-but-before-game intro movie to end (it’s not skippable, and it also ran at about three FPS). This is after watching half a dozen obligatory before-menu intro movies at 3 FPS with stuttering sound (“nvidia,vidia,vidia,vidia… the way it’s meant,meant,meant,meant…” – TWIMTBP).
All of this on a half-decent PC, I think – Intel Core 2 Quad, 4GB RAM, Radeon 3850, Windows XP, latest drivers, none of extra stuff running; the PC is able to run other 3D stuff just fine. I’m sure the developers and EA’s testing labs have tested everything extensively, but sometimes something completely random apparently can make things be oh so slow. Oh well. Get back to work.
Are you sure you’re not running it using Direct3D in debug mode. I ran crysis on a similar CPU with a nvidia 8800 video card at an average of 60fps. I’d say there’s something wrong on your side…
Nope, D3D is using release runtime. Yeah, there is something weird somewhere, but so far no Crysis for me.
DHS : Could god make a game so powerful, that even his computer couldn’t run it at full settings?
PoorLeno : It’s called Crysis.
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There are two computers in the world that can run crysis: they both are based on alien technology, one of them is in test labs of Crysis, the other one is in Area 51.
I have an NVIDIA 8800 GT and it runs smoothly…
Why are you running on XP anyways? Your GPU should implement DirectX 10.1
Perhaps its your ATI driver … they do have serious issues at DAAMIT, they even open sourced their linux driver ….
Nevertheless I have an NVIDIA 8800 as well and I run Crysis with rather high settings and looks excellent, its amazing how far ahead the CryTek engine is compared to other game companies.
.shade: I’m usually running on XP because Vista, shall we say, is “not that good”. So far I didn’t find any reason to run Vista as my default OS; I only use it when I specifically have to test something on it.
Anyway, I’m sure it’s just some super-weird interaction between something on my machine that Crysis does not like. I’m not blaming Crysis, just pointing out that getting 100% compatibility is very hard on PCs. Something is wrong on a seemingly good machine, and good luck with finding out what exactly…
your are correct 100% compatibility is … I would go beyond very hard … ain’t like we have a feature complete x86 GPU standard. We do not even have a standard for floating-point textures which all cards can agree upon.
And since there aint that many games out there that pushes your GPU like CryEngine2 any driver bugs is bounded to be felt/noticed in Crysis. I mean it aint like either ATI or NVIDIA has public mesa test results of even their OpenGL driver.
(That being said I remember having similar issues with the in-game menu on FarCry with an Radeon 9800 Pro, but I bought a 6800 to play PS 3.0 and the issue disappeared..)