Our lowest settings looks worse than Crytek's - how will your's stack up?

The much anticipated Crysis single-player demo was released for download Friday night, and naturally we had to have a go at it. Most of us (PC editor excluded) lack any significant horsepower under our desks, so it's DX9 and low settings or nothing. To our delight, our mediocre systems are at least capable of rendering Crysis' intricate jungle setting well enough to play.

[Charlie2688]

Well I was VERY frustrated with the DX10 on Crysis, I can ran the game on DX9 with everything on max but as soon as I switch to DX10 my frames go to hell, and it seems even people with 8800 Ultras seem to suffer from criminal loss of frames on DX10

So what the hell Crytek and NVIDIA!! WHAT THE HELL!

[Cartesian3D]

its about VISTA .. VISTA is a piece of crap right now..may be they will fix it with Service packs or Firmware updates (I dont think so)...

just visit ANANDTECH.com and search for Memory usage with same system on both XP and VISTA..

VISTA use 2 times more memory in some situations and give us less performance.. BS

http://www.anandtech.com/sh...

[felman87]

It looks great even on a $#@!ty rig.

[mighty_douche]

ive got...

Q6600 oced @ 2.78ghz
2 gig OCZ 800mhz
8800GTX oced

and still i couldnt play this game at very high even at some 'low' res's (by low i mean 1650x1080/1380x720)

well lets just say i was expecting much more, hopefully the actual game is slightly better optimuzed.
still, order 2 of the new 8800GT to try in SLI, hopfully fairs better than the GTX.

[skagrerrrr]

try forceware version 163.69

[Charlie2688]

you actually need Beta frivers 169.01 to make Crysis run properly (aka no slide show)

[DethWish]

Mine looks like Far Cry, but still runs it good so I'm happy

[SuperSaiyan4]

I did then installed the Crysis demo and well it had to set all on LOW :-( the visuals were extremely bad! Hell I could run FarCry on much better settings and visuals than Crysis!!

[DethWish]

Oh shut up now you made my PC cry, she thought it looked good

[Salvadore]

I won't get near that game, will probably blow up my computer.

[robaloi]

go to this link http://www.crysis-online.co... and then post no.7

[xav0971]

I copied and paste very high settings with high setting and it works!! Im running on vista but dx10 doesnt take advantage of sli. so i did the editing of config files bingo! Works alot better in dx9 mode. On my rig: QX6700 @ 3.2 ghz, 2X 8800 gtx, 2gb 1066mhz ram, vista I can run at very high settings at 1680X1050 rez getting 30-35 fps where on dx10 it would drop to 10-15 fps! dx10 is nothing but dx9 on very high settings. see robaloi post for precisely how to do it.

I'm in love with this game. The best looking game I've ever seen and it's extremely fun. Try going thru the demo without using a gun. I did it on normal. I just throw things at them with super strength and use cloaking.

[zonetrooper5]

Service Pack 1 should be coming soon for Vista which should lower the amount of memory that the OS uses so expect to see improvements soon, it just takes time.