Crysis Punishes the Best CPUs
By Shawn on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 4:03 PM PST In Computer, Electronic Arts, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Games
Tom’s Games has run performance checks on the PC exclusive, Crysis. The game was tested on on an SLI-enabled Alienware desktop with an Intel Q6700 @ 2.66 GHz, Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit version), two SLI-enabled Nividia GeForce 8800 GTX @ 769 MB (total available graphics memory 1535 MB) and 2GB of RAM.
The article walks PC gamers all the way through the steps taken in test running Crysis with SLI enabled on the optimized very high setting, the SLI off on very high and the SLI tweaked to various settings. Although the varied settings for SLI enabled by far out performed the other two choices, the game still ddin’t live up to performance expectations.
Clearly, Crysis is going to be extremely challenging to run at a high resolution with anti-aliasing on and advanced settings at very high. In fact, we may not yet have the hardware – let alone the drivers and necessary software – to run this game at very high settings with an average of 60 FPS or better.
via Tom’s Games
Weird… I’m getting better fps with q6600 and only one gtx. Much better. Though, I got 4gb ram.
@ LaTiraseure
What quality settings are you on, what resolution are you playing at and what OS do you have? Also do you have anti aliasing on because that makes a huge difference in this game?
There is absolutely no way you are beating that Sli rig at the same settings.
There are a few mistakes in that article. First, is not 769MB, but 768MB. And second, VRAM doesn’t double in SLI, it still ramains as 768MB.
I have an over clocked quad core and over clocked 8800 GTS and the game isn’t playable in Vista x64 except at the lowest quality settings. The game is dreadfully buggy. If you have to play it do it in XP in DX9, it runs much much better.
very high 1280×1024 4xAA (or was it 2xAA…)
If you are playing it at 1280×1024 then its a far lower resolution than in the test which is 1680 x 1050.
1280 x 1024 is 1,310,720 pixels
1680 x 1050 is 1,764,000 pixels
Your card is basically doing 25% less work than the higher resolution.
That’s not a fair test to just crank up the resolution to ridiculous levels. Even other games will lag horribly if you run them at those resolutions. I could say HL2 performs poorly basing it off of 3840 x 1200 resolution. Cmon no one plays at these levels. Most people play at 1024 x 768 or
1280 x 960. That would be a better test.
Personally I would like to play on my screens native resolution of 1920×1200 but it’s simply unplayable with my 8800GTX and overclocked AMD X2 4200+ DDR400 I have to choose Medium mode and the frame rate still low and lagging there should be something wrong with the game, I heared crytek will release a patch soon
xfx geforce 8800gt
wait until the patches come out they promise better framerates 
amd x2 4800
ocz vista dual channel 2gb
gigabyte ga-m57sli-s4 mobo
western digital 160 gb pata
8x dvd drive
sound blaster audigy sound card
running crysis at 1024×768 @ 20 to 45 fps