Comments on: Crysis Punishes the Best CPUs

By: Quentin caldwell

Quentin caldwell — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:39:22 +0000

xfx geforce 8800gt
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 wait until the patches come out they promise better framerates

By: Muhammad

Muhammad — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:45:47 +0000

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

By: Kareem

Kareem — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:49:21 +0000

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.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:01:16 +0000

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.

By: LaTiraseure

LaTiraseure — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:20:41 +0000

very high 1280×1024 4xAA (or was it 2xAA…)

By: JoeMama

JoeMama — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:36:43 +0000

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.

By: Odin75

Odin75 — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:17:48 +0000

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.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:54:01 +0000

@ 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.

By: LaTiraseure

LaTiraseure — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:08:44 +0000

Weird… I’m getting better fps with q6600 and only one gtx. Much better. Though, I got 4gb ram.