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I am surprised at a lot of the negativity.Quote:
Originally Posted by kaktus1907
Crytek could have much more easily done nothing. Even if what they are doing isn't great (and sometimes it does look a bit wonky in those comparison pics), at least they are doing something?
I'm not an apologist, but maybe I just prefer to see the positive?
How is there anything positive when this patch has accomplished exactly nothing. Only silver lining I can see is that if this is a start and they further patch to improve visuals. As of right now this just seems to be a total waste of time.
whatever dudes im excited for the patch! and it is better than nothing no matter how u try and spin it... $39 at amazon is a decent deal.
they lost me there!Quote:
butt-mastering tessellation capability,
But if it were true, it is only the nVIDIA customers that are going to end up paying for the game twice!
what nvidia wants is complete overusage of tesselation to make their competitor look bad
result: complete overusage of tesselation with no visual benefit
the brick wall is one example: they should portrude only 1/3 of what they do with tesselation enabled to look very realistic and have no rounded edges - but nvidia wants more polygons to show that amd has a bottleneck somewhere and that's why the Tesselation screens look like crap :(
To be honest outside of thrashing GPUs the first Crysis was a waste of time. If they enable all sorts of effects, even if it looks like crap, as long as it cripples GPUs and is a good benchmark for kicking systems in the balls, I think most people will have gotten what they wanted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zloyd
nope.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by crash5s
It would appear that these shots were taken by manually inserting the higher res textures that had the same names. Possible that other textures were renamed. Also note that this does not include DX11.Quote:
Originally Posted by kaktus1907
I'm glad you told me that, because there was barely any difference between the shots. Perhaps the texture pack requires the DX11 patch to work properly.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColonelCain
So these patches are useless without update 1.9? damn.
Complain all you want about the 559mb DX11 patch, but to say "exactly nothing has been accomplished" when the update contains 1.74gb of high resolution textures, is a flat out lie and doesn't belong here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zloyd
I take it you've never seen an old brick structure where the bricks and mortar are weathered?Quote:
Originally Posted by generics_user
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../BrickWall.jpg
:yepp: :yepp:Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew LB
1.74gb? More like 5.7gb, when uncompressed that is.. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Andrew LB
Speaking of which, when I downloaded the file from TPU, it came in at 1.65gb, and not 1.74gb.. Did I get shorted LOL? :shrug:
Crytek seem pretty proud of themselves:
Crysis 2 DirectX 11 'First Next-Gen Game' - Crytek
lol?
Yep. File is 1,735,763kbQuote:
Originally Posted by Carfax
Seriously, i hope they have make an excellent work with it, not cause i own the game ( i don't ), not cause i like Crytek ( i don't care ). But they take 3 months for release it, ..Quote:
Originally Posted by Philip_J_Fry
I hope the final work is good.
Did you download the file from TPU?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew LB
Directly from mycrysis when it was online. One file roughly 1.7gb and the second was 559mb. I have not ran them but I expect them to be heavily compressed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carfax
The main reason for negativity is because this patch has nearly no value for me. I have already finished Crysis 2 on hardest difficulty. SInce the game is awfully linear, it has zero replay value for me. Only way of playing it again would be a strict stealth approach with usage of only melee assassination using cloak on hardest difficulty. And even there you'd be forced to use weapons on key enemies like those walker mechs that you can't assassinate with a knife...
The PC game should be delayed for 2 months and came with DX11 out of the box, so we'd experience the full DX11 for the first time. Doing it on a game that you have already experienced is just not even virtually the same.
It was not the same even in Deus Ex and System Shock 2 despite massive almost fully non-linear world with different styles of playing, different paths and methods. Because once you know the plot, levels, characters and all, it's just not the same even if they cram DirectX 30 into it.
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Originally Posted by [XC] hipno650
+100:up:
You have success to take back the post of Hipno made ... more of 4-5months ago ( edit: oups , 7 month agos ) .. you have save it somewhere or what ?
hmm $30 bucks on amazon might be time to pick it up before it goes up when patch is released
thats why I waited for these enhancements to come out before playing the game all the way through :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RejZoR
it's like the 3rd or 4th post in this thread so it's not hard to find.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lanek
has any site redone a performance analysis yet on the game with the new features? I would love to see what type performance differences there is with the new patches and features.
My guess is (and this is just speculation) that EA pushed CryTek to deliver all the games at the same time... I still hold a small bit of hope that CryTek actually wanted to make the PC version with DX11 etc., but they were simply told to have all the games ready for launch at the same time... That's why they've actually delivered the patch, and stuck with it after shipping the game.. It's not dlc, you don't pay for the upgrade, they're actually trying to honor their promise of giving us DX11 and PC exclusive features... But since the publisher forced them to push for a simultanious release, they had to go with the lowest common denominator....
Best Regards :toast:
Thats my wishful thinking too. After all they've done I dont want to believe that'd screw us over on their own accord.
The problem here was that i pre-ordered the game, got it and then seen the news that it's not DX11 but DX9 after i already started playing it. If i'd knew this would happen i'd wait for the price to drop to like 15 EUR and then buy it. It would be cheaper, more refined because of the patches and better because of DX11.Quote:
Originally Posted by [XC] hipno650
What i got was a very expensive alpha version product. It was not exactly a great experience if you know what i mean.
It would be nice if they allowed a devmode and unlocked the console...
ahh ya that makes allot of sense. Don't get me wrong I would ahev liked to see this on Day 1 like everyone else. I am just happy it FINALLY came out unlike the Crysis 1.3 patch....Quote:
Originally Posted by RejZoR
Any comparisons yet? This fabled DX11 patch better give PC users everything they want. I've seen mods for Stalker SoC (DX9) that are visually more impressive than Crysis2 in DX9. There, I said it.
Once again you continue to make outlandish exaggerations. Yes, it was a console port and many PC users were let down.... a lot. But I cannot see how you can honestly say that the retail version was so unfinished and filled with bugs that it was an "alpha" build. When Doom 3 was leaked, THAT was an alpha build. As was the stolen source code for Half Life 2. I was an alpha tester for the very early Windows "whistler" XP releases and it would crash a half dozen times per day (on a good day).Quote:
Originally Posted by RejZoR
Crysis 2 crashed ONCE on me during my first play-through but only because I had my graphics card overclocked too high. I'd love to see any game in alpha development play all the way through with such good reliability. I'm sure that this would be a dev's wet dream.
Word. But if they don't, there are always trainers (yuck)...Quote:
It would be nice if they allowed a devmode and unlocked the console...
We'll see how much of a "next-gen" game this really turns out to be. Listening to Crytec their making it out to be the next Crysis 1... pun intended.
I'm guessing it won't meet my expectations for what the origional game should of been, & what we were all expecting. At least they get a little props from me for sticking to their promise and actually releasing a DX11 patch, lost a bet that they wouldn't.
Ok... it's Monday, June 27th here in Southern California. HAND OVER THE GOODS CRYTEK!!!!!
Yeah its taking a long time for Crytek to release that 1.9 patch.
It's the middle of the night...wait until at least Noon to start :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:ing people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew LB
it will be up around 13:00 to 14:00 Berlin time.
Come on, Monday's nearly over down here! :P
they removed benchmark for technical reasons
translated
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,83...on-Spiel/News/Quote:
Unfortunately the DX11 benchmark timedemo was removed at the last minute for technical reasons.
It's possible that we'll release it at a later date but that's far from confirmed at present.
We needed to concentrate on getting the DX11 update ready and could not afford The time on the benchmark.
Hmm... MyCrysis's servers have gone down for maintenance. I'm sure they're making the updates to the site so we can download this update as well.
Yeah sure... its not like they had several months for checking and fixing it...Quote:
Originally Posted by kaktus1907
Hmm... MyCrysis's servers have gone down for maintenance. I'm sure they're making the updates to the site so we can download this update as well.
I just downloaded Crysis 2 1.9 patch via steam. Going to install the texture and DX11 updates now..
3hrs later... no news from Carfax. Take that as a bad sign people..
i dld all 1.9 + both patches nice menues saying all the power but...
all walls are pictures where's tesellation !!! i barely see any improvements...
Coming down good now :)
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GTX 460 1080p Ultra 33 FPS locked no dips seems fine
http://www.abload.de/thumb/desktop_2...27_23_2ulm.png
first benchmark russian
http://gamegpu.ru/Action-/-FPS-/-TPS...-test-GPU.html
http://www.abload.de/img/phpthumb_generated_thui70p.jpg
Do you actually see so much of a difference?Me not
Something seriously wrong with thoses benchmark .. 1st, the benchmark is not available with the patch, Crytek have annonce they have remove it cause it was need some rework .. 2) this site explain they have got the update and game by EA and the update is not the final version.. but when i said wrong.. how the 580 loose 13fps DX9>DX11 average and minimal, and the 6970 loose only 3fps ( DX9>11 1920x1080 ) ?? ( understand i don't say that for the scores of AMD, but for the drop for the 580 ....)
wait having they just released the DXD 11 patch for Crysis 2?
lol mods moved it under nvidia..
according to Crytek, GTX 480 gets ~ 35fps avg. @ 1080p with everything on
http://www.mycrysis.com/news/crysis_...e-for-crysis-2
http://www.gamefront.com/files/20490...ra_upgrade.pdf
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The new Ultra spec enables:
1. Object: Tessellation, Parallax Occlusion Mapping
2. Particles: Shadows, Particle Motion Blur
3. Post Processing: High Quality Motion Blur and DOF
4. Shading: Contact shadows, Realtime Local Reflections
5. Shadows: Realistic Shadows with Variable Penumbra
6. Water: DX11 version of ocean and water volumes
The owners of high end recommended graphics cards, such as the NVIDIA 480 GTX or equivalent, should be able to run the game with Ultra settings at a resolution of 1080p with an average frame rate of 35 fps.
Well.... 6 hours later I decided to peel myself away from playing Crysis 2 with DX11 + ultra texture pack and WOW!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ket
I must admit I was skeptical of Crytek releasing a 'patch' to add DX11 and high resolution textures, because no company that I can recall has ever truly delivered an upgrade that completely changed a games experience. To my astonishment, Crytek truly did deliver a fan-f*cking-tastic patch that made me completely forget to report back to you guys on how it was.
The detail on EVERYTHING is greatly enhanced. lighting, shadows, dust and debris, explosions, etc are ALL better. In some cases they were completely different from what I remember from playing it through only a month ago.
Lemme take some screenshots of it with everything maxed. brb.
I'm running a GTX570 and with everything on Ultra, DX11, 16xAF, 8xCSAA (forced override) @ 1920x1200, my frame rates are well over 30fps. Very smooth and beautiful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lanek
I just wish Crytek added an option where you can have AA and AF, I tried forcing it via the NVIDIA Control Panel and it didn't work, but other than that DX11 looks nice, though it feels kinda choppy but with my setup I'm getting FPS over 60 most of the time with all the highest settings available.
To further back this up Watch this video. Looking a hell of a lot better and much more interaction, but its still no Crysis or Warhead IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew LB
Seriously? 8xAA at that res? Overkill much? :p: bring it down to 4xAA and enjoy a faster FPS shooter :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Andrew LB
more vram doesnt change anything
http://www.abload.de/img/crysis_2_dx11_gpus_108w8cd.png
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,83...on-Spiel/Test/
^ Not strictly true. Remember how Crysis by default only used 256MB vRAM even on cards with more than that so you had to make a cfg file change? Same might be true here.
Hmm interesting....we need to investigateQuote:
Originally Posted by Ket
Any idea on how to make this custom config?
Anyone wanna try adjusting vram?
to force AA and AF use nvidiaInspectorQuote:
Originally Posted by Chrono Detector
any DL linkl plz ??
Thats good to know!! (Also use 1920 x 1200) Although i see your GTX570 is OC'D to 900mhzQuote:
Originally Posted by Andrew LB
Im picking up a gtx270 this weekend hopefully it OC's well.
Don't know what file it would be for C2, I don't own the game and had no intention of even sneezing in its direction until some good vids / screens were available for the DX11 stuff. C2 looks a lot better in most areas for it, but it still doesn't look anywhere near as good as Crysis or Warhead IMO, especially when it comes to the fires, physics and foliage. People seem to very easily forget theres the "enthusiast" setting for Crysis and Warhead, and when used in both games even on most current systems at a standard res of 1680*1050 FPS still falls to ~40FPS and the graphical difference is noticable when switching to "enthusiast" from "gamer".Quote:
Originally Posted by tbone8ty
That was a myth.. Crysis never used only 256mb of VRAM, how silly would that be for developers to implement such limitations?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ket
Crysis 2 DX11 Ultra has the VRAM on my 580s pegged almost the entire time, and this is without a cfg.
nice! ^
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i just used the very same settings ive used @ bfbc2
i7 980x @ 4.86ghz
580 sli (2x) @ 1000/2300
hq ambient occlusion
4x aa
8x sgss
16x af
hq texture filtering
-3 lod bias
1080p
ultra + dx11 + tess + highrez
35x pix: http://imageshack.us/g/837/72873961.png/
forget 1080p and fook aa!
3040x1710
no aa
16x af
lod bias 0
hq ambient occlusion
580 sli @ 1000/2300
https://picasaweb.google.com/1100060...P_N1PSfypylkQE
thanx andressergio for sharing about downsampling :toast:
Not a myth. Crysis was pegged to 256MB in my cfg file when I played it on my old X1950Pro 512MB way back when. Got something like a 5FPS boost when I edited the cfg to 512MB. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Carfax