Crysis Configs for CrossFire

[soundood]

In YOUR opinion. I *like* playing it. It's fun. Sometimes you need to set aside anything cerebral and just mow down a field of angry dudes.

roger that

enemy has a bunker, Echo 5

i gota say i love it when theres a heavy scirmish going on, and i bullet in there in a jeep, and run them down.

the look you get from your team who was fighting is pricless, you know the 'ok what now look'

for me, its my only game

my last only game was Jedi knight 2 (jedi outcast) multi-player, i plyed that for 7 years.

[Kai Robinson]

Enemy Captured an Energy Site, Charlie 5!

I like servers that aren't full of douchebags....ie, those people that play tactically rather than just rushing the prototype facility. Warfactories and Bunkers First, secure them, and THEN go for energy sites and prototype...and never forget the entrance to proto on the ROOF of the building!

[Kai Robinson]

So - any increase in performance with the 8.9's? So far, no change for me

[Kai Robinson]

Okay - i stumbled upon this - which for me, was the holy grail!

Ever had microstutter with SLI / CF? Okay, well i was getting annoyed with it, seeing the FPS showing 40, but it was playing like a slideshow.

I don't know if you guys know this, but for CF setups at least, you want the config to read:

r_multiGPU=0

Yep, set it to off. CF still works though, and the framerate increases, oddly.

You're still going to get microstutter though.

I found over at incrysis, buried in their forums, the cvar for frame rate limiting!

Limit the FPS to something you know your rig can handle, i have it set to 30fps and its smooth as butter, and to be honest, you dont NEED any higher.

Use

fixed_time_step=

with the following values:

-0.024 = 42 fps
-0.0255 = 40 fps
-0.029 = 35 fps
-0.0335 = 30 fps
-0.041 = 25 fps
0 = Default

And yes, those are NEGATIVE values.

Should work for Crysis Warhead, too.

[mindspat]

I'm somewhat disappointed with the lack of feedback guys, so much so, i'll post you something to dribble over:

I'm playing Crysis in DX10 with an ASUS 9800 GT Ultimate with the core clocked to 820mhz. I've been thinking about getting a 4870x2 although prices haven't come down enough...

[Razrback16]

Okay - i stumbled upon this - which for me, was the holy grail!

Ever had microstutter with SLI / CF? Okay, well i was getting annoyed with it, seeing the FPS showing 40, but it was playing like a slideshow.

I don't know if you guys know this, but for CF setups at least, you want the config to read:

r_multiGPU=0

Yep, set it to off. CF still works though, and the framerate increases, oddly.

You're still going to get microstutter though.

I found over at incrysis, buried in their forums, the cvar for frame rate limiting!

Limit the FPS to something you know your rig can handle, i have it set to 30fps and its smooth as butter, and to be honest, you dont NEED any higher.

Use

fixed_time_step=

with the following values:

-0.024 = 42 fps
-0.0255 = 40 fps
-0.029 = 35 fps
-0.0335 = 30 fps
-0.041 = 25 fps
0 = Default

And yes, those are NEGATIVE values.

Should work for Crysis Warhead, too.

That r_multigpu=0 command really worked, thanks man. I've been struggling w/ x-fire ever since I added my second 4870. That one command made such a huge difference in smoothness of play.

[Xello]

I don't know about you guys but on my dual 4870x2 setup while on crysis i couldn't ever enable any AA @ 1920x1080 without sacrificing to single digit frames. So i turned AA off, but then i used the console command 'r_useedgeAA 2' and i'm not sure exactly how it does it but it turns on AA for the foliage and stuff without taking the huge hit you do when you turn it on in CCC.

My other settings were all High / Gamer, with ocean fft and sunshafts enabled (2 of the effects you can't do without from Very High / Enthusiast )

[Kai Robinson]

Well dont forget, you cannot enable AA in Crysis if you have Parrallax Occlusion Mapping enabled (r_usepom=1).

[Kai Robinson]

That r_multigpu=0 command really worked, thanks man. I've been struggling w/ x-fire ever since I added my second 4870. That one command made such a huge difference in smoothness of play.

Did you use the fixed_time_step command as well?

[Razrback16]

Did you use the fixed_time_step command as well?

I did not. Do you think this would make a large difference?

[Kai Robinson]

It made even more of a difference to me than the r_multigpu=0 cvar - limiting the max fps to say 30 means total fluidity with all the eyecandy. You can't SEE more than 24.97fps anyway, anything more than that is for bragging rights.

[Xello]

You can't SEE more than 24.97fps anyway

Sanity check!

[Kai Robinson]

Sanity Check?

[Xello]

Yeah, do you really believe that

It should really be clarified and stickied somewhere on a forum like this, it only comes up once every few months but it's such an extremely wrong myth that i think it warrants it.

[Razrback16]

It made even more of a difference to me than the r_multigpu=0 cvar - limiting the max fps to say 30 means total fluidity with all the eyecandy. You can't SEE more than 24.97fps anyway, anything more than that is for bragging rights.

I may need to give that a shot. Where are you putting that entry in your autoexec?

[Kai Robinson]

Anywhere after con_restricted=0 basically.

[viccan]

Your Kidding me right? ok I'll agree the coding is a little weak but overall this is one of the best shooter games to come along in a long time, I can't get enough of crysis... I go through phazes with all my shooters usually I beat it and thats that. I will occasionally pull it out for a bench or what not but this game, The total concept and full real world interaction is just incredible!! Hats off to crytek and we have set the bar for all future games by this new standard!

[Razrback16]

I tried the fixed time step command but it actually made performance worse oddly enough. First I tried 30fps then 40fps. If I leave that command out of my autoexec completely I have better performance.

[Kai Robinson]

Thats very strange. Made everything nice and smooth, got rid of microstutter completely. Whats your Catalyst AI set to, standard or advanced?

In any case, you might not need it due to the massive advantage of memory bandwidth over me.

[Razrback16]

Standard in Catalyst AI. Now this WAS in Warhead and not the original Crysis -- make a difference?

[Kai Robinson]

It might yeah - seeing as WarHead's engine is slightly different.

[Stoner133]

Crysis runs great on my 4870's in Crossfire using Cat 8.12 for drivers. Wish I knew how to check what the FPS were, I would post the results. Also have to love the watercooling on the cards, they never get above 40c that way. Oh I do play it in 1920X1200 on my 24" monitor.

[Kai Robinson]

check the framerate by opening the console and typing r_displayinfo 1 into it.