Crysis 2 only DX9 - DX11 will be "later" with an update

**Stukov** · 03-01-2011, 04:34 PM

What is sad is they will blame the early leak and piracy for the bad sales on PC, not their piss poor support and broken promises.

**Macadamia** · 03-01-2011, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by JohnZS

Why would nVidia pay NOT to have DirectX11?!?

nVidia have decent DirectX11 cards out! nVidia are innocent here.

Although I may have to eat my words if the DirectX11 patch is actually a CUDA and PhysX patch

John

Well considering how much faster the Radeons are in Warhead, why wouldn't they not pay to ask Crytek to "re-optimize" their DX11 path?

Obviously Crytek didn't overtesselate enough, nor did they use custom API caps for standard features. Bad doggie, baaaad indeed.

**Olivon** · 03-01-2011, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by Lanek

you are speaking about crysis2 there ?

No Crysis I. It runs really well on ATI Hardware.

**Macadamia** · 03-01-2011, 04:42 PM

Just Warhead AFAIK. The original runs like crap on anything due to threading issues.

**570091D** · 03-01-2011, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by Olivon

No Crysis I. It runs really well on ATI Hardware.

soda just came out of my nose

**[XC] hipno650** · 03-01-2011, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by Lanek

Damned Nvidia, the game have been annonced a lot of time ago supporting DX11,,, Nvidia put 5 millions of dollars in this title,the release is pushing back from 4 months, and so DX11 features are not here then ?
What, they want, a second Hawx2 titles ?

honestly man you blame NV????? you actually just blamed NV???? for dumping a TON of money into this game.... Fermi is still a better DX11 GPU the anything ATI has. it was not Nvidia that delayed this.....

if the game seriously looks no better then the demo does I might actually cry. the Graphics in the demo are a joke compared to the ORIGINAL cyrsis

**Olivon** · 03-01-2011, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by Macadamia

Just Warhead AFAIK. The original runs like crap on anything due to threading issues.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...0,2585-10.html

**~~RaV666~~** · 03-01-2011, 04:48 PM

Crysis I and warhead on maxed out DX9 codepath seemed to look better than what i played with the beta ...
It explains why DX11 mode didnt work in it also :P.
BTW , just enabling DX10/DX11 wont make game any better looking, its the use of those effects.What i fear the most is that we will lose geometry and texture detail due to it being console port :/.

**Chumbucket843** · 03-01-2011, 04:48 PM

crysis 2 uses dynamic global illumination even with dx9. no other game does this in any way shape or form.

its just amazing how the word dx9 has taken on such a skewed meaning. you can write insane shaders in dx9 and you can have massive textures.

although dx10 is an improvement over dx9 it is a complete overhaul of the API. you only get modest improvements with massive effort. i can only speculate so much but i just see it as impractical to redo everything for a 2011 title on an engine that was started 5 years ago.

**Lanek** · 03-01-2011, 04:49 PM

Hipro, i have write, i have exagerate a little bit on this... but :2 times in follow, this start to be really suspicious....

in november the game is ready in DX11 ( follow the beta ), Nvidia put 5 millions of dollars in this game, the game is pushed back to some month, and then DX11 is not ready ? after Hawx2, i can be really suspicious.

I don't blame Nvidia, the first i want blame is Crytek .... but realy marketing have push and pull this buizness since a long time .

**Det0x** · 03-01-2011, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by [XC] hipno650

honestly man you blame NV????? you actually just blamed NV???? for dumping a TON of money into this game.... Fermi is still a better DX11 GPU the anything ATI has. it was not Nvidia that delayed this.....

if the game seriously looks no better then the demo does I might actually cry. the Graphics in the demo are a joke compared to the ORIGINAL cyrsis

I wont be surprised if Nvidia payed 5mil$ to got the dx11 features only -> CUDA and PhysX.

**saaya** · 03-01-2011, 04:53 PM

Lol@tesselering

Honestly, if the game looks awesome or more importantly is fun to play, I wouldn't mind... but with crytek its always been about eye candy and using the latest tech... I remember when they added 64bit CPU support and HDR far before anybody else and it made far cry a whole new experience... it seemed that what other game debate struggled for months if not years, they could just patch on within a few weeks... which was so nice... now this...

This isn't crytek... what happened?
Seems almost like.somebody took over the company or the original crytek sold their brand and are partying on a tropical island right now

Tststs ...bummer...

**Monkeywoman** · 03-01-2011, 04:59 PM

I think that this is related to piracy. the game got leaked in pre-release form, people already have an idea how its going to play; but what makes this game is the graphics. if you but the game you'll get dx11...i know ea has a custom download client; they can check if the copy's legit, if so dx11 for you.

**~~RaV666~~** · 03-01-2011, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by Monkeywoman

I think that this is related to piracy. the game got leaked in pre-release form, people already have an idea how its going to play; but what makes this game is the graphics. if you but the game you'll get dx11...i know ea has a custom download client; they can check if the copy's legit, if so dx11 for you.

If i understand your premise correctly, you make the assumption, EA did this on purpose so people playing leaked beta wont have DX11 effects ?
Well, pirates pirate.Thats what they do.And theyre gonna pirate final build.And then the DX11 patch.

**Pontos** · 03-01-2011, 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by saaya

Lol@tesselering

Honestly, if the game looks awesome or more importantly is fun to play, I wouldn't mind... but with crytek its always been about eye candy and using the latest tech... I remember when they added 64bit CPU support and HDR far before anybody else and it made far cry a whole new experience... it seemed that what other game debate struggled for months if not years, they could just patch on within a few weeks... which was so nice... now this...

This isn't crytek... what happened?
Seems almost like.somebody took over the company or the original crytek sold their brand and are partying on a tropical island right now

Tststs ...bummer...

For real... The company that soon after Crysis was released said that consoles were too weak to run their engine decently (And later on mentioned that they may run it in Medium graphic options) are now doing this... It's the most astonishing and crappiest shift in a company's philosophy and business model I've ever seen.

**Luka_Aveiro** · 03-01-2011, 05:06 PM

If this is true...

you, Crytek.

**kadozer** · 03-01-2011, 05:12 PM

Cancels preorder. Will wait for Steam bargain offer next year.

**Chrono Detector** · 03-01-2011, 05:14 PM

This is just bull

, WTF Crytek, DX9 is like how old is it?

**zanzabar** · 03-01-2011, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by JohnZS

I am not quite so sure zanzabar, to me Crysis DirectX10 looks a lot better than Crysis DirectX9!
John

there is a slight problem with that, u cannot just do dx10, when u go dx10 u get the higher settings for texture quality, shadow mapping, ext... if u mod the configs u can set it to high or vary high and disable the dx10 layer and it looks the same except for the foliage lighting.

but i have a new thought on if a game with be good, if u can tell that the tech demo is using a stick and not a mouse its most likely a port to the pc, now if its at a sony or MS e3 booth then im not saying that but when the demo is about what MP is or how they are doing something for graphics.

**InCredible** · 03-01-2011, 05:17 PM

was actually going to buy this game..not anymore..not even after dx11 "update" ....this was suppose to be a great game with differences between pc and console..since its shaping up to be exactly the opposite i wont give my money for this at all..Good job crytek.

**bamtan2** · 03-01-2011, 05:24 PM

haha CONSOLE'D

**G0ldBr1ck** · 03-01-2011, 05:27 PM

And as a extra bonus to the shrinking PC community, Crytek will be taking on the major feat of adding Vista/Win7 support in a pach later this year! This news came shortly after the amazing announcment of Duel core CPU support in this newest title.

Only a joke of course but seriously, DX9 only! If this is true I will not pay a penny for it. They could care less about PC sale these days. I just hope it will come around and bite them in the ass one day.

**SabreWulf69** · 03-01-2011, 05:36 PM

I swear somewhere I saw they "still remain committed to gaming on the PC" referring to the leak of the game that came out. After this announcement it sounds like they were just saving face. What a load of BS.

**gosh** · 03-01-2011, 05:41 PM

These problems crysis seem to have is typical for software companies who have lost their best programmers.

**phantomferrari** · 03-01-2011, 05:48 PM

i am now so happy about canceling my pre order on steam. i swear to god if battlefield 3 does this same sh*t i am going to write quite an angry letter to EA, Crytek, and if the situation may be Dice

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