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

[Olivon]

Source

At a presentation to Nvidia's new graphics card in the GeForce 500-series revealed that Crysis 2 initially will not include support for DirectX 11, instead, all PC gamers had to make do with the six year old DirectX 9.

In practice this means that all graphics hungry gamers with later generations of graphics cards can not take advantage of graphics-enhancing features such as tesselering. According to Nvidia promises the developers to include a DX11 mode in a future update, when exactly is still unclear.

Also : http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=32659

Hope that's not true, if so, Maximum Fail

Update 03/04 :

I sent E-mail to Crytek asking when we can expect a statement about this DX11 issue.

EDIT: Got a reply saying that next week there will perhaps be some information on when we can expect an announcement.

http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewt...508638#p508638

[alucasa]

Are we in 2008 ...

[JohnZS]

I believe this proves, or at least comes close to proving what I was fearing.........
Crysis 2 is primarily developed for the XBox360, and then ported to the PC
With PC enhancements bolted on.

I am shocked it does not even include DirectX 10, even Crysis was a DirectX 10 showpiece.
John

[DTU_XaVier]

I just don't understand why they didn't just make it a DX11 title from the bottom up... Tired of DX9 honestly...

[zanzabar]

I believe this proves, or at least comes close to proving what I was fearing.........
Crysis 2 is primarily developed for the XBox360, and then ported to the PC
With PC enhancements bolted on.

I am shocked it does not even include DirectX 10, even Crysis was a DirectX 10 showpiece.
John

the original was not really dx10, just a glazed over effects layer.

and once they posted the system requirements wasnt it apparent that it was a console game, or maybe when it was demoed and the cross hairs were moving slow and in fixed directions. did u really expect anything more for crytec they have been worthless with everything affter farcry and were much better off as rare pre MS buyout, but even then with 3d games they were more about shinny than content or complete games.

[kazuyakun]

Consoles 1 PC 0. It shouldn't come to a surprise, console players first and foremost.

[spoof]

But they were disappointed from the PC community ... haha, this is so pathetic.

[Stevethegreat]

It's the very logical result which came from console domination. And additionaly to that it's a vicious cycle. The more powerful consoles are in the market the less reasons console makers would have to update them.

They say PS3 would complete a decade of life before being replaced, that would had been like playing the original prince of persia on the PC in 1999 instead of Half Life and be astonished by its game mechanics being *slightly* updated...

The situation has been close to worse in video-games -than ever- as far its evolution goes (if one's to think about it). Never before 4 years of wait amounted to sth worse graphically. The original Crysis still holds the top of graphics engines and that's very depressing. Say hello to your $500 paperweight that you call "graphics card"...

One word "Stagnation".

[BababooeyHTJ]

Crytek also lied about the patch that they promised for the first game. I wouldn't get my hopes up.

[DTU_XaVier]

It's just funny... They've been touting the graphics, showing off all their DX11 effects and a lot of other things... And now they all but bug out on the game... You can't "patch" an entire code-path, that's just ridiculous... My guess (and I'm only guessing here), is that somewhere along the line, they were told to focus on consoles... Probably around the point MW2 became the best selling shooter of all time...

Best Regards

[zalbard]

It will be... "later"... in "some" update... maybe... at "some" point...
Clearly, total BS.
It's a DX9 game from a ground up, DX11 will be barely used if at all. Another crappy console port.

[JohnZS]

Perhaps it is something to do with a lack of true DirectX11 style threading within drivers from ATi and nVidia?!?
A few developers have expressed their concerns over this, the good news is nVidia's upcoming CUDA 4.0RC driver HAS major enhancements

Share GPUs across multiple threads
Use all GPUs in the system concurrently from a single host thread
No-copy pinning of system memory, a faster alternative to cudaMallocHost()
Layered Textures for working with same size/format textures at larger sizes and higher performance
Faster Multi-GPU Programming

Perhaps this is what Crytek are waiting for? The DirectX11 path may already be coded, and in theory ship with the game, just the vital .exe is missing and that is because the drivers are currently not ready.... yet.
?!?

Either way I am still disappointed at this, even the lack of DirectX10!!

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

[nossy23]

Wow, if true I will not buy this game. Of course if sales will be bad they will claim it was because of the leak of the beta version of the game. Ridiculous.

[Kai Robinson]

Seriously? A f*cking console port? Crytek can jam it up my back door.

[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 ?

[JohnZS]

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 an Hawx2 ?

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

[lowfat]

Well I guess I won't buying the game until "later"

[Olivon]

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 ?

So, it's all nVidia's fault ? it's a rapid shortcut IMHO ...

[Piotrsama]

Later on they will claim high piracy on PC, and because of that... the DX 11 patch will be canceled.

[zalbard]

Well I guess I won't buying the game until "later"

Seriously, this.

[Lanek]

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

I don't say Nvidia have not pay for get DX11, i mean they have pay for get it how they want it to favor them ... you don't hope Nvidia pay 5 millions of dollars just for the fun and have their logo on start no ?

Ok i exagarate a bit on this... but well, i have work on this industry for a so long time, this will not surprise me at all.

[tbone8ty]

wow complete and uter FAIL. wont get my money

waiting for battlefield 3

[570091D]

well thank you xbox for F%&*ing another pc game...

[Olivon]

I don't say Nvidia have not pay for get DX11, i mean they have pay for get it how they want it to favor them ... you don't hope Nvidia pay 5 millions of dollars just for the fun and have their logo on start no ?

They paid a lot to be on start screen for Crysis and the game runs better on ATI

[Lanek]

you are speaking about crysis2 there ?


Don't tell me crytek are so noob, they are not able to code in DX11 a games who should be released 3 months ago, and pushedi it back after Nvidia give them some " back " money.
We are speaking about Crytek engineer team... not a unknown team from russia.