Official Crysis SP Demo

[shazza]

Runs fine at 1920x1200, High settings, no AA (E6850, 8800GTX, 2GB Ram, Vista):

[Ghost326267]

hmmm im slightly dissapointed. Finished work, downloaded demo, installed, auto detect, 4 fps this would be very high settings with aa on 16q though. I thought my system would be able to play this, ahh well when water cooling comes looks like i need some oc'ing (btw QX6850 is at 3Ghz)
so been playing it on medium and 2 aa for 20+ fps. something seems very wrong here

[DTU_XaVier]

hmmm im slightly dissapointed. Finished work, downloaded demo, installed, auto detect, 4 fps this would be very high settings with aa on 16q though. I thought my system would be able to play this, ahh well when water cooling comes looks like i need some oc'ing (btw QX6850 is at 3Ghz)
so been playing it on medium and 2 aa for 20+ fps. something seems very wrong here

Which driver are you using? Also, what's your resolution?

Best Regards

[iadstudio]

I finally figured out hiow to get it to play on Vista64, you need to run the exe file from the bin32 folder, not 64. Anyways, it looks great but runs like cr@p on my card.

[Soulburner]

To maintain a playable framerate (over 30) I have to run Medium settings @ my native res of 1900x1200.

C2D E6850 @ 3.6 / 2GB DDR2 @ 1000 5-5-5-15 / 8800GTS 640

It's a slideshow on high. Looks like we'll need next year's hardware for this one.

Surprisingly it runs alright on medium at 1680x1050 on the x1950Pro. Hovers around 25-30fps which is minimum playable.

[Peakr]

Please name one game which has more (photo) realistic graphics... Not better graphics, more realistic... Cause that definitely ain't the same thing ...
Yes, better realism contributes to better graphics, but there's more to great graphics than high res textures and brown colors... This game has one of the most vivid color-palettes I've ever seen in an FPS, especially of late...

Saying that a 12 month old GFX should be able to handle a completely new game with everything on "you-won't-believe-it" high, is kind of a moot point... Come on, we knew this game was going to pull out teeth, Far Cry did the same thing back in the day... Problem is, resolution's gotten larger since then, so now people expect to be able to use high settings and higher resolutions, without their hardware breaking a sweat...

I'm happy my 8800GTX can handle the game without having to sacrifice too much image-quality, but I weren't expecting miracles ...

Best Regards

I guess I thought graphics would be better from looking at all the screen shots the producers posted over the last year or so. Specifically the facial screen shots with all the detail. Don't get me wrong some graphics like the lighting are the best I've ever seen, no doubt, and the water is truly amazing. Very realistic. Just expected more. Hype tends to build that factor.

I think a lot of people are unhappy about buying a 500$+ video card within the last month or so and expecting to be able to play the new games at their highest settings only to be disappointed, myself included. Think I would have been better off holding onto my 7900gtx a little longer because I could play all the current games at their highest settings already.

[shepard]

e6850 8800gts 4gb ram, and its unplayable in medium high and very high (of course), i dont know what is the problem, i reinstalled the windows and the problem persist, maybe a little increase of frame rate but stills unplayable, im using windows vista 64 with all update including the hotfix for 8xxx series, its unplayable with both executables 32 and 64 bits, the 64 bits is the hell 10 minuts falling on parachute :S, and using forceware beta for crysis, the rest of games run perfectly.

any recommendation?

sorry for my english.

[WSX]

I love the Sandbox editor ... you can drop in at any point in the demo, add weapons, fly around the map, etc, also try completing the demo in delta mode, the Koreans get a lot smarter, ... all in all it looks like being a great game

[Deux]

I love the Sandbox editor ... you can drop in at any point in the demo, add weapons, fly around the map, etc, also try completing the demo in delta mode, the Koreans get a lot smarter, ... all in all it looks like being a great game

How do you get to the editor, I couldn't find it.

[Cpl Ledanek]

my piece:
Athlon 64 3800+ 2.41+Ghz
2GB XMS Corsair
eVGA 7900 256RAM GT (BIOS 5.71.22.35.24)
nVidia 6.14.11 driver


BENCHMARK CPU

TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 1500, Recorded Time: 44.62s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 74.32s, Average FPS: 20.18
Min FPS: 10.44 at frame 1095, Max FPS: 32.69 at frame 122
Average Tri/Sec: 13545029, Tri/Frame: 671154
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: 1.07
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 69.27s, Average FPS: 21.65
Min FPS: 10.44 at frame 1095, Max FPS: 39.85 at frame 117
Average Tri/Sec: 14608617, Tri/Frame: 674612
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: 1.07
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 65.75s, Average FPS: 22.81
Min FPS: 10.44 at frame 1095, Max FPS: 39.85 at frame 117
Average Tri/Sec: 15363209, Tri/Frame: 673384
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: 1.07
!TimeDemo Run 3 Finished.
Play Time: 69.50s, Average FPS: 21.58
Min FPS: 10.44 at frame 1095, Max FPS: 39.94 at frame 117
Average Tri/Sec: 14546101, Tri/Frame: 673941
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: 1.07
TimeDemo Play Ended, (4 Runs Performed)

BENCHMARK GPU:

TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 73.18s, Average FPS: 27.33
Min FPS: 17.12 at frame 1939, Max FPS: 40.95 at frame 977
Average Tri/Sec: 19669272, Tri/Frame: 719652
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: 1.27
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 67.04s, Average FPS: 29.83
Min FPS: 16.94 at frame 1955, Max FPS: 47.19 at frame 100
Average Tri/Sec: 21716492, Tri/Frame: 727983
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: 1.26
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 67.72s, Average FPS: 29.53
Min FPS: 16.34 at frame 1943, Max FPS: 47.19 at frame 100
Average Tri/Sec: 21485970, Tri/Frame: 727475
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: 1.26
!TimeDemo Run 3 Finished.
Play Time: 67.68s, Average FPS: 29.55
Min FPS: 16.34 at frame 1943, Max FPS: 47.19 at frame 100
Average Tri/Sec: 21514250, Tri/Frame: 727998
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: 1.26
TimeDemo Play Ended, (4 Runs Performed)

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[disruptfam]

anyone with a quad core,2gb ram and 8800gtx fps???

cheers

[Budwise]

anyone try this demo with similar setup on different OS's? Im curious to see Vista 64bit vs 32bit vs XP.

[BigRigDriver]

Well, I'm not impressed at all. Not a smooth running game & my specs are more than enough. Q6600 @ 3.6 w/6GB of RAM RAID0 8800GTS @ 1003/600 Vista64. I think the game to get this season is COD4

[Kai Robinson]

Well, i managed about 20fps on average, sometimes a little more than that (upto 26fps in places) on the rig in my sig.

Settings were at 1440x900 all at medium. I'm happy with that though, i only paid £117 for this card back in March, pleased its held up so well. Picking up an 8800GT and another 2gb OCZ DDR2-667 via my girlfriend this week, so i'll be even happier

[SamHughe]

169.01 my ass!!! It screwed up the game for me. Getting 7fps where I used to get 20+. Ridiculous!

[WSX]

How do you get to the editor, I couldn't find it.

Sandbox Editor how to ... http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...781142&page=37

[skynet666]

Why is everyone having problems with the beta drivers? I was getting unplayable framerates at medium, but as soon as i installed the new forceware drivers getting 60 fps on medium dropping to 40 in places but on average around 50fps?

[Relic27777]

I haven't had any problems with the beta drivers. I suggest you guys do a driver sweeper/cleaner removal and install 169.01 drivers and also install the Nov runtimes for Direct X. I've been playing in DX10 at 1680x1050 with all settings on high (not very high) and it is playable (15-45 fps) and I'm using q6600 @ 3.6ghz, 4gb ram, and 8800gtx stock. Additionally DX9 runs at 1920x1200 at these same settings and is playable. If you want over 60 fps I suggest you go to DX9 mode and bring down the resolution...

[iadstudio]

anyone know why I'm getting this when I try to open Sandbox editor?

[Soulburner]

25-30fps average framerate on both the CPU and GPU timedemo batch files.

E6850 @ 3.6Ghz (400x9)
2Gb DDR2 @ 1000 5-5-5-15
8800GTS 640Mb

163.76

Sad.

[SamHughe]

This is what I get with beta drivers!


After some tweaking/restarting:

XP32
1920x1220
NoAA
Everything else Maxed



Same res, shadows low, water med, no post processing(gives me nausea anyways).



Above settings=decent game even in high foliage/multiple AI areas. Occasionally dips to 20 though.

[Soulburner]

Yeah the framerate can be decent when tweaked.

Run the GPU timedemo though and you'll be surprised how inadequate your hardware really is.

169.01 gave me another 3-4fps over 163.76.

I'm not sure if this demo is multi-threaded or not, but I only manage 25-28fps average in the CPU timedemo with an E6850 @ 3.6Ghz

[KoHaN69]

anyone try this demo with similar setup on different OS's? Im curious to see Vista 64bit vs 32bit vs XP vs XP 64bit

fixed.

me too !!

[moonsond]

About performance on lower-end hardware.
First of all, i benched(via BAT files in the bin32 dir) my rig(sig) in 1280*1024 w\o AA on 163.71\XP SP2 and got these results:
GPU
lo - 31.25\45.58\68.61
med - 9.56\17.93\25.24
hi - 3.03\8.38\11.92

CPU
lo - 16.88\45.08\56.51
med - 7.59\16.33\21.65
hi - 2.99\7.95\11.52
BTW, it would be interesting for me to compare my bench results with someone either on 7900 GS\GT or GF 8600\R2600.

Next - i played alot with settings and GPU bench and found the best settings for me.(i did set textures to high, engine seem to have tuned this setting, but textures still look very nice)

And i'm - generally - getting an average 30-45 fps, sometimes, especially when large amount of objects is being precached, such as in the first level start - it may drop to 20-25 for a few secs, but it does not disturb me so much. In some places, i can even get 50+.
Graphics - of course are not that good, especially light\shadowing on objects in world is poor compared even to that on "med" shadows, but... graphics are pretty nice and clean indeed, and water is something amazing And, as for me, the most beautiful thing in any 3d game is a high framerate.
In general - the "Shaders" are the most "heavy" setting gpu-wise, but that's giving the greatest visual candy for you as well. Try to compare how grass\trees look on low and high shaders setting - you'll understand me.


And in conclusion, 'bout CPU and physics. I tried to bench "low" and "med" settings only.
Results in cpu bench were 22.41\38.92\52.53 and 14.70\27.78\52.72 respectively. So, if you've got a "weak" CPU - drop the physics first of all and see for performance. It can make your shooting experience a lot better in a very dynamic moments.

[Ghost326267]

Which driver are you using? Also, what's your resolution?

Best Regards

Have tried 163.69 and 163.75 beta drivers both with the same results
resolution is 1280x1024 native
Still looks ok ok medium but I would like to see the hardware list to get decent fps on max settings