Crysis 2 is Horribly CPU Dependent

[InCredible]

November 17th 2007, Crysis 1 ...
But yes, 8800GTX was still the fastest card around, and IIRC, I got decent FPS with a mix of high, med and a couple of low settings at 1400x900... Still looked amazing, but running it with all very high on a HD5800 at 1900x1200... No comparison :P

wow i swore it was 06...my fault but yea i was trying to play at 1920x1200 with a single 8800gtx and it did OK with mixed settings before the Ice stages then it was revert to low/med settings but i went back with my 4870x2 at the time and replayed it much better but still laggy here n there. Might replay it with eyefinity and 6970 if possible haha

[Demo]

Metro2033 seems to be GPU limited as it gains so much by moving up the GPU chain compared to getting the fastest CPU, on my end a Q6600 @ 3.4Ghz with a GTX285 performed about the same as a i7 2600K @ 4.5Ghz with the GTX285.

[Andrew LB]

No idea, game is a flop, call it news if BF3 is the same way.

Crysis 2 is currently EA's hottest selling game this year. It's hardly a flop.

Am I pissed about DX11 being left out? Or how the graphics options are severely limited (unless you mod the autoexec.cfg), Or how it doesn't completely lay waste to the GTX 590?

Yes, yes, and Yes. Crytek pulled DX11 and basically gave PC gamers the middle finger after they leaked the game all well knowing they'd pirate it. They did a fantastic job of preempting PC Gamers rage over DX11 by branding them as pirates, elitist, and unethical.

And just like I predicted in the "Crysis leaked" thread, PC gamers would not pay for the finished product and sales would suffer as a result.

Only 14% of Crysis 2 sales are for PC. Combine that with how I just checked out a popular torrent site and for the past 3 weeks, there has been 3,000-4,000 leechers downloading it at any given time. And i'll bet that que of downloaders cycles about 3 times a day. So.... 12,000 lost sales per day at $49 each.... adds up to about a half million lost per day.

And you guys wonder why PC games are becoming fewer and fewer.

[SoulsCollective]

@ Andrew - your logic is fallacious. That kind of calculus rests on an untenable underlying assumption - that everyone who pirated the game would otherwise have bought it for the full purchase price. Only then can that amount be said to be "lost".

[zalbard]

Weird, I seem to recall a similar review, and it showed that a stock i7 920 was enough...
Either way, this is a very poorly coded game, so there's no surprise about the results from the OP.

[STEvil]

Crysis 2 is currently EA's hottest selling game this year. It's hardly a flop.

Am I pissed about DX11 being left out? Or how the graphics options are severely limited (unless you mod the autoexec.cfg), Or how it doesn't completely lay waste to the GTX 590?

Yes, yes, and Yes. Crytek pulled DX11 and basically gave PC gamers the middle finger after they leaked the game all well knowing they'd pirate it. They did a fantastic job of preempting PC Gamers rage over DX11 by branding them as pirates, elitist, and unethical.

And just like I predicted in the "Crysis leaked" thread, PC gamers would not pay for the finished product and sales would suffer as a result.

Only 14% of Crysis 2 sales are for PC. Combine that with how I just checked out a popular torrent site and for the past 3 weeks, there has been 3,000-4,000 leechers downloading it at any given time. And i'll bet that que of downloaders cycles about 3 times a day. So.... 12,000 lost sales per day at $49 each.... adds up to about a half million lost per day.

And you guys wonder why PC games are becoming fewer and fewer.

Make a quality product and people will pay. Use a quality service and people will pay.

Portal 2 for example.

Oh, Portal 2 got leaked to xbox 360 2 days before it went live on steam btw.

[Frag Maniac]

Funny Portal should come up right after the piracy comments because word has it the crack teams are doing a better job of fixing the crash problems than Valve. Kinda sad considering how long they take to develop their games. Pretty good game though. First half is a bit too easy and has some corny interludes between the test chambers but the 2nd half has some serious puzzles. If you get some of them wrong though redoing the run>jump>portal layers of gel gets a bit tedious.

[Chickenman]

I was bored so thought I would run my own little test, bearing in mind that I am gpu limited here as it's older tech. Ignore first couple results they are from a different game.

[Neova]

Wasn't the retail console version of Crysis 2 leaked before it was officially on SALE? And what did EA / Crytek say about that? NOTHING! zip, nada, no comment.

Yet they lambasted, shot and hung PC owners for someone leaking the BETA from their OWN SUPPLY CHAIN and they expect PC owners to buy their products?

Like everyone has said here : If the game is good enough, people will buy it regardless if cracked or not. I think Crysis is a not a bad game but I don't believe it lives up to the hype or is as big as a jump from Crysis/Crysis WH vs today's generation of games.

BF3 looks like the real NEXT GEN and I bet people with high end systems will buy that game. DICE has done nothing but listen from the looks of BF2 and BF2:BC. Both are top notch games, especially in multi play where it will continue to live on until BF3.

I wonder how many people still play Crysis multiplayer?

[ericFX1984]

Crysis 2 Gave me no problems o speak of

[kikicoco1334]

i wonder how a 1366 hex work with this game

[iboomalot]

guess my 920 is safe for a year or two more

no reason to upgrade from 4ghz based on that graph

[schlafmuetze]

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Like everyone has said here : If the game is good enough, people will buy it regardless if cracked or not.


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QFT - perfect example is borderlands, cracked a million times and bought lots of million times because of awesomeness, even cracked vers. worked in multiplayer

it even was so good that even the ones who got the cracked version paid and bought it again to support the devs

[Neova]

QFT - perfect example is borderlands, cracked a million times and bought lots of million times because of awesomeness, even cracked vers. worked in multiplayer

it even was so good that even the ones who got the cracked version paid and bought it again to support the devs

Got Borderlands GOTY set last Dec for ~ 25 bux. This game was stupid cheap on Steam for ~ 7.99 a couple of weeks ago. A great game at 7.99 or 25 bux!

But back on track, hopefully the DX11 patch will help make Crysis 2 a more efficient game and win back some of those PC sales.

[kaktus1907]

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[Hell Hound]

If its cpu dependent then we would see a gain @ 1080p w/same cpu like q6600/q9650 stock/ocd.You have to use just one cpu,all those had diff performance,so gain is expected.

[paulbagz]

I personally enjoyed C2 alot, yes it was a console sell out in some regards but in terms of making a game that pretty using older DirectX technology, I think that is a feat in itself and gives me alot to look forward to when Cryengine 3 decides to use DX11 technologies.

That and the fact I will probably have to buy a whole new rig when that day comes (just like I did for the original Crysis, 8800 Ultra <3).

-PB