Crysis 2 being re-designed for GTX580

[CedricFP]

Here are a few more comparison shots.. disappointment once again

http://www.abload.de/gallery.php?key=70SZifeK

I am surprised at a lot of the negativity.

Crytek could have much more easily done nothing. Even if what they are doing isn't great (and sometimes it does look a bit wonky in those comparison pics), at least they are doing something?

I'm not an apologist, but maybe I just prefer to see the positive?

[Zloyd]

How is there anything positive when this patch has accomplished exactly nothing. Only silver lining I can see is that if this is a start and they further patch to improve visuals. As of right now this just seems to be a total waste of time.

[tbone8ty]

whatever dudes im excited for the patch! and it is better than nothing no matter how u try and spin it... $39 at amazon is a decent deal.

[Vinas]

butt-mastering tessellation capability,

they lost me there!

But if it were true, it is only the nVIDIA customers that are going to end up paying for the game twice!

[generics_user]

what nvidia wants is complete overusage of tesselation to make their competitor look bad

result: complete overusage of tesselation with no visual benefit

the brick wall is one example: they should portrude only 1/3 of what they do with tesselation enabled to look very realistic and have no rounded edges - but nvidia wants more polygons to show that amd has a bottleneck somewhere and that's why the Tesselation screens look like crap

[crash5s]

How is there anything positive when this patch has accomplished exactly nothing. Only silver lining I can see is that if this is a start and they further patch to improve visuals. As of right now this just seems to be a total waste of time.

To be honest outside of thrashing GPUs the first Crysis was a waste of time. If they enable all sorts of effects, even if it looks like crap, as long as it cripples GPUs and is a good benchmark for kicking systems in the balls, I think most people will have gotten what they wanted.

[Hornet331]

To be honest outside of thrashing GPUs the first Crysis was a waste of time.

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[ColonelCain]

Here are a few more comparison shots.. disappointment once again

http://www.abload.de/gallery.php?key=70SZifeK

It would appear that these shots were taken by manually inserting the higher res textures that had the same names. Possible that other textures were renamed. Also note that this does not include DX11.

[Carfax]

It would appear that these shots were taken by manually inserting the higher res textures that had the same names. Possible that other textures were renamed. Also note that this does not include DX11.

I'm glad you told me that, because there was barely any difference between the shots. Perhaps the texture pack requires the DX11 patch to work properly.

[Andrew LB]

So these patches are useless without update 1.9? damn.

How is there anything positive when this patch has accomplished exactly nothing. Only silver lining I can see is that if this is a start and they further patch to improve visuals. As of right now this just seems to be a total waste of time.

Complain all you want about the 559mb DX11 patch, but to say "exactly nothing has been accomplished" when the update contains 1.74gb of high resolution textures, is a flat out lie and doesn't belong here.

[Andrew LB]

what nvidia wants is complete overusage of tesselation to make their competitor look bad

result: complete overusage of tesselation with no visual benefit

the brick wall is one example: they should portrude only 1/3 of what they do with tesselation enabled to look very realistic and have no rounded edges - but nvidia wants more polygons to show that amd has a bottleneck somewhere and that's why the Tesselation screens look like crap

I take it you've never seen an old brick structure where the bricks and mortar are weathered?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../BrickWall.jpg

[Tim]

I take it you've never seen an old brick structure where the bricks and mortar are weathered?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../BrickWall.jpg

[Carfax]

Complain all you want about the 559mb DX11 patch, but to say "exactly nothing has been accomplished" when the update contains 1.74gb of high resolution textures, is a flat out lie and doesn't belong here.

1.74gb? More like 5.7gb, when uncompressed that is..

Speaking of which, when I downloaded the file from TPU, it came in at 1.65gb, and not 1.74gb.. Did I get shorted LOL?

[Philip_J_Fry]

Crytek seem pretty proud of themselves:
Crysis 2 DirectX 11 'First Next-Gen Game' - Crytek

lol?

[Andrew LB]

1.74gb? More like 5.7gb, when uncompressed that is..

Speaking of which, when I downloaded the file from TPU, it came in at 1.65gb, and not 1.74gb.. Did I get shorted LOL?

Yep. File is 1,735,763kb

[Lanek]

Crytek seem pretty proud of themselves:
Crysis 2 DirectX 11 'First Next-Gen Game' - Crytek

lol?

Seriously, i hope they have make an excellent work with it, not cause i own the game ( i don't ), not cause i like Crytek ( i don't care ). But they take 3 months for release it, ..
I hope the final work is good.

[Carfax]

Yep. File is 1,735,763kb

Did you download the file from TPU?

[Andrew LB]

Did you download the file from TPU?

Directly from mycrysis when it was online. One file roughly 1.7gb and the second was 559mb. I have not ran them but I expect them to be heavily compressed.

[RejZoR]

The main reason for negativity is because this patch has nearly no value for me. I have already finished Crysis 2 on hardest difficulty. SInce the game is awfully linear, it has zero replay value for me. Only way of playing it again would be a strict stealth approach with usage of only melee assassination using cloak on hardest difficulty. And even there you'd be forced to use weapons on key enemies like those walker mechs that you can't assassinate with a knife...
The PC game should be delayed for 2 months and came with DX11 out of the box, so we'd experience the full DX11 for the first time. Doing it on a game that you have already experienced is just not even virtually the same.
It was not the same even in Deus Ex and System Shock 2 despite massive almost fully non-linear world with different styles of playing, different paths and methods. Because once you know the plot, levels, characters and all, it's just not the same even if they cram DirectX 30 into it.

[E30M3]

is it dirty marketing? YES. is this really needed? NO. am I mad about this? ABSOLUTELY NOT. ya it's dirty and I can see this thread going on for a few pages with all the ATI fanboys complaining about nvidia sabotaging and whatnot but think of it this way. I just might MAYBE finally have a game that makes use of my $500 graphics card to the max, showing what a PC can really do. they don't say anything about making it run WORSE on ATI cards but just that Nvidia has payed them to add in more DX11 features, which just happen to run better on Nvidia cards. i think it's better this way then having a crap console port, that looks the same on all three platforms.

im tired of games looking the same as they did when consoles first came out... if they properly use the power of say a 480/580 the graphics quality of this game will be off the charts...

edit: however it's kitguru so this is most likely all BS

+100

[Lanek]

You have success to take back the post of Hipno made ... more of 4-5months ago ( edit: oups , 7 month agos ) .. you have save it somewhere or what ?

[tbone8ty]

hmm $30 bucks on amazon might be time to pick it up before it goes up when patch is released

[[XC] hipno650]

The main reason for negativity is because this patch has nearly no value for me. I have already finished Crysis 2 on hardest difficulty. SInce the game is awfully linear, it has zero replay value for me. Only way of playing it again would be a strict stealth approach with usage of only melee assassination using cloak on hardest difficulty. And even there you'd be forced to use weapons on key enemies like those walker mechs that you can't assassinate with a knife...
The PC game should be delayed for 2 months and came with DX11 out of the box, so we'd experience the full DX11 for the first time. Doing it on a game that you have already experienced is just not even virtually the same.
It was not the same even in Deus Ex and System Shock 2 despite massive almost fully non-linear world with different styles of playing, different paths and methods. Because once you know the plot, levels, characters and all, it's just not the same even if they cram DirectX 30 into it.

thats why I waited for these enhancements to come out before playing the game all the way through

You have success to take back the post of Hipno made ... more of 4-5months ago ( edit: oups , 7 month agos ) .. you have save it somewhere or what ?

it's like the 3rd or 4th post in this thread so it's not hard to find.

has any site redone a performance analysis yet on the game with the new features? I would love to see what type performance differences there is with the new patches and features.

[DTU_XaVier]

My guess is (and this is just speculation) that EA pushed CryTek to deliver all the games at the same time... I still hold a small bit of hope that CryTek actually wanted to make the PC version with DX11 etc., but they were simply told to have all the games ready for launch at the same time... That's why they've actually delivered the patch, and stuck with it after shipping the game.. It's not dlc, you don't pay for the upgrade, they're actually trying to honor their promise of giving us DX11 and PC exclusive features... But since the publisher forced them to push for a simultanious release, they had to go with the lowest common denominator....

Best Regards

[killerxp100]

Thats my wishful thinking too. After all they've done I dont want to believe that'd screw us over on their own accord.