Crysis

Yeah, 1.2.

Holy shit your right.

I could easily play the ice levels and there wasnt a bit of slowdown, or just a bit of a hicup.

I also tried the earlier Contact level and it was very fluid.

The only level I had a bit of trouble with was the last level on the boat.

Have you tried the game on Very High to see how it looks?

Yeah, it's still too choppy to really play for me on very high. I mean, I could, but I think I only get around 15 fps on very high. It looks amazing, though.

Can you play on Very high with sli now with this new patch?

The patch also makes the game more realistic. The Koreans now die much more quickly. Meaning they can't magically take 4 shots to the chest without dying. They seem to die within one or two shots now.

Originally posted by BackFire
Yeah, it's still too choppy to really play for me on very high. I mean, I could, but I think I only get around 15 fps on very high. It looks amazing, though.

Can you play on Very high with sli now with this new patch?

The patch also makes the game more realistic. The Koreans now die much more quickly. Meaning they can't magically take 4 shots to the chest without dying. They seem to die within one or two shots now.

Which graphics card are you using?

Anyways is it that important on which brand of graphic card you get?(ASUS,EVGA etc...)

Originally posted by BackFire
Yeah, it's still too choppy to really play for me on very high. I mean, I could, but I think I only get around 15 fps on very high. It looks amazing, though.

Can you play on Very high with sli now with this new patch?

The patch also makes the game more realistic. The Koreans now die much more quickly. Meaning they can't magically take 4 shots to the chest without dying. They seem to die within one or two shots now.

I havnt tried.

I might though...but I'm not totally convinced that my SLI set up is not working. I wish I could find out without taking it back.

I've noticed that too.
Probably my biggest complaint was that the Koreans took forever to kill. The area on where you have a river, and there is Koreans on side, and a hunting party on the otherside, just before you meet up with Prophet (and he gets taken away) was so hard for me. It took so long to beat because it would take a whole clip to kill one Korean. Going to single bullet mode was useless. But I tried it after the patch, and it took a couple of shots to put the guy down. Much better.

I kinda of wish that I played this game after the patch because I was so worried that the game wouldnt work, and that the Koreans took so much damage. With the patch, I think I would of had a better experience. Being the first game I played after I got the computer didnt help because I was worried that the game was being to slow for a computer I spent 2500 for.

Ivalice, I have the 8800 GTS 512 (not to be mistaken for the the GTS 320, 640 brand). It runs pretty well. The company that makes the card doesnt really mater outside of what type of card it is. Some companies overclock the card, so if you see OC edition than thats what the company has. I have two BFG's and they work perfectly.

Crysis is notorious for not playing nice with Sli setups, and not really taking much advantage of sli systems. If you want to check if your sli is working, you could always benchmark with sli enabled, then simply disable one of the cards using the command in crysis to turn sli off http://www.tweakguides.com/Crysis_10.html (r_MultiGPU). Or you could simply detach one of your cards to see, if the command above doesn't work for whatever reason. Also, Nvidia just released a new beta patch to go with the new Crysis patch, 169.44. Might want to download that and see if that helps.

Yeah I hear you about the Koreans. I too am glad that they raised the damage that our guns do. It was pretty unrealistic that you could shoot a Korean 3 times right in the chest and he'd just run around like no problem.

Ivalice, I have the 8800gt. Brand won't have an impact on performance, they all use the same card, the only difference is the heatsink design and just personal preference. (I chose EVGA because of their step-up program, for instance). But BFG or XFX are both just as good.

I might try that out.

Before, killing Koreans didnt make you feel like an badass, nano suited Special Ops guy. Felt more like some back country yokel with a .22.

hey guys just have a quick question...

I'm getting a computer for graduation and I want it to be able to play this game. I'm not really sure what the recommended specs are but this is what I plan on getting:

Dell Vostro 400 mini tower

Intel® Core™2 Quad Proc Q6600 (2.40GHz,8MB L2Cache,1066FSB)
Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz - 4DIMMs
500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Secondary hard drive - 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GT

Think this will be able to run it well? My budget is $1800 including warranty and microsoft office, so incase you guys have any other suggestions

thanks in advance

You'll be fine. You can probably play it on medium.

If your really thinking of getting XP than do but in my opinion its time to change to Vista if you really want to play newer computer games.

And there isnt any point of getting 4 GB's if your sticking with XP, and Vista 32 bit OS.

You can play it on high with that system using the latest patch depending on your resolution. Maybe a mixture of medium and high.

I forgot about that...

Wow medium to high sounds good to me. But about vista... I heard that its god awful. A bunch of friends told me that they constantly get some unkown errors popping up while playing games and that the framerate drops way below xp.

I never had any problem with Vista in terms of computer games.

Everything has worked fine.

XP is still great but if your getting a new system to play computer games, you might as well get Vista. The framerates are less than XP, but thats because the graphics are better in Vista (usually).

SP1 for Vista is coming out very shortly, so most of the problems that Vista had a launch are gone, and SP1 will probably get most of them out also.

But again, I havnt had one single problem playing a game on Vista 64bit. I think STALKER crashed once, but thats because its a buggy game.

Look, Vista is fine. Crashes happen in any OS, they usually aren't caused BY the OS, but from various bugs, or spyware, or any problems that you could have in your hard drive; shit just happens.

Vista has been flawless for me, I've not gotten one crash while using Vista, the games all run extremely well for me.

The people who are bashing Vista seem to be people who are using it with like 512MB of Ram and then wondering why it's so slow. One thing about Vista, you need a good amount of RAM, it's a RAM hog, but if you have at least 2 gigs (which you should have anyways if you plan on playing new games) then it will be fine.

Especially considering RAM is dirt cheap now.

Moved and I needed to test my speakers to see if they sound right.

Put this in, played about 5 minutes of the start and I cant believe how bloody good it looks.

Its been awhile since I played it and I forgot how good looking it is. still better than any other game, not even close.

Anyways, I was just ****ing around and I jumped into a jeep and started driving. Well, I ****ed up and started driving through the forest. I missed anything big but I went back onto the road and got off and checked out what happened. There was a nice little road through the trees and I could see the stumps of the trees all on the floor and trees trunks every where.

You be surprised how that can totally take you away from the game when the trees dont move. I'm looking at you GTA4.

Agreed with BF, Vista runs fine as long as you aint a damn caveman with the computer, I mean some people just don't know how to "handle" a computer, the infest it with all sorts of shit and somehow manage to get teh computer in a very "unclean" state making it run like crap, I've not had one crash either on my PC, every game runs well.

Its a well desgined OS, the new windows will however be even better afaik.

Review for Crysis Warhead

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchreview.asp?reviewid=964191

More importantly,

"played Warhead on a high-end machine with a quad core CPU and the latest Nvidia graphics card at high resolution (1680x1050) with all the details set to Enthusiast, which is essentially very high. It looked cutting edge and the frame rate was solid. Next, I checked the game on a slightly older PC with a two-year old 8800GTS and I was still able to crank it to Enthusiast settings and the same resolution and get solid results. Finally, I checked it out on the "$700 PC" that Crytek and EA have been touting. It really is a $700 machine built on the latest mainstream parts (the video card is a 9800GT), and I was able to play the final boss battle at the same resolution and at Enthusiast settings and get solid frame rates. I also tried it the Gamer setting, which is essentially high, and the frame rate was buttery smooth. You do lose some visual quality stepping down from Enthusiast, but even at Gamer Warhead still looks better than almost every game out there."

I cant wait. Basically, its a more action packed Crysis with better graphcis that runs on very stable framerates. Sign me up!!

And only 29 bucks. (for roughly 5-9 hours of gameplay and much improved MP)

I was very very pleased that he said that he was able to play at a high resolution at maxed out settings. I'm very excited to hear this.

Yeah, so am I.

Its better considering he said its better looking than the first...and at maxed settings and high resolution.

Granted, I played at high and medium resolution and it still blew away every game out there.