Crysis Demo (reposted)

[Green]

In case anyone's interested, this week's episode of PC Gamer Podcast talks about Crysis, and its mixed reception (not just the graphics/performance, but also the gameplay).

[Green]

Another bit of info for Crysis players...

Apparently (and I've not yet tried this yet myself), if you're running from within Vista, you can turn on Windows XP Compatibility mode while you play the game, and it will give you a pretty hefty frame rate boost.

I guess this might turn off the DX10 stuff or something similar, but if you're only able to play on medium/high anyway, maybe you wouldn't notice.

[Commonmind]

Running in compatibility mode does indeed disable some of the DX10 features and you'll see the same benefit by simply lowering settings from very high to high in the game. I think this came from the PC Gamer podcast, but I'm not sure the person who made the comment actually understood it was forcing the game to run in DX9 mode.

Tweakguides has its Crysis Tweak Guide posted if you want to do some performance optimizations and I highly recommend it. After putting together the new PC I wanted to take the older P4D based machine I had and try and get as much out of it as I could. With an 8800 GT (with an antiquated processor and 2gb of DDR2 533) I was able to get a steady 25 FPS (playable) with everything set on very high. Using some of the console commands you can really streamline the experience while retaining almost all of the subtle details.

[Green]

Yeah, this was from the PCGPC.

"Same benefit by simply lowering settings from very high to high"... was the guy not talking about a general boost in performance, not just from the top-end to the almost-top-end? I couldn't run in high, anyway, but was hopeful it would enable me to add some of those settings in there.

Meh, if people want to get an extra couple of bhp out of their Ferrari, then they've lost touch with the comman man