Crysis tweaks?

[FP]

I have been playing CoD4 for the last few days and absolutely love it especially after setting the Shader mode to 2.0 which drastically improved my framerates.

I decided to give the Crysis demo a try and it lagged unbelievably. It defaulted to Medium settings but I was only getting 10-20fps @ 1600x1200. Even at 1024x768 I was still only seeing 20-30fps.

Does anyone know of a Crysis tweak that significantly improves framerate?

My rig:

CPU: AMD 4800 X2 (939)
GPU: 7900GT (256 MB)
Mem: 2 Gigs RAM

All stock.

 

[colonel]

well, I playing the Crysis demo on 1280x760 on my ATI 1950pro apg video card with the same memory you got 2Gigs ram. Amd 4000+ single core. I playing great , I think the difference is my ATI 1950pro has 512mb of memory.

 

[schneiderguy]

Turn down shaders and/or post processing for a big boost in performance.

 

[FP]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy
Turn down shaders and/or post processing for a big boost in performance.

Console commands?

 

[shadowofthesun]

I think he is referring to the in-game settings.

 

[miniMUNCH]

Originally posted by: shadowofthesun
I think he is referring to the in-game settings.

shaders and post-processing are in-game settings in the options menu.

 

[FP]

Ahh thank you guys.

I am thinking about upgrading to an 8800GT. What % increase in fps do you think I would likely see?

 

[MTDEW]

Turning off the motion blur in crysis will probably net the biggest performance boost.
Create a txt file in the main directory named autoexec.cfg
And enter this line to disable motion blur.
r_MotionBlur=0

 

[Sylvanas]

Crysis Tweakguide

 

[jonmcc33]

Why make it look worse? The game is meant to look good.

 

[BFG10K]

Why make it look worse?

Once could argue that motion blur makes things look worse.

 

[yacoub]

http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=11614 - Crysis tweak guide.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy
Turn down shaders and/or post processing for a big boost in performance.

shaders is what makes the game look great with crysis though.

 

[coloumb]

Interesting - one guide states to run Dx9 mode in Vista for a performance increase and you really won't be missing much. I do notice a HUGE performance hit anywhere there is snow or ice on the ground [ie: frozen boat at the top of the hill] - so maybe this will help. Really can't figure out why only ice/snow cause a massive slowdown on my system...

 

[imported_Slimy]

Originally posted by: Azn

Originally posted by: schneiderguy
Turn down shaders and/or post processing for a big boost in performance.

shaders is what makes the game look great with crysis though.

But if it's an unplayable slideshow, you may have no choice. Of all the settings, Shaders has the most impact on framerate.