Crysis SP Demo in TripleHead ...

Post by **Paddy the Wak** » 27 Oct 2007, 03:46

Just choose your desired TripleHead resolution in the Video Setup and away you go ... :D

The HUD and menus are all fine ...
There are some not so nice black bars on the top and bottom of the cut scenes but hey-ho ... it's ... awesome ...

Some great shots by ... JosephJEHancock ... 8) ... here ...

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12396

Post by **wazoo** » 27 Oct 2007, 04:58

How NICE for a company to have it work right out of the box!

I tried it at 3840x1024 with low settings just to see it in TH2Go.

No HUD stretch. Mini-Map looked GREAT!

Unfortunately, my two year old 7800GTX SLI ran it at 10fps.... but I'm so excited that when I upgrade, it will work.

Paddy... what settings and what type of frames are you getting with your rig?

JazW · Post by **JazW** » 27 Oct 2007, 06:00

Niiiiiiiiiccccceee...

Downloading the demo now :)

Post by **Mach1.9pants** » 27 Oct 2007, 06:56

With my rig on TH2Go I can play it at medium settings for 30FPS, with High I get 18 (same as the BETA MP). There is no advantage with SLI, it runs best in single GPU mode dagnamit, an extra 30% from SLI would maybe mean using high settings.
However it looks awesome in medium, heat haze from the guns I really like and the water.....
AI is a bit rubbish tho, but more than made up for by the sheer beauty of it, the destructable environment and the suit and guns!
Paddy, if yours is running better give us some hints!
Edit: Oh yeah that is in XP32bit, looks like it doesn't run to well in VISTA 64bit at the mo, althogh I didn't bother to try

Special_K · Post by **Special_K** » 27 Oct 2007, 07:18

I love playing it in triplehead mode at a blazing 15 fps. :P They lied when they showed that video of a sing cpu, single 8800 video with no lag while playing on a single monitor.

JosephJEHancock · Post by **JosephJEHancock** » 27 Oct 2007, 12:55

The single monitor could have been a 720p HDTV couldn't it? That would be easier to run than our monitors.

Post by **Paddy the Wak** » 27 Oct 2007, 17:57

Well for me ...
Running this in Vista is painfully slow ... running in XP gives much better FPS ... but even then it is not good.
I get around ... 20-26 fps .. with everything on high apart from shadows which are on medium.
I have also disabled motion blur in the config which helped a bit with the fps.
I have enabled sunshafts and parallax mapping (at least that is what I think it is) which both make the game look great and they had no apparent impact on fps.
So my settings are ...

In the games advanced video settings section everything is at high apart from shadows which are on medium
Then ...
In the ... sys_spec_PostProcessing.cfg I changed all the entries for these two items to read ...
r_sunshafts=1
r_MotionBlur=0

In the ... sys_spec_Shading.cfg ... I added this line to the [3] section.
r_UsePom=1

Here is a video (usng xvid codec) on XP so DX9 showing ...
The sunshafts ... the parallax thing ... and a little bit of game play ... Crysis-1.avi ... approx 14MB

Some other stuff that I found weird ...
I change all the settings to medium ... I get no difference in fps ... very odd
If I change all the settings to low ... I get about 10-15 fps more but it looks pants in comparison to my settings above

With my settings ... yeah it is a bit slow ... but it runs smoother than one would expect for those fps.
Not that that is acceptable ... :lol:
Anyway ... as medium doesn't make a difference in the fps and low is unbearable after seeing it at high so I'm going stick with my settings and hope that Nvidia bring out some real drivers for this game.
Oh and SLi ... on or off makes no difference it seems ... :?

Post by **Mach1.9pants** » 27 Oct 2007, 19:36

Weird, as I said above I get 18 in all high and 30 in all medium. Man I can't beleive I need to buy better GPUs to get it to be playable! Bring on the G92 version of the GTXUltra! Some time in Jan/Feb, according to VR-Zone.....
I'll get those sunshafts and parallax mapping going, thanks Paddy

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 27 Oct 2007, 20:02

I don't know why you're so surprised at this game being a system killer... Far Cry was when it was released. ;)

Paddy - I dunno, if you get no fps difference between medium and high... it might be that your system is so much more powerful than the one I've tested Crysis on so far... but high is a slideshow for me. Medium is decidedly playable.

Post by **Downtown1** » 27 Oct 2007, 20:06

This game is amazing, I didn't even see the option for TH2GO resolutions until I updated my drivers though..

By the way, I recommend everyone updates their driver to the Crysis beta from nvidia.com or at least the latest release. I was using 2 versions old drivers and I was getting really really choppy FPS even on 1280x1024!

After upgrading I can play bearable with everything on High except Shadows (Low) and Post-processing (Medium) on 3840x1024.

JosephJEHancock · Post by **JosephJEHancock** » 27 Oct 2007, 20:35

Yeah, I got the drivers in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Always nice to see NVidia on top with drivers, as usual.

M03IUS · Post by **M03IUS** » 28 Oct 2007, 06:08

The demo is awesome! I've been playing it all day just screwing around with stuff trying different things. I was able to get 15-35 FPS using 3072x768 resolution with everything on High except Post Processing(medium). The game runs nice for me since I figured out which res to use. 3840x1024 runs on my system but its not playable in game... I have to put everything a low and some medium to play in the 3840x1024 res. I even set the resolution to 3072x768 in the multi player beta too and I get the same results with very good FPS.

diehardDanny · Post by **diehardDanny** » 28 Oct 2007, 13:56

mine just crashed trying 3072 x 768 ... will try again later

JazW · Post by **JazW** » 28 Oct 2007, 20:33

I spent a while last night testing the quality/performance impact of the various settings, and I settled on:

2400x600 resolution

Object Detail: Low
Shader Quality: Medium
Everything else: High

With everything on Low, I can have object detail set to medium and it's playable, high is choppy++

I was disappointed to see that despite the hype not everything is destroyable , so far, all I've found are the palm trees and certain parts of certain buildings that can be destroyed :(

Still it looks amazing, and the Crysis editor is my new favourite toy! :)

Now all I need is several grand to buy a system capable of running it properly...

Post by **Mach1.9pants** » 29 Oct 2007, 08:33

Even better news for some of us with the release version of Crysis
SLI Support
Bring on Very High settings!

Post by **Paddy the Wak** » 29 Oct 2007, 10:07

Cool .... thanks for the heads-up !

Simoyd · Post by **Simoyd** » 29 Oct 2007, 16:45

couple things I thought I'd mention:

the red dot on the reflex sight appears to be stretched... nothing else is so I'm curious why it's streched.

I know it wasn't mentioned here, but if you ARE using the nvidia drivers version 169.01 AND using the 64-bit binaries for the game (this happens be default if you have XP or VISTA 64-bit) then you game might be locking up when you start it. If you go into the custom profile in the nvidia control panel for crysis and force VSYNC (I forced mine off but apparantly it works if you force it on too), then the game should run. Took me a while to dig up that solution and not sure what causes it, but *shrug* now it's out there.

Post by **Mach1.9pants** » 29 Oct 2007, 19:34

....
I know it wasn't mentioned here, but if you ARE using the nvidia drivers version 169.01 AND using the 64-bit binaries for the game (this happens be default if you have XP or VISTA 64-bit) then you game might be locking up when you start it. If you go into the custom profile in the nvidia control panel for crysis and force VSYNC (I forced mine off but apparantly it works if you force it on too), then the game should run. Took me a while to dig up that solution and not sure what causes it, but *shrug* now it's out there.

Thanks for that, and welcome to the WSGF. I will try a bit of lovely DX10 action on my 24', my PC hasn't got the guts for TH2Go at very high!

diehardDanny · Post by **diehardDanny** » 30 Oct 2007, 00:30

It works now, I had to start a new game ...

For those of you without triplehead setup, I have recorded a nice little vid running the 2 timedemos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIUrO08UweA

Post by **Paddy the Wak** » 30 Oct 2007, 00:57

Great vid ... 8)

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