12 - Game performance & power consumption
Crysis (v1.2)
With mankind facing an alien cataclysm, your elite Delta force and North Korean forces combine, united by common humanity in a battle to save Earth. Graphically stunning, tactically challenging and always intensely immersive, Crysis sets player choice at the heart of its gameplay, with customizable tactical weaponry and adaptable armor allowing instant response to changing conditions. Crysis doesn't feel all that different from its predecessor, Far Cry. Both are set on an island. Both involve a latent alien menace. Both bid you move more or less linearly through shaggy jungle areas, where the fact that you're progressing in a single direction is camouflaged by your ability to approach obstacles in your path any way you like. Think the "every time you play a situation yields radically different behaviors and results" approach in games like Rainbow Six Vegas or Gears of War except on more of a geographic scale.
Image Quality setting:
- 0x Anti Aliasing
- 16x anisotropic filtering
To clear up some confusion, we've recently received some emails regarding this. We do not use the Crysis demo, we use the full game (version 1.2) in combo with FRAPS to measure performance.
Crysis was the one title showing the resitls slightly off, but that's mainly due to the Phenom processor which scored 10% lower up-to 1280x1024. The GA-X48-DQ6 performance is again nearly linear to the nForce 750 SLI FTW with Q6600.
Power consumption
Alright then, let's monitor something besides performance... power consumption.
Looking at power consumption relative, it's actually not bad, but not as good as I hoped.
Though DES definitely show potential, the way we look at it (with a Wattage meter) doesn't make a huge distinct difference. Then again, we only look at IDLE and 100% CPU load of the PC. Anything in-between can not be measured by us. Though that's probably where DES would work best. Every little bit helps though even if that sums up to 10-20 watts. Continuously on a yearly basis .. every little bit helps. Other then that we notice pretty normal power consumption for a high end PC.
