12 - Game Performance: Crysis v1.1

Gaming: Crysis - Single Player v1.1

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.

Oh yeah, you probably want to hear about how it performs, right?

Image Quality setting:

• 0x Anti Aliasing
• 16x anisotropic filtering

Woah, what's happening at 1024x768 you are asking ? Again .. a game that loves more than 512MB memory. Crysis digs framebuffer for sure. Let's place our focus at 2560x1600 and observe that we can fully game with an average of 42 FPS. That's just sick, how nice that looks at that resolution.

To clear up some confusion, I've received some emails regarding this. We do not use the demo, we use the full game in combo with FRAPS to measure performance. Granted, I still need to upgrade to v1.2 though.

With that much power under the good I figured that DX10 high-quality settings should be reachable now as well. And I'm proven right.

With High Image Quality settings up-to 1280x1024 is playable ... yet barely. Mind you that we measure in the absolute toughest section of the game. On the beach with loads of textures, shaders, moving objects. But this is how we test, we test to the maximum where we can.