Page 10 - Game performance: Crysis
Crysis - Single Player
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. Judging from the downloadable demo, Crysis doesn't feel all that different from its predecessor, Far Cry. Both are set on an island. Both involve a latent (here in the demo, only briefly glimpsed) 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
Above you can see the card at work in medium quality settings. The X2 is doing pretty impressive stuff as you can see ... 2560x1600 although barely is playable. Due to some CPU overhead the card looses some overall performance in the lower resolutions, yet definitely makes up for it in the higher ones. This is looking pretty good.
We again took the beach scene and started using fraps to measure the actual framerate. With high Image Quality settings, and noticed that up-to 1600x1200 is playable ... barely though.
Above are two reference images, the upper one being a screenshot at medium image quality (which is still really good). The lower one is a screenshot taken at very high quality settings. For that, we'd need CrossfireX to be honest. But look at that... that's the future of gaming my fellow Guru's.
Image Quality setting:
- 0x Anti Aliasing
- 16x anisotropic filtering
