Crysis 2

[tkin]

Am getting major BSOD after 1.9.

Weird, maybe cause you are playing in DX9 mode and the patch may have issues with that, although theoretically it shouldn't.

I just started playing that level where its raining and hargreave is guiding you towards the spore generators, its the first time you fight with the big tank like alien mini boss, and upto now I had no crashes whatsoever, load times gone up slightly(barely noticeable) and it takes 5-10 secs to close the game but its been rock solid, also the awful nano catalyst bug is gone, good riddance.

Also new effects had been added to the game.
You remember the level where you have to trash gould's lab and destroy a helicopter? I played it last night and crytek had added a nice smoke effect in that level, the room now gets filled with smoke and it looks very realistic, also ai might have been improved somewhat or it might be me.

PS: High res textures are not applied everywhere, in most places but not everywhere, and game looks a lot sharper now.


BTW- Patch 1.9 was crashing for me too until I got fix of the "modified" file, seems the older "modified" file is the issue.

 

[Skud]

try the DX9 very high Crysis 1 hack, makes difference between DX9 and DX10 mode only of half performance.

I had played Crysis with the hack under XP right from the beginning, it was freaking awesome. Apparently Crytek was artificially restricting gamers use higher settings under DX9.

 

[tkin]

I had played Crysis with the hack under XP right from the beginning, it was freaking awesome. Apparently Crytek was artificially restricting gamers use higher settings under DX9.

One thing though, I played in both mode but Crysis DX10 had a tad better performance than Crysis DX9, this with my earlier 9800GTX+

 

[rchi84]

What I meant to say was, in the original crysis, the differences between the DX9 and DX 10 modes was more noticeable (without the XP hack) than the difference between DX9 and DX 11 in Crysis 2 this time.

The effects are more subtle and only visible if you don't rush through the environment.

I am playing with the retail DVD of Crysis 2, to answer another poster's question. Sadly, EA pulled it from Steam

 

[gameranand]

EA pulled it from Steam

No it was not EA who pulled it out it was Steam who kicked this game out.

Yes I do agree with your statement about Crysis 1 and 2 to see differences you have to watch carefully to notice but in Crysis it was normal that you'll notice.

 

[vickybat]

What I meant to say was, in the original crysis, the differences between the DX9 and DX 10 modes was more noticeable (without the XP hack) than the difference between DX9 and DX 11 in Crysis 2 this time.

The effects are more subtle and only visible if you don't rush through the environment.

I am playing with the retail DVD of Crysis 2, to answer another poster's question. Sadly, EA pulled it from Steam

But i think you are clearly able to make out the high res. textures aren't you? I can and i am getting 15-20fps with dx11 and high res textures on including everything set to ultra @ 1600x900, the visual bliss is spot on. Although i have to oc my card to 100mhz for these framerates which infact are low.

Imo, the high resolution texture pack is doing something and the differences are highly noticeable.

I'm even finding it better than original crysis/warhead dx10 mode.

 

[rchi84]

Yeah, but the high res textures are independent of DX versions. It needs patch 1.9 to run, but doesn't depend on the DX mode you run the game in, na?

 

[tkin]

Yeah, but the high res textures are independent of DX versions. It needs patch 1.9 to run, but doesn't depend on the DX mode you run the game in, na?

It says it needed 64bit os, that's it, no DX11 needed, but I can see the differences, I admit, its not as noticeable in all levels but in most levels it is, take a look at the intact cars again.

 

[rchi84]

Again, my point is the same. The difference between DX9 Extreme and DX 11 Ultra is not enormous in normal gameplay.

High res textures make a visible impact, but that has nothing to do with the Dx 11

Maybe we are complaining too much. We wanted a Crysis that drove our GPUs to its knees, and this update is doing that job just fine

 

[vickybat]

I suspected hardocp's crysis 2 dx11 review rightly. They made a halfhearted review and gave a stupid "maximum fail" award without even drawing proper conclusions.
I disagreed with them from day 1 because i've seen the game with dx11 on my machine and i disagree with every word they wrote in that review starting right from the installation. In short, they wrote a biased review.

Now i guess i was right. How? Read on:

Crysis 2 Is The Best DirectX 11 Implementation Yet - Tomshardware

 

[cyborg47]

People still wont be happy..such idiots..
There were a few people in this thread who were complaining about the water ripples, and what are they going to do with them.
Wonder what they're gonna do with the tessellation, keep looking at those edges and shag off? or jump and shout around that the walls are appearing more realistic?
Why do they even need the visuals? play the game with the polygon boxes instead of detailed models..sheesh..

I'd say crysis 2, after patch 1.9, is by far the best looking dx9/dx11 game!
And btw, for everyone here, dont judge your decision on getting the game or the patch based on what the users here say (including me ), you never know who is an idiot and whos not. Rather, download and see it for yourselves, 500mb download aint gonna hurt..

 

[skeletor]

i disagree with every word they wrote in that review starting right from the installation.

Still they were right about 64-bit and 1GB VRAM thing.

It looks awesome with DX 11, but I think what Crytek must really get kudos for, is for proving that the DX version doesn't matter as much as dedicated programming does.

yup. That's all what matters.

 

[Liverpool_fan]

Its your CPU at fault, DX11 crysis gains a lot from 3 and 4 cores, dual core provides lower fps(not an issue in DX9, cause in DX9 no performance is gained from going to 3/4 core from dual core).

I'd say get a quad core(or an octo core ) and you'll get good FPS with that 6950 of yours.

You mean it for Crysis Direct3D renderer? Or for Direct3D 9 in general?

 

[Skud]

OK, now solve my problem:-

I have patch 1.9, DX11, Hi Res Tex - everything installed on a Win 7 SP1 64-bit. The game looks gorgeous, but apparently it is not saving properly. If I die, or close the game and then resume, it just comes to the load screen and stays there forever. Pressing enter brings me straight to desktop. Bringing up the task manager immediately shows no sign of Crysis2 running. I have started the game afresh 3 times with same result every time. What's going on? I am virtually unable to play.

 

[asingh]

^^
Did you update the GPU drivers of late.

 

[cyborg47]

OK, now solve my problem:-

I have patch 1.9, DX11, Hi Res Tex - everything installed on a Win 7 SP1 64-bit. The game looks gorgeous, but apparently it is not saving properly. If I die, or close the game and then resume, it just comes to the load screen and stays there forever. Pressing enter brings me straight to desktop. Bringing up the task manager immediately shows no sign of Crysis2 running. I have started the game afresh 3 times with same result every time. What's going on? I am virtually unable to play.

Weird problem..anyway, check this out..hope it helps..
MyCrysis • View forum - Crysis 2 PC Discussion

 

[Skud]

^^
Did you update the GPU drivers of late.

11.6 was installed on a fresh Win7 installation. Game was installed after that. BTW, Dirt 3 running fine.

 

[vickybat]

Still they were right about 64-bit and 1GB VRAM thing.

Sure but that doesn't make the review true by anysense. They wrote too much negative comments on crysis 2 which are totally false.

Look at tomshardware now. Its in total contradiction. Actually to fully enjoy crysis 2, installing the high res.texture pack is absolutely needed. I think it has surpassed the original crysis in terms of visual fidelity when played on dx11 and high res textures on with everything set to ultra. They said it even has installation problems and passed their verdict blindly. In reality, the patches install fine and no such problems occur.
I don't know why on earth hardocp did not agree with this.

I think we should post this in their forum.

 

[Skud]

But HardOCP has posted screenshots of the errors? How you are going to prove it wrong? Even the MyCrysis forum some faqs have been posted on the 1.9 patch with quite a few error messages. And people are getting various problems if you follow that thread. The original Crysis and Warhead needs fewer patches and they were much stable. No doubt after installing the high res tex pack the game looks far better than earlier. But after so many years of development, how come it was not included at the first place? I am forgetting about DX11 at this moment.

And anybody, any solution of my problem?

 

[vickybat]

^^ Read tomshardware review throughly. Only they (hardocp) got those errors and blamed it on the game.

Its by far the best looking dx11 title currently and better than the original crysis/warhead and even metro 2033. Doesn't matter why it was not included earlier because they are giving it for free now. Are they charging you anything? Its absolutely absurd to talk about that in this context. They gave it later and it delivered perfectly. Now it can be used as a solid benchmark just like the legendary original crysis.

Can you justify why they gave it a "fail" award?