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[dOm1naTOr]

The most annoying thing in Crysis is that no bulletmarks or bloodmarks on enemy bodies.
Bullets penetrates them[like air] if they are dead. Also enemies dn seems to be 'thrown' when shot with a shotgun at closer range. But in FC, enemies wud fly or get thrown 1~2 metres when fired with shotgun from close.

At maximum difficulty, the enemies with army suit seems to have far better armour than the nanosuite on 'extreme armour ' mode.

The decals won't stay for long. Also birds wont fly away even if we fire at some of them. And in most cases when we try to knock down iulding in max strength mode, we get dead by getting hit with some ceiling, or roof pieces.
That is max strength mode, we seems to be vey delicate.

Also One of my friend is playing Crysis on 6200 128 Mb AGP card at 800*600 and all set to medium. The fact is that he is using very old driver, ie 84.xx and no problem. He dun even haf a decent proccy. he has a 32bit sempron 2600+.
I think crytek nd nvidia hand in glove are trying to fool us nd forcing gamers to go for better card by dropping the performance with newer drivers.
I installed newer 196.x beta and the performance droped drastically, nd i felt the image quality better with 84.xx forceware.

WTF?

 

[Who]

Hey guys let start a review community of our own , what you guys have to say , i mean we can make a review team of our own , providing honest reviews to our forum members, we can also do some old game reviews too , so what do you think about this idea guys ??

 

[baccilus]

Great Idea !

 

[Harvik780]

Hey guys let start a review community of our own , what you guys have to say , i mean we can make a review team of our own , providing honest reviews to our forum members, we can also do some old game reviews too , so what do you think about this idea guys ??

That's a very good idea but we need members who are dedicated.

 

[Third Eye]

Does anyone know the indian price of Crysis?

 

[Harvik780]

Crysis bid @ Rs 379

Probably pirated.

 

[Stalker]

I think crytek nd nvidia hand in glove are trying to fool us nd forcing gamers to go for better card by dropping the performance with newer drivers.
I installed newer 196.x beta and the performance droped drastically, nd i felt the image quality better with 84.xx forceware.

you mean 169 beta right?

hmmm.....i dunno about that, with my older forceware 163.xx, i used to get 20-30 fps in Crysis Very high, but with the 169.01 drivers i got 30-40 fps in crysis.(almost 10 fps boost)

Also the newer 169.09 beta driver is out today!

 

[bikdel]

One of my friend is playing Crysis on 6200 128 Mb AGP card at 800*600 and all set to medium. The fact is that he is using very old driver, ie 84.xx and no problem. He dun even haf a decent proccy. he has a 32bit sempron 2600+.
I think crytek nd nvidia hand in glove are trying to fool us nd forcing gamers to go for better card by dropping the performance with newer drivers.
I installed newer 196.x beta and the performance droped drastically, nd i felt the image quality better with 84.xx forceware.

WTF?

are you kidding?
how much RAM does he have?
this is really wierd!!

Hey guys let start a review community of our own , what you guys have to say , i mean we can make a review team of our own , providing honest reviews to our forum members, we can also do some old game reviews too , so what do you think about this idea guys ??

gr8 idea

you mean 169 beta right?

hmmm.....i dunno about that, with my older forceware 163.xx, i used to get 20-30 fps in Crysis Very high, but with the 169.01 drivers i got 30-40 fps in crysis.(almost 10 fps boost)

Also the newer 169.09 beta driver is out today!

those are most probably optimised for ur card i.e. the DX 10 cards..

older cards may work better with older drivers...

 

[dOm1naTOr]

he has 1GB DDr400 single channel.

 

[bikdel]

@ aravind_n20

does the game work on SM 2.0 cards? like FX 5200? .. dont wanna playable FPS , just wanna see how it looks..

 

[Stalker]

@ aravind_n20

does the game work on SM 2.0 cards? like FX 5200? .. dont wanna playable FPS , just wanna see how it looks..

hmm....i didnt try it out on 5200 yet .....will let u know.

From the Demo Readme...

REQUIRED SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS:

OS: Windows XP or Windows Vista

Windows XP:
· CPU: Intel P4 2.8 GHz / AMD Athlon 2800+ / Intel Core 2.0 GHz
or higher
· RAM: 1.0 GB
· Hard Drive: 6 GB or more of free space
· Video: NVIDIA 6800 GT 256 MB / ATI 9800 Pro or better
· Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Windows Vista:

· CPU: Intel P4 3.2 GHz / AMD Athlon 3200+ / Intel Core 2.2 GHz
or higher
· RAM: 1.5 GB
· Hard Drive: 6 GB or more of free space
· Video: NVIDIA 6800 GT 256 MB / ATI X800 Pro 256 MB or better
· Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Both the ATi cards are based on shader model 2

 

[Who]

That's a very good idea but we need members who are dedicated.

Thanks for the support. yup i sure we need more members, i am thinking making a team of six reviewers for the begaing , also i will make new thread for discussing more on this topic but i just wanted to know who wants to help us reviewing games so we can start our communinty ASAP, & start reviewing games.

 

[dOm1naTOr]

I think 9800 Pro nd XT has SM 1.6 or 1.8..somethin nd not 2.0.

 

[bikdel]

I think 9800 Pro nd XT has SM 1.6 or 1.8..somethin nd not 2.0.

who told you?

hey and please do try on ur onboard ASAP .. i wanna see some screenhots

hmm....i didnt try it out on 5200 yet .....will let u know.

From the Demo Readme...



Both the ATi cards are based on shader model 2

wierd... NVIDIA card on MIN requirement is SM 3.0 and ATI is SM 2.0

also even in recommended reqs, NVIDIA is SM 4.0 and ATI is again 2.0

whats going on?

seems Ati could have done the job for cheap

 

[Harvik780]

Just finished Gears Of War PC with my brother in co-op mode.

 

[Stalker]

169.09 Beta drivers

DOWNLOAD

* Beta driver for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.
* Recommended driver for Crysis.

This driver:

o Adds SLI support for Crysis
o Fixes a water reflection bug in Crysis
o Adds Control Panel anisotropic filtering support for Crysis

With this driver, SLI will deliver 40-50% speedup over a single GPU for Crysis. In addition, Crytek will release a patch in the next week or two that will improve SLI performance further.

40 - 50 % ??

 

[Harvik780]

^^Downloading now for XP.

Edit : Installing now

 

[Stalker]

^^ and the results?

 

[Harvik780]

I tried it on the demo but no improvements.I get 27 FPS avg with everything high except volumetric effects and particles which are set to medium.
I'll get crysis tomorrow and will try on it with this driver.
I don't know why the cut scenes have slow FPS compared to gameplay.
BTW......Stalker did you get hands on Crysis??

 

[Stalker]

^^Crysis? no...not yet.

btw, i tried the newer drivers, no improvements!

But the water reflections feel correct now......they update properly,