Crysis 1 runs with terribad FPS no matter what settings on hardware that should run it fine
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I bought Crysis 1 the other day during a steam sale, and when I started it up and pushed the "optimal settings" button, it set everything to High settings at 1080p. My desktop runs other games perfectly fine (i.e. metro 2033 on high, about 35-50 fps, I've never had a framerate drop on mirror's edge on the highest settings at 1080p with 4x AA, can run Dirt 3 maxed out and the framerate never goes below 40), so it's only this game. I've heard that Crysis 1 has performance issues on quad core processors, and that there's never been a patch for it, but I really hope this isn't the reason my FPS is so shitty, because I'm not dishing out a couple hundred just to buy a dual core for ONE game.
Specs:
Windows 7 Home Premium
Athlon II X4 Processor @ 3.0ghz
4GB RAM
GTX460 768Mb
The settings I'm currently (trying) to run it on are at 1600x900, no AA, all settings on medium. My average framerate is like, 20-30 FPS, when absolutely nothing is going on, MAYBE 45. On all low, I only get a 5 FPS increase.
EDIT: just started it up again, all low settings, no AA, at 720p, exact same framerate, no improvement.
Can we get some temperatures up in here?
TEMPS:
In-game, at 1080p at high settings, no AA
CPU - 37 C
MOBO - 30 C
GPU - 54 C
What is your CPU usage when you dont have crysis loaded?
3%-9%.
Sounds like a driver issue if other games run fine and changing the graphics doesn't do anything.
[quote]I've heard that Crysis 1 has performance issues on quad core processors, and that there's never been a patch for it, but I really hope this isn't the reason my FPS is so shitty, because I'm not dishing out a couple hundred just to buy a dual core for ONE game.[/quote]
That is wrong and I'm willing to bet didn't come from a reputable source. The fact that the game runs pretty much the same regardless of settings sounds like a CPU bottleneck, happened to me all the time back when I ran LGA 775. It wouldn't surprise me either since the Athlon II chips are pretty old and lack things like L3 cache.
That's weird, because my processor seems to do well on CPU-intensive games. I honestly can't think of any other game I've had inexplicably poor performance in (or the same issue)
I had a similar problem, so it must be a CPU bottleneck issue. I overclocked from 3 Ghz to 4 GHz and bayum, bottleneck gone.
My desktop used to have an AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition. I wasn't able to run games like Call of Pripyat or Crysis.
I've switched to an i5, and my framerate has jumped pretty high. CoP ran at around 70 fps, Crysis runs much better, and Borderlands doesn't run like crap.
Hell, maybe I will upgrade. I was thinking it was just because I had a less than stellar GPU. Getting an i5 would mean switching out my MOBO too, however. That's lods emone to spend.
Newegg usually has pretty good package deals for mobo+processor. That's what I did.
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