EA Games. Crysis DVD hardly works.

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lordsegan

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My Crysis DVD does not really work.. it clicks every time I put it in my DVD drive. What the EFF? Someone told me it is a problem with the SecuROM?


http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=80&threadid=2122758

EDIT: I figured it out. Crysis is INCOMPATIBLE with SATA DVD burners. Works perfectly with PATA drives and USB drives I tested. Does not work properly with SATA drives. Checked it on two computers/several drives.
 
Read the thread you linked to.

I also gather that when you contacted EA support they hung up on you or said "Sccchhcc... you're breaki....scchh...ng.... up... scchhhcchh".
 
I guess I don't understand the big deal - so it clicks. I got over it as soon as it installed and played correctly. There's bigger things to worry about....like when is friggin' nVidia gonna quit half-steppin' and bring out a real vid card!
 
As opposed to the entire 8xxx series not being real cards?
Funny, I wonder how I've been shooting up nubs in COD4 with my 8800GT then. :rolleyes:
 
Brahmzy said:
I guess I don't understand the big deal - so it clicks. I got over it as soon as it installed and played correctly. There's bigger things to worry about....like when is friggin' nVidia gonna quit half-steppin' and bring out a real vid card!
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It also clicks/lags/crashes explorer every time I have to check for a CD to launch the game.
 
lordsegan said:
My Crysis DVD does not really work.. it clicks every time I put it in my DVD drive. What the EFF? Someone told me it is a problem with the SecuROM?


http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=80&threadid=2122758

EDIT: I figured it out. Crysis is INCOMPATIBLE with SATA DVD burners. Works perfectly with PATA drives and USB drives I tested. Does not work properly with SATA drives. Checked it on two computers/several drives.
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Bullshit. Crysis works fine on all three of my PCs. Two of them have Samsung burners, and the other has a Plextor. You are certainly having issues, but it certainly doesn't mean that all systems with SATA optical drives are effected in the same way your machines are. I would be upset too, but at this point you are making assumptions that are far too broad in scope.
 
my sata optical drive clicks when i play crysis. I forgot which brand it is though. It was the $30ish one on newegg. I still played it, until i finished singleplayer. Im done with it now so i dont care. Back to COD4 multiplayer....
 
The disc clicked so much in my lite on drive, I thought my drive was going down the crapper and bought a samsung. Doh!

well, at least it doesn't click as much as it did in the lite on. give it a few seconds to load and eventually it will run fine.
 
Crysis DVD and a Samsung S203B here. Works fine. Hell, I even have DT virtual drives mounted with no probs.
 
Dan_D said:
Bullshit. Crysis works fine on all three of my PCs. Two of them have Samsung burners, and the other has a Plextor. You are certainly having issues, but it certainly doesn't mean that all systems with SATA optical drives are effected in the same way your machines are. I would be upset too, but at this point you are making assumptions that are far too broad in scope.
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Fair enough, I will admit Im pissed... but I did try it in 2 PATA and 2 SATA drives, and it works properly only in the PATA/USB ones.
 
JRT said:
As opposed to the entire 8xxx series not being real cards?
Funny, I wonder how I've been shooting up nubs in COD4 with my 8800GT then. :rolleyes:
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My OC'd 8800GTX needs to be about 4 times as fast as it is, thanks.
 
Brahmzy said:
My OC'd 8800GTX needs to be about 4 times as fast as it is, thanks.
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You ever once believe its because the game is so packed with new hotness that the game just needs something faster, and it haven nothing to do with the 8800GTX being inferior, which it certainly is not.

But hey, nvidia can just write another 50 fps into their drivers :rolleyes:, its just so stupid of them not too.
 
Simpson5774 said:
You ever once believe its because the game is so packed with new hotness that the game just needs something faster, and it haven nothing to do with the 8800GTX being inferior, which it certainly is not.
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you do understand the contradictory irony of your post...right?
 
Crysis is made with shoddy code and it will never run properly on any computer. Haven't you guys seen some games which run like crap on high-end machines 5 years after they were released? Look crappy and run crappy? Bad coding does that for you.

When you compare COD4 and crysis visuals and compare how COD4 runs compared to crysis, it's obvious somethings wrong with crysis engine.
 
Porter_ said:
you do understand the contradictory irony of your post...right?
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its not really contradictary. Hes saying crysis is a next gen game and the 88gtx is current gen. So while the holds its own on games of last year that were known to crush systems like oblivion, S.T.A.K.E.R. and F.E.A.R, it doesnt compare to cutting edge next gen games like crysis. Its Apples and Oranges.
 
lordsegan said:
EDIT: I figured it out. Crysis is INCOMPATIBLE with SATA DVD burners. Works perfectly with PATA drives and USB drives I tested. Does not work properly with SATA drives. Checked it on two computers/several drives.
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Not true on my hemisphere, Samsung SATA DVD Burner here, sure it clicks 4-5 times but it works regardless... :)
 
All these legitimate customers having issues which are known to trace back to copy protection.

Yet Crysis was downloadable days after its release and none of the people downloading the game illegally had these issues.

When will developers/producers learn to stop screwing over their customers, seems like a loop they're stuck in and will never ever work out the pattern that whatever they do, simply will not work!
 
My LiteOn burner clicks incessantly, even though it finally works. The disk even clicks during a bootup! This is total crap in my opinion. Can't be good for the drive in the long run I would assume. Has Crytek even acknowledged this issue? Hopefully will be patched out at some point. The game doesn't even seem that good anyway. The original FarCry was more compelling to me.
 
fact is it shouldn't click!

click is bad and will damage the drive

my guess some form of copy-protect on the disk
 
strikeout said:
its not really contradictary. Hes saying crysis is a next gen game and the 88gtx is current gen. So while the holds its own on games of last year that were known to crush systems like oblivion, S.T.A.K.E.R. and F.E.A.R, it doesnt compare to cutting edge next gen games like crysis. Its Apples and Oranges.
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in the same sentence he states the game needs something faster than the GTX but it has nothing to do with the GTX not being fast enough (i.e. 'inferior'). what part of that is not contradictory?
 
At least you guys get to play it. I'm not opening my Crysis DVD until I build a new computer. :(
 
GJSNeptune said:
At least you guys get to play it. I'm not opening my Crysis DVD until I build a new computer. :(
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Why own the game. It will run on that computer with effects turned down.

Also who ever said that the 8800GTX wasnt a fast card...you cant be serious?
 
strikeout said:
its not really contradictary. Hes saying crysis is a next gen game and the 88gtx is current gen. So while the holds its own on games of last year that were known to crush systems like oblivion, S.T.A.K.E.R. and F.E.A.R, it doesnt compare to cutting edge next gen games like crysis. Its Apples and Oranges.
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Wow, thank you, for explaining my words better than I could have myself.
 
roaf85 said:
Why own the game. It will run on that computer with effects turned down.
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I dunno, really. I pre-ordered it around the time Amazon started taking orders. I'm really excited to play it. I'm sure it'll run, but I don't want to shame it. I'm tired of having to run games at low settings. Someday I won't have to.

But I was planning on getting a SATA DVD burner for the next build, so hopefully the clicking isn't widespread or detrimental.
 
GJS grab the Crysis demo so at least you can tell what kind of settings you can play on. (but be prepared for slower framerates later in the game) I completely understand your point, though. I hate playing games on lower settings. I tried Crysis on my old 7800GT/3700+ and it was painful. :( I waited to install the full version until my 8800GT/4800+ was up and running. I'm glad I did. ;)
 
WhyYouLoveMe said:
GJS grab the Crysis demo so at least you can tell what kind of settings you can play on. (but be prepared for slower framerates later in the game) I completely understand your point, though. I hate playing games on lower settings. I tried Crysis on my old 7800GT/3700+ and it was painful. :( I waited to install the full version until my 8800GT/4800+ was up and running. I'm glad I did. ;)
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I've played the demo a few times. It wasn't very smooth, even with mostly low settings. Some of it has to do with my MX700 mouse though. It's gone through about 4.5 years of heavy use, and its insides don't transmit very well anymore. It causes all games to hitch along. FEAR, Far Cry, etc. For my new build, though, someday, I have a G5 rev 2 waiting. :D

Sorry for the threadcrap.
 
I have a Plextor SATA DVD burner and Crysis DVD is perfect. Of course I'd prefer it on Steam but EA are the devil and that's that.

As for the 8800GTX/Crysis sub-discussion nestling in this thread. Crysis isn't next gen. It's current gen. It's in the shops and on people's hard drives. That gen is here, now, on your hard drive. The 8800GTX is over a year old and not cutting it in plenty of current gen titles, most notably COH:OF and Crysis, especially at the higher resolutions. We really do need faster cards.
 
Finkus said:
I have a Plextor SATA DVD burner and Crysis DVD is perfect. Of course I'd prefer it on Steam but EA are the devil and that's that.

As for the 8800GTX/Crysis sub-discussion nestling in this thread. Crysis isn't next gen. It's current gen. It's in the shops and on people's hard drives. That gen is here, now, on your hard drive. The 8800GTX is over a year old and not cutting it in plenty of current gen titles, most notably COH:OF and Crysis, especially at the higher resolutions. We really do need faster cards.
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I'm finding the 8800GTX/Ultra to be a little long in the tooth, but really only in a few very specific titles and only at ultra high resolutions. I really need SLI for COD4, and Crysis especially. UT3 needs it as well, but less so. I'm running all these titles with very little to no AA at 2560x1600. Everything else is pretty much maxed out, (Crysis not included), but I miss my AA and AF.
 
see, I can't get my 8800GT to even run crysis at 1600x1200 everything on High right now, with no AA... >_<
 
lopoetve said:
see, I can't get my 8800GT to even run crysis at 1600x1200 everything on High right now, with no AA... >_<
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I can do 1680x1050 with everything on high without any AA and it's pretty playable. It runs better with SLI enabled and shadows turned to medium. Everything else I leave on high. Even then I only get between 25 and 50FPS. It usually averages in the low to mid-thirties.
 
Dan_D said:
I can do 1680x1050 with everything on high without any AA and it's pretty playable. It runs better with SLI enabled and shadows turned to medium. Everything else I leave on high. Even then I only get between 25 and 50FPS. It usually averages in the low to mid-thirties.
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this is a speculation question but do you guys think that in a year or two when new video cards come out we will be able to play CRYSIS at 100fps? or is the game coded poorly and will always have frame issues? Beacuse lately this is what has been happening to games. :mad:
 
Dan_D said:
Bullshit. Crysis works fine on all three of my PCs. Two of them have Samsung burners, and the other has a Plextor. You are certainly having issues, but it certainly doesn't mean that all systems with SATA optical drives are effected in the same way your machines are. I would be upset too, but at this point you are making assumptions that are far too broad in scope.
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qft

My samsung SATA DVD burner works just fine with crysis.
 
My drive clicks, and at first I thought it was because the drive was dying faster than I thought. Its been having problems reading newer DVDs, or should I say not reading them. I went ahead and bought a new one, it will be here by friday so we'll see if there is a problem with that one too. Their both LiteOn Sata drives.
 
The DVD clicks on my Lite-on drive too. Its only a few months old too. Someone said its because its a thick DL disc, but I've never had problem with DL DVD movies.

Anyone else have problems starting up the game occasionally and using the mouse to select things on the main menu? I have to sometimes restart the game again for it to work properly. Highly annoying when you have to watch all the intro videos.

Also, I swear when you delete the intro video files, the game refuses to let the mouse work in the main menu like I described above, until you completely restore them. Is this all some weird form of copy protection, or am I simply going insane?
 
Hulk said:
this is a speculation question but do you guys think that in a year or two when new video cards come out we will be able to play CRYSIS at 100fps? or is the game coded poorly and will always have frame issues? Beacuse lately this is what has been happening to games. :mad:
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Well if Farcry is any indication, I suspect that yes, in two years time the highest end video cards will be able to max out Crysis easily at extremely high FPS.
 
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