EA Games. Crysis DVD hardly works.

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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I'll try turning shadows to medium
maybe that'll get playable. I'm fine except at random times and it slows.
 
lopoetve said:
I'll try turning shadows to medium
maybe that'll get playable. I'm fine except at random times and it slows.
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Shadows and post processing are the two items that take the biggest toll on performance that seem to have minimal visual impact for the most part. The post processing doesn't make much difference if you only drop it to high.
 
There was a huge thread over at incrysis.com about this. Dozens of people were having the same problem. There is also a new thread in which a person's drive actually ceased working after a few times loading up Crysis.
 
Dan_D said:
Shadows and post processing are the two items that take the biggest toll on performance that seem to have minimal visual impact for the most part. The post processing doesn't make much difference if you only drop it to high.
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it's already locked to high. :(
shadows helped a bit, but now they look like poo in the forest :-/
 
ynnek888 said:
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?
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Hmm... I didn't delete the movie files but just renamed them. I don't have any problems with the mouse anywhere in the game or menus.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Crysis_13.html
 
My Crysis DVD works 'okay', but if I leave it in the drive while the machine boots, the drive basically stops the process while it tries to spin the disc up, with the added benefit of a lot of weird clicking sounds. This is on a PATA LiteOn.
 
To those naysayers that say 'you're full of crap, my DVD works just fine':

I too received a 'dead' DVD -- the first copy I purchased was just that. DOA. No DVD reader on any PC I had would read it: SATA on my workstation, PATA on my wife's computer, nor my laptop's DVD reader.

I went and bought another copy (Circuit City sold out, and would only exchange my open copy of Crysis with another copy) and while it works, it seems to 'confuse' my DVD player and it whirls, clicks, and spins up and down several times before actually recognizing that there is anything in the drive.

Very odd, but I've seen it before related to the type of copy-protection scheme they are using.
 
Just another reason after years of saying I'd never do it, I broke down and bought an XBox. I now use it for all my gaming, except my online racing simulators.

I don't miss PC gaming, or the aggravations, one bit.
 
TechLarry said:
Just another reason after years of saying I'd never do it, I broke down and bought an XBox. I now use it for all my gaming, except my online racing simulators.

I don't miss PC gaming, or the aggravations, one bit.
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What is "Xbox"? Is that a sound card?
 
Just installed my new LiteOn Sata drive and it does click but not as bad as my older drive. I too left it in during bootup and it stopped the process while it spun up and clicked. Oh well, I beat the game so I doubt Ill be using it again unless I get some cheats and feel like using all the suit powers at once.
 
its obviously a global problem that they are ignoring.. My copy works fine as far as playing but if i dont use a nocd crack and have the dvd in the drive it spins up like a beast and clicks to all hell untill the game starts. This is the only dvd i have that does that..
 
I have a Lite-On SATA DVD burner as well, and the Crysis DVD indeed spins and clicks while the machine is booting up, or if I put the disc in the drive later. Annoying, but since I already beat the game, I don't need the disc anymore anyways.
 
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