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Crysis Warhead performance WORSE!?

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SO with the rig in my sig, I can only get semi-playable setting with Crysis:Warhead all settings on minimum. SO sad. I will try the new 8.9 drivers and report back.
 
It's raping my 8800gt.....RAPING it.

I had to go to 1280 x 1024 and mainstream setting to get it to be playable.

Bah humbug.
 
so what was all this hype that is will run on such a low end PC? what was that spec they came up with of what it will be able to run on?

as everyone said, ya, it will run, at like 640 x 480 with everything on LOW!
 
spaceman said:
good job devs. false advertising ftw? what happened?
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The same thing that happened with Crysis. Crytek knew they could just say it ran better and people would believe them for the second time, and it worked for some people.
 
wtf is their problem? why release a game that so few can play as the devs intended. longevity? more sales when the game is 2 yrs old in the bargain bin?
 
It's running really well on mine at 1680x1050. It feels smoother now, even at the same FPS. I can't put everything on Enthusiast, all I had to do was turn down Object detail to Gamer along with physics and particles.
 
Ah, so they have a gamer level that runs ok with an 8800GT? That is a different story. If you are trying to play it at max levels with the same gpu? shrug
 
Crytek NEVER claimed the game would run on Enthusiast levels with anything less than a 260:rolleyes:

All you guys complaining and trying to play this game with an 8800 on anything over gamer settings need to get a clue.
 
It ran a hell of a lot better for me than the original. might be an ATI issue.
 
Yes lets all assume it runs like shit and they lied because it runs bad on 1 Persons system, with 1 set of drivers on 1 video card and 1 platform.

Christ, wait for a legit performance review.
 
well running at 1024x768 and mainstream which is medium is WAY slower than it was in original game. In the original game I was in the upper 20s low 30s but in Warhead Im sitting around 12-15 fps though if I didnt have FRAPS on I would say it feels much faster. oh well maybe they only optimized the higher two settings because mainstream(medium) is slower. :(
 
Kidfinger said:
Crytek NEVER claimed the game would run on Enthusiast levels with anything less than a 260:rolleyes:

All you guys complaining and trying to play this game with an 8800 on anything over gamer settings need to get a clue.
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Excuse me? I have to put it on mainstream at 1280 x 1024 to get it to run smoothly.

You need to get facts and then a clue before you go assuming.
 
Timbowens said:
Excuse me? I have to put it on mainstream at 1280 x 1024 to get it to run smoothly.

You need to get facts and then a clue before you go assuming.
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Im my best Mencia der de dur voice... You have an 8800! What the hell do you expect! ROTFLMAO!!!

Here is the EXACT PC you need to play Crysis DECENT. Not perfect, but decent.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/campaigns/campaigntemplate.asp?CampaignID=716

And here is their press release talking about said PC
http://www.crytek.com/news/news/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=127&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=470dfca74b

Hmm, lets see what is says about this PC...

“As gamers know, the GPU is the most important component for any gaming system,” said Ujesh Desai, general manager of desktop GeForce products at NVIDIA. “We’ve worked closely with Crytek to ensure that Crysis Warhead runs smoothly across a broad spectrum of GeForce solutions. The Ultra Optimized PC shows that gamers will have a great Crysis experience at an affordable price if they optimize their PC with the right GPU/CPU combination.”



Notice it says NOTHING about running the damn game on Enthusiast settings :rolleyes:


I got my clue. I just gave you yours.
 
Timbowens said:
Excuse me? I have to put it on mainstream at 1280 x 1024 to get it to run smoothly.

You need to get facts and then a clue before you go assuming.
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You might want to look at your setup them.

Reviews of the game show the reviewers testing it on the '$600 PC' and running much better than the first one.
 
Uhh excuse me but did everyone seem to forget that enthusist settings are equal to the old very high settings? If you coudln't run very high on the orignal game what in gods name made you think you could run those settings in warhead? Just because crttek said they optimised it run better doesn't mean you can all of a sudden run on settings your rig can't handle. Shit get a clue ffs.

I am installing it now and my thoughts are, I can probably pull off high(gamer) settings. Thats what i run crysis on and thats what I am hopign this rig can pull off with warhead albeit maybe a lil smoother and with hopefully higher avg fps. In either case I am building new in novemember so if it runs shitty I'm not gonna cry about it. I will wait to enjoy it on very high at that point.

I will post back in this thread to let you guys know how it does, Just please get some perspective.
 
Kidfinger said:
Crytek NEVER claimed the game would run on Enthusiast levels with anything less than a 260:rolleyes:

All you guys complaining and trying to play this game with an 8800 on anything over gamer settings need to get a clue.
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:confused:
crysiszf2.jpg

"...capable of running the game silky smooth, with all the bells and whistles turned on" This with an 8600GT.
 
Kidfinger said:
Im my best Mencia der de dur voice... You have an 8800! What the hell do you expect! ROTFLMAO!!!

Here is the EXACT PC you need to play Crysis DECENT. Not perfect, but decent.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/campaigns/campaigntemplate.asp?CampaignID=716

And here is their press release talking about said PC
http://www.crytek.com/news/news/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=127&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=470dfca74b

Hmm, lets see what is says about this PC...

“As gamers know, the GPU is the most important component for any gaming system,” said Ujesh Desai, general manager of desktop GeForce products at NVIDIA. “We’ve worked closely with Crytek to ensure that Crysis Warhead runs smoothly across a broad spectrum of GeForce solutions. The Ultra Optimized PC shows that gamers will have a great Crysis experience at an affordable price if they optimize their PC with the right GPU/CPU combination.”



Notice it says NOTHING about running the damn game on Enthusiast settings :rolleyes:


I got my clue. I just gave you yours.
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You aren't very bright, are you?

Please quote and refresh us all where, in any of my posts, did I expect to run this game on enthusiast settings.

So you are putting words into my posts.

Secondly, I've read a couple of reviews in which the writer played the game with a 8800gt and said it ran decently 1600 x 1050. So of course I expect it to run sort of good on those settings, as that is the card I have.

Cliffs:
You insert words into my posts
You implied I expected great game play on the best settings
Reviews said I should be able to run it decently
 
Kidfinger said:
Im my best Mencia der de dur voice... You have an 8800! What the hell do you expect! ROTFLMAO!!!

Here is the EXACT PC you need to play Crysis DECENT. Not perfect, but decent.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/campaigns/campaigntemplate.asp?CampaignID=716

And here is their press release talking about said PC
http://www.crytek.com/news/news/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=127&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=470dfca74b

Hmm, lets see what is says about this PC...

“As gamers know, the GPU is the most important component for any gaming system,” said Ujesh Desai, general manager of desktop GeForce products at NVIDIA. “We’ve worked closely with Crytek to ensure that Crysis Warhead runs smoothly across a broad spectrum of GeForce solutions. The Ultra Optimized PC shows that gamers will have a great Crysis experience at an affordable price if they optimize their PC with the right GPU/CPU combination.”



Notice it says NOTHING about running the damn game on Enthusiast settings :rolleyes:


I got my clue. I just gave you yours.
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How does it feel to run your mouth and then get owned?
 
Timbowens said:
You aren't very bright, are you?

Please quote and refresh us all where, in any of my posts, did I expect to run this game on enthusiast settings.

So you are putting words into my posts.

Secondly, I've read a couple of reviews in which the writer played the game with a 8800gt and said it ran decently 1600 x 1050. So of course I expect it to run sort of good on those settings, as that is the card I have.

Cliffs:
You insert words into my posts
You implied I expected great game play on the best settings
Reviews said I should be able to run it decently
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I think he saw skadebos post and got yours and skadebos comments confused.
 
how are the guys with just 2 gigs playing this game on higher settings? I was at 377mb ram usage in the task manager before I started the game and alt tabbed out and was at 1.94gb. thats just on mainstream DX9 settings at 1024x768.
 
cannondale06 said:
how are the guys with just 2 gigs playing this game on higher settings? I was at 377mb ram usage in the task manager before I started the game and alt tabbed out and was at 1.94gb. thats just on mainstream DX9 settings at 1024x768.
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weird, mine only hits around 750-800mb when i alt tab'd. But my frames are crap as stated above. Hopefully im upgrading my comp completely in the next month, so by then i hope everything will play nicely.
 
hmm with all this talk about how the performance is about the same as crysis i think imma return mine. good thing i didnt open it.
 
This whole game is an advertisement for Nvidia. And some people have literally bought Nvidia cards just to play this stupid advertisement. I am surprised they don't have in-game ads for Nvidia. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the "Christmas gifts" in Warhead said "Game not running so hot? Get another GTX280, only from Nvidia!"

“As gamers know, the GPU is the most important component for any gaming system,” said Ujesh Desai, general manager of desktop GeForce products at NVIDIA. “We’ve worked closely with Crytek to ensure that Crysis Warhead runs smoothly across a broad spectrum of GeForce solutions.
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And not any ATi card.:rolleyes:


Ironic how Crysis was going to be CPU limited and needed Intel Quad cores when Intel was a major sponsor. I guess they can't pedal that shit when its been proven a huge lie.
 
speedy523 said:
weird, mine only hits around 750-800mb when i alt tab'd. But my frames are crap as stated above. Hopefully im upgrading my comp completely in the next month, so by then i hope everything will play nicely.
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800mb total including the game and all other things running? sorry but theres no way.

I just checked 4 more times in task manager at the same spots in the game. DX9 uses around 1.94gb, DX10 uses less at just 1.65gb. so that means the actual game is using around 1.6gb in DX9 and around 1.3gb for DX10 because at was around 370mb in task manger when when starting the game.
 
I've been running Warhead on an AMD 5000+ clocked to 3.0 Ghz, 4 Gb ram and a 8800 GT at 1680x1050 rez. With mainstream settings I've had smooth gameplay so far. Going to try gamer settings and see how I fare next.
 
spaceman said:
wtf is their problem? why release a game that so few can play as the devs intended. longevity? more sales when the game is 2 yrs old in the bargain bin?
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THIS IS A VERY STUPID COMMENT!.. because your computer is crap, you dont want anyone else to enjoy the pretty graphics... put your setting to medium if you have a problem.. you have to play a game on high?????? stop screwing it up for other people...
 
I'm experiencing the same thing everybody else is. Rather than being optimized as claimed, it actually seems to run WORSE than Crysis! What gives?

My (recently built) rig is a Q6600, 4GB RAM, and 9600GT btw. Maybe not much by this forum standards but pretty darn beefy imo. Oh yeah, I also have a 22" monitor so play at 1680X1050

Especially after reading reviews that claim it runs better. Direct quote from IGN review.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/909/909584p2.html

Finally, we get to the part of the review everyone wants to know about: performance. Crytek claims that Warhead is better optimized than Crysis, and everything I experienced confirms this. In fact, what's amazing is that Warhead not only runs better than Crysis, it looks better than Crysis. Keep in mind, a year has passed since Crysis shipped and there still isn't a non-Crytek game that approaches it in terms of visuals. Warhead features more definition to the terrain, and the lighting and particle effects have gotten big boosts. I found myself walking through jungle with the morning light piercing the canopy and had to stop and just absorb the moment. It had a level of atmosphere that I can't recall from the first game.


I played Warhead on a high-end machine with a quad core CPU and the latest Nvidia graphics card at high resolution (1680x1050) with all the details set to Enthusiast, which is essentially very high. It looked cutting edge and the frame rate was solid. Next, I checked the game on a slightly older PC with a two-year old 8800GTS and I was still able to crank it to Enthusiast settings and the same resolution and get solid results. Finally, I checked it out on the "$700 PC" that Crytek and EA have been touting. It really is a $700 machine built on the latest mainstream parts (the video card is a 9800GT), and I was able to play the final boss battle at the same resolution and at Enthusiast settings and get solid frame rates. I also tried it the Gamer setting, which is essentially high, and the frame rate was buttery smooth. You do lose some visual quality stepping down from Enthusiast, but even at Gamer Warhead still looks better than almost every game out
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So he's directly saying that at 1680, an 8800GTS can run the game at Enthusiast. BS. The 9600GT is at least slightly more powerful than a GTS I think (assuming a GTS 640 type card? He said two years old?). Instead mine runs it at 10-15 FPS.

Then he also clearly states he played it on the $700 PC, which has a 9800GT aka 8800GT, not much more powerful than my card, at Enthusiast at 1680X1050 smoothly..again NO FREAKING WAY. Again I am getting 8-15 FPS at those settings, not even close to playable.

And its not playable on Gamer either! FPS in the low 20's there..If I let the game pick my settings, it picks all mainstream, and sure enough, the FPS is 30-40 and very playable there. Heck, my goal with Crysis 1 was to play on all high settings..I would pull upper 20's in DX9 there with my GT OCed to 750mhz..so high was pretty close to playable, yet gamer on warhead is unplayable.

It looks great on mainstream too though, I'm wondering if it was optimized to look much better on mainstream than the old medium. There's no guarantee the settings are directly comparable..I dont have enough experience with the old Crysis to say for sure, but mainstream looked pretty darn good to me on warhead.
 
Toddrick said:
I'm experiencing the same thing everybody else is. Rather than being optimized as claimed, it actually seems to run WORSE than Crysis! What gives?

My (recently built) rig is a Q6600, 4GB RAM, and 9600GT btw. Maybe not much by this forum standards but pretty darn beefy imo. Oh yeah, I also have a 22" monitor so play at 1680X1050

Especially after reading reviews that claim it runs better. Direct quote from IGN review.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/909/909584p2.html



So he's directly saying that at 1680, an 8800GTS can run the game at Enthusiast. BS. The 9600GT is at least slightly more powerful than a GTS I think (assuming a GTS 640 type card? He said two years old?). Instead mine runs it at 10-15 FPS.

Then he also clearly states he played it on the $700 PC, which has a 9800GT aka 8800GT, not much more powerful than my card, at Enthusiast at 1680X1050 smoothly..again NO FREAKING WAY. Again I am getting 8-15 FPS at those settings, not even close to playable.

And its not playable on Gamer either! FPS in the low 20's there..If I let the game pick my settings, it picks all mainstream, and sure enough, the FPS is 30-40 and very playable there. Heck, my goal with Crysis 1 was to play on all high settings..I would pull upper 20's in DX9 there with my GT OCed to 750mhz..so high was pretty close to playable, yet gamer on warhead is unplayable.

It looks great on mainstream too though, I'm wondering if it was optimized to look much better on mainstream than the old medium. There's no guarantee the settings are directly comparable..I dont have enough experience with the old Crysis to say for sure, but mainstream looked pretty darn good to me on warhead.
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Yeah he sounds like he's full of shit. My 8800GT with sig in rig gets 20FPS on average using all Enthusiast at 1680x1024. For some reason it doesn't feel too unplayable though. I still turned down object detail, physics, and particles to gamer.
 
Running smooth for me.

Q6600 @ 3.0
4 gigs ram
8800GT

Gamer settings at 1440x900 :(

No room for a bigger monitor.

I do not notice it running any different then Crysis. Though I do have a 260 on the way, wanna crank up the settings some! ;)
 
cannondale06 said:
800mb total including the game and all other things running? sorry but theres no way.

I just checked 4 more times in task manager at the same spots in the game. DX9 uses around 1.94gb, DX10 uses less at just 1.65gb. so that means the actual game is using around 1.6gb in DX9 and around 1.3gb for DX10 because at was around 370mb in task manger when when starting the game.
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here you go

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thats taken after i was 5 minutes into the 2nd level, so the game was running and all i did was alt-tab and grab a screenie. And thats DX 10 with everything on Enthusiast.
 
speedy523 said:
here you go

http://i33.tinypic.com/2wbu8mg.jpg

thats taken after i was 5 minutes into the 2nd level, so the game was running and all i did was alt-tab and grab a screenie. And thats DX 10 with everything on Enthusiast.
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I just looked at the task manager total but I will take a look at the process itself.


btw this game looks WORSE than the original game. I put everything on Enthusiast and it still looks like shit in many areas. the foliage is much much worse looking. yes I know its not playable but I can stand still and look. lol
 
Dethred said:
This whole game is an advertisement for Nvidia. And some people have literally bought Nvidia cards just to play this stupid advertisement. I am surprised they don't have in-game ads for Nvidia. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the "Christmas gifts" in Warhead said "Game not running so hot? Get another GTX280, only from Nvidia!"



And not any ATi card.:rolleyes:


Ironic how Crysis was going to be CPU limited and needed Intel Quad cores when Intel was a major sponsor. I guess they can't pedal that shit when its been proven a huge lie.
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I wouldnt call it an ATI thing, it's running like shit on my 9600GT.

Especially since I dont recall Nvidia having any particular advantage in Crysis 1, I'd doubt your theory.
 
Wait until you hit the frost covered crap. I went from very playable mainstream to having to drop to the minimum settings at 1680x1050 with a 8800GTS 320, 4GB, 3.6GHZ E8400 setup. No AA/AF. Odd thing is the original Crisis did the same thing when I was in DX9 but was totally fine in DX10 mode with the ice/snow crap. There is no option for DX10 in Warhead that I can find. :mad:
 
Toddrick said:
I wouldnt call it an ATI thing, it's running like shit on my 9600GT.

Especially since I dont recall Nvidia having any particular advantage in Crysis 1, I'd doubt your theory.
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SLI works, crossfire really doesn't. Need I say more?
 
speedy523 said:
here you go

http://i33.tinypic.com/2wbu8mg.jpg

thats taken after i was 5 minutes into the 2nd level, so the game was running and all i did was alt-tab and grab a screenie. And thats DX 10 with everything on Enthusiast.
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okay 788mb for DX10 and 1062mb for DX9 with same settings. I still cant figure out why my physical ram usage goes from 370mb to 1.94gb for DX9 and 1.65gb for DX10 though if thats all the process is using. :confused:.
 
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