I recently downloaded Helter Pinto's crysis config files which make crysis look like it should: http://www.helderpinto.com/blog/?cat=13 trust me, it looks fantastic. Performance was okay for the most part, but I just knew that my 8800GT wouldn't cut it on the later levels and I was getting some dropped frames when explosions occurred. This was at my monitors native 1680*1050 so I did what some people do and turned down the resolution to 1440*900 which was much better but everything was slightly blurry. This where the fix comes in, I remembered fooling around earlier with my monitors settings and I recalled the sharpness setting and how it made everything look too crisp and sharp, I turned that up to the max. Lo and behold, Crysis looked as sharp as the native res of the monitor with a hell of a lot more performance. Anyway, maybe some people already know this but I thought I'd just throw it out there anyway as it'll help some eke out some more performance from their cards without sacrificing visual quality too much.
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- Thread starter skadebo
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Its a 37" screen, and the next lowest 16:9 resolution is 1280x720. Dropping to a different resolution would either give me a stretched image or black bars, neither of which seem worth it for the small performance increase, but maybe I'll give it a try.
I would just lower the resolution and go with the black bars if I were in your place. Crysis looks great even at lower resolutions, and if you have to lower the Shaders below High no resolution is worth it.
You can set everything to medium, but as long as you keep the High Shaders, it'll look great. Also, I'd recommend using parallax occlusion mapping and motion blur even with everything (apart Shaders) on Medium, since they don't affect performance much. It'll look just like "Very High" but with lower quality shadows and textures, which you won't even notice unless you zoom in on things.
You can set everything to medium, but as long as you keep the High Shaders, it'll look great. Also, I'd recommend using parallax occlusion mapping and motion blur even with everything (apart Shaders) on Medium, since they don't affect performance much. It'll look just like "Very High" but with lower quality shadows and textures, which you won't even notice unless you zoom in on things.