Maybe it's just me, but I felt that Crysis 3 was extremely smooth even at lower framerates (30-35 ish). Whereas in BF4 anything below 45 or so would feel choppy.
No it's not just you. Before I upgraded my rig to what's in my sig, I played Crysis 3 on an overclocked Core i7 920 @ 4.2ghz and overclocked GTX 580 SLI (900/1800) at 2560x1440 very high settings with SMAA 1x and V-sync off.
At those settings, I was getting 30-35 for the most part, and the game was very playable and pretty smooth. I even made a post about how shocked I was that I was getting such good gameplay on my overclocked 580s at max settings, as they only had 1.5GB of VRAM.
So Cryengine 3 is definitely a well optimized engine there's no doubt. That said, after revisiting BF4 again, I must say I'm more impressed with the FB 3 engine after driver and patch updates than I was when I first made this topic.
Playing the single player campaign again, the performance has improved significantly compared to the first play through that I did shortly after the game was released. I'm seeing greater CPU utilization across 12 threads, a long with higher frame rates and smoother gameplay.
Heck, the game even
looks better to me. So yeah, I guess I'm kind of swinging towards the FB 3.0 engine now :whiste:
But eventually CryTek will come out with their 4th generation CryEngine, which will be more comparable to the Frostbite 3 as it should sport native 64 bit capability and perhaps DX11.1 or DX11.2 support.