My $600 8800GTX and Quad core barely run Crysis!! WTF!!

[40sTheme]

Do you have the new drivers? My computer runs it better than that, and it's about half as powerful.

 

[Throckmorton]

IMO the problem is games use more and more power, but don't look any better! Why do I get half the framerate in BF2142 as BF2, when the graphics aren't discernably better?

 

[potato28]

Wow... $4000 for that? Drop the OS to XP, do the Ultra High .cfg mod for better performance. This isn't going to kill PC gaming, pc gaming is still going strong. I could even run this game, with my 1 gig of ram 6300 at stock and x1900gt, and still beat it. I was amazed at the visuals, even on Low, and even without the visuals it was still really fun.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Well, it looks like everyone can't be pleased. Six months ago, folks were complaining that software didn't exist to really "push" their hardware that they paid top dollar for, to the limits. "All that wasted power." What good is all this power if we can't use it?" etc. etc.

Bingo!!!!!!!!!!!

There are several threads where people are bitching either because they bought a 8800GTS/GTX and now a mid ranged card either comes close to or beats their purchase. Or, they are bitching because one game pushes even the current high-end hardware to it's limits. People are never satisfied with anything.

It is official, the last week of October is bitchfest 2007!

 

[Spook]

To me this is what happens when Software moves forward, but the Hardware stays the same. Because of the cycle of the video market over the past several years Im sure they were expecting a next gen card to be released about this time. Well, the market being what it is, and no real necessity for Nvidia to top itself, its decided to take a pass for this cycle, and left some of the higher end software developers hanging in the wind. Most notably, Crysis. What can you say, sometimes all your ducks don't line up in a row.

oh, and in acknowledgment to v3rax.... umm 2 posts.... 4k computer, i have to agree with some of these guys, you story has allot of holes in it.

 

[taltamir]

crytek made a shitty inefficient engine... it is their fault... and I don't feel sorry for them.

It doesn't look THAT good even on max settings. It is not playable on ANYTHING...

Get 2 more gigs of ram... but it wouldn't help THAT much... its mainly just a laggy game. Hopefully they can do some more optimizations in the future and make it faster.

 

[SniperDaws]

Originally posted by: munky
It's not Crytek's fault for releasing the best-looking game to this moment. It's Nvidia's fault for not releasing a refresh to the 8800gtx 1 year after it's launch.

Yeah but even if the NEW GTX is twice as fast as the OLD GTX its still not enough to run Crysis above 35 fps is it......do the math you chunky munky.....lol.


i think Crysis is beautiful but is too ahead of its time , and when i buy it itll be becuase ill be able to run it at at least 1680x1050 at max DX10 settings and not before.

So in 18months time ill be posting a thread on how amazing Crysis is.

 

[EKTELESTES]

The complain is not about PUSHING A GPU TO ITS LIMITS, it is about using BRILLIANT GRAPHIC ENGINES like ut 3, Half life 2 ones in order to make a gpu's abilities shine.

If only others used such brilliant engines your video card would last at least 2-3 years.

 

[AndyD2k]

No offense to those defending Crytek, but if you put recommended specs on your box the game better perform well on pcs with like or better specs

 

[onlyCOpunk]

The way I see it, this Crysis game is just a fad anyways. It's a big race to see "who can run it the best" People seem more obsessed with playing the game at maximum settings then they do about the game itself.

PC gaming isn't a cheap thing to maintain, and if something like this bugging the OP this much, it sounds like he would be happier with a console

 

[Hauk]

Originally posted by: JAG87
bro, relax, its EA...

plunk 49 bucks on the orange box, its the best money you can spend. leave crysis on the shelf until EA has released all the patches needed to fulfill at least half of the things they promised.

Agreed!!! :thumbsup: Valve knows how to make a game that runs well out of the box

 

[CrystalBay]

Sell your GTX for 400 and wait 2 weeks...

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: SteelSix

Originally posted by: JAG87
bro, relax, its EA...

plunk 49 bucks on the orange box, its the best money you can spend. leave crysis on the shelf until EA has released all the patches needed to fulfill at least half of the things they promised.

Agreed!!! :thumbsup: Valve knows how to make a game that runs well out of the box

How can you summarily slam EA when 1) Crytek developed and created the game, and 2) the game isn't even out yet?? Demanding patches for a game not yet released is expecting a bit much I think.

As to Valve, I love their stuff, but I seem to recall a HL2 stuttering problem...

 

[RobertR1]

Originally posted by: CrystalBay
Sell your GTX for 400 and wait 2 weeks...

What happens in 2 weeks?

 

[v3rax]

OK,OMG!, LOL, I regret that I even started this post now.

1. No, my computer didn't cost $4000, I built it for $1500 (It was an exageration to empasize my point)

2. Yes, I paid $600 for my GTX because that is what they cost 6 months ago.

3. The whole point of this post was to say that I had a hard time believing that a computer with my specs has a hard time running a new game. No it isnt SLI and no it isnt a Q6850 Penryn overclocked to 6.0, but it is still better than average.

4. I myself am not 14, never said I was, whoever asked me that question.

5. I realize that games get better and better and require better hardware to run them if you want to be able to play them maxed out, but take the new UNREAL Tourney 3 for instance, it runs awesome on max setting on my sons computer with a 8600GT and a P4D and cheap ram.

6. I just don't understand why the developers create games that eliminate half the PC gaming world from being able to play.

7. No, I don't think one game is going to destroy PC gaming....again, it was an exageration for emphasis.

##Why oh Why do you find so many "Sarcastic" replies to posts and most of the sarcastic posts have nothing to do with the original question.

8. I do not work for sony, microsoft, nintendo, etc... and the last thing I want is for PC gaming to die, but I have been playing online FPS game competitively for 10 years and I hear and see a lot of my online friend complaining that its horrible that they can't play a certain game because their hardware is out of date already.

Anyway, thanks for the replies even if some of them were very rude.

BTW, what is the .cfg mod? (Oh wait, someone is going to tell me to do a search instead of just taking 2 minutes to tell me.) So I guess Ill go search now.

 

[Hauk]

Don't forget penis envy. Oh wait, wrong thread

 

[Munky]

Originally posted by: SniperDaws

Originally posted by: munky
It's not Crytek's fault for releasing the best-looking game to this moment. It's Nvidia's fault for not releasing a refresh to the 8800gtx 1 year after it's launch.

Yeah but even if the NEW GTX is twice as fast as the OLD GTX its still not enough to run Crysis above 35 fps is it......do the math you chunky munky.....lol.


i think Crysis is beautiful but is too ahead of its time , and when i buy it itll be becuase ill be able to run it at at least 1680x1050 at max DX10 settings and not before.

So in 18months time ill be posting a thread on how amazing Crysis is.

Well, I'm too drunk ATM to reply with anything profound... but, anyways, I'm sure the perofrmance will improve... is't only a demo right now...

 

[Hauk]

Originally posted by: munky

Originally posted by: SniperDaws

Originally posted by: munky
It's not Crytek's fault for releasing the best-looking game to this moment. It's Nvidia's fault for not releasing a refresh to the 8800gtx 1 year after it's launch.

Yeah but even if the NEW GTX is twice as fast as the OLD GTX its still not enough to run Crysis above 35 fps is it......do the math you chunky munky.....lol.


i think Crysis is beautiful but is too ahead of its time , and when i buy it itll be becuase ill be able to run it at at least 1680x1050 at max DX10 settings and not before.

So in 18months time ill be posting a thread on how amazing Crysis is.

Well, I'm too drunk ATM to reply with anything profound... but, anyways, I'm sure the perofrmance will improve... is't only a demo right now...

Time to spank the munky...

 

[JBT]

ouch I just bought a Q6600, 4GB of RAM, a P35 mobo and a 8800GT for $700... I might not get quite the FPS but close enough... ouch.

 

[CrystalBay]

Originally posted by: RobertR1

Originally posted by: CrystalBay
Sell your GTX for 400 and wait 2 weeks...

What happens in 2 weeks?

The Cevat YaRLI CARD he's crowing about ...

 

[Pacfanweb]

OP has a good point.....PC gamers get screwed yearly, as games progress.

Compare....you pay 600 bucks for a PS3 or 400 for an XBox 360 to basically play 50-60 dollar games. And they are in HD resolutions and look great. Not to mention you can play Blu Ray discs on the PS3 for that price, and also for 600 on the 360 if you choose to.

But for a top-line PC, you'll spend that much (at least until the GT that just came out) on the video card. Then you have to buy your mobo, RAM, cpu, etc.
And for what....to play 50 dollar games. And if you build a top of the line machine, it'll be able to play the newest games in the highest resolutions for what....about a year and a half at most?
Then the games start getting too much for it and you have to upgrade again to stay playable at high res.

As I said, OP has a point....I don't think it's unreasonable for a 600 dollar investment in a video card to give you over a year's worth of highest-res gaming.

 

[CrystalBay]

Get the F outta Here^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^it's only for Crysis dammit....l Live and learn, wait till UT3 releases all thier Textures....

 

[Matte979]

You need to put things in perspective.

With the UT3 engine and the COD4 engine you can just stay with an old card as they are not really using the latest bells an whistles as they have to run on consoles which have the performance of last gen top cards. Thats why you get so high performance in those engines.

UT3 and COD4 are the Audi or BMW of game engine, still good performance option. But if you got SLI GTX it does not really benefit you as they dont need it.

Crysis is the Ferrari of game engines, the Crytek2 engine so superior to any other engine when it comes to capability and graphics so it will require a ferrari of a PC to have the highest setting, that said it scales very well, you are just not at the top high end for this game with your card, its one year old and a new card was just released that has close to your cards performance for about 250$. This is the PC gaming market its so much more dynamic than the console market people can play the same game in different levels compared to consoles where one size fits all, thats why PC game is and will be superior to console gaming in that respect.

Concerning Crysis, I run crysis with 1900XTX and it still behaves and looks way better than the UT3 engine or the COD4 engine with the same card. Am I mad that I paid 500 bucks for my card two years ago? not really. I got 2 years out of it and games are cheaper on the PC so I save about 10 bucks a game plus I use my computer for other stuff, if I would only use it for gaming I would get a console instead. But for me the cost of gaming is my graphics card which is about 500 every 2 years. I play about 20-30 games during that period so compared to consoles I save about 200 to 300 as the games are cheaper on PC, which means my card cost me about 200$ over 2 years which is less than 10$ a month. I pay 50$ for my cell phone a month so I think 10$ a month is a pretty sweet deal specially as I havent counted the money I could get if I sell my card on ebay.

You have to accept not playing on max in most game the last year but you still generally have great performance, and timing is critical you should always buy when a new generation comes out it will give you the longest time to get back your investment.

The idea that PC gaming is expensive is just not correct if you do the math. And if you want to you can still buy midrange cards and a consoles will actually be more expensive for the same graphics due to more expensive games and accessories.

Consoles are simpler but for that you sacrifice performance, which will be more evident as newer games come out that will all run and look much better on a PCs.

You still have a kick ass computer compared to a console.

 

[bfdd]

Weird cause I get bout 35 frames average with my rig....

 

[CrystalBay]

Originally posted by: Matte979
You need to put things in perspective.

With the UT3 engine and the COD4 engine you can just stay with an old card as they are not really using the latest bells an whistles as they have to run on consoles which have the performance of last gen top cards. Thats why you get so high performance in those engines.

UT3 and COD4 are the Audi or BMW of game engine, still good performance option. But if you got SLI GTX it does not really benefit you as they dont need it.

Crysis is the Ferrari of game engines, the Crytek2 engine so superior to any other engine when it comes to capability and graphics so it will require a ferrari of a PC to have the highest setting, that said it scales very well, you are just not at the top high end for this game with your card, its one year old and a new card was just released that has close to your cards performance for about 250$. This is the PC gaming market its so much more dynamic than the console market people can play the same game in different levels compared to consoles where one size fits all, thats why PC game is and will be superior to console gaming in that respect.

Concerning Crysis, I run crysis with 1900XTX and it still behaves and looks way better than the UT3 engine or the COD4 engine with the same card. Am I mad that I paid 500 bucks for my card two years ago? not really. I got 2 years out of it and games are cheaper on the PC so I save about 10 bucks a game plus I use my computer for other stuff, if I would only use it for gaming I would get a console instead. But for me the cost of gaming is my graphics card which is about 500 every 2 years. I play about 20-30 games during that period so compared to consoles I save about 200 to 300 as the games are cheaper on PC, which means my card cost me about 200$ over 2 years which is less than 10$ a month. I pay 50$ for my cell phone a month so I think 10$ a month is a pretty sweet deal specially as I havent counted the money I could get if I sell my card on ebay.

You have to accept not playing on max in most game the last year but you still generally have great performance, and timing is critical you should always buy when a new generation comes out it will give you the longest time to get back your investment.

The idea that PC gaming is expensive is just not correct if you do the math. And if you want to you can still buy midrange cards and a consoles will actually be more expensive for the same graphics due to more expensive games and accessories.

Consoles are simpler but for that you sacrifice performance, which will be more evident as newer games come out that will all run and look much better on a PCs.

You still have a kick ass computer compared to a console.

hey dude ,Tim Sweeny is about give you a boatload of Textures and Post processing effects that will make the UT3 Babbie's scream...heh