Crysis 2: Advanced Graphics Config. How is yours set?

[TechBoyJK]

Ok, so even though Crytek didn't include an advanced graphics option, they did leave the system.cfg file wide open, and as usual everything can be tweaked there. A modder has already created an awesome launcher that presents you with an advanced graphics menu (which simply mods the system file), and you can launch the game from there.

I wanted to start a thread to log how people are changing their configs. Let's keep this thread strictly to discussing how different options affect graphics and such.

Take it easy on me, this is the first time I've ever written and app and published it.

Anyways in response to the lack of graphics options that Crysis 2 has, I've decided to write my own application that does it. A lot of basic stuff is there as well as some AA settings, motion blur settings, and some control settings. The program will create a autoexe.cfg file in your root Crysis 2 folder for you. If you have one made already, please delete it before running this app. Every option you would have added should be in this ap.

Here's a screenshot for everybody.

Please note the program is in beta and not the best tested program I've ever made. So there will be some bugs.

Download Links

http://details.at/crysis2ago_1_3.zip

More links coming.

Anyways requirements:
Crysis 2
.Net 2.0 or higher
Windows XP, Vista, or 7

Basic instructions:

1. Once you have unziped place anywhere you want.
2. Delete any autoexec.cfg files found in the Crysis 2 root folder. (if you're asking what that is, don't worry about it)
3. Delete any target commands you may have put on the shortcut as they will override the autoexec.cfg that is created
4. Run the Crysis2AdvancedGraphicsOptions.exe
5. Hit apply once all settings are set

*note* You do not have to start this program every time you want to play Crysis 2.

Simple as that. (hopefully)

I've only tested it on a Windows 7 64bit platform with a Steam copy of the game. I know that works. Anything else is a gamble right now.

If you find a bug please post here or PM me.

Hopefully this works for everybody. I'll be putting out more versions as more cvars are find to work and any bugs I missed are hammered out.

EDIT: Version 1.3 is out!

Changes (Version 1.3)
*fixed MSAA - should work now
*fixed crouch toggle - should work better
*added ability to change to preset low, medium, high

Changes (Version 1.2)
*added an option to toggle crouch
*should save a small ini file to eliminate repeated selecting of file locations
*displays root folder of Crysis 2 (so you know if you're on the right spot)

 

[Anomaly1964]

Can you link the program?

And what is Crytek thinking?

No DX11...

Do graphics options...

I just don't get that...

 

[TechBoyJK]

Can you link the program?

And what is Crytek thinking?

No DX11...

Do graphics options...

I just don't get that...

There's another thread to discuss Crytek's strategy.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Normally, the game runs buttery smooth on the ingame setting of 'high' and about 35fps on 'very high'. I was able to make the game look and feel significantly more like Crysis 1 by putting everything on 'high' in the config (which is extreme in game) and changing the following, which dramatically helps with the frame rates. It's basically Extreme minus the AA and motion blur. It also increases the field of view a bit. I'm not sure what the Crysis 1 default FOV is, but I'm going to try and find out and use that.

Motion Blur - Off
Radial Blur - Off
MSAA - Off
Edga AA - Off
Max Anisotropy - Off
FOV - 70
Moving FOV - 70

 

[Grooveriding]

Why release a tool like this for this game ? This is not Crysis, it's Crysis 2, a console port.

Pointless tool. It's akin to releasing a tweaker for Call of Duty: BO.

Appreciate the guy's effort but he needs to get with the reality here, Crysis 2 is not Crysis 1. Graphically it's atrocious and nothing worth this amount of effort.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Why release a tool like this for this game ? This is not Crysis, it's Crysis 2, a console port.

Pointless tool. It's akin to releasing a tweaker for Call of Duty: BO.

Appreciate the guy's effort but he needs to get with the reality here, Crysis 2 is not Crysis 1. Graphically it's atrocious and nothing worth this amount of effort.

Why are you posting in here? Bitch in the other thread about it being a port. Besides, tt's not pointless when it makes the game run and look better, so you are obviously just trolling.

 

[gorcorps]

Why release a tool like this for this game ? This is not Crysis, it's Crysis 2, a console port.

Pointless tool. It's akin to releasing a tweaker for Call of Duty: BO.

Appreciate the guy's effort but he needs to get with the reality here, Crysis 2 is not Crysis 1. Graphically it's atrocious and nothing worth this amount of effort.

Give it a fucking rest. Even Crysis 1 didn't look that great until the modders and configs fixed it. For all you know Crysis 2 can look incredible and it's just a matter of enabling things that they locked out. We'll never know until people start screwing with stuff. You're telling people to ignore one of the best things that still separates PCs from consoles... modding and tweaking. Why bother with a PC at all if you're not going to screw around with stuff the console players will never ever get to see?

If anything, Crysis 2 neads effort like this BECAUSE it's such a low starting point. With other games that were made properly in the first place there's not much room for improvement, but here there's a shitload of things to fix.

I honestly don't understand how you can call yourself a PC gamer, and then rag on those who are trying to improve the PC experience. They recognized a problem, and instead of just bitching they're taking steps to fix it. You took it an extra step further, and are not only bitching about the game but also bitch about people trying to FIX what you were whining about in the first place. FOR FUCKS SAKE MAN MAKE UP YOUR DAMNED MIND! You should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[Grooveriding]

Give it a fucking rest. Even Crysis 1 didn't look that great until the modders and configs fixed it. For all you know Crysis 2 can look incredible and it's just a matter of enabling things that they locked out. We'll never know until people start screwing with stuff. You're telling people to ignore one of the best things that still separates PCs from consoles... modding and tweaking. Why bother with a PC at all if you're not going to screw around with stuff the console players will never ever get to see?

If anything, Crysis 2 neads effort like this BECAUSE it's such a low starting point. With other games that were made properly in the first place there's not much room for improvement, but here there's a shitload of things to fix.

I honestly don't understand how you can call yourself a PC gamer, and then rag on those who are trying to improve the PC experience. They recognized a problem, and instead of just bitching they're taking steps to fix it. You took it an extra step further, and are not only bitching about the game but also bitch about people trying to FIX what you were whining about in the first place. FOR FUCKS SAKE MAN MAKE UP YOUR DAMNED MIND! You should be ashamed of yourself.

Easy there cowboy! I wasn't ragging. His work is better put into modding the first Crysis.

What is there to fix ? You can polish a turd, but it's still a turd. I am enjoying the campaign, it's pretty fun.

But the game is what it is, you can't tweak what is a low-tech unimpressive engine.

 

[sigurros81]

Easy there cowboy! I wasn't ragging. His work is better put into modding the first Crysis.

What is there to fix ? You can polish a turd, but it's still a turd. I am enjoying the campaign, it's pretty fun.

But the game is what it is, you can't tweak what is a low-tech unimpressive engine.

Someone seems to be denser than a rock...


Back on topic, what's the diference between MSAA and edge AA?

 

[gorcorps]

Someone seems to be denser than a rock...


Back on topic, what's the diference between MSAA and edge AA?

I'm curious about this as well... and actually more curious about why you turned them both off OP? The game is full of buildings and straight lines right? Seems like it would very much benefit from making sure those lines aren't a jagged mess.

 

[TechBoyJK]

I'm curious about this as well... and actually more curious about why you turned them both off OP? The game is full of buildings and straight lines right? Seems like it would very much benefit from making sure those lines aren't a jagged mess.

Well, honestly, I only played with it a little bit last night, so I haven't done much analysis. At the defaults, I could run things on medium settings (aka very high) and get 30-40 fps. I changed everything in the new config to the highest settings, which would obviously lower the FPS, but then I removed all the AA, which really, really helped.

I need to compare medium settings with AA/motion blur to high w/o. I think it looked better on extreme with no AA. I'm playing at 1920x1080 so my rez is already pretty high.

I'm reading that Max Anistrophy is set to 16 on all settings, and there isn't any significant fps gain by disabling it. So I'm going to turn that back on full.

 

[gorcorps]

Easy there cowboy! I wasn't ragging. His work is better put into modding the first Crysis.

What is there to fix ? You can polish a turd, but it's still a turd. I am enjoying the campaign, it's pretty fun.

But the game is what it is, you can't tweak what is a low-tech unimpressive engine.

But is it really the engine itself that's awful, or is it the textures and such? Textures can be fixed and that seems to be the biggest concern of most people. The engine can also be tweaked over time. Didn't the first Crysis get modded to the point that a lot of DX10 effects were enabled in DX9 mode, making it run better but still look awesome? (This is an honest question, I can't remember)

My point is that the game itself seems to still be entertaining and is mostly brought down by the looks and graphics. Well the looks and graphics are what's tweakable and very heavily modified by the community. Some people hate the entire game too (more linear and all that) which graphic mods won't help, but for those that enjoy the gameplay but hate the look then that will probably improve over time... but only if people work on it.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Personally this game looks better than any game other than Crysis 1 so I don't understand why all you people are complaining. Turning off the extremely overdone motion blur, and shutting off their ridiculous AA in this game makes everything look great.

I swear the AA they are using is just a full screen blur effect. It makes everything on screen seem out of focus. I shut it off, and at 1920x1080 the jaggies do not annoy me.

I turned the shaders down to medium, and couldn't really tell a difference from high other than a huge FPS boost. Shadows down to medium as well hardly effects the graphics, but also boosts FPS greatly.


Am I the only one that thinks there is some sort of film grain effect like in Left 4 Dead in Crysis 2? Turning that off would also improve the game's appearance.

 

[zerocool84]

Personally this game looks better than any game other than Crysis 1

WOW...........

 

[Martimus]

But is it really the engine itself that's awful, or is it the textures and such? Textures can be fixed and that seems to be the biggest concern of most people. The engine can also be tweaked over time. Didn't the first Crysis get modded to the point that a lot of DX10 effects were enabled in DX9 mode, making it run better but still look awesome? (This is an honest question, I can't remember)

My point is that the game itself seems to still be entertaining and is mostly brought down by the looks and graphics. Well the looks and graphics are what's tweakable and very heavily modified by the community. Some people hate the entire game too (more linear and all that) which graphic mods won't help, but for those that enjoy the gameplay but hate the look then that will probably improve over time... but only if people work on it.

In all likelyhood it is the textures that are the biggest issues. Due to the memory limitations of all consoles (512MB total memory, shared between GPU and CPU), texture size has to be very small. This is obvious in games like Oblivion, and I guess now Crysis 2. A texture pack (ala Dragon Age 2) might help the poor graphics substantially.

 

[SEIZETHEDAY4EVA]

I couldn't agree more, Crysis 2 badly needs a texture pack mod, it looks bloody awful. Oh and i'm in shock that one poster commented that apart from the original Crysis this is the best looking game, are you shitting me?

STALKER which is also a 2007 game with the Complete 2009 mod blows Crysis 2 out of the water! I've put the game aside for now, i'm not returning to it until something is done about the textures at the very least.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

This is pretty awesome. I will be trying it out tonight.

 

[TechBoyJK]

I couldn't agree more, Crysis 2 badly needs a texture pack mod, it looks bloody awful. Oh and i'm in shock that one poster commented that apart from the original Crysis this is the best looking game, are you shitting me?

STALKER which is also a 2007 game with the Complete 2009 mod blows Crysis 2 out of the water! I've put the game aside for now, i'm not returning to it until something is done about the textures at the very least.

I think it's textures too. I read on crymod from another modder that it looks like they made the textures low-res, rather than having better textures then compressing them to take lower memory. This way they had more artistic control of the textures.. if that makes sense. (so they didn't have low res textures that looked compressed)

looks like Ice T (the rapper) has discovered Crysis 2

https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/51354285056864256#

 

[gorcorps]

Can we get a link to where you found this?

 

[gorcorps]

http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=33008

Found it, nevermind

Already up to version 1.5

 

[llee]

Why release a tool like this for this game ? This is not Crysis, it's Crysis 2, a console port.

Pointless tool. It's akin to releasing a tweaker for Call of Duty: BO.

Appreciate the guy's effort but he needs to get with the reality here, Crysis 2 is not Crysis 1. Graphically it's atrocious and nothing worth this amount of effort.

stop trolling. just because you don't want it doesn't mean other people won't as well.

 

[NoSoup4You]

Anyone know if editing the graphics settings will apply to multiplayer as well, and will it get me banned?

 

[EvilComputer92]

It's great how Crytek decided to lock all the files so no one can make a texture pack.



It's like they want everyone to be stuck with garbage graphics.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Go back and play Crysis 1. The textures are just as bad as Crysis 2. People are retarded. You are all recalling how mind blowing Crysis 1 was from memory. Some guy on the steam forums posted screens of Crysis 1 textures on maximum and everyone was saying he was lying and that he had the game on low.

There is so much rage over no DX11 and the perception that Crysis 1 had better textures that people are missing out on a really great experience.

EDIT: Found the thread on steam forums. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1807048

 

[toyota]

yes Crysis 1 and Warhead both had some horrible looking texture in many spots.