Maldo Crysis 2 texture mod is now ready for download!

[Carfax83]

A Spanish guy named Maldo has been working on a really great texture mod for Crysis 2 for a long time, and now it's finally ready.

The mod improves or replaces hundreds of textures found throughout the game, and really improves the visual quality imo. With this mod and the DX11 upgrade, Crysis 2 is undoubtedly the best looking game of 2011 with the possible exception of BF3.

A few examples:

Download link.

Also released is a really nice config tool which you can download in the above link:

I'm in the process of downloading the mod right now, so I personally haven't used it yet. I've heard that it's very heavy on memory use though, which is to be expected I suppose..

 

[Skurge]

let us know how it performs. I don't want to download a massive texture pack with my slow connection just to find out I can't run it at all. Although my 5770 would struggle with in any case.

 

[Carfax83]

So far, so good. It performs very well, even better than the stock DX11 Ultra setting.

I think Maldo tweaked the tessellation usage a bit (because the game used excessive tessellation in a number of places), so that definitely helped out. AMD owners should be happy with that I think.

The only potential downside I see is that the texture mod uses a lot of memory, but thats to be expected.

My 580s are basically pegged at 1515 the entire time, which is definitely higher than it was using before the texture mod.

Haven't had any crashes or flashing/disappearing textures though

 

[Elcs]

Guess I need to find me some way of getting a copy of Crysis 2 to put my new system through it's paces.