Question Still can't believe how insane Crysis was

[jamesdsimone]

I am doing a play through of Crysis. It's the GOG version so I think it is pretty much stock. I generally get between 100-120 fps at 1080p with all settings maxed and motion blur off. I'm running my W-2145/RX 6800XT/4x16Gb ram. My CPU looks to be running under 20% but I assume that's because the game only uses 2 cores. GPU usage runs up to 90%. That's not bad performance but how could you possible run this game in 2007? What was the fastest GPU you could get? A GTX 280? And maybe an E8700 core 2 duo?

 

[ToTTenTranz]

IIRC, the favorite GPU for playing Crysis at its time of release was the G92-based 8800GT 512MB and people would often pair it with either an overclocked Q6600 or a cheaper E8xxx.
That was good enough for ~30FPS non-maxed settings at 1024*768 or similar.


Here's some thread digging for you:

Will a 8800 gt + q6600 be enough for Crysis?

I'm wondering if that gigabyte 8800 512 gt with the nice after market-looking cooler used with a e8400 or q6600 overclocked would yield a nice image at 1900x1200. That's a kinda full sentence, maybe I'll reiterate @1900x1200 Crysis -8800 512mb gt (overclocked) -q6600 (overclocked) or e8400...

forums.anandtech.com

In your case, it looks like that Xeon is pulling the 6800XT back a bit so you're running into a bottleneck. OG Crysis is a DX9 game, so it's a lot more single-threading dependent than modern games.

 

[EXCellR8]

I think when I was playing, I was on a Q6600 paired with a pair of 8600GT cards. A little bit later on I moved to a 9800GT or HD4870.

I feel like only the first half of the game was enjoyable; I thought the follow up was better.

 

[jamesdsimone]

IIRC, the favorite GPU for playing Crysis at its time of release was the G92-based 8800GT 512MB and people would often pair it with either an overclocked Q6600 or a cheaper E8xxx.
That was good enough for ~30FPS non-maxed settings at 1024*768 or similar.


Here's some thread digging for you:

Will a 8800 gt + q6600 be enough for Crysis?

I'm wondering if that gigabyte 8800 512 gt with the nice after market-looking cooler used with a e8400 or q6600 overclocked would yield a nice image at 1900x1200. That's a kinda full sentence, maybe I'll reiterate @1900x1200 Crysis -8800 512mb gt (overclocked) -q6600 (overclocked) or e8400...

forums.anandtech.com

In your case, it looks like that Xeon is pulling the 6800XT back a bit so you're running into a bottleneck. OG Crysis is a DX9 game, so it's a lot more single-threading dependent than modern games.

Only because it's an old game that only uses 2 cores. I know that the CPU will boast to 4.1Ghz on all cores. I have to test something newer that uses all the cores or at least 6 or so. I think the lowest fps I see is 60. I guess I could up the resolution to to see how it runs. I have an RX 6950XT I could use also to see how that works.