Question Still can't believe how insane Crysis was

[jamesdsimone]

It was my favourite game for years, the map editor was so easy to use..
Started off with an Nvidia 7950GT, then went to an 8800GTX, then a AMD 4890, then 2 4890's in crossfire..

Despite what everyone said, as long as you didnt run it on max settings it was a smooth enough game, even on my brothers 8600GT.
I wish we still had games come out today that pushed the boundaries a bit, but kinda happy we don't at the same time because I am still using an AMD RX480, and it still manages fine

I have everything maxed but I can't imagine it being even close to playable on a 4890 without dialing everything down. How does your 5900x run? I am getting another build together with that CPU paired with an Asrock RX 6900 XT OC Formula.

 

[jamesdsimone]

Did anyone here play Warhead? I may have tried it but couldn't get it to work right or something. I'd probably fire it up on a rainy day if it weren't for all the terrible EA software.

I just did a play through and the last battle is console trash like the final battle in Crysis. Overall worth playing but the final battle is irritating.

 

[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.

I fired up Crysis 2 to see how it compared. I'm getting about 25% higher frame rate over Crysis. I read Cryengine 3 uses up to 8 cores depending on the game. I'll have to check something newer and compare.