Warning: Crysis 3 Will Melt Your PC, Says Crytek

[Red Hawk]

Great post! Thanks for that link. I am going to read that over-review tomorrow.

You're welcome. Eurogamer's DigitalFoundry column generally does great comparisons of games on the three main gaming platforms (360, PS3, and maxed out PC), with performance comparison videos, comprehensive 720p comparison screenshots, and a handful of 1080p PC screenshots to demonstrate advanced PC effects like ambient occlusion and tessellation. They tend to test on mid-range PC hardware (the Sleeping Dogs test was done on an i5-750 and Geforce GTX 460) so as to give budget-minded PC gamers an idea of how the game will run. They don't do true benchmarking though.

 

[Haserath]

Of course it's subjective to each user, but while there are many places where the textures look poor in Crysis, especially indoors/inside houses, the entire Sleeping Dogs game looks like a console game (and I really really hate the washed out PS3/360 console texture look). Not knocking its gameplay or storyline, but graphics are nothing special, especially since it brings a 1300mhz GPU Boosted $580 GTX680 Lightning to its knees. 39 fps on a stock GTX680 at 1080P.....holly molly.

This looks like a PS3 game to me with PC level of lighting model, not much else. Not seeing why it should do 40 fps on a 680.

There are certain areas in Sleeping Dogs where the game looks like a 2007 PC game, like here where the sidewalk is just 1 giant texture piece with no bump/displacement mapping even:

Do you have the high res texture pack installed? I only have the demo to go by, but nothing looks that bad in the demo. Or maybe I'm too much into the gameplay to notice.^_^

SSAA is also part of the settings, so if that's maxed, it will bring any high end card to its knees. My 6950 can't handle the demo too well with that on but does fine with just FXAA. I believe there is a low(FXAA), medium(2x SSAA?), and high(4x SSAA?) AA setting in the advanced settings.

The lighting in SD seems better than Crysis at least. When I get SD, I'm probably going to have much more fun than in Crysis though.