I'll keep it short and simple. With the rig in the sig, the boss on the carrier is unplayable(as in multiple minutes per frame) at 1680x1050 with everything on low. There is nothing wrong with my machine, it's Crysis.
Yet another Crysis is a pos thread
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VashHT
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I'll keep it short and simple as well, there is something wrong with your machine.
EDIT: Just wanted to edit to make this post somewhat useful. I don't know why people are ashamed to admit something might be wrong with their computer but if I were you I would put some energy into figuring out what's wrong with it (and something is wrong, plenty of people can play it fine with a PC like yours) rather than wasting your energy complaining about the game on the internet.
EDIT: Just wanted to edit to make this post somewhat useful. I don't know why people are ashamed to admit something might be wrong with their computer but if I were you I would put some energy into figuring out what's wrong with it (and something is wrong, plenty of people can play it fine with a PC like yours) rather than wasting your energy complaining about the game on the internet.
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There has to be something whacked with your PC as I have a much wimpier rig than you and I can play at 1920x1200 with low settings. Been a while since I fired the game up, but last time I did that's what I was playing at.
KT
KT
Maximilian
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Problem exists between keyboard and chair. A dorky way of saying the stupid OP is the problem and not the game.
OP crysis should run fine on your machine, i had a 7900GTO and it managed crysis on medium/low settings at 1024x1024... yeah that sucks but so does the 7900GTO these days, theres gotta be something wrong with your drivers. The 4870 is a lot more powerful so it should definately manage any resolution on low.
err, it was playable (as in 12-20 FPS) on my 3400+/HD4850/2 Gigs PC3200/1680x1050 monitor with most setttings on High for me during that point of the game...
error8
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There is something wrong with your computer. I killed that boss on low settings, at 1680X1050 on my 8800 GT, so it's next to impossible that on a faster 4870, the game is unplayable.
One thing I noticed when playing Warhead on my 4870, is that every once in a while, the frame rate dropped terribly and I had to save, exit the game and loading that save again, would take everything back to normal. Try it and see.
I believe it's a memory leak. I can play this boss on any setting and it's playable for a little while, then the game begins acting like it's swapping to the harddrive, as if I didn't have enough memory. It gets worse and worse until the game stops moving completely, but the music still plays. I can forcefully close out the game, and then the rest of my machine slowly becomes usable, it reminds me of playing a high memory usage game on a low memory machine and then trying to use windows right after. Crysis is the only thing running at the time.
My machine is perfectly stable, my machine has no bloatware or malware on it of any kind, all software is up to date. All games and benchmarks are rock on perfect. Crysis runs like a champ the entire game until I get to this boss.
My machine is perfectly stable, my machine has no bloatware or malware on it of any kind, all software is up to date. All games and benchmarks are rock on perfect. Crysis runs like a champ the entire game until I get to this boss.
Depends on what you are used to seeing. Back when I a poor student with integrated video, I thought gettign 20fps at 640x480 in TFC/Counter-Strike was the shit.
I would guess that something is wrong with the driver settings. AA is the worst when it comes to killing frame rates, so I would check that for sure. Going from off to 2x can easily cut the frame rate in half, especially if shadows are enabled. If you're a retro gamer and you have the drivers forcing 16x AA with 16x AF (I do this), then there's your explanation.
Oh, it's "playable" in the very lowest sense of the word. I can barely get through it, but since it's the last level in a game that was very fun for me, I don't have that much trouble shuffling through it. The rest of the game was around 25-30 FPS outdoors. Definitely a CPU limitation.
I played through it with my rig below, without any slowdowns at 1280x1024 with all high settings. I think there is probably something wrong on your computer, since my computer shouldn't come close to touching yours in performance.
I'm just being bitchy. My previous post indicates what I think the problem is. The boss fight is 100% playable at first, but it just progressively degrades in performance and begins to choke up as if my machine was swapping to hard drive. The entire rest of the game runs perfectly fine.
It should be noted that the end is a pretty hardware intensive part of the game. However it should still be playable, especially at low. I remember trying to get my machine to run the end on high after using medium for the ice caves, it whimpered and forced me back to medium which was unfortunate because the end of the game is really the time you want all the fun settings enabled.
swapping to hdd usually = lack of memory to handle textures, either video or motherboard.
swapping to hdd usually = lack of memory to handle textures, either video or motherboard.
User error imo.
It was a wee bit slow on my computer (sig) with varying low and medium settings at 1280 x 1024 but playable.
It was a wee bit slow on my computer (sig) with varying low and medium settings at 1280 x 1024 but playable.
Considering I had playable FPS (15-20) with my x1900AIW with everything on high except shadows, and my FPS dropped to about 2 during the boss battle, it is fairly intensive. Your problems, however, are definitely caused by your machine, unless they patched someth... oh wait, that's right, Warhead was the patch! Silly me, how could I have forgotten?
So yeah, it's your machine.
edit: have you tried dropping everything back to stock clocks?
Capt Caveman
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Yep, something wrong here since I can play at 1920x1200 with a 8800GT (700/1000) and an E2180(oc'd to 3.2ghz) on med settings.
Didn't experience lag in the boss fight on the equivalent of very high at 1680x1050, I'm on a gtx260 and Q6600.
Anyone care to explain how everything on my machine can be 100% flawless, including crysis up until this boss, and it is somehow my fault? Tell me what I could possibly have done to my machine that will make one 5 minute section of a game unplayable.
It seems like everyone is ignoring this post:
"I believe it's a memory leak. I can play this boss on any setting(even very high) and it's playable for a little while, then the game begins acting like it's swapping to the harddrive, as if I didn't have enough memory. It gets worse and worse until the game stops moving completely, but the music still plays. I can forcefully close out the game, and then the rest of my machine slowly becomes usable, it reminds me of playing a high memory usage game on a low memory machine and then trying to use windows right after. Crysis is the only thing running at the time.
My machine is perfectly stable, my machine has no bloatware or malware on it of any kind, all software is up to date. All games and benchmarks are rock on perfect. Crysis runs like a champ the entire game until I get to this boss."
It seems like everyone is ignoring this post:
"I believe it's a memory leak. I can play this boss on any setting(even very high) and it's playable for a little while, then the game begins acting like it's swapping to the harddrive, as if I didn't have enough memory. It gets worse and worse until the game stops moving completely, but the music still plays. I can forcefully close out the game, and then the rest of my machine slowly becomes usable, it reminds me of playing a high memory usage game on a low memory machine and then trying to use windows right after. Crysis is the only thing running at the time.
My machine is perfectly stable, my machine has no bloatware or malware on it of any kind, all software is up to date. All games and benchmarks are rock on perfect. Crysis runs like a champ the entire game until I get to this boss."
Everyone thinks their machine is 100% flawless. Just look at what you just wrote: "My machine is perfectly stable" yet you are having problems running a game. That isn't perfectly stable, that might be considerably stable, but it sure as shit ain't perfect.
Now you are claiming a memory leak that occurs over the course of 5 minutes. Possible, I suppose, although unlikely. Over the course of a single fight, the game shouldn't really be reclaiming that much memory to begin with, it hasn't had to unload anything, you haven't changed scenery, the monsters attacking you haven't changed. If anything, it could be texture thrashing, but you seem to be pretty adamant that that isn't the case.
It could however be a driver problem. And looking at the thread, it looks like you haven't even assessed that possibility, 100% content in your "Crysis has a 5 minute memory leak that only affects me" answer.
Now you are claiming a memory leak that occurs over the course of 5 minutes. Possible, I suppose, although unlikely. Over the course of a single fight, the game shouldn't really be reclaiming that much memory to begin with, it hasn't had to unload anything, you haven't changed scenery, the monsters attacking you haven't changed. If anything, it could be texture thrashing, but you seem to be pretty adamant that that isn't the case.
It could however be a driver problem. And looking at the thread, it looks like you haven't even assessed that possibility, 100% content in your "Crysis has a 5 minute memory leak that only affects me" answer.
If my machine is perfect and something has a problem, it usually means it is the software and not my machine. Software isn't perfect. I am not some noob that has no idea what he is talking about, I know more about computers than probably 99% of the people on this forum. I've been around for a good little while. This isn't even the only pc forum I frequent, it's simply the best. When I say my machine itself is fine, you can trust me on that.
Let me explain exactly what happens. I am fighting this boss. Fps is perfectly fine, at any setting. After a couple minutes(regardless of in game setting), it begins to pause once in a while, as if it had to swap data out of memory to the hard drive. This gets worse and worse, more and more frequent, until the game simply stops. At this point, I forcefully close the game. And when returning to windows, the machine acts like it has to swap everything back into memory. Crysis is clearly using up all of my system's memory resources. That is why I say memory leak. It just uses more and more and more memory until the game won't run anymore.
My machine will pass any stability test for any amount of time. It gets proper benchmark scores on every benchmark I have thrown at it. It runs every other game I have absolutely flawlessly. It runs Crysis flawlessly until this point. I have no problems with any non game related software either. All my drivers are up to date, windows is up to date, all my games and software are up to date.
As to the driver problem idea, Crysis has done this with Catalyst 8.8, 8.9, and 8.10.
The only explanation I can even fathom that makes any sense at all is that the game has some kind of conflict with my configuration. Which again, is not my fault.
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